09 September 2007
Next Sunday: 16 September 2007 - Harvest
- 11 am
- Worship led by the Rev Gerald Bostock
We give the assurance of our thoughts and prayers to all who are unwell, awaiting or undergoing treatment, or anxious or grieving for the loss of loved ones.
“Doors Open” Invitation from Heather
Heather's new house in Freuchie will be open to link with “Doors Open Fife” on Sunday 9th September. Please 'pop in during the afternoon until 5 pm to see this venture in “green” construction'. See also leaflet on table. (Heather also advises us that there will be other opportunities to come and see her new home!)
Property and Finance Committee
Members please note that there will be a brief meeting after worship today - with diaries so a date for a “proper meeting” can be fixed!
Harvest Celebration
- FairTrade Coffee Morning next Saturday from 10.30 am to 12 noon. Offers of help, including home baking of 'FairTrade scones and fruit loaves', to 'tricia. Suggested donation to Methodist Relief and Development Fund - £1.50.
- Worship next Sunday including 'litany of offerings by congregation' during which envelopes for donations in support of MRDF will be brought forward. Please note that MRDF envelopes are being distributed today.
“Broadcast” - Dundee For Christ's new magazine
Copies available today - please uplift from table - read - use - hand on!
Charles Wesley 300th Birthday Anniversary
Perth Flower Festival Weekend
21st - 23rd September
Our friends in Perth Methodist Church, Scott Street are marking the above anniversary by a Flower Festival in which everyone is welcome to join - as often as wished!
Programme details
- Flower Festival
- Friday 21st September: 10 am to 5 pm
- Saturday 22nd September: 10 am to 4 pm
- Sunday 23rd September: 2 pm to 4 pm
- Refreshments on sale throughout
- Saturday 12 pm to 2 pm soup & filled rolls
- Saturday 2 pm to 4 pm Cream Teas
- In support of project in Namibia where Barry & Chris Parkin (long-standing Perth members) are starting 2 years of service with VSO (Barry will be teaching in Caprivi Secondary School).
- “Why Celebrate?” - Friday - 7.30 pm
Rev Prof Frank Whaling will speak of Charles Wesley as a person and hymn-writer; opportunity for questions and “cuppa” after. - East Fife Male Voice Choir - Saturday - 7.30 pm
“an enjoyable and inspiring evening” - tickets (£5) to be purchased in advance from 'Concorde Music Shop' (Scott St) or phone 01738 827137. - Harvest Thanksgiving - Sunday - 11 am, led by the Rev David Firth and the Rev David Cooper (Superintendent, Edinburgh & Forth Circuit)
- Charles Wesley Epilogue - Sunday - 4 pm - a half hour of praise and thanksgiving as the Flower Festival draws to a close.
Our friends in Perth look forward to seeing us as and when we can join them!
United Nations Millennium Development Goals no 4 &5
reduce children mortality and improve maternal health
DETAILS NEXT WEEK OR LOOK AT A CARD FOR YOURSELF - A supply of the Cards has been obtained - available today - please read, remember in prayer, and take any action you can.
Meetings this week
| Date & time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 11th September, 7.30 pm | Dundee Methodist Church, “L” | Circuit Preachers' Meeting |
| Tuesday 11th September,7 pm to 8.30 pm | Coffee Exchange, 20a Exchange Street | The Gideons Dundee branch are looking for partners in their work
of making the Word of God available by placing Bibles in various locations
in the community.
With Dundee For Christ they are hosting an open Information Evening, refreshments provided: if you are interested, go and find out more! |
| Saturday 15th September, 10.30 am to 12 noon | Dundee Methodist Church | “Fair Trade” Coffee Morning, suggested donation of £1.50 for MRDF, for baking (using “Fair Trade” ingredients if possible!) please see sheet on Vestibule table. |
Support other Organisations
Scottish Bible Society
Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in September for work in Nepal. See library area noticeboard for more details.
Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to:
- completion of the Arabic Study New Testament in Egypt, also land donated for a central warehouse, project to distribute 150,000 Children's Bibles;
- recent production of the first Bible in Maltese Braille;
- launch of the first complete Bible in an Australian indigenous language (Kriol);
- need for freedom to import sufficient Scriptures to meet demand in Morocco, also printing programmes and distribution work.
Forthcoming events
| Date & time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 21st September, 7.30 pm | Caird Hall (map) | Graham Kendrick Live in Concert in Dundee - DundeeforChrist “very proudly present one of the world's
most prolific Christian singer-songwriters”.
Tickets are available NOW from the
Caird Hall Box Office (01382 434941), price £7 and £10.
See also www.dundeeforchrist.com
or contact Ian Black, The Steeple,
Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DG; tel (01382) 204700 / 07704773382; email
ian@dundeeforchrist.com
(Graham Kendrick's new album 'Out of the Ordinary' is available now - Fierce Distribution - www.fierceshop.com) |
Prayer Points for this week
- The President and Vice-President of Conference at the TUC Congress, Brighton, Monday - Tuesday;
- Methodist Ministers' Pension Scheme Board & AGM, Thursday;
- Scotland District Induction Day, Dunblane, Wednesday;
- Blairgowrie Church Council, Monday; Perth Finance & Property Committee, Wednesday; Montrose Halls Management Committee, Thursday; Perth Fresh Expressions meeting, Friday;
- projects in Wales, chaplains in Homes and Schemes (Methodist Homes Prayer Diary);
- peace-building programmes of PHARP in Rwanda, Kenya and Sudan (Feed The Minds);
- The Leprosy Mission's work in South East India;
- Bible Society work in Nepal;
- we pray with and for the peoples of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Yugoslavia;
- we remember fellow Methodists in the Liverpool (South) Circuit (Liverpool District), and in Wallacestone (Central Scotland Circuit).
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