10 August 2008

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.

Pastoral

Ministerial pastoral care in the Circuit will be provided for the next two weeks by the Rev David Firth, whose Sabbatical ended last Tuesday.

“Fifth Sunday Worship” - planning meeting

David Cowling (appointed on Plan) and Jenny Easson (coordinating for Dundee) will be meeting in Marketgait on Thursday morning at 11 am. Anyone else interested is invited to join them or to make contact with Jenny before or after Thursday so that contribution can be made from the wider congregation.

Children's Work Group résumé

Those meeting last Wednesday discussed various aspects of our relationships with those of younger ages in our congregation:

• Sunday arrangements appropriate to the ages and interests of crèche, children and young people:
  • use of 3 rooms downstairs
  • purchase of furnishings for 'small room'
  • to be implemented (flexibly!) from 7th September
• feedback from DCA visit, possible future events
• administration - Sa feguarding, consent requirements
• names of groups, especially for 'young people' *
• next meeting - Tuesday 25th November at 7.30 pm

* NB: If anyone can suggest a new acceptable name for the 'senior' group, please pass it on to Lorna or Margaret!

For further details of the meeting, contact Lorna.

Lord Provost's Youth Festival

Mary Henderson, as Secretary of the Dundee Nablus Twinning Association, has sent news that this festival, over the weekend of 22nd - 24th August, also acts as a twinning festival. There will be 16 delegates from Nablus - 4 from the Municipality and 12 young people.

Events include

• “Meet and Greet Session” - Thursday 21st August (pm)
• Saturday Parade, leaves Dundee High School at 2 pm
• Concert / Ceilidh in “The Space”

For more information / tickets / to register for “Meet and Greet”, contact Mary

Mary also sends the welcome news that the Mayor of Nablus has been released. (He was to have attended a previous Festival by invitation of the Lord Provost).

Coffee Morning for Enable

Some people already know that Sue Marshall, as Chairperson of the Link Club, is planning to undertake a sponsored Cycle Ride in India during November to raise funds for Enable (the leading charity for learning disabilities in Scotland, to which the Link Club is affiliated). A sponsorship list is on the Vestibule table. To support Sue, a fund-raising Coffee Morning will be held in Marketgait on Saturday 30th August from 10 am to 12 noon. Tickets (£1 adults, 50p children) will be available from Link Club helpers or at the door on the day. There will be stalls and various games - support is warmly invited. Offers of help can be made to Lorna or through a Link Club helper.

Caird Hall Organ Concerts

See noticeboard for details of the following musical events on Tuesdays at 7.15 pm, for which tickets are £3.25 per recital or £10.60 for the series of 4 concerts, from Dundee City Box Office:

• 12th August - 'Four Hands and Four Feet' : Andrew Caskie & Jeremy Cull
• 26th August - 'Strictly Come Dancing and Romancing' : Bill Hutcheson
• 9th September - 'Haste Ye Back!' - Gordon Stewart (Ward Rd Meth Ch organist in the 60's)
• 23rd September - 'Diapasons and Flutes galore!' - Stuart Muir and Katy Welch (flute).

This popular TV programme is to be recorded in the Caird Hall on Thursday 4th September, between 9.30 am and 4.30 pm. Admission is free - items to be brought on the day except for large pieces of furniture or bulky antiques (write with photo, address and phone number to Antiques Roadshow, BBC, Whiteladies Road, Bristol, BS8 2LR before Tuesday 26th August). See poster, leaflets & www.bbc.co.uk/antiques.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in August for work in Egypt. See library area noticeboard for more information. Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• newly-published Gulei New Testament in Chad;
• the Cameroon Society's work towards financial independence;
• development of work in SÃo Tomé & Principe and in Equatorial Guinea;
• visitors to BibleWorld in the new school year and the work of the new Coordinator there;
• distribution of over 1 million Bibles and 3 million other Scriptures in Nigeria last year.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• the world-wide Anglican Communion;
• Methodist ministers and families on holiday;
• the life and calling of our Circuit;
• projects in the Plymouth and Exeter District (Methodist Homes);
• HIV/AIDS health education programme of Helping Hand Association for Women's Development (HHAWD) in Accra, Ghana (Feed The Minds);
• The Leprosy Mission's work in Central India - Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa;
• the work of Christian Aid;
• Bible Society work in Egypt;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand and of Australia;
• we remember fellow Methodists in the Thetford Circuit (East Anglia District) and in Wallacestone (Central Scotland Circuit).

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