Dundee Methodist Church

24 August 2008

Next Sunday: 31 August 2008 - “a Fifth Sunday”

10.45 am
Coffee available
11 am
Worship led by Mr David Cowling

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.

“Fifth Sunday Worship”

David Cowling will lead next Sunday's worship with a “café-style” focus and approach. Please note

  • coffee will be available from 10.45 am
  • offers of baking / items to supplement biscuits should be made to Jenny
  • other offers to help with serving before, during and after worship can be made to Jenny or Paddy
  • Jenny is the Dundee contact.

Coffee Morning for Enable

Sue Marshall, 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).

To support Sue, a fund-raising Coffee Morning will be held in Marketgait next Saturday from 10 am to 12 noon. Tickets (£1 adults, 50p children) are available from Link Club helpers or at the door on the day. There will be stalls and various games -support is warmly invited, including donations of books and wrapped home baking for the stall.

Prayer Handbooks

Available from Heather today - please see her to pay for and collect your order, or to ask if there are spares.

Meetings this week

Date & timeVenueDetails
Tuesday 26th August, 7.15 pm Caird Hall (map) Organ Concert. 'Strictly Come Dancing and Romancing' : Bill Hutcheson. Tickets are £3.25 per recital or £10.60 for the series of 4 concerts, from Dundee City Box Office.
Saturday 30th August, 10 am to 12 noon Dundee Methodist Church 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. Tickets for the coffee morning (£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.
Sunday 31th August, 7.30 pm Dundee Congregational Church Lower Constitution Road (map) Concert in aid of the Mary Slessor Foundation given by the John Scrimger Singers, with guest singer Linda Ormiston. Further details on both the above from Carolyn Johnston carolynjohnston@aol.co.uk .

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

  • opportunities for distribution of Scriptures to both Roman Catholics and Protestants in Vietnam;
  • 40 years of Bible Society work in Cambodia despite difficult challenges;
  • completion and dedication of the revised common language New Testament in Lao, also continuing work of translation team in Laos;
  • representation at the United Free Church of Scotland conference in Stirling next Saturday.

Forthcoming events

Date & timeVenueDetails
Friday 5th to Sunday 7th September, 7.15 pm Camperdown Park (map) Dundee Flower & Food Festival - see Vestibule table for leaflets with details of this event.
Tuesday 9th September, 7.15 pm Caird Hall (map) Organ Concert. 'Haste Ye Back!' - Gordon Stewart (Ward Rd Methodist Church organist in the 60's); Tickets are £3.25 per recital or £10.60 for the series of 4 concerts, from Dundee City Box Office.
Tuesday 23rd September, 7.15 pm Caird Hall (map) Organ Concert. 'Diapasons and Flutes galore!' - Stuart Muir and Katy Welch (flute). Tickets are £3.25 per recital or £10.60 for the series of 4 concerts, from Dundee City Box Office.
Thursday 2nd October Scottish Churches House, Dunblane Occasional Seminar on the Ecumenical Movement: Religious Society of Friends. Cost including lunch is £10; registration by post to Scottish Churches House, 1 Kirk Street, Dunblane, FK15 0AJ: tel 01786 823588; email : reservations@scottishchurcheshouse.org
Thursday 6th November, at 2.30 pm and 7.30 pm Whitehall Theatre, Bellfield Street (map) 'Rolling Back the Years' : Timeless Theatre Productions Ltd advise us of this 'brilliant new show'. Tickets (£11, £10 concessions) - phone (01382) 434940. The show is described as “a breathtaking and beautifully costumed musical journey from the good old days of 'Music Hall', through the 1940's, 1950's, 1960's and eventually into some of the beautiful harmonies of the 1970's.” See poster on noticeboard; website www.timelesstheatre.co.uk.

Prayer Points for this week

  • Rev Martyn Atkins, in-coming General Secretary of the Methodist Church and Secretary of Conference;
  • Ministers and their families moving to Scotland;
  • members of the Circuit Leadership Team;
  • projects in the Southampton District (Methodist Homes);
  • Drum Publication Group's work in Thailand with Karen refugees from Burma (Feed The Minds);
  • The Leprosy Mission's work in Bangladesh;
  • the work of Christian Aid;
  • Bible Society work in Egypt;
  • we pray with and for the peoples of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania;
  • we remember fellow Methodists in the Wymondham, Attleborough and Watton Circuit (East Anglia District) and in Aberdeen (North of Scotland Mission Circuit).