Dundee Methodist Church

1 June 2008

Next Sunday: 8 June 2008 “World Church Sunday”

11 am
Act of Worship led by Jenny Easson to include presentation by Andre Ryan on her time as an Accompanist with EAPPI in Israel-Palestine.
12.30 pm
Faith lunch and further conversation with Andre

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.

World Church Sunday

  • Next Sunday, the act of worship is being planned around a presentation by Andre Ryan who last year was in the Israel - Palestine West Bank with EAPPI, the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel.
  • It has been agreed that the older children will remain upstairs throughout but the crèche and younger ones will leave and return as usual.
  • There will be further opportunity for conversation over a shared faith lunch after - please bring food, drinks provided.
  • There will also be Palestinian goods on display / for sale after worship.

Children's Work Group Request

Please note and respond promptly as you are able to the following request for help during summer:

To enable the crèche / younger children to continue to have some play activity downstairs on Sunday mornings over the summer holidays (July-mid August), additional volunteers for that period would be welcome onto the regular crèche rota. This is especially necessary in July because of holiday commitments.

Please sign the list on the glass Vestibule table or contact Louisa to offer help.

“Email a wish or prayer for peace to Bethlehem”

This Week of Action by the World Council of Churches is offered as a time for global advocacy when individuals and groups around the world send wishes and messages for peace, to be shared with parishes, schools and organisations in Bethlehem and Jerusalem. The messages will help to remind Palestinians cut off from each other and the outside world that they are not forgotten. Email messages will be read aloud in Bethlehem's Manger Square next Sunday; and in the evening people of Bethlehem will form a “living clock” to commemorate the six decades of living as refugees and uprooted people since 1948, and the 41 years of occupation.

International Church Action for Peace in Palestine and Israel (4th - 10th June) has participants in 17 countries this year and reaches out to ecumenical contacts in many more. There will be events in Edinburgh, Canberra, Manila and Oslo - and places in between!

Please send email messages before 7th June to aei@p-ol.com; messages that reach Bethlehem will be posted on www.aeicenter.org.

Methodist Homes

As next Sunday has been designated Methodist Homes Sunday, envelopes for donations in support of its work among older people are being distributed today.

Please return them in the offering plate next Sunday or in the coming weeks. Thanks.

District Resourcing Day - Reminder!

Please consider coming to the annual Scotland Methodist District Resourcing Day, on Saturday 14th June from 10 am to 4.15 pm in Viewlands Primary School, Perth (map) . For programme details and booking forms, see Vestibule table; send completed form as soon as possible to the District Administrator, Methodist Church Office, Scottish Churches House, Dunblane FK15 0AJ.

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in June for SBS BibleWorld Studios. See library area noticeboard for more information.

Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

  • broadcasts about Scripture listening groups in Tanzania;
  • use of Bible-based material in the fight against AIDS in Burundi;
  • completion of the Kinyarwanda Children's Bible translation in Rwanda - now need for funds for distribution to schools and homes.

EAPPI

The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel is a joint project of members of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) and Christian Aid, managed in Britain and Ireland by Quaker Peace and Social Witness, and internationally by the World Council of Churches. There are currently 13 countries involved and 350+ Ecumenical Accompanists have been sent to Israel- Palestine (up to 2007): 57 from Britain and Ireland. More from Andre next week - leaflets also available then. See quaker.org.uk/eappi.

Forthcoming events

Date & timeVenueDetails
Saturday 14th June, 10 am to 4.15 pm Viewlands Primary School, Perth (map) District Resourcing Day; everyone is invited to this annual event.
Various workshops have been planned to give “tasters” of aspects of church life and to offer opportunities for learning and sharing new ideas. Facilitators have been drawn from Methodist, Church of Scotland, Baptist, and Episcopal churches.
Lunch of soup and sandwiches will be provided, with tea & coffee at the start and end of the Day. For programme details and booking form (to provide an idea of numbers and workshop choices), please see Vestibule table. If you wish to go, please return a completed form to / contact the District Administrator, Fiona Inglis, Methodist Church Office, Scottish Churches House, Dunblane FK15 0AJ; tel : 01786 820295; email meth@scottishchurcheshouse.org
Saturday 21st June, 2 - 4 pm Riverside Methodist Church, Blairgowrie PH10 7EH Strawberry Tea with Perthshire Youth Brass Band, opened by John Seinney MSP and his wife Elizabeth Quigley. There will be a lucky dip, face painting and a cake stall. Admission: adults £3, children and concessions £1.50.

Prayer Points for this week

  • The President and Vice-President of Conference at the Irish Conference in Londonderry, Thursday - Monday;
  • Arbroath Summer Fayre, Saturday;
  • new and re-development projects (Methodist Homes);
  • The Leprosy Mission's work in Burma and Thailand;
  • 'Partners for Development' in Uganda (Feed The Minds);
  • Bible Society work in Scotland through BibleWorld;
  • World Environment Day, Thursday (Christian Aid);
  • we pray with and for the peoples of Lesotho, Namibia (remembering especially Barry & Chris Parkin (Perth), South Africa, and Swaziland;
  • we remember fellow Methodists in the Leeds Mission Circuit (Leeds District), and in Paisley (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire Circuit).