Dundee Methodist Church

15 June 2008

Next Sunday: 22 June 2008

11 am
Worship led by Mrs Jenni Whittle

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.

Children's Work Group

  1. 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 as soon as possible.
  2. ALL ADULTS on Children's Group / Crèche rotas should obtain Enhanced Safeguarding Disclosures. Forms may be obtained from Ian, to be verified on completion by the Rev Mary Patterson. As Mary will be in Marketgait on Sunday 29th June, it has been suggested that it would be helpful to obtain and complete forms now so she can check them then.

Prayer Handbook

Orders for new edition as soon as possible to Heather, please.

“Urban Jungle” outing

An outing has been arranged for the older children (age 11-15) to attend an “Urban Jungle” workshop at Dundee Contemporary Arts, which will focus on artwork using the colours, designs and patterns found in nature. Afterwards there will be a picnic at Magdalen Green weather permitting - otherwise an 'indoor picnic' in Marketgait.

News-sheet News

  • Next week's will be a 2-week edition produced Thursday - Friday: material to the editors in good time please.
  • If anyone might find an enlarged news-sheet helpful, contact David or Jenny.

Events this week

Date & timeVenueDetails
Monday 16th June, 6.30 pm - 9 .30 pm Dundee Methodist Church, upstairs Starter Packs Dundee AGM - for a news item about Starter Packs see Courier News story
Thursday 19th June, 7.15 pm St Andrew's Church and Glasite Hall, King Street One World Centre AGM. The Methodist Church is a member - its first premises were in Marketgait pre-refurbishment!. After a brief session for business and reports, there will be a musical presentation of the year's highlights and a cold 'pot-luck' supper. A copy of the Annual Report for 2007-8 is on the Vestibule table: ask Norah for further information.
Saturday 21st June, 2 - 4 pm Riverside Methodist Church, Blairgowrie PH10 7EH 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.

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

  • sustaining of work in the very difficult circumstances in Sudan;
  • school, church, youth and HIV/AIDS projects in the East Caribbean, especially in Trinidad where half the population live;
  • provision of study vehicles for outreach in Guyana and French Guinea;
  • 50 translation projects and Lectio Divina project in America Area;
  • record distribution of nearly 5.6 million Bibles in Brazil and contact with 51 million people through social programmes.

EAPPI

Andrée Ryan has emailed her thanks for the welcome she received last Sunday when she spoke to us about the work of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel. If you have not yet had opportunity, please look at the display on the boards and also take a copy of the “What we can do” sheet. There is also a list to sign to have regular updates about EAPPI.

“Trees for Life - Planting Peace in Palestine”, run by the Palestine Fair Trade Association in partnership with Zaytoun and Olive Co-operative, aims to offset the destruction of over 500,000 olive trees over the last 8 years. For details see www.olivecoop.com or contact Trees for Life, Olive Co-op, Bridge 5 Mill, 22a Beswick Street, Manchester M4 7HR. Zaytoun Olive Oil can be obtained direct from Andrée Ryan (01382 550210) or in The Health Store, Commercial Street, Dundee. See also www.zaytoun.org or www.palestinefairtrade.org.

Prayer Points for this week

  • The President of Conference in the Sheffield District and the Vice-President in the Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury District next weekend;
  • The President-designate of Conference, Rev Stephen Poxon, and the Vice-President-designate, Mr David Walton;
  • work of the Relief and Extension Fund for Methodism in Scotland, especially its administrator, David Upton, who has been in hospital;
  • projects in the Lincoln and Grimsby District (Methodist Homes);
  • The Leprosy Mission's work in South India;
  • Empati, Christian development organisation in Indonesia (Feed The Minds);
  • Bible Society work in Scotland through BibleWorld;
  • work with Jamaican people and projects (Christian Aid);
  • we pray with and for the peoples of Brazil;
  • we remember fellow Methodists in the Cambridge Circuit (East Anglia District) and in Greenock (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire Circuit).