16 March 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.

Holy Week and Easter

• Broughty Ferry Churches Group will mark Holy Week and Easter with a series of Services at various times and in differing venues, each day of the week, except for Easter Sunday when encouragement is given to share in “Resurrection Day”at 7.30 pm in the Caird Hall. Please note and support the following:
  • Monday - 10.30 am Spiritual Workshop in Barnhill St Margaret's
  • Tuesday - 7 pm Service in Baptist Church
  • Wednesday - 7 pm Service led by Methodists in St Mary's Episcopal Church
  • Maundy Thursday - 7 pm Agape Meal and Communion in Broughty Ferry New Kirk ('East Church' building)
  • Good Friday
    • 12 noon - 3 pm Service, St Mary's
    • 12.30 pm Communion in Baptist Church
    • 3 pm Veneration of the Cross, Our Lady of Good Counsel
    • 7 pm Service in St Luke's & Queen Street
  • Holy Saturday
    • 7 pm all-age Service, St James's
    • 8 pm Easter Vigil, Our Lady of Good Counsel
  • Easter Sunday - 7.30 pm “Resurrection Day”, Caird Hall, Dundee
• Dundee City Centre Churches invite our support at
  • Maundy Thursday Passover Meal at 7.30 pm in Meadowside St Paul's;
  • Good Friday Walk of Witness, meet at St Andrew's Cathedral by 11.45 am to walk to City Square for a Service at 12 noon;
  • Good Friday Service at 7.30 pm in Dundee Congregational Church.

Devotional material for Holy Week / Easter has been produced by ACTS - see www.acts-scotland.org or contact 01259 216980.

Easter Offerings Appeal

Envelopes for contributions in support of this annual appeal for the work of the Fund for World Mission are being distributed today for return in the offering plate on Easter or subsequent Sundays. This year's Appeal theme is “Making a Difference, Transforming Lives”.

“Fifth Sunday in the Month” : 30th March

Worship in Marketgait on Sunday 30th March will now be led by Jenny Easson in place of Julya Walsh. This was agreed to help arrangements for the Act of Worship to focus on “Stations of the Resurrection”. It is hoped that 'Fifth Sundays' will give opportunity to explore other ways of sharing worship and to enable wider participation. 'tricia (Worship Convener) will be grateful for indications of those willing to take part in worship or in the serving of coffee before and during worship. Please contact her or Jenny for further information - more details next week.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in March for work in India. See library area noticeboard.

Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• development of programmes for broadcast on satellite TV in Egypt;
• Spring Harvest in Skegness;
• continuing prayer for the family & friends of the Gaza Bookshop manager murdered last October;
• opportunity to print a large quantity of Hebrew Scriptures in Israel.

Prayer Points for this week

• The President of Conference at the Central European Methodist Conferences to Thursday;
• Methodist Publishing House Board;
• circuits in Scotland still involved in stationing processes;
• Montrose Hall Management Committee meeting on Wednesday,
• Blairgowrie Action Group, Thursday;
• projects in the Birmingham District (Methodist Homes);
• The Leprosy Mission's International Office staff;
• sufferers from injustice, false imprisonment and violence (Christian Aid);
• Bible Society work in India;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam;
• we remember fellow Methodists in the Knaresborough Circuit (Leeds District), and in Pollokshaws (Glasgow Circuit).

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