29 November 2009

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.

Preaching Plans

Plans for December - February are now available, free, on Vestibule table: please take & distribute as appropriate. Please note that the Sacrament of Holy Communion will be celebrated on Sunday January 17th - apologies that this has been omitted on the printed Plan.

Circuit News - Stationing Process

Intimation was given in all the Circuit Churches last Sunday to the following effect:

Keith Pearson, as Senior Circuit Steward, wishes to intimate that the person suggested by Stationing Group as our Circuit Superintendent Minister from 1st September 2010 declined this proposal in advance of the meetings last Friday. The Circuit Meeting, after due consideration, unanimously offered the Superintendency to the Rev Mary Patterson who has accepted it for a 5 year period.

The Circuit Invitation Committee is now focussed on the invitation process for appointment of a Prebyter (Minister); our prayerful support is invited for the CIC and all involved, including the Rev Lily Twist (Chair of District) and Eileen Cox (District Lay Stationing Representative).

Support other Organisations

Scottish Churches House Prayer Network

Daily prayers are led at 9.00 - 9.15 am, with Network members particularly asked to join, if possible, on Wednesday mornings.

Prayers are invited for those in the House this week,

including “Grasping Nettles” (Monday), Advent events (see below).

We also remember the regular work of the Scotland Methodist Office based in the House.

Scottish Bible Society

Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in December for work in Bangladesh. See noticeboard for more information.

Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• establishment of Faith Comes By Hearing audio ministry in Gabon;
• distribution to rehabilitation centres for addicts and HIV / AIDS sufferers in Belarus;
• work in colleges and schools in Costa Rica;
• violence-free elections in El Salvador;
• BibleWorld Studios 1st visit to Orkney this week.

Give a Bible for Christmas : see library area noticeboard for leaflet with details of ways to commemorate Christ's birth by gifting a Bible to someone in need elsewhere in the world (Philippines, Cambodia, Malawi, Belarus, Mexico, Romania, Tanzania and Gaelic-speaking Scots); information on gifting also on www.scottishbiblesociety.org.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• The President and Vice-President of Conference in the Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury District next weekend;
• Methodist Ministers & Lay Staff Pension Scheme Boards meeting(s), Thursday;
• Action for Children Scotland Committee, Tuesday;
• role and work of the Circuit Preachers & their Meeting;
• houses, residents and staff in Bedfordshire, Essex and Hertfordshire (Methodist Homes);
• World AIDS Day on Tuesday (Christian Aid);
• staff and work of Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza (BibleLands);
• The Leprosy Mission's work in south India;
• Bible Society work in Mexico and n Bangladesh;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Liberia and Sierra Leone (WCC Prayer Calendar);
• we remember fellow Methodists in Brampton and Alston Moor (Cumbria District)* and all in Rosyth Local Ecumenical Partnership (Edinburgh & Forth Circuit).

* especially recent flood victims in this District and in south-west Scotland

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• 6 December 2009

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