Dundee Methodist Church

10 April 2011

Next Sunday
17 April 2011
- Palm Sunday

11 am
Worship led by Mr Bill Beedie

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.

Lent Observance

  • Dundee City Centre Churches will share in studying material by Spurgeon on Tuesday at 7.30 pm in Meadowside St Paul's Church (lower hall); material available at meeting.
  • The Broughty Ferry Churches Group will share in a Study Group on Wednesday at 7.30 pm in St Luke's and Queen Street (Small Hall), Broughty Ferry on the topic “Lies and Truth” from the CTBI material 'Reconciliation Together'.
  • Riverside Methodist Church Blairgowrie - the last in the series of Lent Talks, supported by EPACTS (East Perthshire Action of Churches Together in Scotland), at 7.30 pm this evening when the Rt Rev Bruce Cameron (former Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church) will speak on 'Caring for the Environment'. Our support is warmly invited.

Bible Reading Group

There will be no meetings of this Group in April. Support is invited for the ecumenical Maundy Thursday Meal in Marketgait at 7.30 pm on Thursday 21st April.

NB If you still wish a “One Year Bible”, contact Tom Penman soon: “ten copies have suddenly become available”!

Urgent request: Methodist Hymn Book (1930s edition)

Rev Mary Patterson has been asked by someone in Arbroath to enquire if any of our churches has surplus MHBs which could be sent for use by churches in Malawi. There is a small number of MHBs in Marketgait, thought to have been last used regularly by the Midweek Fellowship some years ago. If anyone wishes Mary NOT to hand over all or some of these for use in Malawi, please let her know as soon as possible.

Thanks!

Meetings this week

Date & timeVenueDetails
Sunday 10th April, 2.30 pm Broughty Ferry New Kirk, Queen Street, Broughty Ferry “Question Time Event” - an opportunity to question the candidates for Dundee City East constituency in the 5th May Holyrood Election.
Sunday 10th April, 7.30 pm Riverside Methodist Church, Blairgowrie 'Caring for the Environment' - Rt Rev Bruce Cameron. Last of a series of Lent Talks, supported by EPACTS (East Perthshire Action of Churches Together in Scotland). See Dates for your diary.
Tuesday 12th April, 7.30 pm Meadowside St Paul's Church (lower hall) City Centre Lent Group will share in studying material by Spurgeon; material available at meeting.
Tuesday 12th April, 7.30 pm St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee “The Narrow Road” : “a moving combination of powerful theatre, mediation and corporate worship” presented by the Riding Lights Theatre Company. Tickets (£8/£7) from the Box Office 07401 / (01382) 224486. See www.ridinglights.org for details.
Wednesday 13th April, 7.30 pm St Luke's and Queen Street (Small Hall), Broughty Ferry Broughty Ferry Churches Lent Study Group on the topic “Lies and Truth” from the CTBI material 'Reconciliation Together'.
Friday 15th April, 12 noon - 1 pm YMCA 151 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry (opposite “M&S Food”) (map) Broughty Ferry Churches Group Christian Aid lunch. Soup - a good selection each week - is served with bread & cheese, followed by coffee for £2, in support of this ecumenical aid, relief and development charity. The lunches last year raised over £2,000 for Christian Aid. A warm welcome is given to all to come and share food and fellowship regularly or from time to time.
Saturday 16th April, 10.30 am to 4 pm St John's Episcopal Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh Scottish Friends of Ecumenism 'Open Meeting' : a warm invitation is given to all concerned about the decisions on May 11th for the future use of Scottish Churches House. Contact: Jenny Easson.
Saturday 16th April, 7 pm St James the Great, Scottish Episcopal Church, Cupar Samuel Chorus concert
Sunday 17th April, 6.30 pm Dundee West Church, Roseangle Samuel Chorus concert

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited for work in April for work in Chile. See noticeboard in library area for more information. Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

  • People's Bible project at 'Spring Harvest' this week;
  • continued impact of Bible Exhibition in France and its 10-years in francophone territories;
  • new General Secretary of the Bible Society in Germany;
  • Lectio Divina programme in Flemish Belgium and ministry to hospitals, prisons and schools in French-speaking areas;
  • opening of new distribution and promotion office in Suriname, also translation work into Sranan Tongo, Suriname Javanese, and Arawak.

Forthcoming events

Date & timeVenueDetails
Tuesday 3rd May, 9.30 am to 3.30 pm Stirling Baptist Church ACTS Cross-Network Conference - 'Ministry in a Time of Change'. For details, contact Tom Moyes at ACTS (01259 222363) or, if you plan to attend, Joan Pennycook on joanpennycook@acts-scotland.org.
Saturday 7th May, 10.30 am (coffee) to 3 pm - lunch provided Dunblane Cathedral Halls “Journeying Together” - the second District Ecumenical Forum. To register please send form (see Vestibule table) to / contact Bill Reid (01786 820295), e-mail billreid@methodistchurch.plus.com. All are welcome.
Tuesday May 3rd - Tuesday June 14th, excluding May 10th, from 7 pm to 8:30 pm Solas Centre, St Peter Street, Dundee Life of Jesus - from the DVD. For DVD preview, see www.lifeofjesus.tv.
Tuesday 10th May, 7 pm Solas Centre, St Peter Street, Dundee Sons of Korah in Concert : A musical journey into the Psalms, in association with the Bible Society, Scottish Bible Society, and Bible Fresh. Tickets £8 / £5 concession.
Friday 13th May, 7.30 pm St James' Church of Scotland, Broughty Ferry Impromptu Singers concert in aid of RNLI.
Saturday 11th June, 10.30 am to 3.45 pm Central Baptist Church, Ward Road, Dundee “Together in Mission” : District Resourcing Day. The Day will explore the role of small groups in deepening discipleship, as part of “Deepening Discipleship Week”. It is suggested that Sunday worship in the Week also focuses on “discipleship”. For more details of the Day and Week see www.methodistchurchinscotland.org.uk or the Resourcing Day leaflet (copies on the Vestibule table). Booking for the Resourcing Day is requested by 21st May if possible via the form, also available on the Vestibule table, or with the District Administrator, Fiona Inglis (01786 820295; email fiona@methodistchurch.plus.com.

Prayer Points for this week

  • The Vice-President of Conference in Lancashire next weekend;
  • the staff of Scottish Churches House;
  • the relationship of the Circuit's churches and members with their local communities;
  • residents and staff in the Bolton and Rochdale District (Methodist Homes);
  • Habitat for Humanity project to help provide housing for 300 families in Upper Egypt (BibleLands);
  • The Leprosy Mission's work in Indonesia, Timor Leste, and Papua New Guinea;
  • partners, projects and the people of Egypt (Christian Aid);
  • Bible Society work in Chile;
  • we pray with and for the peoples of Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
  • we remember fellow Methodists in the Mid-Glamorgan Mission Circuit (Wales Synod) and in Portgordon (North of Scotland Mission Circuit).