17 July 2011

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.

July Café Service request

Heather Dean will facilitate our worship on Sunday 31st July on the theme “Holidays”. She has intimated that it would be helpful if you would look out and bring a photo / postcard / small memento of a holiday or “day out” about which you could share your memories during conversation round the tables.

Worship Group

Those present on Tuesday discussed

• Café Worship in July;
• Harvest Worship on Sunday 25th September;
• initial approach for Café Service in October as our “Mission in Britain” Sunday by a focus on the Link Club - preparatory meeting on Monday 10th October at 7.30 pm;
• orders for material from Methodist Publishing.

Prayer Handbook 2011

Orders will be placed soon for the new Handbook, “Run the Race” (likely price £3.20 to include p&p); please sign the sheet on the Vestibule table, indicating if a “large print” copy is required.

Ordering “Singing the Faith”

If you wish to place an order for the new hymnbook, launched at Conference, this can be included in the Order being sent for the Prayer Handbook (and other items).

“Singing the Faith” is being produced in the following formats:

• full music edition - £25 pre-publication offer
• words edition - £7.50 pre-publication offer
• words edition large print - £12.50 (pre-publication offer)

These will be available from September and the full prices charged after December. Please let Jenny Easson have details if you wish her to place an order for you.

If there are other items which might be included in this order advise Jenny about these too.

Link Club fund-raising feat

Sue Marshall-Jennings was to have walked across hot coals last Friday as part of a fundraising sponsored event for her workplace. She also thought of raising some funds for the Link Club by inviting donations to the Link Club in support of her “crazy act”! If anyone would like to give money, please do so via Lorna Dewar or Jenny Easson.

Salvation Army use of our premises

We have been advised that the Salvation Army has now arranged to use the Lochee Baptist Church premises for worship on Sunday mornings as this is a more suitable time for their members. Their final service in Marketgait will be today (July 17th).

“They offer their very sincere thanks to the Methodist congregation for coming to their rescue so quickly and willingly.”

Broughty Ferry Churches Group News

• St Luke's & Queen Street friends give a warm invitation to Afternoon Teas on Tuesdays in July at 2 pm.
• St James, Barnhill St Margaret's, and the New Kirk are all running Holiday Clubs during the August school holidays.
• Looking ahead to September, the “Christian Aid Lunch rota” is being prepared; if any Methodist soup-makers wish to join the Marketgait Methodists & St Mary's Episcopal Team, please contact Kate, David or Jenny.

“Hope in God's Future”

This year, Methodist Conference meeting in Southport, adopted a Statement accepting the above (2009) Report.

A webpage has been launched - www.methodist.org.uk/co2 - on how to reduce the carbon footprint of small, medium and large churches. The guidance will help to cut the Methodist Church's carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 in line with Government targets.

A report to the Methodist Conference last year revealed that the Methodist Church in Britain has a carbon footprint of around 120,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum for approximately 8,000 of its buildings.

The Joint Public Issues Team for the Methodist Church, the United Reformed Church and the Baptist Union is lobbying the government on its climate change policy and has called for emissions from international aviation and shipping to be taken into account in international targets.

Churches are also encouraged to start up eco-congregations: an environmental programme for local churches in Britain and Ireland.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in July for work in Russia.

Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• continuing impact of 'Jesus' film televised on Good Friday in Cape Verde Islands, also the 75th anniversary of publication of the first Scripture in Kriol;
• launch of two new translations in Gambia; recording and distribution of Scriptures in two local languages in Senegal;
• gratitude in Colombia for work in 2010 - Bible distribution, granting of student diplomas, outreach by volunteers, especially women;
• completion of the Piaoroa translation in Venezuela.

Prayer Points for this week

• The President & Vice-President of Conference at Buckingham Palace Garden Party on Tuesday;
• Methodist ministers given permission to “sit down” (retire from 'stationed ministry') and their families;
• Treasurers and members of Finance Committees in our Circuit's churches, the Circuit Treasurer and Stewards;
• residents and staff in the Liverpool District (Methodist Homes);
• The Leprosy Mission's work in north-east India;
• campaign against World Bank loans for fossil-fuel power stations (Christian Aid);
• Habitat for Humanity in Lebanon, prioritising provision of shelter for children especially those who are family-carers (BibleLands);
• Bible Society work in Russia;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
• we remember fellow Methodists in the Dover and Deal Circuit (South-East District) and in Dunbar (Edinburgh & Forth Circuit).

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