23 October 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.

Harvest - Methodist Relief & Development Fund

Envelopes are still available for return via the offering plate. This year's amount so far is around only a quarter of last year's - please help!

URGENT: ActionforChidren asks for your vote TODAY

The Dundee Families Project has contacted us to request Dundee Methodists' support of its application for funding through the RBS Community Force Scheme, eg for provision of creche facilities for “families in crisis”.

There is more information on the distributed flyers or see http://communityforce.rbs.co.uk/project/389; www.actionforchildren.org.uk/ for details.

TODAY IS THE DEADLINE: DON'T DELAY!!

October Café Service

The work of the Link Club will provide the focus for our Café-style all-age worship next Sunday. The aim is to help the congregation as a whole to know more of the Club's work and as a way of observing “Mission in Britain” Sunday. The Club's 'Church Helpers' have worked together to prepare material for this Service, with the support of others in the Club.

Giving to the Church by Standing order

For details of regular support of the church by Standing Order - which helps budgetting and quicker counting - please contact David Easson, Church Treasurer.

“Jars of Grace”

Jars are still available for our annual support of the work of UNICEF (originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, now the United Nations Children's Fund); please return jars during worship next Sunday 30th October or thereafter. The money placed in the Jars ('before eating a meal' is suggested) supports the focus of this year's Appeal:

For more information see Jar leaflets / labels, www.unicef.org.uk, or contact Mary F.

“Discipleship” booklets and the “Church Consultation”

As recently intimated, the Church Council is convening a special Open Meeting for ALL Dundee Methodists and friends, over and after a faith lunch following worship on Sunday 6th November. This is to support our participation in the wider discussions and decisions of the Circuit, District and Connexion in the light of the demands and challenges facing the Church as a whole and in its various parts.

There will be a Special Circuit Meeting (open to anyone) on November 23rd to take forward the views of the five congregations in the Angus Dundee & Perthshire Circuit.

The “Discipleship” booklets (available from last week) have been obtained to help prior individual reflection on some of the wider themes and issues: please make sure you have access to and read these booklets before the Open Meeting, as 'background material'.

Church Council members hope that there will be as full support of the Open meeting as possible; if you cannot be there, please convey your thoughts to the Rev Mary Patterson or a Dundee member of the Circuit Meeting (Tom P, Alan, David E, Heather, 'tricia or Lorna).

“Tell. Show. Be”

The 'viral video' produced by the Methodist Church has won first prize at the recent Christian New Media Awards. “Tell. Show. Be” is a short film with a simple message about the heart of evangelism -'Tell Somebody. Show Somebody. Be Somebody'. The film (which is also available in Welsh, Mandarin, Portuguese, & Spanish, and downloadable onto computers and mobile phones) is hosted on www.tellshowbe.com and was conceived as “a means of enabling people to talk about evangelism in their own language”. It is attracting interest ecumenically and world-wide.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in October for Sri Lanka. Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• publication of the Bible in Gurage, a language spoken by 5 million Ethiopians;
• SBS Council of Church Representatives Meeting on Thursday;
• observance of Bible Sunday in Scotland next Sunday.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• The President of Conference visiting the East Anglia District this weekend;
• ACTS meeting including the 21st Anniversary Service (on Wednesday evening), Coatbridge, Wednesday - Thursday;
• Baptist Assembly meeting in Dunfermline, Thursday - Saturday;
• The Circuit Superintendent and her ordained colleagues;
• staff & residents in South-East England (Methodist Homes);
• The Leprosy Mission's international directors;
• partners and projects in Cambodia (Christian Aid);
• Mission Aviation work in Bangladesh;
• Joint Christian Committee for Service, Beirut's newly provided children's playground (BibleLands);
• Bible Society work in Sri Lanka;
• we pray with and for the peoples of The Indian Ocean Islands (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
• we remember fellow Methodists in Malta (included in the South-East District!) and in East Kilbride (Glasgow Circuit).

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