19 August 2012
Next Sunday
26 August 2012
- 11 am
- All-age Worship, including the Sacrament of Holy Communion, conducted by the Rev Gerald Bostock
- Communion Offering for the Benevolence Fund
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.
Gift Aid
The Treasurer is delighted to report the recent Gift Aid tax return of over £5,000. Warm thanks go to all who contribute in this way to the work of the Church and in particular to Cliff & Mary Foster for dealing with the administration of this aspect of our finances.
Riverside Blairgowrie Methodist Church 125th Anniversary Celebrations
Saturday 25th August
| 11am | Church Open - Memorabilia display - Musical items |
| 12.30pm | Barbecue |
| 2.00pm | Welcome: Cutting of Anniversary Cake |
| Afternoon entertainments - Quizzes - Games - Competitions- Fun!!!! | |
| 4pm | Hymn singing (in church if wet!) |
“It is our Birthday Party and our guests come free”
NB: please support and make this event widely known; an idea of possible numbers for catering purposes would be useful to Blairgowrie friends.
Request for volunteers
“With a smaller congregation and less people available to elp with the essential duties required to ensure that Dundee Methodist Church welcomes friends and visitors to worship on a Sunday, more members are needed to ensure that we can fill the regular rota. Support is needed for assisting the Stewards with counting after the service, to help with serving coffee and to act as Door Stewards. If you are not currently on the list of volunteers do please speak with Senior Steward, Alan Suttie, to find out how you can help. Many thanks."
International Bible Reading Association material
“There is a list in the Foyer for orders for IBRA Bible Readings for next year. Payment on receipt later in the year.”
Heather Dean
Meetings this week
| Date & time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 22nd August 2012, 10am to 11.30am | Blairgowrie Methodist Church | Coffee Morning. The support of Circuit friends is always much appreciated and a warm welcome given to all who come. |
Support other Organisations
Scottish Bible Society
Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in August for work here in Scotland.
Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to
- Gospel programmes reaching to children and young people in Lebanon;
- publication in Turkey of a scholarly edition of the Psalms in Syriac, also work to complete the first Turkish Bible Dictionary and translation of the Kurdish Old Testament;
- Danish Bible Society's partnerships with African Bible Societies' Good Samaritan projects for people affected by HIV / AIDS.
Tax Justice Bus Tour Scotland
Christian Aid and Church Action on Poverty intimate that the “Tax Justice Bus” will visit Scotland in October, calling at the following places:
- Dumfries and Ayr Monday 1 October
- Glasgow Tuesday 2 October
- Edinburgh Wednesday 3 October
- St Andrews and Inverness Thursday 4 October
- Inverness and Pebbles Friday 5 October.
More details to come; to become involved contact Diane Green: email dgreen@christian-aid.org; tel 0141 241 6136.
Forthcoming events
| Date & time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 29th August 2012, 7.30pm | St Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, High Street, Dundee | Concert by The Australian Voices. Tickets (£12 / £8) online at www.theaustralianvoices.com or at the door on the evening. Registration for a vocal workshop at 6.30pm with the ensemble can be made online. “This dynamic young choir are currently performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before they embark on a tour around the United Kingdom. Their programme will include beautiful choral classics from Mozart and Bach to Bruckner and Rachmaninov.” |
| Sunday 2nd September 2012, 4pm | Broughty Baptist Church, 76 St Vincent Street, Broughty Ferry | Peter Smith, the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child Evangelicals' representative, will talk about his work both at home and at the United Nations and be open to questions from the congregation at the close of his presentation. All are welcome. |
| Sunday 2nd September 2012, 7.30pm | St Mary's Parish Church | Concert given by the choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Tickets £10 / £8 (more details next week). |
| Saturday 27th October 2012, 10am to 3.15pm | Augustine United Church, 41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EL | Church of Scotland and ACTS Autumn Conference on the theme “Ecumenical Relations in an Age of Change”. See noticeboard for details; contact / book through Ros Milne, Committee on Ecumenical Relations, Church of Scotland, tel: 0131 225 5722 ext 2370; email: rmilne@cofscotland.org.uk |
Prayer Points for this week
- the President and the Vice-President of Conference at Greenbelt, Cheltenham, next weekend;
- planning and preparations for Synod in Inverness in September;
- Blairgowrie's 125th anniversary celebrations;
- residents and staff in Bristol (Methodist Homes);
- Mission Aviation Fellowship's work in Madagascar;
- Christian Aid Collective, its youth focus, at festivals during the summer months (Christian Aid);
- Bible Society work in Scotland;
- J L Schneller School in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon (BibleLands);
- The Leprosy Mission's promotional work in the UK;
- we pray with and for the peoples of The Pacific Islands (Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Western Samoa, French Overseas Territories of New Caledonia (Kanaky) and French Polynesia (Tahiti)) (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
- we remember fellow Methodists in Hammersmith and Fulham (The London District) and in Partick (Glasgow Circuit).