Dundee Methodist Church

26 August 2012

Next Sunday
2 September 2012
Annual Covenant Service

10.45 am
early singing - David Easson
11 am
Worship, including the Sacrament of Holy Communion and rededication of Pastoral Visitors, conducted by the Rev Mary Patterson
Communion Offering for the Methodist Relief and Development 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. If anyone wishes to be included in this system, please speak to David Easson.

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 & timeVenueDetails
Monday 27th August 2012, 7.30pm Dundee Methodist Church, “L” Church Stewards' Meeting
Wednesday 29th 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.
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. Music by Byrd, MacMillan and Whitacre, as well as some from “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”. Tickets £10 / £8. For further details, see www.queens.ox.ac.uk/choir.

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

  • Bibleworld Mobile visit to P7 children in the Newton Mearns area, and the enthusiasm of churches inviting them;
  • completion and publication in the Netherlands of the Bible in Plain Dutch;
  • all taking part in the Paralympic Games, starting this week, that all may compete in a “spirit of unity, fairness and integrity”;
  • the celebrations to mark the bicentenary of the Bible Society of Finland; giving thanks for new opportunities in development work, as they work in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
  • the beginning of work in the Swedish Bible Society for their first ever translation project, a contemporary translation of the Bible; praying for necessary skills and wisdom;
  • the issuing of Bibles to Sunday School children in Togo, building a foundation for future generations.

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 & timeVenueDetails
Friday 28th September 2012 City Chambers, Edinburgh Seminar on “Welfare Reform”, organised inter alia by Scottish Churches Housing Action.
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, this weekend;
  • the Rev Lily Twist, our Chair, as she represents British Methodism at the Singapore Conference in early September;
  • Blairgowrie's 125th continuing anniversary celebrations;
  • projects in the Southampton District (Methodist Homes);
  • Mission Aviation Fellowship's staff all around the world;
  • World Water Week and in particular work in Afghanistan by the Christian Aid partner RAADA (Christian Aid);
  • BibleLands promotional work at Greenbelt (BibleLands);
  • Bible Society work in Scotland;
  • The Leprosy Mission's largest programme, DBLM, in Bangladesh;
  • we pray with and for the peoples of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
  • we remember fellow Methodists in Notting Hill (The London District) and in Woodlands (Glasgow Circuit).