25 August 2013

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.

District Welcome Service

Everyone is warmly invited to the Service being arranged to say “Welcome” to our in-coming Chair of Synod, the Rev Dr David P Easton. This will be held at 2pm on Saturday in Perth Methodist Church and will be followed by refreshments and informal fellowship.

Link Club Stall at Rotary Event

“The Club has again been given the opportunity by Rotary Dundee to take a stall in the city centre on Saturday. The Club would be grateful for items suitable to sell on the stall. Books, unwanted gifts, bric-a-brac, unopened toiletries, jewellery, toys, are some possibilities. The stall will be varied. A box has been placed under the leaflet table in the upstairs Vestibule to receive donations for the stall. Lorna can provide more information. Many thanks!”

NB Use will be made of the downstairs vestry during this week for storing and sorting goods. Access to the phone / desk will be maintained. The Link Club is grateful for the agreement to and support of Church friends in this.

Prayer Handbooks

The ordered Prayer Handbooks for 2013-14 have arrived and copies may be collected from Jenny to whom payment should be made. There is currently one unallocated large print copy. The cost for ordinary print copies is £3.15 and for large print £3.50.

Preaching Plan

The Preaching Plan for September-November has been distributed by email. Named print copies can be collected from the glass-top table, where there are also extra un-named copies. Please contact Jenny and David if you wish to be added to a distribution list or for more print copies.

Broughty Ferry Churches Group news

• St Margaret's Café: Lunches / afternoon teas are served in Barnhill St Margaret's hall on Wednesdays from 12.30 pm to 4pm.
• Christian Aid Soup Lunches will resume on Friday 6th September in the YMCA, Brook Street, from 12 noon.
• The next meeting of the representatives on the Broughty Ferry Churches Group will be on Thursday 5th September at 10.30am in New Kirk small hall.

Incorporation of Broughty Ferry into Dundee

As part of the Ferry's marking of the Centenary of its Incorporation into Dundee as from 4th November 1913

• A United Service will be held on Sunday 3rd November at 6pm in Broughty New Kirk.
• It is proposed that individual Ferry churches hold displays and “open days” in connection with the Centenary and that a “Church Trail” be publicised.
• There will be a Public Lecture by Dr Chris Davey in St Marys' Episcopal Church.

Further information to come in due course.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Support the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in August for work in Zambia. Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• increased Scripture distribution in Croatia, despite the effects of recession; also progress on new translation and promotional work;
• work of the Bulgarian Bible Society among marginalised people, including those with visual disabilities, children in orphanages, and prisoners; also translation work aimed at people with no church connection;
• meeting of SBS finance staff on Thursday.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• preparations for the new Connexional Year, from 1st September;
• Methodist Ministers now “sitting down” as 'supernumeraries';
• 'the UK Team', supporters, & recruitment of new staff ( Mission Aviation Fellowship);
• The Leprosy Mission's work in Bangladesh;
• residents and staff in the Cornwall District (Methodist Homes);
• the new leadership at the Princess Basma Centre, Jerusalem (Embrace);
• Greenbelt Christian Festival's 40th anniversary week (Christian Aid);
• Bible Society work in Zambia;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
• we remember fellow Methodists in York (York and Hull District) and in Alexandria (Glasgow Circuit).

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