10 November 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.

UNICEF Jars of Grace

Jars may still be returned (with contents!) or donations given to Margaret.

Bible Reading Notes

It is time to order the IBRA Bible reading notes for 2014. The format has been changed - examples will be on the desk, together with an order form for you to sign up. It looks to be an excellent format and worth taking for your daily Bible readings. Please look at them and sign up for an order for 2014 - payment on receipt. Further info from Heather.

Dundee Methodists and Food Banks

1. Please support the Dundee Foodbank by bringing in any of the suggested items from the Shopping List (on the table on the upstairs landing) and placing the items in the large blue Bucket provided nearby. An explanatory slip is also available.
   • There is also need for plastic carrier bags of suitable size: please place any spares along with food items in the Bucket;
   • Giving money is also welcome.
   • Liz Kay reports that we would appear to have given around 100lb of food to the Foodbank already - so please keep up the good work! Contact Liz for further information.
2. Tesco have made the following request:
   • Dundee Foodbank are collecting food donations in all 3 Tesco Extra stores in Dundee on Friday 29th and Saturday 30th November, and would appreciate any willing volunteers over the course of these days.
   • If you are able to spare some time and help hand out leaflets or sort donations, please let Dave Morris know on info@dundee.foodbank.org.uk or by phone (01382) 226372. See http://dundee.foodbank.org.uk/supermarket-collections for more information.

Visitors to our next Café Service

We will be joined at the Café Service on Sunday December 29th by our friends from Meadowside St Paul's Church of Scotland. An invitation has also been given to Dundee United Reformed Church to join our worship in Marketgait on that Sunday.

Safer Scotland - Ready for Winter?

The Scottish Government has provided information for this campaign in the form of a wee booklet - copies on the vestibule table. See poster on noticeboards or http://www.readyscotland.org.

120 Days of Christmas

Did you know the “old Advent” was from 11th November until Christmas Eve? If you add that to 'old Christmas' (25th December to Candlemas, 2nd February) and then include the 40 days of Lent (5th March - 19th April), you get “the 120 days of Christmas”. We are invited to use this as a sustained period of reflection and devotion throughout the Scotland District. See “Scottish Methodists Together” latest issue (on glass table) or more information.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support via the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in November for work in Haiti. Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• Bible society staff in Ukraine during the difficult transition from a totalitarian regime through a period of lawlessness and corruption;
• distribution of Scriptures to young people in Belarus, and work with vulnerable children, especially in orphanages;
• celebration of the life of David Livingstone in Glasgow Cathedral on Wednesday, to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth;
• staff and work of the Icelandic Bible Society.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• the President and Vice-President of Conference at 3Generate Children and Youth Assembly, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, Friday - Sunday;
• Synod Secretaries' meeting, Methodist Church House, London, Wednesday;
• members of the District Policy Committee;
• work in Uganda and into Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan (Mission Aviation Fellowship);
• The Leprosy Mission's work in Burma and Thailand;
• residents and staff in the Northampton District (Methodist Homes);
• disabled access facilities (new lift) at Beit Jemima House (Embrace);
• negotiations with FARC guerrilla army in Colombia (Christian Aid);
• Bible Society work in Haiti;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Rwanda (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
• we remember Methodists in Shropshire and the Marches (Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury District) and in Armadale (Central Scotland Circuit).

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