1 September 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.

Prayer Handbooks

Jenny has the ordered Prayer Handbooks for 2013-14. There is one unallocated large print copy.

The Preaching Plan for September-November

Print copies can be collected from the glass-top table. Please contact Jenny and David if you wish to be added to the electronic distribution list or for more print copies.

Broughty Ferry Churches Group Christian Aid Soup Lunch

The weekly Soup Lunches in support of Christian Aid resume this Friday from 12 noon to 1pm in the YMCA, Brook Street, Broughty Ferry (almost opposite M&S Food). A choice of soups is offered, with bread and cheese, followed by tea or coffee, for which a minimum donation of £2 is requested. A warm welcome is extended to all to partake of the Soup Lunch and join in the warm table fellowship throughout the autumn and spring.

NB if you are a soup-maker and feel able to offer your skills (on an occasional basis) to add to those of Broughty Ferry churches folk, please contact David Easson or Kate Green.

St Margaret's Café

Lunches / afternoon teas are served in Barnhill St Margaret's hall on Wednesdays from 12.30 pm to 4pm.

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

Our support via the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in September for work in Lebanon

Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• Scripture distribution programmes in Lebanon to help migrant workers and put the Bible into the public sphere through politics and art;
• distribution in Moldova to public libraries and needy people;
• SBS current appeal to support the Bible Society programme in Ecuador for trauma healing for refugees;
• Nicaragua Hope and Smiles project for children with cancer.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• the President and Vice-President of Conference;
• the Chair of the Synod, Rev Dr David P Easton;
• our Circuit staff, the Revs Mary Patterson and John Butterfield;
• Flight Training Centre Coldstream, Australia ( Mission Aviation Fellowship);
• The Leprosy Mission's work and staff in regional offices;
• residents and staff in the Darlington District (Methodist Homes);
• Zvartnotz Centre's new workshop among Beirut's Armenian community (Embrace);
• partners in Mali and Democratic Republic of Congo where conflict makes access to food difficult (Christian Aid);
• Bible Society work in Lebanon;
• we pray with and for the peoples of the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
• we remember fellow Methodists in Telford (Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury District) and our Episcopal partners in St John's Dumfries (Glasgow Circuit).

• 25 August 2013
• 8 September 2013

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