16 November 2014

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

Any remaining Jars and / or contents should be given to Margaret as soon as possible, please.

Preaching Plan

The Plan of Preachers appointed to lead worship for the quarter December 2014 - February 2015 will be distributed electronically and there will also be several print copies on the vestibule table as ordered and for general uplift. If you wish your name added to the email or printed lists, please let David know. It is hoped publication will take place this week.

Rotas

Fiona will be preparing the next 3 months' rotas for stewarding, collection counting, door welcome, and serving of coffee. Please contact her to notify (un)suitable dates or to offer to join one or more of the teams - more people welcome!

Dundee Methodists and Food Banks

We 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 them 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 by the Bucket. Monetary donations are also welcome. Contact Liz Kay for further information.

Tidying our Premises

Thanks to those whose hard work enabled a good “tidy up” of areas of our premises last Saturday morning. There seemed to be a general consensus that this sort of exercise (!) is something we should do on a regular basis “to keep on top of things”.

Watch this space - keep your ears open! (Sue & Jenny)

Worship Group résumé

The recent gathering of people with an interest in our worship discussed

• arrangements for worship during Advent and Christmas-tide;
• Advent / Christmas display material for the window and interior of our premises;
• installation of the Christmas Tree - it will have been erected ready for decoration on Saturday 13th December, helpers please arrive for 10.30am; 'seasonal refreshments' will be served to help sustain our efforts!
• donations for local Action for Children (AfC) families project over the month of December - envelopes will be available and the Communion Offering allocated, as usual;
• “early singing” arrangements for the first Sundays in December and January;

Next meeting, open to all - Thursday 12 February, 7pm.

ACTS Advent material

The devotional material prepared each year on behalf of ACTS (Action of Churches Together in Scotland) is now available for download from the ACTS website, under the title “The Advent Mix”. The material has been prepared this year by the Rev Gordon Jamieson, a former Minister of Barnhill St Margaret's Church of Scotland and a good friend to Ferry Methodists in the Broughty Ferry Churches Group.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support via the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in November for work in Romania.

Our prayerful attention this week is drawn to

• distribution of new special edition Scriptures to young people in the Czech Republic;
• completion due soon of the translation of the New Testament into Gaelic;
• progress of the new Old Testament translation in Serbia, also printing of the first Children's Bible and translation of the Gospels into Romani;
• the small staff of the Swedish Bible Society.

Copies of the SBS magazine “Alive and Active” are on the vestibule table. If you wish to receive a copy regularly, please let Jenny Easson know.

Christian Aid - Present Aid - Make double the difference

If you choose to support Christian Aid through Present Aid, gifts for mothers and babies in Kenya and Malawi will attract matching funding from the UK Government through the UK Aid Match scheme. Applicable on orders received between 7 November 2014 and 6 February 2015.

All We Can / MRDF Extraordinary Gifts

Extraordinary Gifts available from All We Can, the new name for the Methodist Relief and Development Fund. These give the opportunity to purchase “practical presents that help people in some of the world's poorest communities to become all they can”.We are invited to “offer the gift of life and joy this Christmas with our nativity themed gifts.”

Prayer Points for this week

• the Vice-President of Conference on Iona to Saturday; the President of Conference in Shetland from Thursday;
• Prisons Sunday today and Prisons Week;
• stationing in our Circuit and District;
• work in Ethiopia (Christian Aid);
• promotional work in Europe (The Leprosy Mission);
• Bible Society work in Romania;
• work on the Isle of Man (Methodist Homes);
• J L Schneller School by the Lebanon-Syria border (Embrace);
• flying in South Sudan (MAF);
• we pray with and for the peoples of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea (WCC);
• we remember fellow Methodists in Ringsash (Plymouth & Exeter District) and in Cullen (North of Scotland Mission Circuit).

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