23 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.

Superintendent Minister from September 2015

The Circuit Invitation Team are pleased to advise that an invitation to serve as Superintendent Minister in this Circuit has been issued to and accepted by the Rev Nicholas Baker. Nick is currently stationed with pastoral charge of the Guiseley and Yeadon churches in the Wharfedale and Aireborough Circuit of the Leeds District. We look forward to welcoming Nick, his wife Petra, and all their family to Tayside in due course.

Worship next Sunday

At the request of David Cowling, who has an unexpected family commitment in Pitlochry next weekend, Keith Pearson is to lead worship in Marketgait next Sunday and David is to take the service in Blairgowrie. It has been agreed, after consultation, that to fit in with Keith's already advanced preparations; our worship will not now take the form of a Café Service. There will not therefore be any need for a “setting out” session on Saturday.

Preaching Plan

The Plan of Preachers appointed to lead worship for the quarter December 2014 - February 2015 has been distributed electronically and there are 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 Easson know.

UNICEF Jars of Grace

£176.42 (plus Gift Aid) has so far been collected through the Jars for this year's Appeal.

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.

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

• financial constraints on projects in Portugal for diversification of Scriptures, biblical animations, and work with young people and the elderly;
• resourcing and support for work with young people in Poland;
• Bibleworld team plans for visits in 2015.

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.”

Sightsavers

All UK donations made to Sightsavers until the end of December will be matched pound for pound by the UK government.

See the Sightsavers website for information on projects in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, and Zambia; donate online.

Dundee Methodists will recall that our dear friend Alan Suttie was a strongly active supporter of Sightsavers International.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• the President and Vice-President of Conference meeting with the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland tomorrow;
• the President of Conference in the Newcastle upon Tyne District next weekend; the Vice-President visiting Haiti from Thursday to Wednesday 3rd December;
• the Chair of District and District office-holders;
• the circuit's ministerial staff, supernumerary ministers, and their families;
• work 'a year on' from Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines (Christian Aid);
• work in Chad, Guinea, and Niger (The Leprosy Mission);
• Bible Society work in Romania;
• work in the Channel Islands (Methodist Homes);
• children with cerebral palsy, living at Shams el Birr's residential villa, Egypt (Embrace);
• engineering and flight training in Mareeba, Australia (MAF);
• we pray with and for the peoples of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger (WCC);
• we remember fellow Methodists in Shebbear (Plymouth & Exeter District) and in Banff (North of Scotland Mission Circuit).

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