7 September 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.

Scottish Referendum

Action of Churches Together in Scotland (ACTS) has produced material to help reflection and discussion throughout the Referendum campaign, together with prayers and liturgical material for the period leading up to and following Referendum Day (Thursday 18th September) and the outcome of voting.

Circuit Preaching Plan

The Plan for September - November has been distributed electronically and printed copies allocated to those who had so indicated. Please contact David Easson if you wish your name added to either list or if more printed copies are required for the vestibule table.

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.

EMU: Faith in Action

The Scottish Episcopal, Methodist and United Reformed Churches (EMU) jointly support the guide produced by the SEC, as part of our commitment to working together.

It includes prayer suggestions and action ideas on a monthly theme. See www.scotland.anglican.org.

The topic for September is “racial justice” with the prayer:

“Our heavenly Father, you made us in your own image and likeness.

Help us to treat everyone with dignity and respect.

You sent your only Son to show us how to live.

Teach us to love like him, loving and caring for everyone.

Help us to remember that we are all members of the same human family, your family.

Help us to remember that we all experience grief, hunger, pain, joy and happiness in the same way whatever our creed, the colour of our skin, or status in life.

Help us not to judge and be prejudiced but to be compassionate and kind.

Loving Father in your mercy, hear our prayer, Amen”

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

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

Our prayerful attention this week is drawn to

• preparation of materials for Bible Sunday;
• work on the Nasa Yuwe and WayÚunaiky translations in Colombia;
• staff and all involved in distribution work in Chile;
• development of biblical materials to reach children in difficult situations in Peru;
• 60th anniversary of the Indonesian Bible Society, development of digital media, revision of the Indonesian Bible, and translations of the Bible into 27 local languages.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• The President in Nottingham & Derby, the Vice-President in Wolverhampton & Shrewsbury next weekend;
• the Chairs of the Scotland and Shetland Synods;
• El Salvador in the rainy season (Christian Aid);
• work in south east India (The Leprosy Mission);
• Bible Society work in Botswana;
• work in Scotland (Methodist Homes);
• peace in the middle east (Embrace);
• caring in Kenya (MAF);
• we pray with and for the peoples of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia, and Yugoslavia WCC);
• we remember fellow Methodists in Barnsley (Sheffield District) and in Netherton (formerly Lanarkshire Circuit, now Strathclyde Circuit).

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