6 April 2015

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.

Easter Offering Envelopes

Envelopes are being distributed today, for return next Sunday or in subsequent weeks, through the offering plate. This annual Appeal is in support of the world-wide Church and the theme this year is “The Tree of Life” from Methodist Women in Britain which we have followed in our weekly Lenten Liturgy.

Riverside Methodist Church, Blairgowrie: Organ Farewell!

As part of the sale of our premises in Blairgowrie, the organ has been sold to a keen purchaser from Spain. Our friends at Riverside send the following invitation to mark this:

“We are giving a farewell send-off to our historic organ, which will be dismantled on the following Monday and taken to Spain. It will continue to provide uplifting hymns and music to a congregation in a church near Seville.

Firstly, a short service will be held at Riverside Methodist Church between 6.00 & 6.30 pm on Saturday 18th April 2015. Everyone will be welcome.

Following the service and starting at 7.00 pm there will be a Final Organ concert, free of charge and open to all, with Austin Wilkie and Christine Aston as organists. We are pleased to welcome soprano Erin Nicoll, student at Grove Academy Dundee. Erin was winner of the Arbroath Music Festival, regional finalist in the Rotary Club Young Vocalist of the Year 2015 & Dundee Schools' Young Vocalist of the Year 2015. The Lyric choir will also be performing.

Altogether, this promises to be an excellent event. Refreshments will be available afterwards, for which a small donation would be appreciated.”

Change to Holy Communion

Please note that because of the Confirmation of Joseph Yankson on Sunday 19th April, Communion will be celebrated then and not the following week.

Dundee Methodists and Food Banks - updates

• Our continued support for the Dundee Foodbank has again received thank from its organisers.
• Please place items in the large bucket on the upstairs landing - clean plastic bags are also welcome.

Holiness and Risk event - change of plan

: The meeting planned for April 18th in Edinburgh will not now take place. Participation in the Solas Festival in Perth on June 20th is commended instead. More details to come.

General Church Meeting - Sunday 21st June

Please note the date of this important act of worship and business meeting at which reports are given and discussions are held on the life of Methodists based in Marketgait.

Elections will be required for all Church Stewards, with need to replace at least one member of the current team: Fiona is stepping down on 31st August and we also are aware of the demands on Chi Tak because of his family situation in Hong Kong. Please consider this carefully and prayerfully; the Church Stewards are happy to talk with anyone interested or able to suggest persons who might be approached.

The GCM also elects representatives to the Church Council.

(Jenny Easson Senior Church Steward)

EMU Faith in Action Prayer Guides

A series of leaflets is available / downloadable giving suggestions for prayer and action on a topic each month.

These are produced by the Scottish Episcopal Church and commended by the EMU partners (Episcopal, Methodist and URC). The topic for April is “Prisons”.

For copies, contact Elspeth Davey: ChurchRelations@scotland.anglican.org; 0131 225 6357

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Bible Society

Our support via the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in April for work in Mexico.

Our prayerful attention this week is drawn to

• issuing of the New Testament to Tojolabal speakers in Mexico after 7 years work;
• gratitude for world-wide support shown to the Bible Society in Egypt;
• SBS appeal in support of work in Cambodia;
• staff of the Bible Society in El Salvador.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• the Methodist Presidency - the past, current and designated Presidents and Vice-Presidents;
• Methodist Council, next weekend;
• Easter-tide worship in the Circuit's churches;
• signs of resurrection hope round the world and those who work for its coming and growth (Christian Aid);
• work in India (The Leprosy Mission);
• residents and staff in the Birmingham District (Methodist Homes);
• Bible Society work in Mexico;
• effects of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia (MAF);
• Princess Basma Centre working with disabled children in Jerusalem (Embrace);
• we pray with and for the peoples of East Timor, Indonesia, and the Philippines (WCC);
• we remember fellow Methodists in Plymouth (Plymouth & Exeter District) and all in Mosspark Ecumenical Partnership (Strathclyde Circuit).

• 29 March 2015
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