23 August 2015

We give the assurance of our thoughts and prayers to all who are unwell, awaiting or undergoing treatment, anxious, or grieving for the loss of loved ones.
As schools and other educational institutions start or prepare for a new year, we send our best wishes to all involved in formal education - students, teaching & academic staff, researchers, administrators & support staff, chaplains - and their families. We assure them of our prayerful support and interest.
As the Link Club marks thirty years of work with people with learning difficulties & their carers, together with links to other involved agencies, we prayerfully remember Club Members & Volunteers, also their families and friends. The Club gives thanks for all the Members and Helpers whose presence and contributions have enriched its people and activities since 1985.

Circuit Ministerial and Other Cover

Until Tuesday 1st September, the Rev John Butterfield will act as Superintendent of the Circuit and any matters requiring ministerial attention or administrative action / advice should be referred to him.

Prayer Handbook 2015-16

Ordered copies can be collected from Jenny Easson - price £3.35. If you did not order a copy but would like one please also see Jenny Easson - there are spares.

Welcome Service for Nick Baker and family

The Circuit's welcome, led by the Chair of the Synod, will be in Marketgait on Wednesday 2nd September at 6pm (and not 6.30pm as on the new Plan). If you hope to attend, please sign the sheet on the glass vestibule table or advise one of the Church Stewards - this is to give an idea of numbers for catering and layout of chairs.

Dundee Open Doors Weekend

Copies of the brochure are now available, giving details of premises open during the weekend of September 19th and 20th - Marketgait is included therein. Our premises are to be open to the public between 10am & 2pm on the Saturday and between 12 noon (ie after worship) & 2pm on the Sunday, with displays by ourselves about “who we are what we do” and (hopefully) by our User Groups, with the serving of light refreshments.

Dewhurst Cotton Reels wanted!!

Beryl Cowling is making a request on behalf of Barbara Glasson to Methodist Women in Britain (MwiB) and all of us.
Barbara Glasson is a Methodist minister, now in Bradford, a city with a mix of ethnicities and religions where the interfaith Touchstone Project is expanding into premises once occupied by the Dewhurst family, famous for making thread and cotton reels.
As part of the fund-raising, Barbara and colleagues wish to amass as many old Dewhurst reels as they can (with thread or not) for (aiming for a whole set of D numbers if possible!). Please rummage through sewing baskets and other (un)likely places to see if you have any Dewhurst reels to donate. Please put them in the box on the vestibule table. Beryl will ensure they reach the project. Fuller details on leaflets on vestibule table or contact Beryl.

A first batch of reels from Dundee has been handed to Beryl but more will be welcome - keep looking!!

Barnabas Fund: Safe Havens for Christians

An invitation is given to sign a global petition which “calls upon politicians and governments to increase their efforts to support Syrian and Iraqi Christians facing an existential threat to their survival.”

The first signatories include the current and a former Archbishop of Canterbury, the former Vicar of Baghdad, and the International Director of the Barnabas Fund.

“Creation Time” 2015

Eco-Congregation Scotland has prepared and launched worship material for this year, with suggested use during the 4 weeks / Sundays from 1st September to 4th October (the Feast of St Francis). The material has been compiled by an ecumenical group, including contributions from the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Church of Scotland, the Methodist Church, and the United Reformed Church.

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support via the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in August for work in Uruguay. Our prayerful attention this week is drawn to

• translation work in Namibia, also fund-raising for projects for trauma healing programmes, and the tackling of poverty, substance abuse, & domestic violence;
• translation of Gospel stories into Miskitu in Nicaragua, also support for children's cancer care in La Mascota hospital;
• Faith Comes by Hearing programme launched in Niger in 2014;
• violence and disruption caused by Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria.

Dundee Food Bank

Please continue to place items in the large bucket on the upstairs landing; clean plastic bags are also welcome. Liz Kay is our link person for this.

Hot Chocolate

Please also remember the request for donations of Hot Chocolate Tubs for the Project in The Steeple Church.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• the Vice-President of Conference at the Greenbelt Festival, Kettering, next weekend;
• Methodist Chairs of District throughout the Connexion;
• Communion Stewards in our Circuit's congregations;
• residents, staff and projects in the Plymouth and Exeter District (Methodist Homes);
• partner SEND providing food to primary school children in Ghana (Christian Aid);
• flights in and from Uganda (MAF);
• women's empowerment in Lebanon (Embrace);
• work in Bangladesh (The Leprosy Mission);
• Bible Society work in Uruguay;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (WCC);
• we remember fellow Methodists in Banbury (Northampton District) and in Barrhead (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire Circuit).

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