Dundee Methodist Church

1 November 2015

Next Sunday
8 November 2015
Remembrance Sunday

10.45 am
Worship, including the Act of Remembrance and two minutes' Silence at 11am, led by Mr Keith Pearson

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.

Circuit Meeting

The extra Circuit Meeting on Wednesday 11th November will still take place, albeit with a changed item for the agenda. Clarification on 'the Church and Marriage' consultation and decision process is still awaited.

Singing the Faith

It has been agreed that Dundee should proceed with the purchase of Singing the Faith. If you wish to order a personal copy as part of the bulk order, please sign the paper on the vestibule table or advise Jenny Easson today. The order will be made this week.

Details of the editions available can be seen online at www.methodistpublishing.org.uk.

Current costs are as follows:

  • Words edition (hardback) - £10.00
  • Large print words edition (hardback) - £18.00
  • Music edition (hardback) - £30.00
  • Presentation edition - £50.00 - leather-bound, fine paper, 60% of the weight of the music edition
  • Also the words Kindle edition from Amazon - £9.50

A discount may be available for some print copies.

International Bible Reading Association

IBRA devotional and study material can be ordered through Heather. Please sign the paper on the vestibule table or contact Heather direct.

Front Landing

As a result of conversation in the Worship Consultation, the table at the head of the front stairs has been replaced by 2 chairs, which may be used by children and adults during their worship activities, or anyone else in need of a seat. The material previously on the table is now downstairs in the library area.

Welfare Reform and Work Bill: “Tax Credits”

Following this week's vote in the House of Lords for a Government rethink on its proposals, A large group of Churches is asking the government to reconsider its proposals. You are invited to find out more and to join with them.

The churches' Joint Public Issues Team (Baptist, Methodist, URC, Church of Scotland) and supported by others, will shortly launch their report 'Enough: Our responsibility to meet families' needs'.

The Churches will be again asking the UK Government to reconsider its proposals and invites support from local churches and members. A set of resources has been compiled, including

  • introduction to the campaign and its support
  • short video
  • Bible reflection on the theme of 'enough'
  • Prayer and hymn

The report will be published at http://www.jointpublicissues.org.uk/enough/.

Meetings this week

Date & timeVenueDetails
Monday 2nd November 2015, 7pm Dundee Methodist Church, back room Pastoral Committee
Wednesday 4th November 2015, 2.15pm Our Lady of Good Counsel Broughty Ferry Churches Group meeting
Wednesday 4th November 2015, 7pm Dundee Methodist Church, L shaped room Circuit Leadership Team
Saturday 7th November 2015, 10am - 12 noon Dundee Methodist Church, upstairs Circuit Preachers
Saturday 7th November 2015, 3.30pm St Mary's Scottish Episcopal Church, Broughty Ferry Organ and Clarinet recital with Calum Robertson (Old St Paul's Scottish Episcopal Church, Edinburgh). Admission free - including refreshments after.

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

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

  • literacy classes in Burkina Faso;
  • orphaned & vulnerable children in Swaziland and support through the Good Samaritan HIV / AIDS project;
  • work of the Bible Society and local churches in Lebanon to help Syrian refugees.

Copies of “Active and Alive”, the SBS magazine, are now here - see Jenny Easson for an ordered or spare copy.

Dewhurst Cotton Reels update

Beryl Cowling has now sent away to Barbara Glasson at Touchstone, Bradford, 80 “Dewhurst Sylko” reels from the 100+ so far received from this Circuit. However, more are still very welcome - see earlier news-sheets for the background to this request.

Forthcoming events

Date & timeVenueDetails
Wednesday 11th November 2015, 7pm Dundee Methodist Church Circuit Meeting
Thursday 19th November 2015, 6.30pm to 8pm St George's Tron Church, 25 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 1HW >“Forming Missional Communities”: an ecumenical presentation and discussion led by Professor Elaine Heath. She is an ordained Elder of the United Methodist Church, McCreless Professor of Evangelism at SMU Perkins School of Theology, and “a visionary leader and theologian, a mystic, an instigator, and passionate believer in the power of the Holy Spirit”.
Organised by the Discipleship and Ministries Learning Network. All are welcome - details from Helen Wareing: wareingh@methodistchurch.org.uk.

Prayer Points for this week

  • The Vice President's All We Can overseas visit from tomorrow for 2 weeks;
  • Stationing Matching Group, Northampton, this week;
  • the Circuit Preachers' conversation on “funerals”;
  • work in the Bedfordshire, Essex and Hertfordshire District (Methodist Homes);
  • bursary scheme for students on the West Bank (Embrace);
  • work in west India (The Leprosy Mission);
  • 'Will Aid' month, November (Christian Aid);
  • Bible Society work in Burkina Faso;
  • work in South Sudan (MAF);
  • we pray with and for the peoples of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda (WCC);
  • we remember fellow Methodists in Grantham and the Vale of Belvoir (Nottingham and Derby District) and in Buckie (North of Scotland Mission Circuit).