5 March 2017

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.

Lent Readings

This year our Circuit's churches are encouraged to use the booklet of daily reflections produced by “All We Can”. Themes from this booklet will be reflected during Sunday worship in Marketgait during Lent. Sufficient copies for one per person were ordered, but All We Can were unable to meet our order in full. Download a low resolution copy, or sign up for daily resources by email.

Lent Study Groups

Broughty Ferry Churches Group gives a warm invitation to

• Mondays 6th March - 3rd April: Study Group in St Mary's, Queen Street from 10.15am - c.11.45am;
• Wednesdays 8th March - 5th April: Study Group in St James' Church halls Fort Street (by Lifeboat shed) at 7.30pm.

Both the Monday and Wednesday groups will share experiences and explore questions raised by material published by CTBI, entitled 'Returning Home: Christian Faith in Encounter with Other Faiths'.

Meadowside St Pauls also have sent an invitation to their Lenten Group in the church halls on Tuesdays at 7.15pm, using 40Acts material.

Methodist ClothesBank

Mondays 10am -12 noon (i/c Liz)

Thursdays 1pm - 3pm (i/c Sue)

Volunteers please contact Sue or Liz

More clothing is still needed; please have a good spring clean of your wardrobes. Anything is welcome. We will

• keep good adult clothing for the clothesbank;
• send good clothing for children and teenagers to “Togs from Tots to Teens”;
• recycle clothes that are not suitable for either; we can raise money in this way.

Please take a collecting bag from the table at the top of the stairs or ask a helper for one.

Nine ClothesBank folk (plus Lisa and Allison from Dundee City Council) attended a very pleasant afternoon “tea plus information” in the Steeple Church last Tuesday, organised by Faith in Community Dundee. About 100 people from some 16 volunteer groups were there, and for each group, one person spoke about their project - Sue gave the background to our work.

Dundee Women's Festival 2017

The festival on the theme "Herstory and Heritage" runs from 5th to 12th March inclusive. See programme for events throughout the city.

BBC Songs of Praise recordings in Perth

BBC One's “Songs of Praise” programme will be recording in Perth in March. More details and the application form.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support via the Bible-a-Month Partnership is invited in March for work in Kenya.

Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• production of the Siswati Bible by the Bible Society in Swaziland;
• trauma healing programmes run by the Bible Society in Syria;
• Bible Society of Togo's outreach to young people through camps, sports, radio broadcasting, festivals and other means;
• Bibleworld Books encouraging churches to begin literacy groups for primary school children in their local areas.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• the President and the Vice-President of Conference in the Northampton District, next weekend;
• District Chairs' meeting, Tuesday - Wednesday;
• Connexional Law and Polity Committee, Thursday;
• District Policy Committee, Stirling, Saturday;
• the worship life of the Circuit's churches;
• work in Wales (Methodist Homes);
• Harpour Memorial Hospital in Menouf, Egypt, caring for people in marginalised communities (Embrace ME);
• Fairtrade Fortnight (Christian Aid);
• Bible Society work in Kenya;
• work in south east India (The Leprosy Mission);
• technology and its servicing (MAF);
• we pray with and for the peoples of the United Kingdom and of the Republic of Ireland (WCC);
• we remember fellow Methodists in the Boston Circuit (Lincolnshire District) and in Pollokshaws (Strathclyde Circuit).

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