28 May 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.
Methodists have shared the widespread shock and sense of revulsion and sadness at the loss of life through the terrorist explosion in Manchester Arena on Monday. We continue to remember and pray for all involved then and thereafter, especially aware of any known to us with ties to Manchester.

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.

Do you have curtains to spare?

Starter Packs are desperately in need of curtains or material. If anyone has spare curtains that they don't need, these would be very much appreciated.

General Church Meeting

Everyone is invited to Dundee Methodist Church's annual GCM next Sunday, combining worship with opportunity for sharing information and wider conversation about our work and witness based in and from Marketgait.

It will commence at 10.30 am and end before parking charges are implemented from 1pm. Seating will be at tables, with coffee available from before worship (individual refill possible thereafter!)

Necessary formal business will include the (re)election of Church Stewards and representatives to the Church Council, as well as formal reports from the Church Stewards and the Church Treasurer.

It is intended that there will be ample time to share wider conversation and thinking about our life together and “the way ahead”, including the development of our premises and matters arising from the conversations with friends from the United Reformed Church.

“In Touch” - Methodist Scotland District newsletter

Copies of the Spring 2017 (issue 8) edition are on the vestibule table; please take, uplift for handing to others, recommend - and read & note the contents!

Testimony Services

Services take place this evening for the District's two Probationer Presbyters, who will be presented as Ordinands at Conference in Birmingham on Sunday 25th June.

• Hilda Warwick is currently serving in the Central Scotland Circuit with pastoral charge of Wallacestone and Armadale;
• Stephanie Njeru is in Livingstone Ecumenical Parish in the Edinburgh and Forth Circuit.

Reponses following the Manchester Attack

The President and Vice-President of Conference have issued a statement condemning the horrific bombing at the Manchester Arena, with the assurance of prayer “for the families of those who have been killed or who are injured, and for those, many of whom will be young, who have been scarred and scared by what they have witnessed.” Thanks are expressed for the work of the emergency services and “the many ordinary people who demonstrated compassion in response to those caught up in the tragedy”.

Statements have also been made by the Connexional Youth President, the Chair of the Manchester and Stockport District, and the District Learning and Development Coordinator.

Methodist leaders in the USA, Portugal, and Germany are among others to have sent messages of sympathy and solidarity.

Ecumenically, the six Presidents of Churches Together in England (CTE) have responded publicly as has the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland during a session this week.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support via the Bible-a-Month Partnership is invited in May for work in Scotland and In June for work in Nepal.

Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• Bible Society in Liberia's translation work to produce the Bible in the language of over 320,000 Don-speaking people;
• Bible Society in Lithuania's production of material for those suffering from extreme poverty, sickness and effects of violence;
• Bible Society of Nepal producing material tailored for women;
• Bible Society of Mexico's production of audio Bibles in 7 different languages for use in areas of poverty and widespread illiteracy.

Prayer Points for this week

• the President and Vice-President of Conference in Cornwall from Tuesday to next Sunday;
• United Free Church of Scotland General Assembly meeting in Perth, Judy Jarvis as invited Methodist;
• the District and Circuit's safeguarding post-holders;
• work in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District (Methodist Homes);
• peace and justice in the region (Embrace ME);
• staff and work in Wales (Christian Aid);
• work based in Mareeba, Queensland (MAF);
• Bible Society work in Scotland and in Nepal;
• work in Burma and Thailand (The Leprosy Mission);
• we pray with and for the peoples of Angola and Mozambique (WCC);
• we remember fellow Methodists in the Aire and Calder Circuit (Leeds District) and in New Stevenston (Strathclyde Circuit).

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