This year’s Advent Liturgy in Dundee was created at the Circuit Preachers’ Training Day and is offered as a gift from the Preachers to our churches and ecumenical partners.
At the Group’s meeting this week members discussed
The Group also invites support for forthcoming events:
At the recent meeting of representatives, it was accepted that the pattern of united worship on a weekly alternating basis should continue. The current phase of our relationship was described as being that of “ecumenical hospitality” as we continue to ‘get to know each other’.
The warmth of mutual welcome and fellowship was welcomed and acknowledgement made of points of difference between our traditions. At present, the most obvious difference lies in the more liturgical responsive format for Methodist Communion and, on occasion, elsewhere. It was agreed that this, and other differences, provide areas for further exploration to our mutual enrichment. In this context, it would be helpful to have comments and feedback from Methodists especially about the URC order for Communion. (The next Plan includes a URC Communion in Marketgait.)
In addition to the united services on Sunday mornings, there is a Nativity Service on Sunday December 17th at 6pm in Salem to which all are warmly invited and Salem friends are aware of the services in Marketgait on Christmas Day and 31st December when they have no URC service arranged.
Salem may provide an extra door steward for united services in Marketgait and Methodists likewise when at Salem.
Next meeting: Thurs 15th Feb, Marketgait, 10.30am
‘Fresh from the word’ 2018 costs £9.95 for the print edition, and £6.99 for the Kindle edition from Amazon. Please let Margaret know if you would like a print copy; she will attempt to source them without postage charges.
If anyone wishes to offer to prepare the 2018 flower rota, please contact a Church Steward. Please also let us know if you wish your name added to next year’s rota.
We are invited to write an extra Christmas card to be distributed to an MHA resident or Live at Home Scheme member. Please
Margaret is collecting them to send off; please have them in church by Sunday 26th November at the latest.
Worship in Salem URC Church next Sunday will commence at 10.45am to include the Act of Remembrance with two minutes’ silence at 11am.
The Service will also include the celebration of Holy Communion as is the URC’s usual Sunday practice. An invitation is given to all to partake of the bread and wine in Communion; the wine is non-alcoholic, offered in both a Common Cup and individual glasses.
As there will be no Communion Offering, the Church Council agreed that the sum allocated last year to Tayside Veterans, which was returned as unused, should be given to the Earl Haig Fund as this year’s November Communion Offering.
There will be a display of flowers for Remembrance on the Beechwood Table during this coming week leading to Remembrance Sunday. They are also in memory of members of the Robertson family, long-time and loyal Methodists in Dundee, gifted by Ann Buchan (née Robertson) in memory of her parents and brother.
All We Can and the Methodist Church in Britain are calling for support for an urgent appeal for refugees displaced by the recent violence in Burma. Since late August, more than half a million people have fled from violence in Rakhine State to Bangladesh for safety.
All We Can has initially responded with essential food supplies for families, but much more help is needed.
