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.
Members have agreed that Liz will join the Council under the provisions of SO 610, viz as a ‘member to represent aspects of church life’.
“I would like to thank everyone on the Flower rota for the support given to me over the years in the people providing the flowers for Sunday worship and the people arranging the flowers. I will no longer be doing the flower rota due to commitments outwith. I hope the support continues for the person who takes this task on.”
Elaine
Warm thanks are extended on behalf of our whole church community to Elaine for her many years of contribution to the ministry of flowers, together with her late mother, Florence, and her father, Tom, both of whose faithful work we continue to remember. If anyone wishes to take this task on, please contact the Minister or Church Stewards.
On Wednesday the following decisions were taken:
Updates were received from the ClothesBank and the Link Club; discussion was held about Scottish Churches Housing Action, ‘MHA extra Christmas card’ (details to come), the return to be made to OSCR, process for decision-making by email, and Data Protection requirements.
Two posts are being advertised; both roles are half-time (17.5 hours per week) and temporary (from 1 December 2017 to 31 August 2018). Closing date for applications is 25th October 2017. Details can be found on www.goodmoves.org.uk/vacancy/33161.
This handbook to support our prayers for work in Scotland and beyond has been prepared by Sue Marshall-Jennings, with others; she is the District representative to the Connexional One Mission Group. The Diary has been circulated to Synod members but is intended for anyone wishing to use it. Please ask a member of Synod to forward it; printed copies could be provided by David Easson on request.