Sunday 8th May

·           Dirleton Annual Stated Meeting follows Morning Worship today.

·           Would distributors please collect Abbey Newsletters today

·           The afternoon service in Copper Beech will be next Sunday 15 May at 3.30pm

·           A special evening service is being held in Rosewell Church tonight at 6pm to mark the presbytery visit by Rev Roshan Thapa and Dr Miku Foning of the Church of North India. Refreshments after the service. Please come along. 

·           Dr Foning and Rev Thapa will be staying in North Berwick 10-16^th May. Can you help with ‘B&B’ please? Contact Margaret Ann or church office. 

·           Scots night on Saturday 14 May at 6.30pm in Abbey Church Hall, to welcome Rev Thapa and Dr Foning. Scottish Fare and entertainment.

Tickets £5 (children free) from Joyce at the office or Margaret Ann. All are very welcome.

·           Dirleton Prayer Service is on Wednesday at 10.00am in the hall, followed

by coffee – all very welcome.

·           Prayer Meeting on Friday at 10.00am in Abbey hall. Please join us.

·           Abbey Annual Stated Meeting follows Morning Worship next Sunday, 15^th May. We hope to see you there.

·         Rock the Boat! - Holiday Club 2011 1st - 5th August. A meeting will take place on 17th May at 8.00pm in St Andrew Blackadder Church. If you've not helped before (or haven't done so for while) it would be great to see you that night to find out more. For more info contact Douglas or Suzanne Hamilton  email nbholidayclub@googlemail.com

·           REGAL visit to Glenkinchie Distillery on 19 May. Please contact Ian Aitken.

·           Fairtrade coffee (from Nicaraguan Christian Co-operative) £4 per large bag, available at coffee table until Christian Aid Week.

·           CHRISTIAN AID – Volunteers needed to deliver Christian Aid Envelopes (no collection!) this week, and for Can Collection on Fri 20 & Sat 21 May. Contact Liz Harrison, Liz Keddie or Joyce at the office. Thank you.

·           Bethany ‘hope and a future’ – reviews and updates of Bethany’s work – is on Thursday 26 May, 7.30pm in St Paul’s & St Georges Church, Edinburgh. Please contact Joyce at the office by Thurs. 19 May if you would like to go.

Sunday 8^th May 2011

Dr Murdo Macdonald

  9.30 am         Dirleton Morning Worship

            Reading: 1 Samuel 17: 1-11, 17-26, 32-51 (p.288) - Elaine Carlyle

                                 CH4   63 All people that on earth do dwell

                                 CH4 536 May the mind of Christ my Saviour

                                 CH4 469 Restore, O Lord  

                                 CH4 517 Fight the good fight

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the hall

10.30 am         Abbey Morning Worship

                        Holiday Club & Crèche for children under 4

            Reading: 1 Samuel 17: 1-11, 17-26, 32-51 (p.288) - Sally Penman

                                 MP   20 All people that on earth do dwell

                                 MP 463 May the mind of Christ my Saviour

                                 MP 579 Restore, O Lord

                                 MP 143 Fight the good fight

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the new hall

  6.00 pm        Presbytery Twinning Service, Rosewell Church

                        (There is no Evening Service in Abbey Church)