Sunday 14th August

·           Abbey Church will be open during the summer. If you are able to ‘open and close’ for a week, please sign the list at the back of the church.

·         Sunday Afternoon Teas (hosted by St Baldred’s Church) in Abbey new hall today from 2 – 4.30pm. Enjoy delicious home baking and meet up with friends.

·           Articles for inclusion in Abbey & Dirleton Newsletters for September should be emailed or handed in no later than Tuesday 16 August.

Newsletters will be available for distribution on Sunday 28 August.

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

by coffee – all very welcome.

·        Manse Barbecue - Saturday 20th August at 'Sydserff', Old Abbey Road

Come for 2.00pm.  Food provided; drinks may be brought.

Helping hands welcome!  Suggested donation £4 (children £2)

·           The People’s Bible is a national tour which will produce a unique, hand written edition of the Bible in the year of the 400^th anniversary of the King James Bible. On Friday 26 August between 10.00am and 4.00pm the Peoples Bible is in St Andrew Blackadder Church vestibule where people will be able to write a couple of verses. Volunteers from Abbey & Dirleton are required there from 11.00am – 12noon & from 12 noon - 1.00pm. Please contact Patsy Pitkeathly or Joyce at the office if you can help.

·           Bethany’s Walk for Homelessness on the Water of Leith Walkway (11 miles from Currie Kirk to Ocean Terminal) is on Saturday 10 September. If you would like to take part please speak to Joyce at the office.

·           Visit our Church Blog on http://dirletonabbey.blogspot.com/. Please send any comments or suggestions to the Church Office.

  

We welcome all visitors today.

To use the loop system, set hearing aids at ‘T’ position.

Ramped access to Abbey Church & halls links the High Street entrance

with the Church Road door

 Sunday 14^th August 2011

Morning theme: ‘The heart of the Gospel – All Welcome’

  9.30 am         Dirleton Morning Worship

                        Reading: Matthew 15:10-28 (p.982) – Peter Keeling

                                 CH4 187 There’s a wideness in God’s mercy

                                 CH4 624 In Christ there is no east or west

                                 CH4 724 Christ’s is the world in which we move

                                 CH4 198 Let us build a house

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the hall

10.30 am         Abbey Morning Worship

                        Holiday Club & Crèche for children under 4

                        Reading: Matthew 15:10-28 (p.982) – Sadie Young

                                 MP 379 Jesus shall reign where’er the sun

                                 MP 54 Bid us together, Lord

                                 MP 683 There’s a wideness in God’s mercy

                                 Let us build a house (words on sheet)

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the new hall

  3.30 pm         Service in Copper Beech Care Home

No Abbey Evening Worship

Fringe by the Sea - Songs of Praise at 4.00pm

in the Belhaven Speigeltent at the harbour.

Led by a Glasgow gospel choir, and includes community hymn singing

  

Minister: Revd Dr David Graham

Pastoral Assistant: Robert Kane BD

Church Office  (892800

  

Church of Scotland: Abbey Church, North Berwick Scottish Charity – No SC004761       Dirleton Parish Church Scottish Charity – No SC004533