Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Sunday 27th May
·
Would
distributors please collect Abbey &
Dirleton Newsletters today
·
Diamond Jubilee 'Big Lunch'
On Sunday
3rd June, there will be a special lunch in Abbey Hall at 12noon to
celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Tickets (£10 & child £5) are available
now. Proceeds
to 'Age Scotland '
After the lunch, there will be an (optional)
screening of the film 'Queen Elizabeth II, The Diamond Celebration'.
Help is needed in organising the lunch! This could be anything from setting out the tables to helping with the
food. We'll have a meeting of all helpers today after the Abbey service. Please
meet there if you can offer your help.
·
Choir practice on Tuesday
29 May at 8.00pm in Abbey old hall – all who enjoy singing are welcome.
·
Dirleton Prayer Service is
on Wednesday at 10.00am in the hall,
followed
by coffee – all very welcome.
·
Following Rev David Torrance's recent return from rural China, where he
retraced the steps of his missionary parents and also the place he was born, he
will be conducting the Abbey evening
service next Sunday 3rd June at 6pm, with the theme 'The
Church in China, Yesterday & Today'.
·
Guild
Presbyterial Council Summer Rally on Thursday
7 June at 7.30pm at Bonnyrigg
Church . Speaker Alison
Twaddle. Anyone requiring transport contact Eleanor or Joyce at the office.
· CHRISTIAN AID
Super
Supper - Saturday 16 June, 6.45pm
for 7.00pm for 3 course meal
All
at St Andrew Blackadder Church Hall
Tickets
£15 from
Liz Keddie, Liz Harrison or Joyce at the office.
Filled ‘Smartie Tubes’ can be handed in today or
next Sunday or to the office.
Phil and Caitriana
completed the sponsored cycle last weekend. Would those who sponsored them please
see them today.
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 27th May
2012
Pentecost: All-age Morning services
9.30 am Morning Worship, Dirleton
Ezekiel
37:1-10 (p.); Galatians 5:16-17, 22-25
CH4
582 O day of joy and wonder (tune Ellacombe 367)
CH4
602 Is it spooky, is it weird?
CH4
600 Spirit of God
CH4
607 The bright wind is blowing (tune 697)
Followed by tea/coffee in the
hall
10.30 am Morning
Worship, Abbey
Crèche for children under 4
Ezekiel
37:1-10; Galatians 5:16-17, 22-25
MP
581 River, wash over me
MP
274 I hear the sound of rustling
MP 611 Spirit of holiness
MP
445 Lord the light of Your love is shining
Followed by
tea/coffee in the new hall
10.30 am Morning
Worship, Abbey
Pentecost Communion
‘Jesus
departs’
Reading: John 16:1-16 (p.1084)
MP 89 Come down, O Love Divine
MP
18 All over the world
MP
4 Abide with me
MP
449 Love divine, all loves excelling
Minister: Revd Dr David Graham
Pastoral
Assistant: Robert Kane
Church Office (892800
Our blog address is dirletonabbey.blogspot.com
Church of Scotland: Abbey
Church , North Berwick Scottish Charity
– No SC004761 Dirleton Parish
Church Scottish Charity –
No SC004533
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Sunday 20th May
·
Today (Assembly
Sunday) ‘Heart & Soul’ a big
celebration event is taking place in Princes
Street Gardens .
Please come along for a great experience. There will be no evening service at
Abbey tonight.
·
Messy
Church today from 4-6pm in St Andrew Blackadder Church hall.
·
The Tuesday House Group at Ben Sayers
Park is taking a summer
break.
It will resume after the holidays
Dirleton Prayer Service is
on Wednesday at 10.00am in the hall,
followed
by coffee – all very welcome.
·
Guild
Songs of Praise in the Assembly Hall
on Tuesday 22 May at 7.00pm.
All are welcome for an evening of celebration and
thanksgiving.
·
Diamond
Jubilee 'Big Lunch'
On Sunday
3rd June, there will be a special lunch in Abbey Hall at 12noon to
celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Tickets (£10 & child £5) are available
now. Proceeds
to 'Age Scotland '
After the lunch, there will be an (optional)
screening of the film 'Queen Elizabeth II, The Diamond Celebration'.
Help is needed in organising the lunch! This could be anything from setting out the tables to helping with the
food. We'll have a meeting of all helpers on Sunday 27th after the Abbey
service. Please meet there if you can offer your help. Thank you!
·
Guild Summer Outing has been arranged for Tuesday 12th June leaving Abbey Hall at 2pm. Tea will be taken at
the Eyemouth Golf Club at 5pm. Transport to be arranged when numbers are known.
Names to Zandra or Eleanor Main or Joyce at the office.
· CHRISTIAN AID
Super
Supper - Saturday 16 June, 6.45pm
for 7.00pm for 3 course meal
All
at St Andrew Blackadder Church Hall
Tickets
£15 from
Liz Keddie, Liz Harrison or Joyce at the office.
Filled ‘Smartie Tubes’ can be handed in today or
next Sunday or to the office.
Sunday 20th May
2012
We welcome Rev Milton & Margaret Cashman to Abbey &
Dirleton
for the morning Services
9.30 am Morning Worship, Dirleton
John 15:9-17 (p.1083) – Peter Kimber
CH4
445 Alleluia, sing to Jesus! (omit verse 4)
CH4
449 Rejoice! The Lord is King
CH4
425 The Saviour died, but rose again
CH4
436 Christ triumphant, ever reigning
Followed by tea/coffee in the
hall
10.30 am Morning
Worship, Abbey
Sunday School & Crèche for children
under 4
John 15:9-17 (p.1083) – Stuart Ainslie
MP
575 Rejoice, the Lord is King!
MP
367 Jesus is Lord!
MP 77 Christ triumphant, ever reigning
MP
178 Go forth and tell!
Followed by
tea/coffee in the new hall
There is no Evening Service at Abbey due to the ‘Heart & Soul’
celebration event in Princes
Street Gardens
Minister: Revd Dr David Graham
Pastoral
Assistant: Robert Kane
Church Office (892800
Our blog address is dirletonabbey.blogspot.com
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
Church of Scotland: Abbey
Church , North Berwick Scottish Charity
– No SC004761 Dirleton Parish
Church Scottish Charity –
No SC004533
Friday, May 11, 2012
Sunday 13th May
·
Abbey Annual Stated Meeting is in the church after the morning service.
·
Articles for
inclusion in Abbey & Dirleton
Newsletters for June should be
emailed or handed in no later than Monday 14 May.
Newsletters will be available for
distribution on Sunday 27 May.
·
The Tuesday House Group at Ben Sayers
Park is taking a summer
break.
It will resume after the holidays.
·
Dirleton Prayer Service is
on Wednesday at 10.00am in the hall,
followed
by coffee – all very welcome.
·
Guild
Songs of Praise in the Assembly Hall
on Tuesday 22 May at 7.00pm.
All are welcome for an evening of celebration and
thanksgiving.
·
Guild Summer Outing has been arranged for Tuesday 12th June leaving Abbey Hall at 2pm. Tea will be taken at
the Eyemouth Golf Club at 5pm. Transport to be arranged when numbers are known.
Names to Zandra or Eleanor Main or Joyce at the office.
·
CHRISTIAN AID - Help Wanted!
Volunteers are required for the Can Collection on Saturday 19 May.
If you can help speak to Liz Harrison, Liz Keddie
or Joyce at the office.
CHRISTIAN AID
EVENTS
Tuesday 15 May Cheese and Wine Evening
(Tickets £5 or pay at the door)
Our Lady
Star of the Sea Hall at 7.00pm
Wednesday 16 May Coffee
Morning and Bring & Buy – 10.30am
– 12 noon
Dirleton
Church Hall
Friday 18 May Quiz Night in St Andrew Blackadder
Church Hall, 7.30pm
Saturday 20 May Coffee Morning in Hope Rooms
– 10.00am to 12 noon
Baking,
Bric-a-Brac and Raffle
Display of
Children’s Art Work
Saturday 26 May Watercolour Workshop in
Abbey Hall – 10.00am – 3.00pm T
Saturday 16 June Super Supper - All at St Andrew
Blackadder Church Hall
6.45pm for
7.00pm for 3 course meal .Tickets £15 from Liz Keddie, Liz Harrison or Joyce at the office.
Filled ‘Smartie Tubes’ can be handed in today or
next Sunday or to the office.
Sunday 13th May
2012
Christian Aid Sunday
Morning theme: ‘Winter
– surviving through abandonment’
9.30 am Morning Worship, Dirleton
Reading: Matthew 5:1-13 (p.968) –
Elaine Carlyle
CH4
181 For the beauty of the earth
CH4
259 Beauty for brokenness
CH4
112 God, whose almighty word
CH4
519 Love divine, all loves excelling
Followed by tea/coffee in the
hall
10.30 am Morning
Worship, Abbey
Sunday School & Crèche for children
under 4
Reading: Matthew 5:1-13 (p.968) –
Ewen MacLean
MP
152 For the beauty of the earth
MP
806 Beauty for brokenness (words on sheet)
MP 699 Thou, whose almighty word
MP
449 Love divine, all loves excelling
Followed by
tea/coffee in the new hall
3.30 pm Service in Astley House Care Home
6.00 pm Evening Worship, St Andrew Blackadder
Church
United Service for Christian Aid Week
Minister: Revd Dr David Graham
Pastoral
Assistant: Robert Kane BD
Church Office (892800
Our blog address is dirletonabbey.blogspot.com
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
Friday, May 4, 2012
Sunday 6th May
Abbey Kirk Session & Board meet on Monday 7 May at
7.30pm in the hall.
·
Dirleton Kirk Session & Board meet on Tuesday 8 May at
7.00pm.
·
House Group on Tuesday 8 May at 7.30pm at 11 Ben Sayers Park. Just come along – all are welcome.
·
Dirleton Prayer Service is
on Wednesday at 10.00am in the hall,
followed by coffee – all very welcome.
·
Abbey Annual Stated Meeting is next Sunday 13 May
following the morning service. Copies of Trustees Report and Accounts are
available today.
·
Guild Summer Outing has been arranged for Tuesday 12th June leaving Abbey Hall at 2pm. Tea will be taken at
the Eyemouth Golf Club at 5pm. Transport to be arranged when numbers are known.
Names to Zandra or Eleanor Main or Joyce at the office.
·
CHRISTIAN AID - Help Wanted!
Volunteers are required to deliver Christian Aid
Envelopes (no collection!) and for the Can Collection. If you can help please speak to Liz Harrison, Liz Keddie or Joyce at the office. Thank you!
Caitriana and Phil Spencer are
cycling 41 miles on Saturday 12 May in aid of Christian Aid. If you would like
to sponsor them there are forms at the back of Abbey church and at the ‘teas’
table.
Tickets for Christian Aid fundraising ‘Cheese & Wine’ and ‘Super Supper’ are now available from
Joyce at the 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
Church of Scotland: Abbey
Church , North Berwick Scottish Charity
– No SC004761 Dirleton Parish
Church Scottish Charity –
No SC004533
Sunday 6th May
2012
Morning theme:
‘No’ – surviving through disillusionment
9.30 am Morning Worship, Dirleton
CH4
31 I waited patiently for God (Tune 30 ‘Ballerma’)
CH4
536 May the mind of Christ my Saviour
CH4
122 Let all the world in every corner sing
CH4
702 Lord, in love and perfect wisdom
Followed by tea/coffee in the
hall
10.30 am Morning
Worship, Abbey
Baptism of Sophie Frost
Sunday School & Crèche for children
under 4
Reading: Job 2:1-13 (p.510) –
Zandra Main
MP
463 May the mind of Christ my Saviour
MP
52 God sent His Son
MP 735 We rest on Thee
MP
640 The Church’s one foundation
Followed by
tea/coffee and Traidcraft stall in the new hall
3.00 pm Services in Abbey and Fidra Care Homes
6.00 pm Evening Worship, Abbey
‘Jesus loves’
Reading: John 15:1-17 (p.1083) –
Margaret Ann Crawford
MP
465 Meekness and majesty
MP
988 How deep the Father’s love for us
MP
987 Here is love vast as the ocean
MP
449 Love divine, all loves excelling
Followed
by tea/coffee in the church
Minister: Revd Dr David Graham
Pastoral
Assistant: Robert Kane
Church Office (892800
Our blog address is dirletonabbey.blogspot.com
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