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 27^th May 2012

Pentecost: All-age Morning services

  9.30 am         Morning Worship, Dirleton

                        Readings: from Common English Bible

                        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

                        Readings: from Common English Bible

                        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