Sunday 23rd September

·           There will be no Evening Services at Abbey during September. Our Evening Services re-start on Sunday 7^th October at 6.00pm, until December 2012.

·           Abbey Harvest Appeal – if you’ve been collecting coins for SolarAid, please bring along your light bulb boxes next Sunday (30^th Sept). Also gifts of flowering pot plants for distribution locally would be very much appreciated.

Dirleton Harvest Project – helping Edinburgh Grassmarket Mission.

Please donate non perishable foodstuffs (in date) and cleaning materials. Boxes will be in the West Porch today and next Sunday. Our gifts have been much appreciated in previous years.

·          Visitors from India. If you would like to support the visit of 6 members from our twin church in Kalimpong in October, there will be a collection plate at the door as you leave the church service today. A schedule of events planned during the visit is available (see also Abbey newsletter). Please pick up a copy and, if you can help, contact the Church Office.

·           Scots Nights on Saturday 13^th Oct at 7pm in Abbey Church Hall. Haggis supper & traditional entertainment. Tickets from Church office - min.  £5 donation.  Proceeds to Twinning Fund.

·           We’d like Abbey Church to be open during the week. If you can ‘open and close’, please sign the form on the notice board at the back of the church.

·           Jacob’s Well – there will be no meeting on Thursday 27 September.

·           Distributors can collect Abbey Newsletters today. Thank you.

·           Christmas Shoe Box Appeal – please pick up a leaflet and support this appeal. Leaflets in vestibule (Dirleton) & at back of church (Abbey). Also in Abbey Newsletters. Filled boxes to be returned by 4^th Nov. Thank you.  There will be a ‘cover a shoebox’ afternoon on 9^th Oct – more info later. If you have any empty shoeboxes, please hand in to Church Office.

·           Guild Dedication Service on Tues 2 Oct at 2pm in Abbey Church, followed by tea & cake

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

by coffee – all very welcome.

 Sunday 23^rd September 2012

Theme: ‘Justice, not Revenge’

  9.30 am         Morning Worship, Dirleton

                        Reading: Numbers 35:1-15 (p.176) – Irene Urquhart

                                 CH4 566 When I receive the peace of Christ

                                 CH4 500 Lord of creation, to you be all praise

                                 CH4 484 Great God, your love has called us here

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the hall

10.30 am         Morning Worship, Abbey

                        Sunday School & Crèche for children under 4

                        Reading: Numbers 35:1-15 (p.175/6) – Dorothy Kirkpatrick

                                 MP 423 Living under the shadow of His wing

                                 MP 803 As water to the thirsty (words on sheet)

                                 MP 582 Rock of ages

                                 MP 2 A safe stronghold

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the new hall

                     Next Sunday (30th Sept)  is Harvest Thanksgiving

Minister: Revd Dr David Graham

Pastoral Assistant: Robert Kane

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

  

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