Abbey November newsletter

Abbey November newsletter can be viewed here.

Sunday 27th October

Abbey Newsletters are available today for distributors. If you do not have one delivered there are extra copies at the back of the church.

Christmas Shoe Box Appeal – If you do not have a shoe box to fill there are plenty covered empty boxes at Dirleton and Abbey or from the office – please help yourself! Extra leaflets also available - please try to include the essential items listed.  Filled boxes to be returned by next Sunday 3 November.

We would like Abbey Church to be open during the day. If you are able to ‘open and close’, please sign the list at the back of the church.

Abbey Guild meets on Tuesday 29 October at 7.30pm. ‘Youth Assembly’ - Gregor Penman. All are very welcome – do come and join us

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

by coffee – all very welcome.

Test of Faith – Big Bang or God?  in Abbey hall on Wednesday 30 October at 7.30pm – all welcome.

Traidcraft goods will be available at Abbey next Sunday, 3 November.

Abbey Harvest Appeal raised £1,300 (excluding Gift Aid) Money raised will help Muyebe School Water Project in Uganda replace the water tank & pipes. Thanks to all who helped with their prayers, collecting money & counting coins.

Buy for Christmas! Dirleton Christmas cards, notelets, mugs, tea towels and prints are available at Dirleton Kirk or from 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

Sunday 27^th October 2013

Morning Theme: ‘God bless us – Peaceloving & Persecuted’

  9.30 am         Morning Worship, Dirleton

                        Reading: Daniel 3:8-29 (p.886) – Patsy Pitkeathly

                                 CH4 563 Jesus loves me

                                 CH4 622 We sing a love that sets all people free

                                 CH4 182 Now thank we all our God

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the hall

10.30 am         Morning Worship, Abbey

                        Sunday School & Crèche for children under 4

                        Reading: Daniel 3:8-29 (p.886) – Sally Penman

                                 MP 506 O Lord my God, how great thou art

                                 MP 823 Fairest Lord Jesus

                                 MP 802 Beauty for brokenness

                                 MP 766 Who can sound the depths of sorrow

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the new hall

  6.00 pm        Evening Worship, Abbey

                        United Service for Bible Sunday

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the church

Minister: Revd Dr David Graham

Pastoral Assistant: Robert Kane 

Church blog: dirletonabbey.blogspot.co.uk

Facebook Group: Abbey & Dirleton (facebook.com/groups/412367835538768)

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

Sunday 20th October

Christmas Shoe Box Appeal – If you do not have a shoe box to fill there are plenty covered empty boxes at Dirleton and Abbey or from the office – please help yourself! Extra leaflets also available - please try to include the essential items listed.  Filled boxes to be returned by Sunday 3 November.

We would like Abbey Church to be open during the day. If you are able to ‘open and close’, please sign the list at the back of the church.

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

by coffee – all very welcome.

Bible Study in Abbey hall on Wednesday 23 October at 7.30pm – all welcome.

Inspire Prayer gathering on Friday 25 October at 10.30am in Abbey new hall. All very welcome

One World Night on Friday 25 October at 7.30pm in Longniddry Church.  Theme ‘More than Enough’ Guest speaker The Right Rev Lorna Hood.

Free tickets from Longniddry Dental Practice.

Christian Aid ‘A close shave with the razorblade of life’ with Mike Millar on

Saturday 26 October at 7.30pm in St Andrew Blackadder Church Hall

An evening of entertainment with music and chat from Mike along with cheese and wine. Tickets £8 (to include a welcoming drink) from the office.

Bible Sunday, 27 October – United Service in Abbey Church at 6.00pm.

  

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 20^th October 2013

Morning Theme: ‘God bless us – Merciful & Pure’

  9.30 am         Morning Worship, Dirleton

                        Reading: Exodus 33:7-23; 34:29-35 (p.92) – Norma Bruce

                                 CH4 129 The Lord is King

                                 CH4 473 Thy kingdom come

                                 CH4 557 O Love that wilt not let me go

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the hall

10.30 am         Morning Worship, Abbey

                        Sunday School & Crèche for children under 4

                        Reading: Exodus 33:7-23; 34:29-35 (p.92) – Zandra Main

                                 MP 656 The Lord is King

                                 MP 823 Fairest Lord Jesus

                                 MP 709 To Him we come

                                 MP 975 Before the throne of God above

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the new hall

  

  6.00 pm        Evening Worship, Abbey

                        Hard Questions of Faith – ‘The problem of Israel’

                Reading: Romans 9:1-18; 11:25-36 (p.1135) – Dorothy Kirkpatrick

                                 MP 3 Abba Father

                                 MP 253 Hushed was the evening hymn

                                 MP 419 Like a mighty river flowing

                                 MP 496 O for a thousand tongues to sing

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the church

  

Minister: Revd Dr David Graham

Pastoral Assistant: Robert Kane

Church blog: dirletonabbey.blogspot.co.uk

Facebook Group: Abbey & Dirleton (facebook.com/groups/412367835538768)

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

Sunday 13th October

Christmas Shoe Box Appeal – If you do not have a shoe box to fill there are empty boxes and leaflets available at Dirleton and Abbey or from the office.

Please try to include the essential items listed.

Thank you to all who came on Tuesday to cover shoe boxes.

Filled boxes to be returned by Sunday 3 November.

Articles for inclusion in Abbey Newsletter for November should be emailed or handed in by 14 October.

Newsletters will be available for distribution on Sunday 27 October.

We would like Abbey Church to be open during the day. If you are able to ‘open and close’, please sign the list at the back of the church.

Abbey Guild meets on Tuesday 15 October at 7.30pm. A Fellowship to Build’ - Dr David Graham. All are very welcome – do come and join us.

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

by coffee – all very welcome.

Test of Faith - Introduction in Abbey hall on Wednesday 16 October at 7.30pm – all welcome.

One World Night on Friday 25 October at 7.30pm in Longniddry Church.  Theme ‘More than Enough’ Guest speaker The Right Rev Lorna Hood.

Free tickets from Longniddry Dental Practice.

Christian Aid ‘A close shave with the razorblade of life’ with Mike Millar

Saturday 26 October at 7.30pm in St Andrew Blackadder Church Hall

An evening of entertainment with music and chat from Mike along with cheese and wine. Tickets £8 (to include a welcoming drink) from 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

Sunday 13^th October 2013

Morning Theme: ‘God bless us - Humble & Hungry’

  9.30 am         Service of Holy Communion, Dirleton

                        Reading: Deuteronomy 8:10-18 (p.187) – Mary Graham

                                 CH4 52 How lovely is the dwelling place

                                 CH4 392 When I survey the wondrous cross

                                 CH4 555 Amazing grace

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the hall

10.30 am         Morning Worship, Abbey

                        Sunday School & Crèche for children under 4

                        Reading: Deuteronomy 8:10-18 (p.187) – Robert Burgon

                                 MP 564 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty

                                 MP 249 How lovely on the mountains

                                 MP 676 There is no love like the love of Jesus

                                 MP 31 Amazing grace

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the new hall

  3.30 pm         Service in Astley House Care Home

  6.00 pm        Evening Worship, Abbey

                        Hard Questions of Faith – ‘Has God disproved science?’

                        Reading: Job 38:1-18 (p.538) – Clare Aitken

                                 MP 545 Open our eyes Lord

                                 MP 428 Lord, for the years

                                 MP 705 Thy hand, O God, has guided

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the church

  

Minister: Revd Dr David Graham

Pastoral Assistant: Robert Kane

Church blog: dirletonabbey.blogspot.co.uk

Facebook Group: Abbey & Dirleton (facebook.com/groups/412367835538768)

  

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

Harvest Sunday

Our Harvest collection raised £1200 for the water tank appeal in Kabale, Uganda. Thanks to everyone who helped, and also for the great flower arrangements & plants for local people.

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Sunday 6th October

Traidcraft goods are available today in Abbey new hall.

Abbey Harvest Appeal – If you have been filling a water bottle with coins for the Water Project please hand it in today, next Sunday or to the office

Messy Church today from 4-6pm in St Andrew Blackadder Church.

Abbey Evening services re-start this evening at 6.00pm (until end December 2013) Theme is Hard Questions of Faith.

We would like Abbey Church to be open during the day. If you are able to ‘open and close’, please sign the list at the back of the church.

Abbey Kirk Session is holding an open meeting in the Church on Monday evening to hear what the wider Church is thinking about the ordination of gay & lesbian people to the ministry. This will start at 7.30pm with worship and a simple communion. Two other ministers will be coming to help us think through the issues involved. All are welcome to this.

Christmas Shoe Box Appeal – Come along and help cover shoeboxes with Christmas paper on Tuesday 8 October at 2.00pm in Abbey new hall.

Please bring any empty shoeboxes, wrapping paper, scissors etc.

Dirleton Kirk Session & Board meets on Tuesday 8 October at 7.00pm.

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

by coffee – all very welcome.

Bible Study in Abbey hall on Wednesday 9 October at 7.30pm – all welcome

REGAL – The first autumn meeting is on Thursday 10 October at 12noon in Abbey old hall. David Brown will talk on ‘Working with the BBC’.

A soup & sandwich lunch will be served afterwards. All very welcome.

Service of Holy Communion - Dirleton Kirk on Sunday, 13 October at 9.30am

Christian Aid ‘A close shave with the razorblade of life’ with Mike Millar 

Saturday 26 October at 7.30pm in St Andrew Blackadder Church Hall

An evening of entertainment with music and chat from Mike along with cheese and wine. Tickets £8 (to include a welcoming drink) from Greens & Blues, Henry of North Berwick, the Christian Aid Committee or 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 6^th October 2013

Morning Services - Harvest all-age services

  9.30 am         Morning Worship, Dirleton

                        Reading: Genesis 1:20-31 (p.3) – Joy MacDonald

                                 CH4 137 All things bright and beautiful

                                 CH4 230 Praise God for the harvest

                                 CH4 229 We plough the fields and scatter

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the hall

10.30 am         Morning Worship, Abbey

                        Guild Dedication

                        Crèche for children under 4

                        Reading: Genesis 1:20-31 (p.3) – Isabel Smith

                                 MP 732 We plough the fields and scatter

                                 MP 554 Peace is flowing like a river

                                 Lord of our past (words on sheet)

                                 MP 106 Come, you thankful people, come

                        Followed by tea/coffee & Traidcraft stall in the new hall

  3.00 pm         Services in Abbey & Fidra Care Homes

  6.00 pm        Evening Worship, Abbey

                        Hard Questions of Faith – ‘Life’s not fair!’

                        Reading: Matthew 20:1-16 (p.987) – Ronald Ironside

                                 MP 40 Ascribe greatness

                                 MP 115 Do not be afraid

                                 MP 132 Father, hear the prayer we offer

                                 MP 127 Father, although I cannot see

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the church

Minister: Revd Dr David Graham

Pastoral Assistant: Robert Kane

Church blog: dirletonabbey.blogspot.co.uk

Facebook Group: Abbey & Dirleton (facebook.com/groups/412367835538768)