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

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