Sunday 18th December

·         Cards for sale at Dirleton (£3.50 for pack of 10) Commemorative mugs in 2 designs (£5.50 each). Beautiful limited edition mounted signed prints (£70). Tea towels (£3.50). 8oz Crystal tumbler (£20)

·         Helpers required for making tea/coffee after Dirleton service on Sundays.

Please contact Sue Oliver if you are willing to join the rota.

·           Advent Group - Tuesday 20 December from 7 00 - 8.30pm in Abbey old hall. A 5 week study of Advent Hope by Joel Edwards. Please come along.

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

by coffee – all very welcome.

·         Life & Work  - If you would like to continue (or start) to receive a copy each month, annual payments in advance of £17.40 are now due. Please speak to Nancy Chisholm or Joyce at the office. Cheques payable to ‘Abbey Church’.

·         Brand new Youth Alpha starts lunchtimes on 12 January in the Drama Room at North Berwick High School. Come early, avoid queues, free lunch!

·         Would all Abbey hall users please enter future dates and times in the 2012 Halls Booking Diary (in the corridor opposite the west door)

  

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

 Sunday 18^th December 2011

Fourth Sunday in Advent

Morning theme: ‘Waiting with Faithfulness’

  9.30 am         Dirleton Morning Worship

                        Reading: Luke 1:26-38 (p.1026) – Mary Graham

                                 CH4 323 The first Nowell

                                 CH4 282 Christmas is coming (v.1-4)

                                 CH4 312 Away in a manger

                                 CH4 305 In the bleak midwinter

                                 CH4 301 Hark! the herald angels sing

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the hall

10.30 am         Abbey Morning Worship

                        Baptism of Jake Samuel Lennox

                        Sunday School & Crèche for children under 4

                        Reading: Luke 1:26-38 (p.1026) – Stuart Cowan

                                 MP 644 The first nowell

                                 Christmas is coming (v 1-4) - words on sheet)

                                 MP 236 Holy child

                                 MP 337 In the bleak midwinter

                                 MP 211 Hark! the herald angels sing

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the new hall

  6.00 pm         Abbey Evening Worship

                        Led by the Worship Group

                        ‘Christmas with a Scottish flavour’

                        Followed by tea/coffee & mince pies in the church

Minister: Revd Dr David Graham 

Pastoral Assistant: Robert Kane BD

Church Office  (892800

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