Sunday 4th December

·         Buy for Christmas! - 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) All are available at Dirleton Kirk or from Joyce at the office.

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

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

·         Abbey Choir practice on Monday 5 December at 8.00pm for those interested in singing at Christmas.

·         Abbey Guild - Carol Service on Tuesday 6 December at 2.00pm in Abbey hall. All are very welcome - do come and join us.

·           Advent Group - Tuesday 6 December from 7 00 - 8.30pm in Abbey old hall. A 5 week study of Advent Hope by Joel Edwards will look at Jesus as the hope and the light of our lives. Please come along.

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

by coffee – all very welcome.

·           Regal meets on Thursday, 8 December at 12 noon in the Abbey old hall. Alistair McNeil will give an illustrated talk providing a whistle stop tour of the different aspects of the Stevenson lighthouses around Scotland.

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

·         Sunday, 11 December – Communion Services at Abbey at 10.30 am and 6.00pm

·         Bethany Meals – Donations of NEW warm clothing (eg socks, gloves) welcome and can be handed in to the office to be taken to Bethany on 10 December.

·         Christmas Carols on the Green at Dirleton on Friday 16th December, 6.30pm led by the Primary School choir. Mince pies, hot chocolate and mulled wine.

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

Sunday 4^th December 2011

Second Sunday in Advent

Morning theme: ‘Waiting with Patience’

  9.30 am         Dirleton Morning Worship

                        Reading: Mark 1:1-8 (p.1002) – Norma Bruce

                                 CH4 277 Hark the glad sound

                                 CH4 282 Christmas is coming (v.1&2)

                                 CH4 273 O come, O come, Emmanuel

                                 CH4 291 When out of poverty is born

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the hall

10.30 am         Abbey Morning Worship

                        Sunday School & Crèche for children under 4

                        Reading: Mark 1:1-8 (p.1002) – Willie Leslie

                                 MP 210 Hark, the glad sound

                                 Christmas is coming (v 1&.2 - words on sheet)

                                 MP 393 Joy to the world

                                 MP 493 O come, O come, Emmanuel

                                 MP 465 Meekness and majesty

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

  3.00 pm         Services in Abbey and Fidra Care Homes

  6.00 pm         Abbey Evening Worship – Service to remember loved ones

                        ‘A living hope’

                        Reading: 1^st Peter 1:3-12 (p.1217) – Clare Aitken

                                 MP 50 Be still

                                 MP 201 Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah

                                 MP 673 There is a Redeemer

                                 MP 449 Love divine

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the church

Minister: Revd Dr David Graham

Pastoral Assistant: Robert Kane BD

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