Sunday 8th January

·         Coffee and Cake will be served after Dirleton and Abbey services today with donations to the Church of Scotland HIV/AIDS Project.

·         To ensure availability (and heating) would all Abbey hall users please enter future dates and times in the 2012 Halls Booking Diary (in the corridor opposite the west door).

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

·         Notelets 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).

·           Abbey Guild meets on Tuesday 10 January at 7.30pm when the speaker will be Murdo MacDonald. Everyone is very welcome.

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

by coffee – all very welcome.

·         REGAL - Thursday 12 January at 12noon in Abbey old hall. Michael Hill will talk on the Bo’ness and Kinneil Steam Railway. All ladies and gentlemen are most welcome. A soup & sandwich lunch will be served afterwards.

·         Youth Alpha starts at lunchtimes on Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 January in the Drama Room at North Berwick High School. Volunteers are needed to make up rolls for lunch time each week. If you can help please speak to Zandra Main or Joyce at the office.

·         North Berwick Day Centre Coffee Morning is on Saturday 14 January from 10am – 12noon in the Hope Rooms. Donations of baking, bric-a-brac etc would be welcome and can be handed in from 9.00am.

  

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

Sunday 8^th January 2012

Morning theme: ‘Overcoming stigma in Christ’s name’

  9.30 am         Dirleton Morning Worship

                        Reading: Luke 14:1-14 (p.1047)  Keith Stewart

                                 CH4 336 Christ is our light

                                 CH4 692 Jesus puts this song into our hearts

                                 CH4 533 Will you come and follow me

                                 CH4 198 Let us build a house

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the hall

10.30 am         Abbey Morning Worship

                        Sunday School & Crèche for children under 4

                        Reading: Luke 14:1-14 (p.1047)  Isabel Smith

                                 MP 547 Open your eyes

                                 MP 376 Jesus put this song into our hearts

                                 Will you come and follow me (words on sheet)

                                 Let us build a house (words on sheet)

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the new hall

  3.00 pm         Services in Abbey and Fidra Care Homes

  6.00 pm         Abbey Evening Worship

                        ‘Jesus baptised’

                        Reading: Mark 1:1-13 (p.1002)  David McAdam

                                 MP 480 New every morning

                                 MP 190 God of all ages

                                 MP 766 Who can sound the depths of sorrow

                                 MP 428 Lord, for the years

                        Followed by tea/coffee 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