Christmas Sunday, 23rd December

Buy for Christmas! Dirleton Christmas cards, notelets and prints designed by Jolomo and Mark Holden are on sale now at Dirleton Kirk and at the office.

East Lothian Food Bank is collecting items to distribute locally to those in need. Pick up an item list at the back of the church if you can help, and bring items to church or the office.

Used stamps – Please save your used postage stamps from Christmas mail for World Mission remembering to leave a border of at least ¼ inch all round. There are boxes for stamps in Abbey & Dirleton or hand them in to the office. Joyce has 6½ kilo in the office and needs 10 kilo for a free uplift!

Hall Booking Diary – To ensure availability and heating would all Abbey hall users please enter future dates and times in the 2013 Hall 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 23^rd December 2012

Fourth Sunday in Advent

  9.30 am         Morning Worship, Dirleton

                        ‘Change the World’

                        Reading: Luke 1:39-56 (p.1026) read by Joy MacDonald

                                 CH4 282 Christmas is coming (verses 1-4)

                                 CH4 315 Once in Royal David’s city

                                 CH4 304 O little town of Bethlehem

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the hall

10.30 am         Morning Worship, Abbey

                        All-age Christmas Service

                        Sacrament of Baptism

                        Choir Introit: It came upon the midnight clear

                                 MP 491 O come, all you faithful (verses 1-3)

                                 Christmas is coming (words on sheet)

                                 Our children, Lord, in faith and prayer (words on sheet)

                                 MP 47 Away in a manger

                                 MP 588 See, amid the winter’s snow

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the new hall

   6.00 pm       Evening Worship, Abbey

                        ‘Cleansing Fire’

                        Reading: Isaiah 9:1-7 (p.693) read by Dorothy Kirkpatrick

                                 MP 105 Come, watch with us

                                 MP 465 Meekness and majesty

                                 MP 537 On Christmas night all Christians sing

                                 MP 71 Child in the manger

                                 MP 39 As with gladness men of old

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the church

 Minister: Revd Dr David Graham

Pastoral Assistant: Robert Kane

 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