Sunday 20th October

Christmas Shoe Box Appeal – If you do not have a shoe box to fill there are plenty covered empty boxes at Dirleton and Abbey or from the office – please help yourself! Extra leaflets also available - please try to include the essential items listed.  Filled boxes to be returned by Sunday 3 November.

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.

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 23 October at 7.30pm – all welcome.

Inspire Prayer gathering on Friday 25 October at 10.30am in Abbey new hall. All very welcome

One World Night on Friday 25 October at 7.30pm in Longniddry Church.  Theme ‘More than Enough’ Guest speaker The Right Rev Lorna Hood.

Free tickets from Longniddry Dental Practice.

Christian Aid ‘A close shave with the razorblade of life’ with Mike Millar on

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 the office.

Bible Sunday, 27 October – United Service in Abbey Church at 6.00pm.

  

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

 Sunday 20^th October 2013

Morning Theme: ‘God bless us – Merciful & Pure’

  9.30 am         Morning Worship, Dirleton

                        Reading: Exodus 33:7-23; 34:29-35 (p.92) – Norma Bruce

                                 CH4 129 The Lord is King

                                 CH4 473 Thy kingdom come

                                 CH4 557 O Love that wilt not let me go

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the hall

10.30 am         Morning Worship, Abbey

                        Sunday School & Crèche for children under 4

                        Reading: Exodus 33:7-23; 34:29-35 (p.92) – Zandra Main

                                 MP 656 The Lord is King

                                 MP 823 Fairest Lord Jesus

                                 MP 709 To Him we come

                                 MP 975 Before the throne of God above

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the new hall

  

  6.00 pm        Evening Worship, Abbey

                        Hard Questions of Faith – ‘The problem of Israel’

                Reading: Romans 9:1-18; 11:25-36 (p.1135) – Dorothy Kirkpatrick

                                 MP 3 Abba Father

                                 MP 253 Hushed was the evening hymn

                                 MP 419 Like a mighty river flowing

                                 MP 496 O for a thousand tongues to sing

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the church

  

Minister: Revd Dr David Graham

Pastoral Assistant: Robert Kane

Church blog: dirletonabbey.blogspot.co.uk

Facebook Group: Abbey & Dirleton (facebook.com/groups/412367835538768)

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