Sunday 15th December

Buy for Christmas! Dirleton cards, mugs, tea towels and prints are available at Dirleton Kirk or from the office.

Abbey Guild - Carols for Christmas with North Berwick Sings Choir in Abbey Church on Tuesday 17 December at 2.30pm followed by coffee & mince pies in the hall.  All are very welcome – do come along and bring a friend.

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

by coffee – all very welcome.

Carol Singing in Care Homes & Tigh Mhor on Thursday 19 December.

Meet at Abbey Church at 6.00pm. Come along. Everyone welcome.

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 15^th December 2013

3^rd Sunday in Advent

  9.30 am         Morning Worship, Dirleton - All-age Christmas Service

                                 CH4 282 Christmas is coming (3 verses)

                                 CH4 321 Come and join the celebration

                                 CH4 312 Away in a manger

                                 CH4 301 Hark! the herald angels sing

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the hall

10.30 am         Morning Worship, Abbey

                        ‘Descriptions of Jesus – God’s Presence’

                        Sunday School & Crèche for children under 4

                        Reading: Matthew 1:18-25 (p.965) – Robert Burgon

                                 Introit: Come now with awe

                                 Christmas is coming (3 verses - words on sheet)

                                 MP 337 In the bleak mid-winter

                                 A stable lamp is lighted

                                 MP 1201 Longing for light

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the new hall

  6.00 pm        Evening Worship, Abbey

                        Signs of the Messiah – A Spring

                        Readings: Isaiah 35:1-10 (p.719) – Robert Burgon

                                 MP 71 Child in the manger

                                 MP 537 On Christmas night all Christians sing

                                 MP 588 See, amid the winter’s snow

                                 MP 644 The first nowell the angel did say

                                 MP 35 Angels from the realms of glory

                        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

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