Sunday 9th March

House Group meets on Tuesday 11 March at 7.30pm at 11 Ben Sayers Park

All are very welcome – just come along.

Dirleton Prayer Service is on Wednesday 10.00am in the hall, followed by coffee – all very welcome.

Regal – On Thursday 13 March at 12noon in Abbey old hall Ian Aitken will talk about ‘The SOE and some of their WW2 clandestine activities’.

After the talk you are welcome to sit and share a ‘soup and sandwich’ lunch.

East Lothian Foodbank All donations are welcome and can be handed into the church office. There is a special request for the following items: tinned fruit, long-life milk, long-life fruit juice, sugar and packets of mashed potato.

105 food parcels went out in the month of January.

Articles for inclusion in Abbey April Newsletter should be emailed or handed in by 16 March.

Newsletters will be available for distribution on Sunday 30 March.

Last Sunday money was found in Abbey old hall. Please contact the office.

Communion Service next Sunday 16 December at 10.30am in Abbey Church

Eco Congregation Scotland On Monday 17 March at 7.30pm Abbey Church is hosting a meeting of Eco Congregation Scotland on the subject of Fracking. The guest speaker will be Adrian Shaw, Climate Change officer for the Church of Scotland. You are warmly invited to attend the meeting on this very topical subject.

  

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

  

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

Sunday 9^th March 2014

Morning Theme: ‘Lent - Jesus is tempted’

  9.30 am         Morning Worship, Dirleton

                        Reading: Matthew 4:1-10 (p.967) – David Kirkpatrick

                                 CH4 641 Seek ye first the kingdom of God

                                 CH4 517 Fight the good fight

                                 CH4 535 Who would true valour see

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the hall

10.30 am         Morning Worship, Abbey

                        Sunday School & Crèche for children under 4

                        MP 590 Seek ye first the kingdom of God

                         Reading: Matthew 4:1-10 (p.967) – Rutherford Elliot

Groups then rotate in sanctuary, old hall & new hall for short presentations of 15 minutes each. At 11.20, all return to sanctuary for offering & closing hymn.

                                 MP 463 May the mind of Christ my Saviour

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the new hall

  3.30 pm        Service in Astley House Care Home

  6.00pm         Evening Worship, Abbey

                        Jesus says I am .........Bread

Reading: Deuteronomy 16:1-8 (p.195) [John 6:35] – John Evans

                                 MP 717 We are here to praise you

                                 MP 935 Take up your cross

                                 MP 261 I am the bread of life

                                 MP 575 Rejoice, the Lord is King!

                        Followed by tea/coffee in the church

Minister: Revd Dr David Graham 

Pastoral Assistant: Robert Kane

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