North Berwick

North Berwick
North Berwick

Friday, July 25, 2014

Commonwealth Games Sunday

Seaside Rock Holiday Club – beach based Holiday Club for primary school age children today from 10.30 to 11.30am. All children welcome.

Sunday Afternoon Teas TODAY– Please come along and support us and enjoy delicious home baking in the new hall from 2.30pm to 4.30pm.

Opera East Lothian Summer Sundays – Viva Vivaldi - Gloria and other Baroque favourites. In Dirleton Kirk today at 4.00pm.

We would like Abbey church to be open during the week. If you are able to ‘open and close’ please sign the list at the back of the church.

North Berwick Day Centre Coffee Morning (in aid of their minibus) is on Saturday 2 August from 10.00am to 12 noon in the Day Centre. Donations of baking , tombola, bric-a-brac, etc welcome and can be handed in from 9.00am.

Traidcraft goods will be available at Abbey next Sunday, 3 August.
Next Traidcraft will be 5 October – stock up for August & September!

Prayer - a short gathering for prayer each Sunday morning in Abbey New Hall from 10.00 am to 10.15am, prior to the morning service. This is open to all.

Bible Reading Notes are available from Zandra or Joyce in the office. If you would like to start having these please contact Zandra or Joyce to see the selection available.

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

'Lights Out'. On Monday 4th August, there will be a half-hour vigil in Abbey, to mark the centenary of the start of World War One. This will start at 9.30pm, and end at 10.00pm.

The new Dirleton Cradle Roll is now framed and in place. Thanks to John & Denise Gray for arranging this.

North Berwick & District Association of Churches invite all to an Open Forum in Gullane Village Hall on Thursday 7 August at 7.30pm. Entitled ‘Democracy & Participation in a Referendum Year’ the Forum will discuss levels of participation in the democratic process along non party political lines and against the backdrop of the Scottish referendum. The discussion will be led and moderated by Patrick Chalmers author of ‘Fraudcast News’, an account of “how bad journalism supports our bogus democracies”. See  FACEBOOK – “NBDAC Open Forum “ Admission free with 70 tickets available for advance booking; otherwise entrance on the door on a first come first served basis.
Sunday 27th July 2014

Morning theme: Being Christian – Bible: the theory

Today’s hymns come from countries of the Commonwealth

  9.30 am         Morning Worship, Dirleton
                        Reading: 2nd Timothy 3:10-17 (p.1196) – Liz Keddie
                                 CH4 716 Come and find the quiet centre (New Zealand)
                                 CH4 516 We are marching in the light of God
                                                (South Africa)
                                 CH4 300 The Virgin Mary had a baby boy (West Indies)
                                 CH4 547 What a friend we have in Jesus (Canada)
                        Followed by tea/coffee in the hall

10.00 am         Prayer Gathering in Abbey new hall (until 10.15am)

10.30 am         Morning Worship Abbey
                        Seaside Rock Holiday Club on beach
                        Crèche for children under 4
                        Reading: 2nd Timothy 3:10-17 (p.1196) – Sadie Young
                                 Come and find the quiet centre (New Zealand)
                                 MP 954 We are marching in the light of God (South Africa)
                                 The Virgin Mary had a baby boy (West Indies)
                                 Jesus, Saviour Lord, Saranam (Sri Lanka / India)
                                 MP 746 What a friend we have in Jesus (Canada)
                        Followed by tea/coffee in the new hall

There is no Evening Service in Abbey.
Our Evening Services take a break over the summer.

Minister: Revd Dr David Graham
Pastoral Assistant: Robert Kane

Facebook Group: Abbey & Dirleton

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 SC00453

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