BARNHILL ST MARGARET’S CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, INVERMARK TERRACE, BARNHILL DD5 2QU

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JANUARY/ FEBRUARY/ MARCH 2015 issue no 12

from your

minister

Happy New Year and every blessing for 2015! In church we look forward to an exciting year. We have now adopted the Unitary Constitution and are ready for the next stage in the re-organisation of our structures. You can read more about this in a separate article in this edition of ‘Network’.

Later in the year I plan to start a con-temporary service at a different time with a different style of worship. This has been agreed by our Session. With the use of technology the aim is to reach a younger audience and bring them into our church family. During this year we will experience birth and death, graduations and retirements, marriage and divorce, good health and illness. St Margaret’s is a community where we share our joy and pain, where we support one another at baptisms, weddings and funerals. Our lives are richer as we share the joy of a child’s first Christmas, the grief of the first Christmas after a death, the all-to-ordinary times of disappointment and loss, the some-times hard preparation for Lent before we can rejoice in the hope of the Resurrection. The Scriptures help us because they are about the joys and struggles of people. We share with those people a common humanity. God acted in their lives and the life of their nation. .

God also acts in our lives and in our world. It is not about ignoring what is happening in the world God loves and sent Jesus to save. As God’s people we come together to worship, but also to be sent out by God to bring the good news of His grace, to bring justice, peace and love to the world. And that is a challenge for us all in this New Year. With love Susan

Unitary Constitution The Congregational Board has been replaced by the Leadership Team which consists of the Minister, the Session Clerk (David Butchart), the Deputy Clerk (Lindsay Foulis), the Treasurer (Wendy Butter) and the Conveners of the 6 Core Groups consisting of Finance, Property, Fellowship, Nurture, Service and Pastoral. Lindsay Darroch has been convening meetings with a planning group for the implementation of the Unitary Constitution so he will also be part of the Leadership Team in this transition period. The next stage in the process is to assess the skills and talents of the whole Congregation and also to re-examine our existing roll of Members. A Questionnaire will be issued to every member shortly with an invitation to an evening meeting with districts and elders.

OUR CHURCH STATED

ANNUAL MEETING

will take place in the hall, after the service,

on Sunday 22 March 2015

Lent Studies Lent is a season of preparation for the celebration of Easter. In our busy, secu-lar world, Lent is a time of renewal, a time to remember Jesus – to walk with him in study, prayer and service to others, to engage in personal and family worship. However, during Lent Christians as the body of Christ also need to come together to worship and study with others. The Broughty Ferry Churches Group will again be organising a study during Lent. The evening group will meet on a Tuesday at 7.30pm in St Mary’s Episcopal Church from 24 February. There is likely to be a Monday morning group, but this has still to be confirmed. Further details will be intimated in our Family News.

Lent Lunches At the moment discussions are taking place to organise lunches for the six Wednesdays during Lent in the YMCA. Teams will be drawn from all the congregations in Broughty Ferry and the monies raised will go to Christian Aid. More details to follow in our Family News.

Preparations for EASTER The Great Three Days, sunset on Maundy Thursday through sunset on Easter Day, are the climax of Lent and of the Christian Year. So Easter should be bigger than Christmas! Last year, at the last minute, I decided to decorate some of the church windows telling the story from Palm Sunday through Holy Week leading up to our celebration on Easter Day. I used mostly the symbols that we had used at our services eg palm crosses, bread and wine, basin and towel. If anyone would like to help decorate the windows then please get in touch with me either by email or phone. Thanks. Susan

Tuesday 17 at 7.15pm Kirk Session meet in Session Room Wednesday 18 at 2pm (Room 2)

Bereavement Support Group Wednesday 18 at 7pm (Room 1)

Fellowship Committee Sunday 22 at 10.30am Worship with Sacrament of baptism Sunday 22 at 11.45am (Hall) Stated Annual Meeting Tuesday 24 2.30pm (Hall) Afternoon Guild Saturday 28 at 4pm (Hall) Messy Church Sunday 29 at 10.30am Worship APRIL

Thursday 2 at 7pm (Church) Maundy Thursday service Friday 3 at 7pm (Church) Good Friday service Sunday 5 8.00am Service at Rock Garden 10.30am - Family Service (Church) 6.30pm - Easter Supper (Hall)

Worship every Sunday at 10.30am. Wednesday Services at 12 noon in the Church from October to May.

Leadership Team meets the last Tues-day of the month at 7.15pm in the hall. Kirk Session meeting dates tba

Morning Prayers held each Tuesday at 9.30am in the Session Room during term time.

Messy Church held on the last Saturday of the month at 4pm in the hall.

A WEEK IN OUR CHURCH Please contact the Church Office for further details

Sunday at 10.30am Morning Service Junior Church Creche Monday Badminton 2pm Scottish Country Dancing 7.30pm Tuesday Prayer meeting (in the Session Room) 9.30am Afternoon Guild (monthly) 2.30pm Evening Guild (fortnightly) 7.30pm Wednesday Short Service 12 noon Café 12.30pm Social Club 1.30pm Bereavement Support Group 2pm (3rd Wednesday of each month)

Thursday Badminton 2pm Book Club (2nd Thursday of each month)

Choir rehearsal 7pm (Session Room)

Saturday Messy Church (monthly) 4-5.30pm

Lifts to Church February 1 Lindsay Foulis 774851 Ishbel Argo 779054 8 Stan Hutcheson 779250 Joyce Meach 776542 15 John Grocott 779581 Jack Robertson 776955 22 Steve Johnston 477739 Chris Johnston 477739 March 1 Dave McCowat 477915 Anne Chalmers 739719 8 Alister Lockhart 776308 Bob Blacklaws 775311 15 Lindsay Foulis 774851 Ishbel Argo 779054 22 Bill Barr 776103 Lindsay Darroch 738224 29 Stan Hutcheson 779250 Anne McPhail 775444 April 5 Ian Meach 776542 Joyce Meach 776542 12 John Grocott 779581 Jack Robertson 776955

Monday is the Minister’s day off:

please call her only if your request is urgent

WHAT’S ON

To hire our hall for children’s parties etc. please contact the church

office on 737294

FEBRUARY

Sunday 1 at 10.30am Worship Tuesday 3 at 2pm Service in Shiell Court (All welcome)Tuesday 3 at 7.30pm (Hall) Guild Sunday 8 at 10.30am Worship Tuesday 10 at 7pm (Room 1) Guild Committee Thursday 12 at 2pm (Room 1) Book Club Sunday 15 at 10.30am Worship Tuesday 17 at 7.30pm (Church) Guild Fundraiser Wednesday 18 at 2pm (Room 2)

Bereavement Support Group Saturday 21 Wedding

Sunday 22 at 10.30am Worship Tuesday 24 at 2pm (Hall) Afternoon Guild Tuesday 24 at 7.15pm (Hall) Leadership Team meeting Saturday 28 at 4pm (Hall) Messy Church MARCH

Sunday 1 at 10.30am Worship Tuesday 3 at 2pm Service at Shiell Court - all welcome Tuesday 3 at 7.30pm (Hall) Guild Friday 6 World Day of Prayer Friday 6 to Sunday 8 Crieff Hydro Weekend Sunday 8 at 10.30am Worship Tuesday 10 at 10am (Room 1)

Care Team meeting Tuesday 10 March at 7pm (Room 1) Guild Committee Thursday 12 at 2pm (Room 1) Book Club Sunday 15 at 10.30am Worship Tuesday 17 at 7.30pm (Hall) Guild

Baptisms: It has been a pleasure to welcome to our Church Family: Jack Donoghue Arran Mathers

New Members: We welcome to our congregation: Innes and Moraig McArtney John White David Laing James Burnett Robert and Fiona Dunn

Church Register

Funerals: We remember with thanks- giving those who have died recently and we offer their relatives our prayerful sympathy. Mrs Helen Leslie (Strathmore St) Mrs Christine Garber (Dundee Rd) Mr James Balfour (Lochleven Care Home) Mrs Helen McGuire (Strathmore St) Mrs Elizabeth Inglis (Tigh–na-Muirn)

Mr Miller Webster (Hamilton St) Mr Robert Cargill (Aberdour Pl) Mr David Smith (Collingwood St) Mrs Elizabeth Gallie (Ardmore Ave) Mr Robert Nairn (Deepdale Pl)

Advance Notice

Polar Explorers is the theme

for the Holiday Club which will be

held from 6 to 10 July

Snippets . . .

Network Deadline All copy to be in by

Friday 6 March

Mary’s Meals

Holy Week and Easter

Food Train Do you know anyone who needs help with shopping? Food Train is a non profit making Scottish charity staffed by local volunteers, and it provides a vital grocery delivery service to older people living in Dundee. Volunteers collect shop-ping lists, orders are processed and goods are delivered to the respec-tive homes. On receipt of the goods, the client pays the cost plus a small delivery charge. Another initiative – Meal Makers – has been brought to Scotland by Food Train and this is a free service which encompasses food-sharing. Volunteer cooks deliver a portion of their home cooked food to an eld-erly person living nearby. For further details call 0800 783 7770 or email hello@mealmakers.org.uk Food train information can be ob-

tained by contacting Grant Sim-

mons on 01382 459202 or email

Dundee@thefoodtrain.co.uk

Christmas collections raised £2,089 (including gift aid) The £300 raised from contributions to the Posada was sent to the Salva-tion Army to feed the Homeless over Christmas and New Year The Bridge Lunch organised by the Fellowship Committee raised £840. A cheque for £420 has been sent to the Dundee Foodbank. Our ‘Souper Sunday’ raised £327.40 and a cheque has been sent to the Church of Scotland HIV/Aids Project.

Shortbread Ingredients: 100 g (4oz) butter 100g (4 oz) hard margarine 225 g (8 oz) plain flour 75g (3 oz) icing sugar 100g (4 oz) cornflour Method Cream softened butter, margarine and icing sugar Mix the flour and the cornflour in a bowl and add this gradually to the creamed mixture Roll out dough on a lightly floured work surface and cut into shapes Place these on lightly greased bak-ing trays Bake in a pre-heated oven at 160°C/Fan 140°C /Gas 3 for 20 minutes or until golden brown Sprinkle with caster sugar and leave on a wire rack to cool. Store in an airtight tin.

£1550 was raised at the November Coffee Morning. This has been shared between the Church and Guild projects.

Guild News

CONCERT by the Broughty Ferry

Operatic Society

Followed by refreshments. Tuesday 17 Feb at 7:30

in the Church Tickets priced £6 from

Guild Members or Church Office

Palm Sunday is 29 March when we celebrate Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Please bring daffodils for our cross which will be outside the main door of the church. Maundy Thursday is 2 April. There will be a service in the church at 7pm We will share the Sacrament of Holy Communion as we remember the Last Supper that Christ celebrated with his disciples. Good Friday is 3 April and is the anniversary of the crucifixion of Jesus. There will be a service in the church at 7pm and we will focus on Jesus’ last words from the cross. On Easter morning, Sunday 5 April, we celebrate with joy Christ’s resur-rection. At 8am there will be a short service at the Barnhill Rock Gardens with Broughty Ferry New Kirk. During our 10.30am service we will share the sacrament of Holy Communion. You are invited to bring daffodils for our cross which will be outside the main door of the church. Details of other services being held in the Broughty Ferry Churches during Lent and Holy Week will follow once we have this information.

Recipe of the Month

Come and Join us in the Hall for . . .

Crafts, Music, a Bible story,

a moment to think . . .

and something to eat!

4—5.30pm on

28 February

28 March

25 April

30 May The children must be accompanied

by an adult.

Contributions to the Church of Scotland in 2015 Each year we make Ministries and

Mission contributions to the Church

of Scotland in Edinburgh based on

our annual income. We have been

advised that the amount of money

we will pay this year has increased

from £91,040 to £94,474.

In addition to this we pay to Dundee

Presbytery a sum for each person

on our membership roll which at the

end of December 2014 was 786.

This year the amount due to the

Presbytery is £1,650.60

The Mission Committee would like to remind you that boxes will be at Church entrance doors from Sunday, 1

March for donations. The boxes

will be there each Sunday until 29

March, Palm Sunday.

Cash donations are also acceptable. Please remember to donate only new items and, if donating a back-pack, make sure it is big enough to contain all the necessary items.

Recipes Jackie Mackie is hoping to compile a

recipe book and is looking for people

to pass on their favourite recipes.

Please contact her on 736499.

All funds raised will go towards the

church repairs.

The Minister’s telephone number is

01382 779278

Barnhill St Margaret’s

Parish Church Office

Telephone 737294 SCO11017

News from the Philippines. . .

Visit our new web pages at

www.bsmchurch.org.uk

When Alan Hunter – one of our new

members- offered to stage a panto-

mime, Susan not only gave him her

blessing , she decided to lead from

the front and joined the cast. We are

now recovering from 4 performances

of Dick Whittington. No two perform-

ances were the same and the

reaction of the audiences was differ-

ent each time. Apart from the actors

there was a group of competent

workers who ensured that all tasks

required both behind the scenes and

in front of house were completed

successfully. We are grateful for the

and organised fundraisers this year

to make all the parties and gift giving

possible. We appreciate it so much.

May God bless you all. At the Christ-

mas Eve party at our church in

Nagassican many young families

came along to celebrate with us. We

handed out food parcels to everyone

and they were thrilled. People do not

expect big or expensive gifts here.

Care Information

A leaflet is available for those who require additional support in the home.

The information applies to residents in Dundee city. People in Angus should contact 0845 2777778. All services below are also available in Angus.

Local Community Care Services available include: general advice, home care services, day care, com-munity alarm provision, occupational therapy, supported accommodation, respite break and care homes.

The object of all this is to allow people to stay in their home if at

all possible.

For general access to the above, the First Contact Team at 11 Castle Street, Dundee can be contacted on 01382 434019

(Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm). help we received from members of

the Monifieth Amateur Dramatic So-

ciety. The Director, Maggie Gray

was more than able to project her

vision and the Musical Director Bill

Ford gave the cast great support

from the keyboard. Those who took

part will remember the fun and fel-

lowship we shared . As a result of

the generosity of the members of the

Church and the Community we

made a profit of around £3000.This

money will go towards repairs to the

Session Room roof and Chancel

windows. Here’s to the next time!

The Pantomime (Dick Whittington)

I posted a message and the included photo on my ‘Facebook’ page on Christmas Eve. This is what I said ‘A big Thank you to Barnhill St Marga-ret’s Church, Scotland. I don’t know all your names – however thanks to those who have given donations

Vivien writes . . .