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The Manse
Monikie
Winter 2001
Dear Fellow Parishioners,
People create chaos as we have seen in America and elsewhere. We ask, “Why doesn’t God do something to stop it?” Of course it isn’t God who creates terrorism it’s man. As human beings we have enough resources to build a world of peace, plenty and justice. However, it needs a change of heart. Someone once said, “ The only thing that can change a feeling is not reason but another stronger feeling”
What do we want God to do anyway? Most importantly we shouldn’t ask God to do something that will destroy our freedom as created human beings. If that happened we would no longer be people somehow made in the image of God. The most important thing about Christianity is that God was in Christ. It is the message of Advent and the Christmas Story. In the Gospel John writes “ For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God sent his son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.”
A peaceful year’s ending to you all.
Yours sincerely,
Gordon Mackenzie
NOVEMBER
18th Newbigging 10.30
25th Monikie 10.30 Newbigging 6.30 Communion
DECEMBER
2nd Newbigging 10.30 First Sunday in Advent
9th Monikie 10.30
16th Newbigging 10.30
23rd Monikie Family Service 10.30
24th Newbigging Christmas Eve Service 7pm
30th Newbigging 10.30
JANUARY 2002
6th Newbigging 10.30
13th Monikie 10.30
20th Newbigging 10.30
27th Monikie 10.30
Guild News
The Guild ladies will be going out for Christmas Dinner on Friday 7th December and anyone who would like to join us is very welcome. We will be going to Carlogie House Hotel and the cost for dinner is £11.00. Please contact any Guild member before 26th of November so that we can finalise numbers.
The first meeting in the New Year will be on Wednesday 9th January
in Newbigging Church at 7.15pm
LEPROSY MISSION
There will be a selection of Christmas cards, calendars and small gifts on display and for sale on Sunday the 18th and 25th of November in aid of the leprosy mission.
CHRISTMAS FAYRE
The Christmas Fayre will be held in Monikie Memorial Hall on Saturday 1st December from 2 - 4pm. There will be the usual stalls and a visit from Santa.
A special attraction this year will be a display of photographs and artefacts of Monikie and Newbigging in bygone days.
Entrance Adults £1 Children 50p under 5yrs free.
If you have any photos or artefacts of this district from pre 1950 that would be appropriate please contact Tom Gray 01382 370504.
HARVEST THANKSGIVING
The collection for local Charities at the Harvest Thanksgiving raised £192. This is to be donated to Rachel House.
Church Cards
Note cards featuring the stained glass window in Monikie Kirk are available for purchase. The prices are small cards £1.25 and large cards £2.50.
For further information contact Mrs Jean Young 01382 370269
Board of World Mission
Together@ChurchofScotland.Christian-Aid is a new initiative to highlight the relationship which already exists between the Church of Scotland and Christian Aid. More and more people are now aware that Christian Aid was set up by the churches to work for the churches. In Scotland, the Church of Scotland is the largest supporting denomination and gives Christian Aid a block grant each year.Over the next three years, some of that money will be earmarked for three particular projects, in Bosnia, Mozambique and Haiti. We hope that the work of those projects and the people involved in them, will become known to people In Scotland. The projects are all quite different. Carolyn Boyd in Bosnia is a Mission Partner whose work has been supported by Christian Aid for a number of years and so a strong link is already established. In Haiti and Mozambique there are no Mission Partners but Christian Aid has connection with the church working in those countries.
The purpose of this initiative is to learn more about some of the people we work with through Christian Aid and to feel more connected to them. We hope that churches will remember the work of our partners in their prayers and will come to know more about the Involvement of the church here through the work of Christian Aid.
The leaflets enclosed in your newsletter will give you more details about the project
National Certificate Course for Leaders in the Church and community
There will be an open meeting about this course on Saturday 10th November in the Resource Centre, Meadowside St. Paul’s Church, Marketgait between 10am &12 noon. Those interested in the course will be able to view the modules for the course and discuss any aspect of it. For further information please contact Rae Gray 370504
A retentive memory is a good thing but the ability to
forget is the true token of greatness
Board of Parish Education
Parable Puppet Theatre
There will be two performances by the Parable Puppet Theatre on Saturday 1st December 2001 in Meadowside St. Paul's Church Hall, Marketgait, Dundee at 1 pm and 3 pm. The cost per child is £1.00 and juice and biscuits will be served at the end of the performance,
The maximum attendance for each performance is 150 so it is important to book the performance you wish to attend early to avoid disappointment. Money can be received on the day but it is important to tell me approximate numbers as soon as possible and no later than Monday 26th November 2001 so that final arrangements can be made.
Richard Meddrington produces the Parable Puppets and tells two or three parable stories in about fifty minutes. It is an excellent show and can be enjoyed by children of all ages. Please encourage your children to come along while mum does some Christmas shopping. Hopefully, some adult will stay and enjoy the performance too. For more information please
contact Rae Gray 370504CELEBRATE LIFE! YEAR OF THE CHILD
The Rejoice Project has a new name and a new mission - to celebrate life. It’s about our God-given natural lives, and about living out our salvation story to the full. It’s about the great seasons of the Christian Year, and about the key stages and transitions of our own lives. The Board of Parish Education’s Year of the Child begins on Sunday December 2nd and the Board are asking congregations to mark this with a special worship time.
The Year of the Child runs for twelve months and aims to capture the imagination of the whole Church of Scotland and partner churches throughout the country with the aim of highlighting mission to children.
The General Assembly adopted the mission statement this year and the project has the support of other Boards and Committees of the Church. Iain Whyte, Director of the Board of Parish Education has written the official Year of the Child song, entitled Hear our Voice
www.yearofthechild.org.ukPRAYER ON PSALM 46
At Church on the Sunday following September 11th Sheila Mackenzie read out the psalm and this Prayer, which comes from a book of Meditations and Prayers entitled MANY VOICES ONE VOICE by Eddie Askew c The Leprosy Mission International.
Lord, my mind races.
A blur of images, impressions
moving too fast to think about.
Words, pictures, happenings crowd in, insistently.
Rioting in my mind, uncontrolled.
Hurling rocks to shatter my security.
I feel under attack. Nothing is what it seems.
Nothing is what it was.
And what it will be, I have no idea. Changing, all the time.
It shakes me
. Lord.The minute I've taken in this one new thought,
feel comfortable with a new process,
there's yet another treading down my heels,
pushing hard to get by.
I need you, Lord.
A safe refuge. A shelter.
I used to scorn that thought.
Shelters were for the weak, and I was strong.
But pride's not what it was, that's changed too,
and who am I, when mountains shake
to stand out in the storm?
I head for cover with the rest. Cold with shock.
Another of the walking wounded in the fight.
I need your reassurance.
The strength that comes from you.
Yet even you
. Lord,come to me in different ways.
Speaking new words in unexpected moments.
Shaking what little complacency I have left.
And Lord, when I take a break,
gasping for breath,
at the end of this day's lap,
I realise you never promised things would always be the same.
Rebirth means change. Walking with you is transformation.
Uncomfortable. Painful at times.
Filled with newness. New life, and Joy, and love.
Help me to cope with it.
Because you promised, And I think I’ve got it right,
Your hand in mine.
Calm strength flowing through to me.
From you. The unchanging one.
PARISH REGISTER
BAPTISM (ACTS 2: 39)
September 2nd Jacob John, son of Paul and Pamela Dempster Murray, ‘Mandara’, Drumsturdy Road.
CHILDLIKE FAITH
Whatever else may be lost among the years
Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing
Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears,
Let us hold close one day remembering
Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men.
Let us get back our childlike faith again.
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