On Thursday 9th April, Forth Churches Group will be holding a Passover Haggadah under the direction of “Jews for Jesus” a team of Messianic Jews. This will be a service of worship incorporating a Passover Supper, which promises to be an informative and moving Holy Week experience. It will take place in Dalgety Parish Church, Regents Way, Dalgety Bay (6.45 for 7.00pm). Available places are limited to a total of eighty. Places may be booked by contacting Dalgety Church office (01383 824092 - leave a message if no reply - office@dalgety-church.co.uk), no later than Friday 3rd April. During the evening there will an opportunity to make an offering towards the work of Jews for Jesus, and to offset the cost of the meal. We look forward to welcoming you.
Sunday 5th April 2009 until Easter Day: Sunday 12th April 2009
SUNDAY 5th (9.30am/11am) PALM SUNDAY SERVICE: ‘Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem’
MONDAY 6th (7pm) ‘Cleansing of the Temple’
TUESDAY 7th (7pm) ‘Righteousness and Judgement’
WEDNESDAY 8th (7pm) ‘The anointing of Jesus’
MAUNDY THURSDAY 9th (7pm) ’Jesus washes his disciples feet
GOOD FRIDAY 10th (7pm) Holy Communion ‘The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus’
HOLY SATURDAY 11th (10.30am) ‘The Day of the Grave’
SUNDAY 12th (9.30am/11am) EASTER DAY SERVICES
‘Christ has Risen, Christ has Risen indeed’
BCNC held an informal ‘Contemporary Praise’ evening on Sunday 15th March. A good number of people came along, including visitors from other churches. Our Praise band - Pb2… led the worship which included songs like “Come now is the time to worship” and “Praise is Rising”. We introduced a new (to us anyway) song – Stuart Townend’s “With a prayer” which was very enthusiastically received and sang. In fact, the singing was wonderful the whole evening and it felt really great to be part of a group simply worshipping our God. Pb2… had the opportunity to play through a quiet ministry time with one of their favourite Hillsongs – “Still”. They also performed Chris Tomlin’s “Happy Day” at the end which we will definitely invite the congregation to sing with us the next time. As that particular weekend was also Comic Relief weekend, our offering of £194 was donated to this. David, our minister, told some jokes and funny stories as “something funny for money”. His talk was about taking off our masks and letting Christ be seen in us.It is good and important to have the opportunity to sing old hymns and songs but it is also good for us to get to know all the exciting new songs that are being written at the moment. Stuart Townend, Tim Hughes, Brian Doerkson, Chris Tomlin, Graeme Kendrick are but a few of the new song writers and they are constantly writing new material. If you ever have the opportunity to see (and hear) any of these people live with their own bands – take it. The band is already thinking about our Easter Praise Service on Easter Sunday Evening and we look forward to leading everyone in praise then. Gill Beattie (Pb2…)
The afternoon one in St Margaret’s RC was really busy and folk took part in the welcome and in the linking of arms and in prayer and then refreshments and fellowship. We had the help of Re-Act - A Christian drama group and also a singer to lead the singing. In fact she sung solo
for the first verse of 2 hymns that some folk were unsure of. Unfortunately some of the ‘voices’ rushed away so I wasn’t able to get a
picture.The evening service was in North Parish for the first time. Well they went to town they had a map of the world on the table as folk cam into the church. Then in the sanctury there are 6 windows and they had decorated them 1 scottish and the others the continents. I believe that it took them 3 days to do. We had bullrushes for our Moses bit. One of the congregation also made a banner of the map of PNG. We also had our own banner which we had at all the services. Fewer people there because it was a wee bit out but the message from the minister & the fellowship
were wonderful and the congregation joined in with the welcome, linking of arms and prayers.
The Children’s service went great also we had 30mins of craft, refreshments and then 30mins for the service with 5 kids taking part. The girls were only 7, 7 & 8 and the boys were both 9& 10. While the kids were talking there were slides of PNG children being shown behind them. The kids all helped with the ‘Bird of Paradise’ and the ‘Baby Moses’. They also made paper flowers and during the service they brought them out and put them on a table with a globe of the world, and got them back at the end to take home. The collages are going to do the rounds of the churches taking part.
God Bless
Barbara
You are invited to share Holy Week and Easter at St. Leonard’s, Dunfermline:Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday, 5th April, with communion services at St. Leonard’s (9.30am and 11am) and a service at PItcorthie Community Centre (11am).
There will be a special Guild evening reflecting Holy Week on Monday 6th April at 7.15pm.
The Maundy Thursday Communion Services will begin at 6.30pm in St. Leonard’s.
A lunchtime service on Good Friday will begin at 12noon in St. Leonard’s.
There will be an Easter Vigil on Low Saturday evening in St. Leonard’s.
Our Easter Day celebrations will begin with an open air Easter service (and decorated egg rolling) at the bandstand in the Public Park at 8.30am followed at 9.30am by breakfast at St. Leonard’s. The main Easter service will be at 11am in St. Leonard’s.
FUSION — Following the success of a praise night last November, Amplify (the St. Leonard’s praise band) and the praise band from the Link church will be joining together again for an evening of praise and worship.
- When: Saturday 28th March
- Where: Link Church – Priory Lane
- Time: 7:00 pm for 7:15 pm start
If you missed the last one, you missed a treat, so why not come along and join in the praise and enjoy a cuppa and some delicious home baking afterwards. (All donations of home baking will be welcome).
St. Leonard’s (2 Brucefield Avenue, Dunfermline KY11 2SX) are showing a series of films for Lent on Sunday evenings, sratrting at 6.30pm - it’s a kind of “Jesus at the movies” when we watch a film together and chat about it over coffee afterwards. Anyone is welcome to come along and join in. The films we’re watching are:
March 1st — The Miracle Maker
(1999 — Cert U — 87 mins)
March 8th — The Gospel According to Matthew
Italian with English subtitles
(1964 — Cert U — 127 mins)
March 15th — Jesus Christ Superstar
(1973 — Cert PG — 108 mins)
March 22nd — Jesus of Montreal
French with English subtitles
(1989 — Cert 18 — 114 mins)
March 29th — The Life of Brian
(1979 — Cert 15 — 94 mins)
April 5th — Man Dancin’
(2004 — Cert 15 — 113 mins)
BRING YOUR OWN POPCORN!
April 22nd at 7.30pm marks the beginning of the Contagious Christian faith sharing course being held at Gillespie Church hall in Dunfermline.
Allan Vint, Mission Development Officer is going to present the material, which has been used by thousands of churches around the world to great effect. Over the past months the analysis of NCD results has clearly indicated that there is a ‘fear factor’ in sharing issues of faith with family and friends. This course is designed to help overcome the fear.
The course last for 6 weeks and there will be a cost of £1 per evening to help cover costs. To sign up go to www.dunfermlinepresbytery.org.uk and follow the signup link.
