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

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SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2016 Issue no 19

FROM THE MINISTER

Welcome to ‘Network’ – our church newsletter – which is being distrib-uted to the whole parish. What you might ask is a parish? Well, the Church of Scotland is required by constitution to provide the 'ordinances of religion' to every part of the country and it has achieved this successfully by dividing the country into parishes with each hav-ing a parish minister. If you haven’t met me – let me intro-duce myself. I am Susan Sutherland and I have been the minister at Barnhill St Margaret’s for 7½ years. Although it is one of the most chal-lenging jobs it has to be for me the most rewarding. I have the privilege of being with people at very impor-tant milestones and have the responsibility of not only caring for members of our church family but for caring for everyone who lives in our parish. I have my own family to care for too.

From the Philippines

I have now been in the Philippines for 6 years and greatly enjoy the va-riety of ministries in which we are involved. We are grateful for the practical help we received from 2 teams from Scotland who covered over the canal outside the church. Thank you for all your support and prayers. Vivien & August

If you haven’t been to church in a while,

then why not come and join us? We would love to

welcome you to a

Special Service on

Sunday 25 September

at 10.30am

Back to Church Sunday coincides with our

Harvest Thanks-giving celebration so you can

help us support the Dundee Foodbank

by bringing along: A jar of coffee or a box of

tea bags, a tin of fruit, custard, rice, beans, soup,

tuna, ham UHT milk or cereal

They comprise of my husband Bill, our son Craig and his wife Linsey in Aberdeen, and daughter Vivien and her husband August who live in the Philippines. (Vivien has written an article opposite about the work they do there.) This has been a special summer for our family. Vivien and August have been in the UK for a family wedding. Craig and Linsey had a baby boy called ‘Noah’ in July. So I have just become a granny for the first time! It is wonderful! I have been thinking about the most valuable gift you could ever give a child. It is probably not your old car or a university education. I think the most important thing you can ever give a child, whether or not you are a parent, is a relationship with you. This summer I have enjoyed a family wedding, celebrating August’s birth-day with everyone in Aberdeen, a picnic on St Andrews beach, and picking strawberries and raspberries – something August has never done! I have loved shopping with Vivien, going out for meals, visiting Noah, feeding him and taking him out for a walk in the pram. At the end of each day I give thanks to God for the time I have spent with my family. I would encourage you to give your children the most important gift you will ever give them – a relationship with you.

Blessings Susan

It has been two years since we were last in the UK and it was lovely to be able to attend my cousin’s wedding and to meet our adorable newborn nephew Noah.

Network Deadline: All articles to be in the

Church Office by 21 October 2016

The Café re-opens on Wednesday 24 August providing food and fel-lowship from 12:30 – 3pm. You are most welcome to join us. We are al-ways happy to receive requests to volunteer either as a baker or as waiting/kitchen staff. Rotas work out that you are only required about once every 5 weeks.

Please contact the Church Office for further details

Sunday at 9.15am and 10.30am Morning Service Junior Church Creche Monday Badminton 2pm (re-starts 5 Sept)

Scottish Country Dancing 7.30pm (re-starts 12 Sept)

Tuesday Prayer meeting (in the Session Room) 9.30am Afternoon Guild (monthly) 2.30pm Evening Guild (fortnightly) 7.30pm Wednesday Short Service 12 noon (from 26 Oct)

Café 12.30pm Social Club 1.30pm (re-starts 28 Sept)

Bereavement Friendship Group 2pm (3rd Wednesday of each month)

Thursday Badminton 2pm (re-starts 22 Sept)

Book Club 2pm (2nd Thursday of month).

Choir rehearsal 7pm (Session Room)

Saturday Messy Church (monthly) 4-5.30pm

Lifts to Church Volunteer drivers are happy to help anyone who has difficulty in getting to Church on Sunday mornings. Here are a list of drivers who will collect you and take you home.

AUG 28 David Laing 739586 Stan Hutcheson 779250 SEPT 4 John Grocott 779581 Anne Chalmers 739719 11 Steve Johnston 477739 Chris Johnston 477739

18 Bill Barr 776103 Lindsay Darroch 738224 25 Harry Dowie 776679 Ishbel Argo 779054 OCT 2 Lindsay Foulis 774851 Ellenore Foulis 774851 9 Jack Robertson 776955 Anne McPhail 775444

16 Ian Meach 776542 Joyce Meach 776542 23 David Laing 739586 Jack Robertson 776955 30 John Grocott 779581 Anne Chalmers 739719

OUR DIARY New members: We welcome to our congregation: Ian and Alison Strachan Mary Cuthbert Mairi Tudball

Marriages: As they begin married life together, we offer our congratulations to: Gordon Shepherd and Sarah MacDonald Ian Lockhart and Sarah Longair

Baptisms: It has been a pleasure to welcome to our Church Family: Jessica Drummond Lottie Fenton Samuel Morgan Sienna Ballantyne Gracie Gunn Georgia Letford

Funerals:

We remember those who have died recently: Betty Milne Vanda Grewar Irene Watt John Russell David Robertson Mary (Mollie) Elrick Kathleen Rae Lorna Greenhill Rita Sturrock John Ferrier Sheena Adam Baby Ethan Hambleton Dr James McKenzie John Ballantyne

Church Register

WHAT’S ON

AUGUST

Saturday 27 at 2pm Wedding Saturday 27 at 4pm (Hall) Messy Church Sunday 28 at 9.15am and 10.30am Worship Tuesday 30 at 7pm (Room 1) Guild Committee Tuesday 30 at 7.15pm (Hall) Kirk Session SEPTEMBER

Thursday 1 at 7pm (Room 1) Outreach Group Sunday 4 at 9.15am and 10.30am Cradle Roll service and Baptism at 10.30am Tuesday 6 at 2pm Service at Shiell Court - all welcome

Thursday 8 at 2pm (Room 1)

Book Club

Sunday 11 at 9.15am and 10.30am

Worship

Tuesday 13 at 7.30pm (Hall)

Guild

Sunday 18 at 9.15am and 10.30am

Guild Dedication and Baptism at 10.30am.

Wednesday 21 at 2pm (Room 2) Bereavement Friendship Group Saturday 24 at 4pm (Hall) Messy Church Saturday 24 at 7.30pm (Church) Fundraising Concert in Church (Proceeds to Water Aid)

Sunday 25 at 9.15am and 10.30am Harvest Thanksgiving and Back to Church Sunday Sunday 25 at 6.30pm (Hall) Harvest Supper Tuesday 27 at 2.30pm (Hall) Afternoon Guild Tuesday 27 at 7.15pm (Room 1) Leadership Team Tuesday 27 at 7.30pm (Hall) Guild OCTOBER

Sunday 2 at 9.15am and 10.30am Worship Sunday 9 at 9.15am and 10.30am Worship Tuesday 11 at 7pm (Room 1) Guild Committee Thursday 13 at 2pm (Room 1) Book Club Sunday 16 at 9.15am and 10.30am Worship Tuesday 18 at 7.30pm (Hall) Guild Wednesday 19 at 2pm (Room 2) Bereavement Friendship Group Sunday 23 at 9.15am and 10.30am Worship Tuesday 25 at 2.30pm (Hall) Afternoon Guild

Find us @ Barnhill St Margaret’s. Please like and share and get the word out!

Tuesday 25 at 7.15pm (Room 1) Leadership Team Wednesday 26 at 12 noon Short service in the Church Saturday 29 at 4pm (Hall) Messy Church

Our hall is available to let for children’s birthday parties, coffee mornings etc. For availability and

prices phone 737294.

Starter Packs

Snippets

Bereavement Group

Baptisms Weddings & Funerals

The Guild

It will soon be time to think about filling the diary with planned activi-ties for the Winter months . Do you fancy meeting people, chatting , having some exercise, mental activity and fun ?? Then come to the Social Club in St Margaret’s Church Hall . We play carpet bowls, scrabble , dominoes or just chat . Everybody from the community will be most welcome and tea/coffee & tray-bakes are available from the cafe . We start back Wednesday Septem-ber 28, 1. 30- 3.30pm . Only £2. Hope to see you there ! Ross Howat

Our Bereavement Friendship Group meets in the Lounge of the Hall at 2pm on the third Wednesday of each month. We listen to each other and lend emotional and practical sup-port. If you feel you would like to be a part of this group please come and join us.

Wednesday Services begin again in October

Harvest Supper Will be on Sunday 25 September in the hall at 6.30 pm Tickets on sale from the church office.

Christmas Fayre 26 November 10.00—12 noon.

Social Club

This is one of the charities we sup-port locally and it responds posi-tively to the problems faced by reset-tling homeless and needy individu-als and families in the Dundee area. Donations of good, unwanted basic household goods, bed linen and curtains are always welcome.

You don’t have to be a member to be married in our church. If you live in Barnhill or your parents live in the Parish then it is possible to be married in Church. You don’t have to be a member to have the minister conduct a funeral. Again, if you live in the parish or have a connection with the church then the minister will take the service. Many couples ask about baptism. Vows have to be taken to bring the child up in the Christian faith and in the life and worship of the church. The minister is happy to meet and discuss this further. Telephone Susan on 779278.

Prayer Group On a Tuesday morning a group of people meet at 9.30 am for a time of prayer in the church. We give thanks to God for the blessings he has given. We pray for the world, our city, our congregation. Some people ask us to remember them and to pray for their specific situation or crisis. In our pews there are prayer cards but if you do not come to church and wish us to pray for you then either telephone the minister (779278) or the church office (737294) with your request. You do not need to give any personal information

Are you a committed Christian

excited by the ministry of children and families?

If so, we may have opportunities for you. . .

YOUTH WORKER Barnhill St Margaret’s Church

(SCO11017)

Salary up to £22,000 per year

(pro-rata)

depending on age and experience

3 year contract – 7 hours per week

email:

SSutherland@churchofscotland.org.uk

for Job Description or phone

01382 779278

Application closing date 30 September 2016

Please submit full CV: including two references,

and detailed supporting statement

CHILDRENS/FAMILY

WORKER Barnhill St Margaret’s Church

(SCO11017) Salary up to £22,000 per year

(pro-rata)

depending on age and experience

3 year contract – 7 hours per week

email:

SSutherland@churchofscotland.org.uk

for Job Description or phone

01382 779278

Application closing date 30 September 2016

Please submit full CV: including

two references,

and detailed supporting statement

Our Cradle Roll Service on 4 September is when we invite everyone who has been baptised in Barnhill St Margaret over the last couple of years back to come for a special party. Invitations have been sent out to parents inviting them to bring their children along to this event. For the first part of the service the families will be in church and then go down to the hall. There we will have craft, games, a song and a story together. There will of course be some cake to celebrate this happy occasion.

Cradle Roll

A varied programme of events has been arranged for both the Evening and Afternoon Guilds for the 2016/17 session. I hope to welcome back previous and new Guild mem-bers. The Evening Guild meets fort-nightly on Tuesday evenings at 7.30 p.m. in the church hall and the Afternoon Guild is held monthly at 2.30 p.m. also in the church hall. The first Evening Guild is on 13 Septem-ber and the Afternoon Guild on 27 September. Lifts can usually be arranged for those who have diffi-culty in attending.

Some members of our Guild Link from Kingswells near Aberdeen are attending our church service on 18

September. There will be a lunch afterwards at the Woodlands Hotel. Please let me know if you would like to join us.

Please make a note in your diary of the date of our annual fund-raising Coffee Morning. It is to be held on Saturday 12 November from 10am till noon. For further details on any Guild mat-ters, please contact me. Norma McDonald (Guild President) Phone: 01382 793834

The Garden Group

Many of our members are involved in caring for our Church and the grounds in which it stands. These people are largely unseen as they work quietly in the background. We have volunteers who cut the grass and the hedges and tend the flowerbeds and we want them to know that although we don't see them , we appreciate all they do.

The Minister’s telephone number is

01382 779278

Barnhill St Margaret’s

Parish Church Office

Telephone 737294 SCO11017

Come and Join us in the Hall for

Golf Winners

Sally and Bill (above) and Dorothy and Irvine (below) with their trophies

Sat 24 September 7.30pm

Concert in the Church organised by Susie Will.

An evening of light classics with songs from musicals and films. Tickets on sale from the Church

Office, telephone 737294. £8 for adults, £4 for under 17’s

Proceeds to Water Aid Scotland

Messy Church draws people of all ages together and helps us to experience what it means to be part of a Christian community outside of Sunday worship. At its heart, Messy Church, aims to create the opportunity for par-ents, carers and children to en-joy expressing their creativity through craft work, to sit down together for a meal of pizza or macaroni, to listen to a bible story, sing together and have fun. We meet on Saturdays from 4.00 - 5.30pm. Here are some dates when you can join us in our hall at 1 Guthrie Terrace: 27 August 24 September 29 October 26 November

Contemporary Worship In September 2015 we launched our 9.15am service using multi-media and contemporary worship songs. The service is led by a team – Susan the minister, Beth, Anita, Ian and Jenny.

We arrive around 9am for coffee and donuts. If you are looking for some-thing different – why not come and join us?

Traditional Service Our 10.30 am service is more tradi-tional and baptisms are normally arranged for this service. We have a choir and our youngest member is just 18! Praise is led mainly by the organ although we use backing tracks each week too. There is a crèche for young babies and older children go down to the hall during the service for Junior Church. The service is very busy so come early to avoid parking problems. If you are elderly and require a lift to church then this can be arranged. A list of drivers is printed on page 2 of this edition of ‘Network’.

Monday is the Minister’s

day off: please call her only

if your request is urgent

Barnhill St Margaret’s Church sup-ports the worship, mission and service of the Church of Scotland through the money we give in our offerings. Our Congregation’s contri-bution to Ministries and Mission for 2016 is £94,896. £80,946 of this goes towards the cost of providing over 1000 ministers and other parish workers in communities throughout Scotland. £13,950 of the total contribution is used to support the Church’s work in providing social care services as well as paying towards the day to day administra-tive, financial and legal matters.

Mission and Service

We had a fantastic start to the school holidays when we became guardians of Ancora, the City of Light. Because some of the story treasures were lost, the light was no longer shining as before. The Guardians had to find 5 story treasures to enable the light to shine brightly once more. The children along with their leaders and helpers had fun completing the various activities. We must keep telling the wonderful stories that are found in the Saga (another name for the Bible) so that the City of Light (God’s kingdom) keeps shining. Here’s to next year!!