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What's On and Notice BoardSERVICES/EVENTS TODAY AND THIS WEEKSunday 5 February – Epiphany 5SERVICES/EVENTS TODAY AND THIS WEEK8.00am Holy Communion 11.00am Sung Eucharist with Children’s Church & Youth at 11 1.00pm Vestry & Hand Bell Ringers’ lunch (Hall) 6.00pm Choral Evensong Monday to Friday 8.30am Morning Prayer (Meeting Room) Monday to Thursday 5.30pm Evening Prayer (Meeting Room) Friday 4.45pm Evening Prayer (Meeting Room) Queen’s Accession, 1952 Tuesday 6.30pm Said Eucharist 7.30pm St John’s Indoor Bowling Group (Hall) Wednesday 10.30am Holy Communion followed by refreshments/fellowship 4.00pm YAHAB Youth group (Hall) 4.30-6.45pm Dumfries Youth Choir 7.00pm Choir practice (Hall) Thursday 11.30am Holy Communion (Crichton Chapel) 6.00pm A Time for Meditation (Meeting Room) Friday 7.30pm Dumfries Music Club: Allan Neave (guitar) & Robert Irvine (‘cello) |
NEXT WEEKSunday 12 February – Epiphany 68.00am Holy Communion 9.30am Mattins 11.00am Sung Eucharist & Healing Prayers/Anointing with Children’s Church & Youth at 11 Readings: 2 Kings 5.1-14 (p. 314); 1 Corinthians 9.24-27 (p. 159); Mark 1.40-45 (p. 33) 6.00pm Evening Worship
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NoticesVisitors: A warm welcome is extended to all visiting St John’s today. Please make yourselves known to stewards and those officiating at the service. Magazines giving information about St John’s are available on the stewards’ table at the back of the church and/or we invite you to take/complete one of the yellow coloured cards on the pew shelves and return them to a steward or member of the clergy. Refreshments are available in the hall after the 11.00am service. The Order of Service at 11.00am can be found in the blue Scottish Liturgy 1982 booklet. The paragraphs which are sidelined are said by all. Hymn numbers can be found on the front page of the Pew Notes and/or on the Hymn Boards in the church. The prayer which precedes the Bible readings (the Collect) can also be found in the Pew Notes. After the third (offertory) hymn, the service continues on page 18. Copies of the musical setting for the 11.00am service, Mass of St Thomas by David Thorne, are available from the stewards’ table. Participation in Communion: Visitors who are accustomed to receiving communion in other churches are welcome to come forward for communion at that part of the service. Communion can also be brought to the pew of those unable to come to the rail. Please advise the stewards if you would like to receive this ministry. Crèche facilities are available in the Meeting Room at the rear of the Church during the 11.00am service. Children’s Church next takes place today, Sunday 5 February, and on Sunday 12 February at 11.00am in the hall. The next Breakfast & All-age communion takes place on Sunday 26 February, at 9.00 for 9.30am in the hall. Fairtrade stall Today, Sunday 5 February, before and after the 11.00am service, in the hall. St John's Indoor Bowling Group next meets on Tuesday 7 February. Arrangements for receiving offerings in worship Please place financial offerings in the labelled plate on arrival OR departure. |
The Daily Service on Radio 4 – Long wave (198 m) at 9.45am tomorrow, Monday 6 February, the 60th anniversary of The Queen’s Accession, comes from St Mary’s Scottish Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow. Choral Evensong tonight @ 6.00pm has special music in memory of Tom Carrick: Chorale Prelude – ‘Nun ruhen alle Wälder’ by Flor Peeters; Evening Service in C by C. V. Stanford Anthem: Rejoice in the Lord alway by H. Purcell. Schumann: Sketch in F minor. Organist: John Morris Friday 10 February, 7.30pm at St John’s Dumfries Music Club: Allan Neave, guitar, and Robert Irvine, ‘cello, play Vivaldi, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Casals, J. S. Bach, de Falla and others. All welcome, tickets £11 (students £3, school children free) at the door. Tel: 01387 820848. St John’s is having a Pancake Party on Shrove Tuesday, 21 February from 3.30 to 6.00pm. Drop in between these times to join the YAHAB youth group (and others) to eat (and make) a pancake or more! Lent Groups begin in the week commencing 20 February Please sign up on notice boards in the hall & see the article in the new magazine (p. 13). New Eagle magazine This is available for collection as usual. Anyone who isn’t on the current distribution list is asked to let the Rector know if they would like a copy reserved/delivered. Diocesan Pilgrimage Day to St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow Saturday 24 March for Galloway Region. Please see poster or The Eagle, p. 20, for further details and register with St John’s office (07908 046284) by Monday 12 March. Shared transport may be arranged. Parish retreat: 5-7 October (Friday pm-Sunday pm) at the Franciscan Friary, Alnmouth. Names, as soon as possible, to Raymond Budd please: 01848 331329. Charity support: The First Base Agency Following Mark Frankland’s excellent address last week there is information about the work of this Dumfries agency on the notice boards by the font. Eggs (£1 per half dozen) from its Veterans’ project are again available in the hall. There will be more information next week about how to respond to his food parcel appeal. Open-plate offerings made this Sunday will go towards the First Base Appeal. Pew notices: please send notices such as these for a Sunday by email to the Pew Note editors by the preceding WEDNESDAY. |
