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June July
August 2001
Ferryhill
Beyond 2000
IT'S OFFICIAL - the new title of our on-going fund-raising project is
FERRYHILL BEYOND 2000. It is the successor to Ferryhill Towards 2000, which successfully got us to the stage when the building work required for our Millennium development could be undertaken. The resulting Foyer, Atrium and Kitchen have transformed the role of the Church in the local community and been universally admired. Ferryhill Towards 2000 raised over £160,000, but the work could only be completed thanks to a loan of £90,000 from the Church of Scotland. The priority task of
FERRYHILL BEYOND 2000 is to raise funds to pay off that loan.
HAZEL BRAYNION has agreed to be Convener of the Ferryhill Beyond 2000 fund-raising task group. This is a good point to thank Mary Notman for the vast amount of work she did for Ferryhill Towards 2000. Mary is taking a break from some of her other responsibilities at this time. Rae Leslie takes over the distribution of Life & Work magazine. The Coffee Shop committee has appointed Cyril & Edna Sainsbury to run the volunteer rota, Moira Whyte and Ida Scott to be responsible for purchasing, and Mary Fraser to act as treasurer.
SO OFF WE GO with two fund-raisers in June. On Saturday 2nd June there will be a mini-sale (outside if possible) from 10am to 12 noon with bedding plants, bric-a-brac, books and baking - donations of baking gratefully received from 9am. Three weeks later on Saturday 23rd June we have our first ever Table Sale from 9am to 12 noon. This is an indoor version of a Car Boot Sale. You hire a table for £5 and all the takings from your sales belong to you. In addition the coffee shop will be open and there will be baking, bric-a-brac and book stalls. Admission 20p. Finally make a diary note that a family fun evening based on a Beetle Drive is to be held on Friday 17th August.
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New
Probationer Assistant Minister
WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING NORMAN NICOL as our Probationer Assistant Minister. Norman is due to be licensed by Aberdeen Presbytery on 28th June and will be joining us after the summer.
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MESSAGE FOR THE MONTH
Dear Friends,
I write in the middle of the election campaign for the Westminster Parliament. There is much talk of voter apathy and voter alienation. Recent demonstrations in London and in other cities around the world on May Day were an expression of how many people feel helpless in the face of the power and influence exerted over human affairs by multinational corporations with global interests. Many of these have budgets well in excess of those of many nations. Decisions taken in New York or London or Tokyo can put thousands of people out of work in countries thousands of miles away. Even more powerful governments like our own are still to some extent at the mercy of such powerful global economic forces. Those who make these decisions affecting the lives of thousands even millions have never been elected by anyone except perhaps some shareholders who have their own interests at heart. Many suspect that the recent decision taken by President George W Bush to allow oil drilling in an environmentally fragile area of Alaska is his way of rewarding the oil companies who gave large donations to his campaign fund. The environment is indeed one area in particular where many people feel that the concern of the ordinary inhabitant of the earth, if it is being heard at all, is not being adequately addressed by their governments. Again it is felt that powerful economic and commercial interests have greater and more decisive clout.
In these and in many other ways ordinary people feel that they have no direct control over what happens in their communities and countries and therefore feel that casting their vote changes little. I believe that the majority of politicians in our own country are honest, hard working people who, from their own particular political perspective, want to change thing for the good of all. Yet they too must feel these same frustrations. The fact is that we do live in a global economy. What our politicians have to do is to make sure the working of that economy is regulated for the benefit of the majority and not the powerful few. That is a recurrent theme running through the Bible. On the one hand this will mean more international co-operation; on the other it must also mean evolving political opportunities at the local and national level where ordinary people can exert a real influence on decision-making. It is important therefore not to give up on the political process. It may be that there is no one political party that exactly represents all our own views but we can choose the one that meets more or most of them. We do after all have a choice in this country and we should always remember how hard won the universal right to vote was.
The image of the Kingdom of God which Jesus proclaimed has unavoidable political overtones concerned as it is with the poor, the oppressed, the socially excluded, the sick, the disabled and the refugee. The measure of how well such people are treated is surely the mark of a civilised society, indeed a civilised world. Sometimes we can feel frustrated at the rate of progress towards the fulfilment of the Kingdom; there is indeed a sense in which it will, given human fallibility, never be fully achieved. But we can take steps in the right direction towards it. We should, therefore, assess which of the parties we feel helps us to do that and cast our vote accordingly, for cast out vote we most certainly should!
Ian Dick
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Funerals
Beatrice Clark Craigielea
Gardens. (Countesswells ACT)
on 30.04.01
Flora Buchan Bank Street, (Abbotsford ACT)
on 10.05.01
Services
SERVICES IN JUNE
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Sunday 3rd June (Pentecost)
11 a.m. Worship for all ages.
Sacrament of Holy Communion
Sunday Gang and Crèche.
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Sunday 10th June
11 a.m. Worship for all ages.
Sunday Gang and Crèche.
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Sunday 17th June
The Kirk Session will meet at 10.30 a.m.
11 a.m. Worship for all ages.
Sacrament of Holy Baptism
and Confirmation.
Sunday Gang and Crèche.
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Tuesday 19th June
12.10 p.m. Mid-week service
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Sunday 24th June
11 a.m. Worship for all ages.
Sunday Gang Promotion.
Sacrament of Holy Baptism
Crèche.
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Friday 29th June
10.45 a.m. Ferryhill School closing service.
Tuesday lunch-time services
will continue throughout the summer at 12.10 pm on 19th June, 17th July and 21st August.
Services in Residential Homes
Wednesday 6th June 11.00am Cowdray Club
Sunday 24th June 2.30pm Maryfield and Devanha Gardens
SERVICES
IN JULY AND AUGUST
There will be one service only at
10.00am with coffee afterwards.
The theme for these services will be Story Telling in Church. In preparation for these services a series of discussion evenings, some with specially invited speakers, has been arranged. The first four are in June (all at 7.30pm): Thursdays 7th and 14th and Wednesdays 20th and 27th which anyone is welcome to attend especially those who would be interested in helping prepare and lead the summer services. Watch out for details of further meetings in pew
leaflets.
Sunday 5th August
The service will include Holy Communion
and be suitable for all ages.
Sunday 12th August
The service will be lled by children of Summer Club.
SERVICES
IN SEPTEMBER
2nd 11.00am Worship for all ages.
Sunday Gang resumes. Crèche
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MUSIC AT FERRYHILL
Saturday 2nd June at 12.00
Lunchtime Concert by members of Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
Friday 8th June at 7.30 p.m.
Concert for the Scottish Bible Society with Children from Midmar School and The Acclamations
Friday 29th June at 7.30pm
Colin Hunter, Tracy Brown and Isabella Pillath play music by Mozart, Schumann and Bruch.
In aid of Woodend Hospital
Saturday 4th August at 7.30 p.m.
Aberdeen International Youth Festival Concert by Stord Ungdomskor (Norwegian choir)
[Check the
Music Page for more information]
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SUMMER EVENTS
June
7th Discussion Group
(also on 14th, 20th, 27th)
9th Summer Social
13th Congregational Board
20th Line Dancing (also on 27th)
21st Summer Club Planning
25th Joint meeting of Kirk Session and Board
28th Coordinating Committee
July
5th Summer Club Planning
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NEWS FROM THE SUNDAY GANG
Our Picnic and sponsored "Bikes & Blades" event for Christian Aid will take place in the Duthie Park on Sunday 17th June from 10.45am to 12.20pm.
This year's Promotion Service will be held on Sunday 24th June.
We are collecting Evening Express Children 2000 Tokens - please cut them out and hand them in to church. Also bring
used postage stamps for the Guide Dogs for the Blind appeal.
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| Summer
Club
The Summer Club funs every morning from 6th to 12th August. The theme this year is
Music.
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| All primary age children are welcome to enjoy games, crafts, music. Adults who would like to share in the fun are invited to planning meetings on 21st June, 5th July, 26th July, 2nd August. All at 7.30pm in the Upper Room. |
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MORE DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Saturday 16th June Sponsored Climb of Benachie to raise funds for a new van for NET, a partnership of charities including North East Aid, Good News Ministries, Far and Wide, Oasis Night Centre, Aberdeen City Mission, Prison Fellowship, Crisis Pregnancy Centre, Open Door Ministries. Contact: Hector Mackenzie, tel 897560.
Tuesday 19th June 'Scotfest' outreach event in Newhills Church, Bucksburn. Linked to Scotfest 2001 at SECC Glasgow 23 June, a major Christian event for women. Main speaker Kay Arthur from USA. Contact: June Buchan, tel 01224 867444, web
Saturday 23rd June 'Against the tide'
- Operation Mobilisation Christian Festival, 12 noon - 9 pm, Thainstone Centre, Inverurie. Main Speaker: Peter Maiden; bible teaching; choice of seminars; mission stands; creche and children's programme. 7-9pm Sundown celebration.
View the whole
Events Diary
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Published by
Ferryhill Parish Church Aberdeen
editor@ferryhillpc.org.uk
www.ferryhillpc.org.uk
Minister: Revd Ian Dick (01224-586933)
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