“The Sacrament of the Coffee”

Thanks to those who have indicated that they are willing to help with the arrangements for tea and coffee after the services. The more volunteers we have the easier it is to have a rota of people so if you are able to help, please have a word with Frances Bicket (854478, evenings only)

This will be served in the Newton Hall and will give us the opportunity to continue our fellowship after the service. The tea/coffee/biscuits will be Fairly Traded (that is what we have committed ourselves to as a Fairtrade congregation) and the first Sunday in September will be the start of this venture.

Harvest Sunday 25th September.

After the wonderful day last year when the service was held on West Scryne Farm, a common comment was – how can we beat that?! Well, we are not going to attempt it – but are going to continue some elements of what we did that Sunday in 2010. For example, we are going to have a Soup and Sweet Lunch in the Panbride Hall after the service (suggested donation £3) something we also plan to hold on the last Sunday of most months.

Also on Harvest Sunday, we will be using Christian Aid material relating to Bangladesh and everyone will have the opportunity to make a crab. Another first for Carnoustie Panbride! Want to know more? – then come along to the service in Newton Church on 25th September! The Homecoming Banner which hangs in the Link to the Panbride Hall, will also be a feature of the service. Intrigued? Come along to the service in Newton Church on 25th September! There will also be a retiring offering for our Mission Partners in Bangladesh, James and Linda Pender.

Donations of tins and non perishable foodstuffs will be received in church and taken to the Arbroath Food Project the following day.

BIG DAY OUT

The Presbytery is organising a Big Day Out which will be held in Arbroath on Saturday 17th September from 10am to 5pm. The event will be hosted in Arbroath;Old and Abbey Church and Arbroath: St Andrews which are within walking distance of one another. The cost for the day is £5 and is free for children. There will be something for everyone – from workshops about Eco congregations, the Wild Goose Resource Group of the Iona Community, Story Telling in worship, work with young people and the Bangladesh Link with the Presbytery as examples. There will be trade exhibition material on sale, ranging from Holy Socks to Church of Scotland Councils materials. There will also be a programme running throughout the day for children. Each congregation in the Presbytery has been asked to bring along a display to highlight some of their work. So why not come along and join us for the BIG DAY OUT.

M.S.B.

ROLL AWAY THE STONE is an event on the Sunday of the General Assembly (22nd May) from 1-6pm in Princes Street Gardens. It is shaping up to be a wonderful afternoon of Celebration, Inspiration and Discovery for the whole church family.

Three separate stages and the main avenue running east-west in Princes Street Gardens will host an exciting variety of music, drama, recitals, comedy, stories, puppets, interviews, participative workshops, choirs, contemporary bands, clowns, buskers – all celebrating the Christian message and exhibiting the wide range of the church’s work. Entry to the event is completely free.

Momentum is building!

We’ve heard of congregations hiring buses and planning to make it a church day out. There’s even talk of chartering a train to bring a whole presbytery!

Already more than 360 people in 22 choirs from the borders to the north-east have signed up to sing in the massed choir that will lead the closing act of worship; and we’re well into the teens of the Youth for Christ organised 5-a-side football teams that hope to compete on Sunday 22nd May.

What should we bring to the event?

Bring yourselves, your friends and your church family of course. But also bring:-

A STONE. In fact bring SEVERAL STONES. We’re going to build a cairn at the event with stones from all over Scotland and beyond. Bring one stone to represent your congregation as a whole, one for your Sunday School or Junior Church, your Youth Group, Guild, Boys’ Brigade, Girls’ Brigade, … Why not creatively label your stones and at the end you’ll be asked to take away a different stone and invited to pray for that church, congregation, youth group.

PLASTIC BOTTLES. We are also going to build a church! We will need hundreds of plastic bottles on the day, so that we can build a recycled church in the park. Bring your empty plastic bottles and help the Eco-Congregation project make a big impact – we hope that the Moderator will be able to conduct a service in the ‘building’ before the end of the day!

For more information about the programme and to register your congregation, singers, or 5-a-side football team visit this website: www.rollawaythestone.org.uk

The Minister is a Commissioner to the General Assembly and plans to be at this event. Any folk from Carnoustie Panbride will be made welcome

HARVEST THANKSGIVING 2010.

Well, we DID have a full barn and what a wonderful day it was! Although it was bright there was a chill in the air as about 200 adults and children gathered in the Barn on East Scryne for this service. The Porter family had lined the walls with round bales and it was great to see so many youngsters sitting on the bales during the service. Many folk had brought blankets and picnic chairs for the service and there was a real sense of coming together to give thanks “for all good gifts around us”. There was also a wonderful display of foodstuffs which were taken to the Arbroath Food Project the next morning and a letter of thanks has been received, noting that “some of the bags contained wisps of straw”!

After the service, there was the opportunity for some home made soup and bread and the barn was turned very quickly into a dining room where the different varieties of soup were quickly devoured, although there was sufficient left over for the Youth Group to have some in the evening!

Thanks to everyone who helped in ways great and small to make this a very special service, and one which I think captured the essence of harvest, celebrated as it was in the middle of a working farm with a number of visitors from the area as well as some Polish workers.

MSB

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Our Harvest Thanksgiving Service takes place on Sunday 26^th September and the venue will be East Scryne Farm. It will start at 11.00am. The FOG Squad will be taking part in the service, and although there will be no crèche that Sunday, given the nature of the service and the venue, crèche age children can be with their parents. Following the service there will be the opportunity to continue our fellowship over home made soup and bread. Over the last few weeks, there have been lists at the church door for names of people who will require transport to this service. If you do require transport and have not added your name to a list, please contact your elder whose details appear on the front page of the newsletter. If possible please bring a folding or picnic seat with you.

We are asking that only non-perishable goods are brought to the harvest this year, and these will be distributed to the Arbroath Food Project as we have done in the last two years. Tins of soup, tinned vegetables, pasta, rice, tea, coffee – that kind of thing.

This promises to be a very different service, and we look forward to a full barn on 26^th September!

MSB

HARVEST THANKSGIVING 2010.

This service is always a very special one and over the years there have been many themes and variations. Some will remember the year we built an African Hut around the pulpit in Panbride Church; we have had the theme of Carnoustie; an Alphabet theme; projects to raise money for wells in Malawi, to help with repairs at Tabeetha School, churches in Bangladesh which have run from Harvest to Christmas, and countries around the world where people in the congregation had spent holidays in that particular year, and many more.

This year is going to be a little different. For the first time, probably in the history of the congregation, our Harvest Thanksgiving Service is going to be held on a farm – The details are still to be worked out, but it will be in a shed at East Scryne followed by a soup and bread lunch. It will be held on Sunday 26th September and begin at 11.00am as usual. We will make arrangements for those who need transport, but we would hope that those who have cars might offer lifts to friends who might need transport. We will not need to decorate the area as we will have nature doing the decorating for us. We plan to invite people to bring along donations of tins and non-perishable goods which once again will be delivered to the Food Project in Arbroath.

More details will be available in the August issue of UDATE.

M.S.B.

FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE

We hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year and we are now ready for another year of fundraising.

The first event we are holding is a Coffee/Pancake morning to be held on Saturday, 20th March 2010 from 10:00am until 11:30am in Panbride Hall. Donations of cake and candy, books and prizes for a tombola stall would be greatly appreciated and the hall with be open from 7:00pm until 8:00pm on Friday evening, 19th March to accept these. A good response from the Congregation for this event would give our fundraising a kick start to the year.

The second event for the year is a Charity Shop which was intimated in an earlier edition of Update, has now been finalised and will run from Monday 19th until Saturday 24th April 2010. The location will be confirmed nearer the time but please, if you are Spring cleaning, keep the Charity Shop in mind. Donations of good quality clothes and shoes, bric-a-brac, books, CDs and DVDs and linen would be gratefully received. Unfortunately, we cannot accept items of furniture and electrical goods.

Volunteers are required to man the shop ideally in 2 hour blocks, please Helen Harley on 852640 for more information and availability. More details on the Charity Shop will be announced nearer the time.

BB Sponsored Walk, March 20, 2010.

The walk is to raise funds for repairs to the gable end wall of the BB Hall. Cost of repairs is estimated at £2500.

The distance each of the three sections of the BB will walk will vary according to their age. The older boys will do five miles from Muirdrum and it is hoped all the walkers will arrive at McDonalds at Ethiebeaton around the same time.

Mary Bushnell is also going to take part and walk from Muirdrum. If you would be willing to sponsor her or make a donation her form is at the door of the Church.

If you can help provide transport on the day please speak to Mary or Neil Russell. (Tel 855841.)

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