Welcome to Dalgety Parish Church

at the heart of the community…
… with a heart for the community

Dalgety Parish Church of Scotland is registered as a charity in Scotland, number SC020926

Mending Nets & Sharpening Saws

Last Sundays sermon “Mending Nets and Sharpening Saws” can be viewed and listened to at: www.dalgety-church.co.uk/dpcvideo

Luke 5: 1-11: The fishermen left their nets to follow Jesus…   yet continued at least metaphorically to wash and mend their nets…  as they prepared to be best equipped for the task before them…  are there ‘nets for us to mend’…  as we seek to be followers of Jesus Christ…?

At Dalgety Church we are experimenting with Videoing services…  to enable those unable to attend the church to share in worship…  Comments…  and offers to assist in this ministry and work are welcome…

Holy Communion

Holy Commnunion will be celebrated on Sunday 14 February at 9.30am and 11am.  All welcome.

Family Celebration on 7th March

Children are always welcome at Dalgety Parish Church! On Sunday 7th March, the 11am service will be particularly family friendly. All who have been baptised in the last five years or so and their families are being invited to this special Family Celebration. Other are of course very welcome too.  Do let friends, family and neighbours know about this service.  It will be lively, fun filled and family friendly – will last about half an hour – and will be followed by a buffet party lunch.  All are welcome, no need to book lunch… just talk about it and we’ll get an inkling of numbers to cater for.

 

Sunday 7th February

Worship at 9.30am for a ‘reasonably traditional’ service around the theme of what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ in the 21^st Century, and at 11am when around the same theme there will be a more informal time of worship. Junior Church also meets at 11am and will be in church for the first part of the service before doing their own age specific activities in the halls. Activity bags are available for pre-school children – who are always welcome to be part of the worshipping family of faith. Sound and Vision is relayed to the Hallway, and the Adventurers’ room, where 0 to 5s meet, so that parents and carers with them can follow the worship.

2010 Dates

Of particular interest to elders and officebearers – but all are welcome to have a look – is a list of 2010 dates at www.tinyurl.com/dpc2010

The Worship Schedule for 2010 is available at www.tinyurl.com/dpcworship

Hope this is helpful.

Happy Christmas

It’s Christmas Eve. 7pm Christingle Service at Dalgety Church, Watchnight at 11.30pm – Carols from 11pm. Tomorrow Morning – Half Hour Christmas Morning worship – 10.30am. Hope you have a very happy Christmas time.

E-pistle

On Sunday 13th December, holy communion will be celebrated at 9.30am and 11am services.  In the evening at 6.30pm will be the last of the Advent series of joint services around Forth Churches Group – at North Queensferry Parish Church, Ferryhills Road, North Queensferry.

Each weekday prior to that, Adventurous Space continues – a brief time for peaceful contemplation.  The church will be open…  no formal led worship… just space and a few pointers to guide your thoughts as we journey through Advent.  All welcome 9.30am to 9.50am.

On Saturday 12th in the morning Dalgety Bay Playgroup have their Christmas Fair in the Church Hall – all are warmly invited to come along.  Thanks to all who supported the Church Christmas Fair last Saturday…  still some cash coming in… the total is somewhere around £1500.

On Sunday 20th Bruce Davies, folk singer, will be in concert at Dalgety Parish Church – tickets £5 are available from the Church Office, 824092

Would you be able to assist with our Audio Visual equipment on Sunday mornings?  There are a few gaps in the rota – which you can see on-line at www.tinyurl.com/dpcworship  If you can help please contact me, or come along to the Church on Saturday morning 9am – when we can run through what is required for Sunday.

with all good wishes this Advent

Donald

Christmas Letter from the Minister

Dear friend

Since 1863, Christmas cards have been sent and received. Family, Friends, neighbours, colleagues and acquaintances will express and share millions of Christmas greetings to be delivered through the recipients’ letter boxes. Have you, like me, ever thought it’s really time to take ‘so and so’ off the Christmas Card list!  A school friend, a former flatmate or colleague, a distant cousin…  someone you haven’t seen for years…  and then on reflection you decide that you will still send the card.  Why?  Because however brief and transient your friendship has been – the person had, at some point, made an impact in your life, and you want to remember and celebrate that. Christmas time is a good opportunity to give thanks for those friendships which have been for a reason or a season.  As we journey through life we do so not alone, but in the company of others – and I believe in the company of God.  The message of Christmas is that God was, is and always will be with us.  It’s sometimes said that ‘Jesus is the reason for the season’…  that’s true… but it’s also true that ‘Jesus is not just for Christmas’.

This Christmas time, may you enjoy the friendship, company and support of family and lifelong friends. May the Christmas Cards you send and receive bring you good memories of moments shared with others.  Know that the God who shares our humanity is with you not just this Christmas time but always.

Donald

Advent/ Christmas Sing-a-Long

Would you like an opportunity to come along to the church and go over some of the songs and carols we will be using over Advent and Christmas? Wednesday 2 December at 7.30pm – all welcome at Dalgety Parish Church.

Will this be the Christmas Number One?

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