St Ninian’s Scottish Episcopal Church, Aberdeen NOTICES: SUNDAY 10 JANUARY 2016 PRAYER MATTERS FOR THE NEW YEAR – please pick up a notice from the prayer table beside the candle stands which highlights points for our personal prayers. These will be changed regularly and if you would like to add someone or something which you would like prayer for, please write this on the notepad and leave it on the table. 17 TH – 24 TH January WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY. Services at King’s College Chapel, University of Aberdeen – see separate leaflet – do please come to at least one of the short lunchtime services – Mon to Fri at apart from Wednesday at the normal weekly service time of 5.15pm. Revd Joan is preaching on Thursday. CRAFT GROUP LUNCH – Tuesday 19 January at 1pm in the Brig o’ Don restaurant. Please add your name to the list at the back of the church. All are welcome – you do not need to be a member of the Craft club. The Club meets again on Tuesday 2nd February in the Church at 2pm. Sunday 24th January – THE SERVICE OF ORDINATION to the Priesthood for Revd John Tsukada will be held in St Ninian’s at 2.30pm followed by refreshments. NB: There will be no morning service. CONFIRMATION COURSE – Revd Joan will be offering a Confirmation Course for adults and one for younger people (up to age 16) beginning in February. Details are still to be publicised but if you are interested in coming, please let Joan know as this will help to decide on time and venue. This is also offered as a Refresher course for those of you whose memories of confirmation classes are distant as well as people who would like to support those thinking about being confirmed. Christmas Cards – there are still some cards to be picked up from the table at the back of the church. Please check especially if you have been away over the Christmas season. LENDING LIBRARY – the Vestry has agreed that we should set up a small lending library on the shelf at the back of the church. If you have spiritual or religious books which you would like to offer to this, please can you bring them in. If, in due course, you would like these returned, please mark them clearly on the inside with your name and phone number. FUND RAISING for general church funds – please ask Paul or Janet Lawrence for Smartie Tubes. Take these away and fill them with coins, to be returned when they are full. CONTACT FORMS – if you have not already filled in a contact form, please fill one in today. They are at the back of the church. This will allow us to keep a spreadsheet in compliance with Data Protection Regulations so that Revd Joan or another person with the permission of the Vestry can send out s with important news. It is a good way of keeping in touch and keeping your details up to date. VESTRY UPDATE – WHAT HAPPENED AT THE AGM – HERE’S A WHO’S WHO? OF OUR CURRENT VESTRY Chair, Revd Joan Lyon; In attendance, Revd John Tsukada Secretary, Elizabeth Herlihy; Treasurer – vacant post (Margaret Hodder has agreed to continue to keep the books, pay bills, etc). Lay Representative to the Diocesan Synod: Anne Keenlyside Elected members: Jennifer Holden, Viktor Dongo, Ian Lovegrove, Max Barnish, Rachael Murphy (Student representative), Please note that we are still looking for a new Treasurer. Please contact Margaret Hodder to find out more. The new CHURCH PHONE NUMBER IS There is an ansaphone on this line. If calls are urgent, please phone Reverend Joan on