Author Archive: Sue Turley
Bulletin – Sunday, October 22, 2023 – Homecoming
Sunday, October 22, 2023 Homecoming Approach Welcome Acknowledgement to the Territory One: Please join me in an Acknowledgement to the Territory. All: Indigenous peoples, for thousands of years, have walked on this land. We acknowledge the first peoples and their stewardship throughout the ages. The relationship with the land we worship and live on is […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, October 15, 2023 – Creation 6 / World Food Sunday
Sunday, October 15, 2023 Creation 6 / World Food Sunday Approach Welcome Lighting the Christ Candle Jesus is our guiding light. No matter where we are or whatever circumstances in which we find ourselves we are in Christ. We light this candle to remind us of the Light that never goes out. Call to Worship […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, October 8, 2023 – Creation 5 / Thanksgiving Sunday
Sunday, October 8, 2023 Creation 5 / Thanksgiving Sunday Approach Welcome Lighting the Christ Candle Call to Worship One: Shout to God, all the earth: All: worship with gladness and joy! One: Come before God with laughter, All: our maker to whom we belong. One: To the Shepherd who tends us like sheep, All: let […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, October 1, 2023 – Creation 4 / World Wide Communion Sunday
Sunday, October 1, 2023 Creation 4 / World Wide Communion Sunday Approach Welcome Land Acknowledgement One: Please join me in the Acknowledgement to the Territory. All: Indigenous peoples, for thousands of years, have walked on this land. We acknowledge the first peoples and their stewardship throughout the ages. The relationship with the land we worship […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, September 24, 2023 – Creation 3 / Orange Shirt Sunday
Sunday, September 24, 2023 Creation 3 / Orange Shirt Sunday Approach Welcome Land Acknowledgement One: Please join me in the land acknowledgement. All: Indigenous peoples, for thousands of years, have walked on this land. We acknowledge the first peoples and their stewardship throughout the ages. The relationship with the land we worship and live on […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, September 17, 2023 – Creation 2 / Communion
Sunday, September 17, 2023 Creation 2 / Communion Approach Welcome Lighting the Christ Candle One: After darkness and death, there was a resurrected Christ, promising hope, and new life. All: After Noah and family survived the storm, there was a rainbow, promising hope, and new life. One: We will all face times of storms and […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, September 10, 2023 – Creation 1 / Welcome Sunday
Sunday, September 10, 2023 Creation 1 / Welcome Sunday Approach Welcome Call to Worship One: Creator, we come together in community, as one heart and body. All: Braid us together. Let us be bound in love to one another. One: We recognize in community that when one of us struggles, all of us struggle. All: […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, September 3, 2023 – Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Blessing of the School Supplies
Sunday, September 3, 2023 Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Blessing of the School Supplies Approach Lighting the Christ Candle One: We light the Christ candle with great expectations. All: It is a symbol of hope and eternal love. One: We light the Christ candle to acknowledge the One who walks among us. All: The candle […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, August 27, 2023 – Thirteenth After Pentecost
Sunday, August 27, 2023 Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost Approach Lighting the Christ Candle: One: We light this Christ candle as a symbol of Christ’s presence here with us today. But Christ is not just here in this place. Christ is with us always wherever we go. All: May the light of Christ expose us to […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, August 20, 2023 – Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost
Sunday, August 20, 2023 Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost Approach Lighting the Christ Candle: We light this candle as a symbol of the fire that burns in our hearts for the love of God. This flame represents God’s love, power, and nature burning bright in us and shining through us so that our neighbours, and the […]
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Bulletin- Sunday, August 13, 2023 – Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost
Sunday, August 13, 2023 Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost Approach Welcome: Please join me in an Acknowledgement to the Territory: Indigenous peoples, for thousands of years, have walked on this land. We acknowledge the first peoples and their stewardship throughout the ages. The relationship with the land we worship and live on is part of Treaty […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, August 6, 2023 – Tenth Sunday after Pentecost / Communion
Sunday, August 6, 2023 Tenth Sunday after Pentecost / Communion Approach Lighting the Christ Candle Gracious and all loving God, as we light this candle today we hear you call to us across deep waters and dark places. Yours is the light which guides us and the voice which we follow. We pray that you […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, June 25, 2023 – Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday, June 25, 2023 Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Approach Welcome Good morning to all here and those streaming. I would like to thank you for inviting me into your Sunday service. Acknowledgement to the Territory Indigenous peoples, for thousands of years, have walked on this land. We acknowledge the first peoples and their stewardship throughout […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, June 18, 2023 – Third Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday, June 18, 2023 Third Sunday after Pentecost Approach Minute Person Lighting the Christ Candle In any dark space, lighting even on candle breaks the hold that night and darkness has over us and our lives. When we light a candle symbolizing the Spirit’s flame in the world, darkness is transformed into day, despair is […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, June 11, 2023 – Second Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday, June 11, 2023 Second Sunday after Pentecost Approach Lighting the Christ Candle In any dark space, lighting even one candle breaks the hold that night and darkness has over us and our lives. When we light a candle symbolizing the Spirit’s flame in the world, darkness is transformed into day, despair is changed into […]
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