Worship
Notes on the Notes – October 15, 2023
World Food Sunday This week’s music: “Give Thanks, My Soul, for Harvest” (VU #522) “Give thanks, my soul, for harvest, for store of fruit and grain, But know the owner gives so that we may share again. Where people suffer hunger, or little children cry, With gifts from God’s rich bounty may thankfulness reply. Give thanks, […]
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Worship Service – October 8, 2023
Creation 5 Thanksgiving Sunday “Prayers, Beautiful and Otherwise” Thank you to all in leadership this week: Liturgist – Dorothy Read Pulpit Supply – Sue Turley Live Stream – Doug Waldron Music Leadership – Sue Turley, Flo Olson, Eleanor Lwiwski, Courtney Maertens, Laura Steidl and Myrna Hagues After Church Coffee Time – Maxine Pattle Click below […]
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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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Notes on the Notes – October 8, 2023
Thanksgiving Sunday Fifth Sunday of the Season of Creation This week’s music: “We Praise You, O God” (VU #218) The title for our hymn book, Voices United, comes from the third stanza of this hymn. The words were written by Julia Cory in 1902 at the request of the organist, for a Thanksgiving service at Brick Presbyterian Church in […]
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Worship Service – October 1, 2023
Creation 4 World Communion Sunday “Where God Leads God Provides” Thank you to all in leadership this week: Executive Update – Howard Ashdown Liturgist – Alana Davis Pulpit Supply – Millie Lewis Communion Sacramental Elder – Jan Nazarko Live Stream – Doug Waldron Music Leadership – Courtney Maertens, Laura Steidl, Myrna Hagues Click below for […]
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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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Notes on the Notes – October 1, 2023
World Communion Sunday This week’s music: “Creator God, You Gave Us Life” (MV #27) “Creator God, you gave us life, your image formed within our souls, Yet through the mist of time and space, we search for that which makes us whole. In every flower and every tree, we see your great diversity, Yet greater still […]
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Creation Connection
October 22, 2023 The Seventh Generation Principle is based on an ancient Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) philosophy that the decisions made today should result in a sustainable world seven generations into the future. The first recorded idea of the Seventh Generation Principle dates back to the writing of The Great Law of Haudenosaunee Confederacy, written somewhere between […]
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Worship Service – September 24, 2023
Creation 3 Sunday Before National Day of Truth & Reconciliation “What is Fair?” to “What is Enough?” Thank you to all in leadership this week: Pulpit Supply – Susan Spindler Liturgist – Anne Thoroughgood Live Stream – Doug Waldron Music Leadership – Laura Steidl, Myrna Hagues, singers from the Worship Choir After church fellowship – […]
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A Time Called…Creation Time
Creation Time (also called The Season of Creation) falls within the season of Pentecost. In the United Church it begins the Sunday after Labour Day and continues through Thanksgiving Sunday. It’s a chance to celebrate what it means to be Church against the real, urgent and increasing threat of climate and other environmental crises. It’s […]
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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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Notes on the Notes – September 24, 2023
Third Sunday of Creation Sunday Before Orange Shirt Day/National Day of Truth & Reconciliation This week’s music: “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah” (VU #651) “Guide me, O though great Jehovah, pilgrim through this barren land. I am weak, but thou art mighty, hold me with thy powerful hand. Bread of heaven, bread of heaven, feed […]
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Worship Service – September 17, 2023
Second Sunday in the Season of Creation Communion Sunday Thank you to all in leadership this week: Pulpit Supply – Rev. Ken DeLisle Liturgist – Edna Erickson Live Stream – John Lwiwski Music Leadership – Laura Steidl, Myrna Hagues, singers from the Worship Choir & Harmony Singers After church fellowship – Maxine Pattle Click below […]
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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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Notes on the Notes – September 17, 2023
Second Sunday of the Season of Creation Communion This week’s music: “God is Here” (VU #389) “God is here! As we your people meet to offer praise and prayer, May we find in fuller measure what it is in Christ we share. Here, as in the world around us, all our varied skills and arts […]
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