Worship
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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Worship Service – September 10, 2023
Welcome Sunday! Thank you to all in leadership this week: Executive Team – Caitlyn Trias, Alan Davis, Howard Ashdown, John Lwiwski, Dorothy Read Live Stream – Doug Waldron Music Leadership – Laura Steidl, Myrna Hagues, singers from the Worship Choir & Harmony Singers Click below for a recording of this week’s service: See the bulletin […]
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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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Notes on the Notes – September 10, 2023
First Sunday in the Season of Creation Welcome Sunday! This week’s music: “Let Us Build a House (All are Welcome)” (MV #1) “Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live, a place where saints and children tell how hearts learn to forgive. Built of hopes and dreams and visions, […]
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