United Church of Canada
Port
Hawkesbury/Port Hastings, NS
Office:
625-2229, Fax 625-3597, e-mail: stmarks1@eastlink.ca
Ministers:
The Whole People of God
Ministers:
Nan Corrigan D. M.
Minister
of Music: Al Fougere
October 5th, 2014—Creation Time 4—World
Communion
Announcements The
Work of Church and Community
WE GATHER TO WORSHIP GOD
Greeting
One:
The peace of Christ be with you. All: And with your spirit
*Introit Draw the
Circle Wide
Draw the circle wide. Draw it wider still. Let this be our song, no one
stands alone, standing side by side. Draw the circle wide. (x2)
*Call to Worship (Based on Psalm 19, with interpretative actions)
*Opening Prayer (from Worship for All Ages © 2005 Wood Lake Publishing Inc.)
One: Holy One, Creator of all,
gather your human family around your table.
Set a place for us and make room for everyone.
All:
Help us to remember Jesus
and
celebrate his feast of bread and wine.
Give
us communion and community
with the whole world you love. Amen.
*Hymn Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty VU 315
Prayer for Wholeness
All: Creator God, you have outlined
ten
ways the world could flourish,
ten
ways to have full lives,
ten
ways to respect and honour the earth.
But they have become:
ten
ways we’ve failed to live,
ten
ways we’ve cheapened life,
ten ways we’ve abused you and all creation.
We admit to the failure
but
we hold to your way of wisdom for the world.
Enable us to see them as
ten
ways to love each other,
ten
ways to promote wholeness and harmony,
ten ways to open up your realm. Amen.
Words of Assurance
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
Exodus 20:1–4, 7–9,
12–20 The Ten Commandments
One: Here is Wisdom. All: Thanks be to God.
Psalm 19 The heavens declare the glory of God. VU 740
Opening the Word & The Lord’s
Prayer
The Gospel Acclamation
Matthew 21:33–46 The unscrupulous tenants of the
vineyard.
One: Here is Good News. All:
Praise be to God.
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
Minute for Mission & Offering Our Gifts to God
*Offering Prayer
Understanding God, we commit
ourselves to the courageous task of caring for creation, including plants,
animals, and humans. May these gifts be used to bring about new possibilities
for all you care about. We present them to you, thankful for love, compassion,
and hope. Amen.
Written by Laura Turnbull, Penticton
U.C., Penticton, B.C.
Gathering, Pentecost 2 2104, page 28.
Used by permission.
*Hymn All Who Hunger VU
460
Sacrament of Communion Insert, cover of Voices United
Distribution Hymn One Bread, One Body VU
467
WE GO TO SERVE GOD
*Hymn Go to the World VU
420
* Commissioning and Benediction
All:
In Christ there is no east or west, no south or north, no division.
One: Go into your world, join hands and hearts with all creation, all your neighbours, all children of God.
*Choral Amen
One: Go into your world, join hands and hearts with all creation, all your neighbours, all children of God.
