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Contact Online is a Blog for St. Mark's United Church Community of Faith, Region 15 of the United Church of Canada. 504 Bernard Street, Port Hawkesbury, N.S. B9A 1L2, E-mail: stmarksuc@gmail.com St. Mark's United Church accepts and welcomes all people as we share and grow in acceptance, learn, love and share our Christian faith in God's love. Phone: (902) 625-2229, Church Services are held every Sunday at 9:30 a.m.
Thursday 30 July 2015
CONNECT ONLINE WITH GENERAL COUNCIL 42
Saturday 25 July 2015
UNITED IN GOD'S WORK--REPORT OF COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW TASK GROUP
From the report "United in God's Work"
We believe God is doing a new thing and is calling The United Church of Canada to be part of a new creation. The Comprehensive Review, which our task group has been leading since the fall of 2012, is about the church listening and responding to God’s call.After two-and-a-half years of conversations, consultations, research, analysis, and prayer, we offer the following recommendations, which we believe would best enable the church to participate energetically and faithfully in what God is doing. These recommendations would focus our resources on supporting, enlivening, and accompanying communities of faith to live out God’s mission at this moment in our society. They would enable us to continue to come together to witness to the gospel and vision of Jesus Christ. They would create a more flexible and responsive structure that could change and adapt as God continues to create.
These recommendations would also change the church dramatically. But we believe God is calling the church to change boldly and the church is ready to hear that call.
The recommendations will be presented at the 42nd gathering of General Council in August in Corner Brook Nfld. The report and recommendations of the Comprehensive Review Task Group of the United Church of Canada can be found at:
http://252171b255e88fd7c65a-dec189f157202212a76b23fc4d185c40.r92.cf2.rackcdn.com/crtg_report.pdf
ANNOUNCEMENTS SUNDAY JULY 26TH 2015
Participating through leadership in worship this
morning are:
Organist: Al Fougere
Lay Reader: Bob
Downard
Greeter: Malcolm Parsons
Collectors: Sally Fox, Heather Deschenes
OFFICE HOURS:
Monday 9-12 noon, Nan at
St. Mark's
Tuesday 9-12 noon, Nan at
St. Mark's
Wednesday 9-12 noon, Nan
at St. David's
Thursday 9-12 noon, Jane
at St. Mark's
Friday Minister's Day Off, 9-12 noon Jane at St.
Mark's
Food Bank donations received on the last Sunday of
the month.
Upper Room for July-August is available.
Summer
Services: During
the month of:
August –
Service will be held at St. Mark’s at 9:30 a.m. NO Service at St.
David’s.
During July & August - Secretary’s office hours
Thursday & Friday 9:00 am – 12 noon.
You are invited to One More Step, a vacation bible school for ages 5-12, with leadership opportunities for ages 13-15. This will be held August 3-7, at St. Mark’s United Church, Port Hawkesbury. Registration forms are available at the church office and on inverguyunited.ca . The cost is $5.00 per student or $10.00 per family. For more information and/or preregistration contact: 902-756-3455 or 902-631-4325 or visit inverguyunited.ca
ST. DAVID'S ANNOUNCEMENTS
Combined service at St. Mark's at
9:30 a.m. No service at St. David's during the month of August.
ST. MARK'S ANNOUNCEMENTS
Lay
Readers for August:
August 2nd-Joyce Oliver Snair
August 9th-David Chapman
August 16th-Jim Chiasson
August 23rd-Brenda MacInnis
August
30th-Jean MacPherson
5TH SUNDAY, AUGUST 30TH WORSHIP
AT POINT TUPPER HERITAGE CHURCH.
St. Mark's
Courtesy Car: Contact person for the
Courtesy Car is Andy Palmer. His telephone number is 625-2748
50th Anniversary!
In 2016, St. Mark’s will be celebrating
their 50th Anniversary.
50th Anniversary weekend will be June 10th
to 12th, 2016. Have an idea for 50th Anniversary Guest Speaker?
Pass it along.COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
The
Annual Malagawatch Church
service
will be held today, July 26, 3pm at the Iona Historic Site,
in Iona. Special guests will include: Catriona Parsons and the Gaelic
Choir, Ruth Matthews, Harpist; Deb Campbell; Murdo MacLean; and
others yet to be confirmed. Come along and bring friends.
July - 28 Tribute to Buddy MacMaster: Kinnon & Betty Lou, Mary Elizabeth MacInnis & Family
August - 4
Dawn
& Margie Beaton, Brian England, Sabra MacGillivray & Celtic
Touch Dancers
August - 11
Canso Causeway 60th Show
August - 18 Howie MacDonald, Buddy MacDonald, Wendy MacIsaac, Mac Morin
August - 25 Rodney MacDonald, Cyril MacPhee
September - 1 Shelly Campbell, Allan Dewar, Harvey MacKinnon, Broussard Family
September - 8 All Fired Up: Kyle, Keith & Colin MacDonald
September - 15 Anita MacDonald, Ben Miller, Tyson Chen, Decota McNamara
September - 22 Cape Breton Fiddlers
September - 29 Dwayne Cote, Kevin Levesconte, Pat Lamey, Heather Richard
October - 6 Pre Celtic Colours Show
ORDER OF SERVICE JULY 26TH 2015-9TH AFTER PENTECOST
The
Congregations of St. Mark’s and St. David’s
United
Church of Canada
Port
Hawkesbury/Port Hastings, NS
Office:
625-2229, Fax 625-3597, e-mail: stmarksuc@gmail.com
Blog:
http://ourcontactonline.blogspot.com/
Presbytery Website:
inverguyunited.ca
Ministers:
The Whole People of God
Minister: Nan
Corrigan D. M.
Minister of
Music: Al Fougere
July
26th,
2015-9th after Pentecost
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 O God We Call x2, 2nd
time quietly VU 411
Call
to Worship
We are like a vast tree grounded in
your love,
grounded, so when pounded by life’s
uncertainties
we will stay strong.Response after each phrase: Grounded in love…
Pilgrim Prayer
& Opening Prayer
Loving God,
what a privilege it is to be your people, to
be party to the mystery
and power of the spirit, to be at home
in the community of Christ, to
be fed by your generosity, and to
feel grounded in your love. We come
with gladness and joy to
honour you. Amen.
*
Hymn Rejoice, the
Lord is King VU
213
Prayer of
Confession
Concluding confession: We fail to
imagine that honour belongs to those who struggle and those who lose;
those who are quiet; and those with a long, patient view.
Forgive us. Amen.
Words
of Affirmation
We are family with all of Earth. When we
comprehend this, and comprehend the breadth and length and height and
depth of the love of God, we respond by a change of view and a change
of heart. Our view broadens to surpass what we now know and leads us to new and as yet unimagined places. Thanks be to God. Amen.
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
Ephesians
3:14–21 More
than we can ask for or imagine
One: Herein is Wisdom.
All:
Thanks be to God.Psalm 14 Fools say, “There is no God.” VU 735
*Hymn Jesus Loves Me VU 365
Opening the Word/The Lord's Prayer
The Gospel Acclamation
John 6:1–21 Jesus feeds the multitude and walks on
water.
One: Herein is Good News. All:
Praise be to God.
Opening the Word 2
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
* Hymn Come, O Fount of Every Blessing VU 559
Minute for Mission & Offering
Our Gifts to God
*Offering
Song/Doxology Your
Work, O God VU 537
Prayers
of Thanksgiving and Intercession
Consider the words attributed to
American anthropologist Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small
group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world;
indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
Consider what you would change if you had the power, then
conversely consider what power, i.e. skills and expertise, you
would need to create the change.WE GO TO SERVE GOD
* Hymn May the God of Hope Go With Us VU
424
* Commissioning/Sending Out
Travel with the One who by the power at
work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we
can ask or imagine.
Let us travel God’s road with honour, and the deep knowledge
that God dwells in our hearts through faith.*Choral Amen
Saturday 18 July 2015
OUR "PRAYER FISH" IS ON ITS WAY TO GENERAL COUNCIL
Last Sunday during worship we prepared our "Prayer
Fish" to be sent to General Council. A
“prayer fish”, which is like a prayer flag, is intended to carry
our congregations' prayers and hopes for the church at this time.
They will be used to hang vertically in the space where
commissioners, from sea to sea to sea, will gather in Corner
Brook, Newfoundland. The scales of our prayer fish are post-it notes on which we wrote prayers for General Council, the church and the world. It has prayers on both sides and includes the names of both our churches.
We are
invited to say a Pilgrim Prayer out loud each day in the 40 days of
the Prayer Pilgrimage leading up to General Council 42, along with
the specific prayer for the day.
This
prayer was created in 2010 by Allison Rennie and Diane Ransom and
said aloud each day while walking the Camino de Santiago. We
are also invited to pray this prayer during each day of General
Council.
Pilgrim
Prayer
May
I love this day and all that it brings
The dust, stones or mud beneath my feet
The air I breathe, food I eat, water I drink
The dust, stones or mud beneath my feet
The air I breathe, food I eat, water I drink
May
I open my heart to mysteries along the way
Greet fellow pilgrims with welcome and grace
Move lightly and simply through the day
Greet fellow pilgrims with welcome and grace
Move lightly and simply through the day
May
I give thanks for the Earth, our fragile home
For all my relations who have gone before me
And for all who will follow... I am not alone
For all my relations who have gone before me
And for all who will follow... I am not alone
May
the spirit and blessing of the One who is love
- Holy One among us, all around us, and within us -
Be with me today, and surround me with love
- Holy One among us, all around us, and within us -
Be with me today, and surround me with love
ANNOUNCEMENTS SUNDAY JULY 19TH 2015
Participating
through leadership in worship this morning are:
Organist: Al
Fougere
Lay
Reader: Lisa Rhynold
Greeter: Malcolm
Parsons
Collectors: Sally
Fox, Heather Deschenes
OFFICE
HOURS:
Monday 9-12
noon, Nan at St. Mark's
Tuesday 9-12
noon, Nan at St. Mark's
Wednesday 9-12
noon, Nan at St. David's
Thursday 9-12
noon, Jane at St. Mark's
Friday Minister's
Day Off, 9-12 noon Jane at St. Mark's
Food
Bank donations received on the last Sunday of the
month.
Upper
Room for July-August is available.
Summer
Services: During
the month of:
July
– Service will be held at St. David’s at 9:30 a.m. NO
Service at
St. Mark’s.
August
–
Service will be held at St. Mark’s at 9:30 a.m. NO
Service at St.
David’s.
During
July & August - Secretary’s office hours Thursday &
Friday
9:00 am – 12 noon.
We
have a new email address!!
Please make this change
in your list of email contacts. The new
address of the
church office is stmarksuc@gmail.com
You
are invited to One
More Step, a vacation bible school
for ages 5-12,
with leadership opportunities for ages 13-
15. This will be held
August
3-7, at St. Mark’s
United
Church, Port Hawkesbury. Registration forms are available
at
the church office and on inverguyunited.ca . The cost is
$5.00 per
student or $10.00 per family. For more
information and/or
preregistration contact: 902-756-3455 or
902-631-4325 or visit
inverguyunited.ca
ST.
DAVID'S ANNOUNCEMENTS
Lay
Readers:
July
26th - Bob Downard
ST.
MARK'S ANNOUNCEMENTS
5TH
SUNDAY, AUGUST 30TH WORSHIP AT POINT TUPPER
HERITAGE CHURCH.
St.
Mark's Courtesy Car:
Contact person for the Courtesy
Car is Andy Palmer. His telephone
number is 625-2748
FundScrip will resume again sometime in early September
2015.
50th Anniversary!
In
2016, St. Mark’s will be celebrating their
50th Anniversary.
50th
Anniversary weekend will be June
10th to 12th, 2016. Have an
idea for 50th Anniversary
Guest Speaker? Pass it along.
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Come to the Ceilidh at Orangedale United Church
Saturday, July 25th at 7:00 pm
Those sharing their talents will be: Margie MacIntyre, Makayla MacNeil, Sibling's Two, Jessica MacLennan, Shirley MacKeigan, Mac Campbell, Gordon MacLean, Wally Ellison, and John Matthews. Free will donation to the M&S fund of the church. Light lunch will follow concert.
Tuesday
Night Ceilidh (7:30) at the Port Hawkesbury
Civic Centre
presented
by the Port Hastings Historical
Society
Free
Tea/Oatcakes
July
- 21
Kenneth
MacKenzie & Friends
July
- 28
Tribute
to Buddy MacMaster: Kinnon & Betty
Lou, Mary Elizabeth MacInnis &
Family
August
- 4
Dawn
& Margie Beaton, Brian England, Sabra
MacGillivray & Celtic
Touch Dancers
August
- 11
Canso Causeway 60th Show
August
- 18
Howie MacDonald, Buddy MacDonald, Wendy
MacIsaac, Mac Morin
August
- 25
Rodney MacDonald, Cyril MacPhee
September
- 1
Shelly Campbell, Allan Dewar, Harvey
MacKinnon, Broussard Family
September
- 8
All Fired Up: Kyle, Keith & Colin MacDonald
September
- 15
Anita MacDonald, Ben Miller, Tyson Chen,
Decota McNamara
September
- 22
Cape Breton Fiddlers
September
- 29
Dwayne Cote, Kevin Levesconte, Pat
Lamey, Heather Richard
October
- 6
Pre Celtic Colours Show
ORDER OF SERVICE SUNDAY JULY 19TH 2015-8TH AFTER PENTECOST
The Congregations
of St. Mark’s and St. David’s
United Church of
Canada
Port Hawkesbury/Port
Hastings, NS
Office: 625-2229,
Fax 625-3597, e-mail: stmarksuc@gmail.com
Blog: http://ourcontactonline.blogspot.com/
Presbytery Website:
inverguyunited.ca
Ministers: The Whole
People of God
Minister: Nan
Corrigan D. M.
Minister of Music:
Al Fougere
July
19, 2015-8th
after Pentecost
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 O
God We Call x2, 2nd
time quietly VU 411
Call
to Worship
People of God, come
close,
you who have been
far away, draw near.
Christ has broken
down the barriers that separate us from God
and eradicated all
conflict that separated us from each other.
Come close,
together
we will build a house based on reconciliation and love.
Opening Prayer
God
of all, you have brought us so near to you that we can
claim to live
with you in your household. We open our hearts to
your peace, we open
our consciousness to your call to be your
people reconciled and no
longer strangers to one another.
Amen.
*
Hymn The
Church’s One Foundation VU
332
Prayer
of Confession
Each
of you has received a Mpatapo today. It is a West African
symbol of
reconciliation, peacemaking and pacification, and
represents the bond
or knot that binds parties in a dispute to a
peaceful, harmonious
reconciliation. Please use it as a source of
contemplation while the
prayer of confession is offered.
Words
of Affirmation
Trace
your fingers around the Mpatapo design, and while doing so
breathe in
peace and the spirit of reconciliation.
With
peace, Christ has broken down the walls that divide,
we
are reconciled to God and integrated into God’s household
as
forgiven people. This will be our strength as we join
together to
build a loving community of faith. Amen.
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
2
Samuel 7:1–14a David
is not the one to build God’s house.
One:
Herein is Wisdom.
All:
Thanks be to God.
*Hymn It
Only Takes a Spark VU
289
Opening
the Word/The Lord's Prayer
Ephesians
2:11–22 Holy
citizens, members of God’s household.
One:
Herein is Good News. All:
Praise be to God.
Opening
the Word 2
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
* Hymn Tell
Me the Stories of Jesus VU
357
Minute for
Mission & Offering Our Gifts to God
*Offering
Song/Doxology
We
Give You But Your Own
VU 542
Prayers
of Thanksgiving and Intercession
WE GO TO SERVE GOD
*
Hymn Just
a Closer Walk with Thee Printed
*
Commissioning/Sending Out
Take a different
path when you go from here,
take the one that
makes strangers friends,
and aliens fellow
citizens.
Take the one that
overcomes hostilities
and breaks down
dividing walls.
We
go, knowing that God’s spirit of peace goes with us.
*Choral
Amen
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