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
Sunday June 25th 2017
As we gather today to worship, let us pause to remember that in this region we live and work and worship on lands that are, by law, the unceded territories of the Wabanaki peoples—predominantly the lands of the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, and Passamaquoddy. May we live with respect on this land, and live in peace and friendship with its people.
Announcements The Work of Church and Community
WE GATHER TO WORSHIP GOD
Greeting:This is the day the Lord has made:
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Call to Worship
We have been created in the image of God.We are created to love our brothers and sisters, all children of God.
Christ has taught us how to love one another
And we are called to share that love with the world.
The Holy Spirit moves in us, giving us gifts to do God’s work.
The Spirit moves us like the wind in the trees.
We go where God is leading us.
Follow Jesus, and the Spirit will show us the way.
We have gathered to worship God.
We have come seeking comfort,
inspiration, community, and insight.
We have come to open ourselves
to the power of God’s presence in our midst.
We have come to offer up the seasons
and the turnings in our lives,
and to ask God’s help in our learning and in our growing.
As we gather for worship we turn to those next to us and share the peace of Christ.
One: The peace of Christ be with you. All: And with your spirit.
Opening Prayer
Wondrous God:you touch our lives with healing and with justice;
new life is your gift.
We praise you for the Good News
which is ours through Jesus Christ.
May this time of worship nourish us
with your promise of meaning and purpose.
May we be empowered to carry your goodness
into the coming week.
We pray in Jesus’ name, our Source and Saviour.
Hymn Holy Spirit, Hear Us VU 377
Prayer of Confession
Come Holy Spirit and fill us.
Come, Holy Breath and live in us
Come, Holy Wind and move through us
Where we are guided by prejudice, fill us with love.
Where we are guided by pessimism, fill us with joy
Where we are guided by misunderstanding fill us with peace
Where we are guided by superficial quick fixes, fill us with patience.
Where we are guided by self interest, fill us with kindness.
Where we are guided by apathy, fill us with goodness.
Where we are guided by convenience, fill us with faithfulness.
Where we are guided by complacency, fill us with meekness.
Where we are guided by temptation, fill us with self control.
Come Holy Spirit, fill us
Come Holy Breath, live in us.
Come Holy Wind, move through us. Amen.
LISTENING FOR GOD’S WORD
One: Herein is Wisdom. All: Thanks be to God.Genesis 21:8-21
Psalm 86 p 803
*Hymn Lift High the Cross VU 151
Opening the Word/The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 10:24-39
Herein is Good News. All: Praise be to God.Message
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
• Hymn Now Thank We All Our God VU 236
Minute for Mission & Offering Our Gifts to God
*Offering Song/Doxology Your Work, O God VU 537
Offering Prayer
Steadfast God, we offer these gifts as a sign and symbol of our love for you, and as our commitment to live as your people. Through us may these gifts encourage compassion for all, for it is in giving that we receive. In the name of Christ we pray. AmenPrayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession
GO TO SERVE GOD
* Hymn Let All Things Now Living VU 242
• Commissioning/Sending Out
As a people we are called to live in community,We go out to support our neighbours, friends and strangers, that all may live together in harmony.
As people who live in turbulent times,
We go out trusting in you, O God, a solid foundation on which we stand.
As those who live in your world along with millions of other brothers and sisters,
We go out to look for God in the world, and to reveal God in the world.
Go with God who is Creator, Saviour, Spirit.
The Three-in-One who is with us always.
