Worship
Leaders: UCW Members
October 28th, 2012
UCW 50th Anniversary—St. David's
1962-2012
A Service of
Thanksgiving & Celebration of the UCW
Announcements The Work of Church and Community
WE GATHER TO WORSHIP GOD
Welcome and
greeting one another with the Peace of Christ.
One: The peace of Christ be with you. Response:
And with your spirit.
UCW
Purpose:
It is the
purpose of the UCW:
to
unite the women of the congregation
for the total mission of the church, and to provide a medium through which we
may express our loyalty and devotion to Jesus Christ in Christian witness,
study, fellowship and service.
* Call to Worship
One:
We bring to this time, the threads of our history
All :
And we offer them in
remembrance.
One:
We bring to this time the threads of our present story,
All:
And we offer them in celebration.
One:
We bring to this time the threads of our story yet untold.
All: And we offer them
in hope. Let us worship together.
*
Opening Prayer
God of all time, we come to this place and
this time and we meet to offer our praise and our thanksgiving. The past has been lived in your presence,
the present is in your care, and the future is known only to you. We come today honouring fifty years of
witness, study, fellowship and service, and we gather to rejoice in the
wonderful story of the United Church Women.
Be with us today as we celebrate all that has been and all that is yet
to be. In the sure knowledge of your presence we pray. Amen.
* Hymn You Call Us Out VU 569
A Prayer of Celebration
in 3 Voices
One: ...our tapestry of love.
Response:
These are the threads of our common lives,
These are
the threads soft and strong.
Joining
together women near and far,
In
a tapestry of love.
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
2
Chronicles 34:22-28
Monologue--Huldah
One: This is
the witness of the Hebrew people. All:
Thanks be to God.
Psalm
95:1-7 O come, let us sing to God Part 1, VU 814
*Hymn I Am The Light of the World VU 87
Opening the Word/Time with Children & The Lord's Prayer
The Gospel
Acclamation
John
4:1-30, 39-42 Monologue—The Samaritan
Woman
One: The gospel of Jesus Christ. All: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Reflection A history of UCW
at St. David's
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
* Hymn We Are Pilgrims
VU 595
Minute for Mission & Offering Our Gifts to God
* Offering
Song/Doxology Your Work, O
God VU
537
Prayers of
Thanksgiving and Intercession
WE GO TO SERVE GOD
* Hymn We Celebrate our History Back cover
We Celebrate
Our History written by Betty
Radford Turcott for Voices of United Church Women 1962-2002 Used with
permission. (VU331 Tune)
We celebrate our history, rejoice to know our past,
And thank God for those women who to the faith
held fast.
They toiled in God's service, they worshiped,
worked and prayed
and following a vision they journeyed unafraid.
In this a world of turmoil, the call of God we
heed.
And to that call stay faithful, in action, word
and deed.
Thus challenged by our purpose, and struggling
on the way,
We journey where God leads us, toward a better
day.
We look toward the future, and joyfully we go.
With faith into tomorrow the seeds of life to
sow.
We follow still that vision, that will not be denied,
The coming of an Eden where all in love abide.
* Commissioning
*
UCW Benediction:
May the blessing of God Almighty, the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit, rest upon all our work and worship done in His
name. May He give us light to guide us, courage to support us and love to unite
us, now and for evermore.
* Choral Amen
* Choral Amen
