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: stmarks1@eastlink.ca
Ministers: The Whole People of
God
Minister: Nan Corrigan D. M.
Minister of Music: Al Fougere
July
6th,
2014-4th
Sunday 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 Silent Procession and Pouring of Water
*Call
to Worship
One:
Come,
kneel beside God’s well.
All:
We come, ready to experience the waters of encounter.
One:
Come,
kneel beside God’s well.
All:
We are ready to feel the flowing transformation of living water.
One:
Come,
kneel beside God’s well – a sacred place of love found and lost.
All:
We are here to experience God’s presence in our midst; we are here
to worship and celebrate the love found within this community.
One:
Come,
friends! Feel God’s cleansing and refreshing waters.
*Hymn: Come
In, Come In and Sit Down VU
395
Opening Prayer
Gracious God, you meet us in the most unexpected
of places; in the moments when your presence seems to have
disappeared; in the eyes of a stranger; in the experiences that make
us feel the most uncomfortable; in abundance that is found amidst
perceived desolation. We come to worship today, giving thanks for the
gift of encounter. Through your Spirit’s movement in our lives and
in this time together, may our hearts be torn open to your call in
our lives, so that we may be stirred to go out and transform your
world. Amen.
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
Genesis
24:34–38, 42–49, 58–67 Rebekah
is found as a wife for Isaac.
This is the witness of the Hebrew people. All: Thanks be to
God.
Psalm: Psalm 45 VU 769
*Hymn Jesus
Loves Me VU 365
Opening the Word
& The Lord’s Prayer
The Gospel Acclamation
Matthew
11:16–19, 25–30 My yoke is easy; my burden is light.
This
is the gospel of Jesus Christ. All:
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Reflection
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
* Hymn: Just
a Closer Walk with Thee Printed
Minute for Mission & Offering Our Gifts to God
*Offering
Prayer
Use
these gifts, O God, to bring rest, renewal, and refreshment to those
people and places that need it most. Take our talents and our dreams,
our laughter and our singing, our tears and our anxieties -- use them
all to bring your season of new life to fullest bloom. Amen.
Prayers of Thanksgiving
and Intercession
You
are invited to cup your hands together in your lap as though holding
your cares and concerns.
One:
…you invite the weary to come, O God.
Response: I give you my
cares and concerns (while
lifting hands)
and I take your love upon me (fold
arms over chest).
WE GO TO SERVE GOD
* Hymn: All
the Way My Saviour Leads Me VU
635
*
Commissioning and Benediction
One: From this time of sacred rest God invites us to go,
refreshed
and renewed, stronger and wiser.
All:
From this time of sacred rest, we go now,
bearing
a yoke that is easy
and
leaving behind the troubles that belong to God.
Let us go in peace.
*Choral
Amen
