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
Presbytery
Website: inverguyunited.ca
Ministers:
The Whole People of God
Nan
Corrigan D. M.
Minister
of Music: Al Fougere
Accompanist:
Margie MacIntyre
January 18th, 2015
2nd
Sunday after Epiphany
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 Refrain of Here
I Am, Lord VU 509
*Call
to Worship
One:
Come,
listen for the word of the one who has searched you and known you.
All:
We are ready to listen.
One:
Come,
discover the one who is acquainted with all your ways and sees your
potential.
All:
We are ready to listen.
One:
Come,
meet, as if for the first time, the one who greets our discouragement
with hope.
All:
We are ready to listen.
One:
Come,
open your hearts to the one in whom heaven and earth are united, and
offers the transforming vision of God’s love and justice.
All:
Here we are. We are ready to listen. We are ready to follow.
Opening
Prayer
One:
Weaver
of life, you knit together the fragments of our days into a garment
of beauty.
All:
Take our joys and sorrows and create a pattern with them where your
love shines.
One:
Weaver
of life, you take our individual stories, our successes and our
failures, and make of us a community in which your grace is revealed.
All:
Use our diverse gifts and talents to create a quilt of radical
hospitality and welcome.
One:
Weaver
of life, you are the thread running through all creation, all people,
all that exists.
All:
Give us the vision to see beyond the torn and tattered fabric of
conflict, division, and exploitation, so that we may see the glory of
your presence in all of life.
One:
Weaver of life, you wrap us in the garment of your love and justice,
calling us to follow you.
All:
We are knit together in your love, stitched together in your grace,
bound together by your justice. Amen.
*Hymn When
We Are Living VU
581
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
1 Samuel 3:1–10 Samuel
answers, “Here I am.”
One: This is the witness of
the Hebrew people. All:
Thanks be to God.
Psalm 139 God
has searched and known me. VU
861
*Hymn I'm
Gonna Live So God Can Use Me VU
575
Opening the Word & Lord’s Prayer
John
1:43–51 Jesus calls Philip and
Nathanael.
One:
The gospel of Jesus Christ. All:
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Opening the Word 2
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
*Hymn O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee VU 560
Minute for Mission
Offering Our Gifts to God
*Offering Prayer
All of life
is in your hands, O God. We are blessed when a small portion is
entrusted to our care. Fill us with gratitude and enhance our
generosity that, as a community, we may live out the values, hope,
and promise that we proclaim. Amen.
Prayers
of Thanksgiving and Intercession
One:
From the
morning dawn to the setting sun,
in the brightness of a sunlit day
to the darkness of a starless night,
you are present, O God.
Even when it seems to us you are an illusion,
a mere figment of our desperation,
you come to us with the assurance you have been with us,
you are with us, you will always be there.
Even when it seems to us you are an illusion,
a mere figment of our desperation,
you come to us with the assurance you have been with us,
you are with us, you will always be there.
All:
Stir us with the hope of your vision for our world.
One:
From the
Americas to Asia, from Africa to Europe,
from the smallest island to islands that are continents in themselves
your love is as deep as the oceans, as high as the mountains,
there is nothing that exists outside of your care.
The echoes of creation are calling us to be stewards of Earth,
to be voices for the oppressed, to be lovers of all whom you love.
from the smallest island to islands that are continents in themselves
your love is as deep as the oceans, as high as the mountains,
there is nothing that exists outside of your care.
The echoes of creation are calling us to be stewards of Earth,
to be voices for the oppressed, to be lovers of all whom you love.
All:
Empower us by the vision you place on our hearts.
One:
From the
cathedrals of power to small out-of-the-way
communities of prayer,
from large metropolitan areas to villages reached
by dusty dirt roads, you raise up prophets to speak a word of justice
undeterred by present realities,
looking only to the promise you have placed on their hearts.
communities of prayer,
from large metropolitan areas to villages reached
by dusty dirt roads, you raise up prophets to speak a word of justice
undeterred by present realities,
looking only to the promise you have placed on their hearts.
All: Strengthen us with your vision
that we may be prophets of your love in word and deed. Amen.
that we may be prophets of your love in word and deed. Amen.
WE GO TO SERVE GOD
*Hymn Be Thou My
Vision VU
642
*
Sending Out & Blessing
One:
Go forth from this place as truth
tellers, unafraid to name the challenges we face.
All:
We have heard the voice of the One who sees us as we are, our
brokenness and our potential.
One:
Go forth with a renewed vision to
guide you, with hope in your heart, ready to be agents of God’s
transforming love.
All:
We have heard God calling. We are ready to follow the One in whom
heaven and Earth continue to meet.
*Choral Amen VU 967
