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
February 15th, 2015
Transfiguration Sunday
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 We
have come at Christ’s own bidding, vs. 1 VU 104
*Call
to Worship
One: Go up to a high mountain, to the
thin place where you can meet God.
All: May we open our senses to
discover God is near.
One: Look over the landscape, look with
discerning eyes.
All: We see the world struggling,
and hear its despair.
One: Listen for the Word – present
and pressing,
All: challenging injustice, urging
compassion, calling for peace. One: Find your place with saints
and prophets and Jesus himself, All: whose lives give inspiration,
whose words encourage and guide.
One: Move through this time of worship
– meeting, looking, listening, preparing.
All: God, send your Spirit to be
with us and show us how to live.
Opening
Prayer
God of light
and glory, may we recognize your glory around us – a sense of the
sacred found in the everyday: in the stories of faith we tell, in the
lives of the people we meet, in the words
we use to speak. May your
majesty and mystery always be within our seeing, close enough for our
hearing, and present in our living. Amen.
*Hymn Joyful,
Joyful We Adore You VU
232
Prayer
for Wholeness Based on Psalm 50:1-6
One:
Our
holy God has spoken (bell
tone) and
proclaimed to the world from east to west. Out of Zion God shines
forth in radiant beauty (bell
tone).
All:
Lord, have mercy.
One:
Our
God comes not in silence (bell
tone),
but
as a consuming fire, a mighty tempest raging all around.
All:
Christ, have mercy.
One:
O Holy One, you summon heaven above and the whole world to judge your
people (bell
tone).
You
say, (bell
tone; pause) “Gather
to me my faithful people, who have covenanted with me.”
All:
Lord, have mercy.
One:
“Let
the heavens declare my faithful justice.”
All:
Surely our God is our judge! (bell
tone)
From
Songs
for the Holy One by
Thomas Barnett and Donald Patriquin. Copyright © 2004 Thomas Barnett
and Donald Patriquin, Wood Lake Publishing Inc. Used by permission.
Words
of Affirmation
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
2 Kings 2:1–12 Elijah is taken up into
heaven.
One: This is the witness of
the Hebrew people. All:
Thanks be to God.
Psalm
50:1–6 God summons the
earth. VU 775
*Hymn This Little Light of Mine
- This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine
- Hide it under a bushel (NO!), I’m gonna let it shine
- Don’t let anyone “whfff” it out, I’m gonna let it shine
- Let it shine in my hometown, I’m gonna let it shine
- See the light spreading round the world, see all the faces shine
The Gospel Acclamation
Mark 9:2–9 The transfiguration of Jesus
One:
The gospel of Jesus Christ. All:
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Opening the Word 2
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
*Hymn This Is God’s Wondrous World VU 296
Minute for Mission
Offering Our Gifts to God
*Offering Prayer
Responding to your blessing on us, O God, and our love for you,
we bring these offerings of our resources, our best efforts, and
ourselves. May we prove faithful to you and to those faithful ones
who have come before us. And may our lives also shine brightly in the
world as evidence of our hope. Amen.
Prayers
of Thanksgiving and Intercession
WE GO TO SERVE GOD
*Hymn Jesus Shall
Reign VU
330
*Commissioning
Let's go in the glory of God
to be the glory of God, shining in the
world.
Let's take the presence of God
with us wherever we go.
Let's go out, sharing God's light
and love.
*Choral Amen
