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
September
27th,
2015-Creation Time: Mountain Sunday
Thoughts around
which to gather as we worship: It
is estimated that in about 50,000 years you will be able to visit the
Hawaiian Island of Loihi. It is southeast of the island of Hawaii,
and is still some 975 metres / 3,000 feet underwater. Loihi is a
volcano, slowly spewing lava from deep inside the earth, and the
lava is forming a new land. Even as parts of our planet may be dying,
new life – and new land – are forming. God is always doing
something new. God is always creating.
Seasons
of the Spirit™ SeasonsFUSION
Season of Creation Pentecost 2 2015
Copyright
© Wood Lake Publishing Inc. 2014,
p 71
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 O
Great Earth
O Great Earth so green and so blue,
this is the promise that I’ll make to you: To care for your
mountains, for mountains can hear the rhythm of your heartbeat. Words
unknown, tune Linnea Good.
Copyright
© 1995 Borealis Music. Used by permission.
Call
to Worship
One: Come,
let us go up to God’s mountain.
All: It is a
place of joy for the whole world!
One: God’s
mountain is a place of safety and security.
All: It is a
place of joy for the whole world!
One: On
God’s mountain we renew our strength, ready to serve God another
day.
All: It is a
place of joy for the whole world!
One: Come,
let us go up to God’s mountain.
All: Come,
let us worship God!
Opening
Prayer
Creator
God, you have promised to create a new heaven and a
new earth. You
have promised to forget the past and to offer
us a new and bright tomorrow. May we embrace it – both the
us a new and bright tomorrow. May we embrace it – both the
blessing and the challenge.
May we find, in all aspects of life,
the beauty of your presence, and
may we find ourselves
empowered to proclaim your glory and truth to
all creation.
Amen.
*
Hymn Sing To The
Mountains Printed
Prayer for
Wholeness
Assurance
of Love
Hear these words
from the apostle Paul: “I am convinced that nothing can separate us
from God’s love in Christ Jesus: not death, or life, not angels or
rulers, not present things or future things, not powers or height or
depth, or any other thing that is created.” Thanks
be to God! Amen.
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
Isaiah
65:17–25 No hurt or destruction
on God's holy mountain.
One:
Herein is Wisdom.
All:
Thanks be to God.
Psalm 48 Fair
and lofty is God's holy mountain. VU 772
*Hymn Sing
A New Song Printed
Opening the Word/The Lord's
Prayer
The Gospel Acclamation
Mark
16:14–15 Proclaim the Good News
to the whole creation.
Opening the Word 2
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
* Hymn: Go to the World VU 420
Minute for Mission & Offering
Our Gifts to God
*Offering
Prayer
We
come to your mountain, loving God, bringing our gifts. We offer
ourselves as servants of all your creation – voices to challenge
injustice and destruction, hands to hold one another up, feet to walk
and stand with any who feel they have no hope. Use us, and our gifts,
to do your will. Amen.
Prayers
of Thanksgiving and Concern
May
we do your will, I pray. All:
We pray with all creation.
WE GO TO SERVE GOD
* Hymn May
the God of Hope Go with Us VU 424
* Commissioning and Blessing
Friends, go out into the world –
God’s world, our world – and share the love of God. Dare to
proclaim the good news of God’s extravagant love to every living
creature, that all of God’s creation might celebrate the presence
of our Creator in our midst. And know that the God who made you will
be with you, always.
*Choral Amen
