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
October 4th, 2015-Creation Time:
Worldwide Communion
Thoughts
around which to gather as we worship:
Today we celebrate Communion with followers of Jesus
the world over. We owe this to someone named Jesse Bader, who spent his whole
life working to get Christians to worship and work together. Almost 60 years
ago, he started this idea of all Christians everywhere celebrating Communion on
the same Sunday, no matter where they lived or what denomination they belonged
to. His dream came true, and today we can celebrate Worldwide Communion Sunday
as one big family of those who love and follow Jesus!
The Whole People of God, 1-4 © Wood Lake Publishing
October 4, 2015
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 Creation, for Creation can hear the rhythm of your heartbeat.
Words
unknown, tune Linnea Good.
Copyright
© 1995 Borealis Music. Used by permission.
Call to Worship
One: Bread and wine join us together,
All:
for praise and prayer, for friendship and service in this congregation of
Christ's people.
(We
pause and think about our local congregation friends.)
One: Bread and wine join us together,
All:
with pastoral charges working carefully and justly in Inverness Guysborough
Presbytery and Maritime Conference.
(We
pause and think about our friends in this presbytery and Conference.)
One: Bread and wine join us together,
All:
with faith communities worldwide, especially those supported by Mission and
Service.
(We
pause and think about the churches of our community, family and friends, inside
and outside of Canada.)
One: Bread and wine join us together, to Christ the
True Vine,
All:
we are called to the way of discipleship, to support each other and to serve
the vulnerable.
(We
pause and think about our discipleship.) Amen.
Written by David Sparks, Wesley U.C., Thunder Bay,
Ont.
Gathering, Summer/Autumn 2006, page 48. Used with permission.
Opening Prayer
Source of our hope and joy of our hearts, we gather in union with
people from the far corners of our world, thankful that your love is able to
overcome all that divides us from one another. We gather as disciples of Jesus
to share the mystery of faith as we unite with one another and with your people
everywhere. Feed us by your life-giving Spirit as we break bread and remember
the story of our faith. Amen.
Written by Dianne Astle,
Chemainus-Crofton P.C.& Cedar U.C., Chemainus, B.C. Gathering, Summer/Autumn 2006, page 48. Used with permission.
* Hymn One
More Step Along the World I Go VU 639
Prayer for
Wholeness
Assurance of Love
...Know that, even when we are caught up in argument and
confusion, Jesus gently reminds us that what matters is God’s love for us –
unconditional and never ending. Thanks be to God. Amen.
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
Job
1:1; 2:1–10 Job’s first affliction; faith
intact.
One: Herein is Wisdom. All: Thanks be to God.
Psalm 26 Prove me, try me, test my heart.
The Gospel Acclamation
Story
based on Mark 10: 13-16
One: Herein is Good
News! All: Praise be to God.
*Hymn Jesus Came, a Child like Me VU 583
Opening the Word
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
* Hymn God, We Pray at This Beginning VU 443
Minute for Mission &
Offering Our Gifts to God
*Offering Prayer
God of grace, amazed by your kindness,
moved by your generosity, and inspired by your compassion, we offer these gifts
as we pledge ourselves to the service of Christ and to Christ’s vision for a
renewed and just world for all people. Amen.
*Hymn We
Gather Here VU
469
Sacrament
of Communion Insert,
cover of Voices United
Distribution Hymn One Bread, One Body VU 467
WE GO TO SERVE GOD
* Hymn We Shall Go Out with Hope of Resurrection VU 586
* Commissioning and Blessing
Go into the world in peace,
sharing God’s overwhelming message of love and grace with all people, those who
have been cut down by words and actions that tell them they are not complete.
Know that God – Creator, Christ, and Spirit – will be with you, and will
support you, each and every day.
*Choral Amen
