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
August
5th,
2018-11th
Sunday after Pentecost
* please
stand as able
Connecting
with life
All
are called, and all have ministry for the building of God’s realm.
Call can change through life.
■■ What
does call mean when we begin to lose cognitive
and
physical capabilities?
■■ How
are the whole people of God in your church
encouraged
in their gifts and giftedness?
■■ In
what ways does your congregation work together to
build
up the Body of Christ? Who is feeling excluded?
How
might all gifts be celebrated, encouraged, and valued?
Copyright
© Wood Lake Publishing Inc. 2017 Seasons
of the Spirit™ SeasonsFUSION
Pentecost
1 2018 p. 147
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 There
Is Room for All MV
62
Call
to Worship
One:
We gather as God’s community
All: for
we are the Body of Christ.
One:
We come as gifted people, All:
to
worship our God.
One:
We
come as a community,
All: to be
strengthened in our gifts.
One:
We
come united as friends of the one spirit
All: who
calls us to hope and to build each other up
in
love.
One:
Come,
let us worship.
Opening
Prayer
Christ
Jesus, we are your body,
and
so, with joy and gratitude we gather as your people.
You
have crafted many parts to that body, given each of us
particular
gifts,
and
you call us to use them in building up our community
in
this place.
Some
of us know well the gifts you have entrusted to us,
others
of us still wonder what our gifts might be.
Some
of us have seen our gifts change as we have grown and changed; others
have felt the constancy of a gift as a lifelong friend.
As
we worship you today, help us claim, reclaim, and discover anew those
gifts with which you have equipped us. Amen.
*Hymn
We
Are One VU
402
Prayer for
Healing
(Prayer of Confession) Based
on Psalm 51
Response: Have
mercy on us.
Words of
Affirmation
The good news is
that God never casts us away; we are always present to God.
Through Jesus,
our lives are rebuilt and granted restoration, renewal, and
nourishment that never perish. Let this knowledge nourish us and give
life to us and, through us, the world.
WE
LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
Ephesians
4:1-16 Speak
the truth in love.
This
is the witness of the early church.
All:
Thanks be to God.
Psalm
51 Create
in me a new heart, O God. Ref.
1, VU
776
*Hymn
Just
as I Am VU
508
Gospel
Acclamation
John
6: 24-35 The
crowd asks for another sign from Jesus.
Opening
the Word
WE
RESPOND IN FAITH
*
Hymn Guide
Me, O Thou Great Jehovah VU
651
Minute
for Mission & Offering Our Gifts to God
*Offering
Song (Tune: Praise
God from Whom All Blessings Flow)
Your
love, O God, to all you show. We,
gathered
here,
commit
to grow.
We
offer You these gifts, that we, may celebrate diversity.
Prayers of the
People and the Lord's Prayer
WE
GO TO SERVE GOD
*
Hymn Halle,
Halle, Halle VU
958
*Commissioning
and Benediction
Our
world is also God’s world,
and
we are God’s gifted people,
ponder
and claim your gift,
find
the places where you are being called to share it.
God
is love, and we are the Body of Christ.
God
calls us to share our gifts in fullest measure.
Go
now, knowing you are directed by the Spirit and affirmed by Jesus to
love and serve the world.
*Choral Amen
