Mark’s United Church, Port Hawkesbury
DLM-R/MDiv Student, Barb MacNaughton
(902) 625-0407
Pianist: Adam Cooke
Office Administrator: Jane MacKinnon
Ministry: The Whole Congregation
22nd after Pentecost
Sunday October 24th, 2021
The Community Gathers
Welcome and Announcements
Lighting of the Christ Candle:
This candle represents for us the light of Christ. It reminds us of the colours of creation that paint our lives, it warms us in the cold, and it brightens our paths when all seems dark. May we take this light wherever we go and share it with others! Amen.
♫Introit: Rise Up, Rise Up MV130
Rise up, rise up, rise up O my soul.
Rise up and sing this blessing to God’s name
Rise up, rise up, rise up O my soul.
Rise up and sing this blessing to God’s name.
Call to Gather:
Is my lens wide enough to take in the beauty, the desecration, the complexity and simplicity, the regular and the extraordinary…
Is my lens wide enough to capture diversity, random movement, patterns of exquisite correlation…
Is my lens wide enough to sense shadow and depth, purpose and passion, dependence and autonomy…
Is my lens wide enough to know the difference between right and wrong, curved and circular, straight and narrow…
Is my lens wide enough to see you and me, the distance between us, the ideas that might separate us forever…
Is our lens wide enough… Amen.
Prayer of the Day:
God of all seeing, may we go through life this week ahead with our eyes wide open to see the needs around us. So often our lens is not directed where it should be. May all that we do be done with a generous heart and a loving spirit that we may help others to be their best selves. Amen.
♫Hymn: Come and Find a Quiet Centre VU 374
Centering Prayer
♫Lord Listen to your Children Praying VU 400
Lord, listen to your children praying, Lord send your spirit in this place
Lord, listen to your children praying, send us love, send us power, send us grace.
♫Hymn: Open My Eyes, That I May See VU 371
The Community Explores
Prayer for Illumination:
We pray, O God, for listening ears and open hearts as we hear the words of our ancient scripture this day. Amen.
Scriptures:
OT: Job 42: 1-6. 10-17
RR: Psalm 34: 1-8 (9-22) VU 761-762
NT: Hebrews 7:23-28
Gospel Lesson: Mark 10: 46-52
Message
♫Hymn: Spirit, Open My Heart MV 79
The Community Celebrates
Minute for Mission
Offering Hymn: VU 538
For the Gift of Creation, the gift of your love
And the gift of the Spirit by which we live
We thank you and give you the fruit of our hands
May your grace be proclaimed by the gifts that we give.
Offering Prayer:
May all the gifts we have been given help us to be people who share. May the gifts presented today be a representation of all that we are and all that we have. May they be used for the good of our world. Amen.
Our Joys and Concerns and Lighting the candle of caring:
As one heart is lifted
May we share its celebration
As one heart is burdened
May we share the pain it knows
And so we take this flame and light our special care candle… in all our joys and in all our concerns, may we be ever mindful of the present-ness of God among us.
Prayers for the people and Lord’s Prayer
♫Hymn: Be Thou My Vision VU 642
The Community Goes Forth
Commissioning/Benediction
♫Closing: Choral Amen
One License A-401486
Ministering through leadership this morning are:
Minister: Barbara MacNaughton
Pianist: Adam Cook
Lay Reader: Wayne Simpson
Mission Moment: Larry Evans
Counters: Clark Brander, John Langley
MEMORIAL
A donation has been received to the GENERAL FUND In Loving Memory of JIM MC LEAN from Rilla
ANNOUNCEMENTS
OFFICE HOURS: Thursday & Friday 8-12 noon.
Deadline for information for the bulletin is Thursday at noon.
Lay Readers:
October 31St – Archie Noseworthy
November 7th – Iaian Langley
November 14th – Clark Brander
November 21st – Vida Hood
November 28th – Joyce Oliver-Snair
December 5th – Dave Chapman
December 12th – Jean Mac Pherson
December. 19Th – Larry Evans
December 24Th – Barb Mac Intyre – Christmas Eve
Minute for Mission Readers:
October 31st – Barb Mac Intyre
November 7Th – Anna Marie Langley
November 14Th – Yvonne Fox
November 21St – Linda Howlett
November 28Th – Larry Evans
December 5th – Barb Mac Intyre
December 12Th – Anna Marie Langley
December 19Th – Yvonne Fox
December 24Th - - Christmas Eve
Collection Counters/Recorders Needed – Please sign up. The load gets lighter when many helping hands participate.
ADVANCE NOTICES
St. Mark’s Full Board Meeting: Tuesday, November 9th
Food Bank Sunday – Last Sunday of the month.
