4 October 2009
Music Leader: Lisa Haley
Accompanist: Ann Willard
Liturgist: Phyllis Stowell
Elder: John Swan
Miracle Day Participants: Lisa Haley, Elaine Rackham, Allen Foster, Gerry Brague
This week we'll have multiple emphases during worship: World Communion, Miracle Day at Community of the Great Commission, and the Reconciliation offering. There will be no sermon time: instead there will be readings from a few of our Global Mission missionaries around the world, as well as a time to see pictures and hear from those who took part in Miracle Day.
Scriptures will be as follows: 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, 27 (read by Phyllis); Matthew 25:40; Matthew 25:36; plus another reading I haven't figured out yet that will pertain to the Miracle Day work somehow
Music:
- In Christ There Is No East or West, CH#687
- Take This Moment, from the Iona Community book "Love From Below" (Ann, I'll scan and email this to you very soon.)
- Let Us Talents & Tongues Employ, CH#422
Liturgy:
Call to Worship
We gather today as the people of God, as a community of Christ's followers.
We gather to share Word and sacrament, to discern the ways of faithful service.
Where in the world shall we serve our God?
At home and school and business place – in this community and throughout every land.
How in the world shall we serve our God?
By working toward justice where there is oppression, by offering comfort where there is pain, by sharing love where there is hatred.
Why in the world shall we serve our God?
Because the Spirit beckons us, because Jesus calls us to enact our faith. Let us now worship the one who calls us!
We gather to share Word and sacrament, to discern the ways of faithful service.
Where in the world shall we serve our God?
At home and school and business place – in this community and throughout every land.
How in the world shall we serve our God?
By working toward justice where there is oppression, by offering comfort where there is pain, by sharing love where there is hatred.
Why in the world shall we serve our God?
Because the Spirit beckons us, because Jesus calls us to enact our faith. Let us now worship the one who calls us!
Prayer of Approach
God,
Renew in us the gift of your Spirit
So that we may be purified in the waters of repentance
And with one heart we may glorify your name and proclaim your mercy.
Open our minds to the scriptures
That they may become for us living words
And illumine our hearts.
Let your Spirit fill us with love
To inspire our prayers today for our sisters and brothers, and for the perfect unity of your church.
In the name of Jesus Christ, who reigns with you and with the Holy Spirit,
For ever and ever.
Amen.
Renew in us the gift of your Spirit
So that we may be purified in the waters of repentance
And with one heart we may glorify your name and proclaim your mercy.
Open our minds to the scriptures
That they may become for us living words
And illumine our hearts.
Let your Spirit fill us with love
To inspire our prayers today for our sisters and brothers, and for the perfect unity of your church.
In the name of Jesus Christ, who reigns with you and with the Holy Spirit,
For ever and ever.
Amen.
