Order of Worship

August 17, 2008

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

VBS Celebration Sunday

 

There is a votive candle on our altar today to remind us to pray for peace.  If you are a guest from another congregation, we invite you to take a peace candle from our congregation as a gift to your church.

 

Please silence your cell phones.

* indicates to stand as you are able.

 

Hymn Sing

 

Announcements                                                                                                                

 

Prelude                                                                                                    

 

Greeting and Words of Welcome                                                                        Rev. Brenda Sene

 

*Hymn of Praise 75           All People That on Earth Do Dwell

 

*Opening Prayer

God of all creation,

     your beauty and your blessings are visible

          wherever people gather to worship you. 

We, who gather here in this time and this place, 

     come, grateful for all your blessings towards us. 

We praise you for linking our lives with yours

     through the gift of your Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

In and through him we have been blessed and empowered

     by the Holy Spirit to bring your dreams

          of a just and peaceful world to reality…

A world where the barriers which separate people from you

     and from one another

          are peacefully and willingly broken down forever. 

This we pray in Jesus’ name.  Amen.

 

Children’s Time               

Hymn 162                  Alleluia, Alleluia (vs. 1&2)

Children’s Story       Thank You, God, for VBS                         

                        Hymn 110                  Alleluia, Alleluia (vs. 3&4)

 

Prayers of the People                                                                                    

                Prayer Concerns

                Pastoral Prayer

                Lord’s Prayer (Hymnal #895)

 

Scripture Reading                       Matthew 15:21-28

 

*Hymn 558                                    We Are the Church                   

 

Sermon                                  Faith in Unexpected Places                   Rev. Brenda Sene

 

Preparation for the Offering

                Offertory        

 

*Doxology  (Hymn 94)

                Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;

                                praise God, all creatures here below: Alleluia!  Alleluia!

                Praise God, the source of all our gifts!

                Praise Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts!

                Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit!  Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

 

*Closing Hymn 572                            Pass It On

 

*Benediction

 

*Sung Benediction                    Go Ye Now in Peace                                    Joyce Elaine Eilers

                Go ye now in peace, and know that the love of God will guide you.

                Feel his presence here beside you showing you the way.

                In your time of trouble, when hurt and despair are there to grieve you,

                     know that the Lord will never leave you he will bring you courage.

                Know that the God who sent his Son to die that you might live

                    will never leave you lost and alone in his beloved world.

                Go ye now in peace. Go ye now in peace.

 

Postlude