Sanctuary Stained Glass Window (west side)
(photo courtesy of D. Cuppels)
Message: "The
Cost of Discipleship"
Below
is a shortened version of the live Sunday service,
which had more
music and prayers and a social time before and after.
WE
GATHER :
--Prelude:Li'l David, Play on Your Harp. Spiritual. (adapt. J. Rosamond
Johnson). Norman Abbott, piano.
Public Domain.
--Choral Introit:
Down
To the River To Pray. Tradit. American. Sung by the church choir.
Accompanied
by N. Abbott, piano.Public
Domain.
--Acknowledging the
Territory:
We are bound on this land by relationships. We are bound to God's creation
and to one another. Those relationships have benefitted this community.
Those relationships have blessed us and cost others. We speak
acknowledgement of our presence. Our presence is at the expense of
others. We must learn to share, as God has shared with us. On the traditional land of the Anishinaabe (the Ojibwe or Chippewa Nation), the
Haudenosaunee (the Iroguois, and the Oneida Nation), the Lenape (the
Delaware People), the Attawandaron (the Neutral Nation or Algonquin
People) and the Wendat (Huron People) we are bound to Indigenous
neighbours and their fate. Where we have failed in this relationship,
forgive us and give us the wisdom to repair. May we learn to live into
our commitments to Truth and Reconciliation and to the United Nations
declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and cast a better future
for all.
--Lighting the Christ and Lenten Candles, Call to Worship, Opening Prayer,
Lord's Prayer, Hymn
VU120
--Time With All God's
Children
WE HEAR GOD'S WORD:
--Scripture:
Psalm 21: 23-31 and Mark 8: 31-38
--Ministry of Music: Ain'a That
Good News. Spiritual. Sung by the church choir. Accompanied by N.
Abbott, piano. Public
Domain.
--Message: "The Cost of
Discipleship" by
Rev. Noble
WE RESPOND IN LOVE:
--Hymn VU143: My Song Is Love Unknown
--Prayers of the People
--Offertory Ministry of Music: Deep River. Spiritual. Arr.
by H. T. Burleigh (1917). Sung by James Traquair,
tenor, and accompanied by
N. Abbott, piano.Public Domain.
--Offertory Response (MV 12) and Prayer of Dedication
WE GO OUT INTO THE WORLD:
--Hymn VU337: Blessed Assurance
--Commissioning and Blessing
--Postlude: Ev'ry Time I Feel De Spirit.
Spiritual. Arr. by J. Rosamond Johnson. N. Abbott, piano.
Public
Domain.
