HARROWSMITH-VERONA PASTORAL CHARGE

UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA

Worship Time:  10 am at Trinity, Verona

Office Phone: 613-372-2525 or 613-374-2777

Retired Voluntary Minister: The Rev’d. Ian MacKay

Licensed Lay Worship Leader: Sheila Anthony

Office Administrator: Rebecca Peters

Director of Music:  Stan Stinchcombe

Website:  www.h-vpastoralcharge.org

e-mail:  office@h-vpastoralcharge.org

 

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Trinity United Church acknowledges the traditional territory upon which we gather. For thousands of years, the First Peoples sought to walk gently on this land. They offered assistance to the first European travelers and shared their knowledge for survival. We seek a new relationship with the First Peoples of this land, one based in honour and deep respect.

 

 

Sunday, October 13, 2024

Worship Leader:  Ian Mackay

Lay Reader:  Jane Mackay

THANKSGIVING SUNDAY  -  WORLD WIDE COMMUNION

 

 

WE GATHER

 

ORGAN PRELUDE 

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 

LIGHTING THE CHRIST CANDLE

 

HYMN:  Come You Thankful People, Come ..................................VU #516

1.  Come, you thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest home!  All is safely gathered in, safe before the storms begin; God, our maker, does provide for our needs to be supplied: come to God’s own temple, come, raise the song of harvest home!

 

2.  All the world is God’s own field, harvests for God’s praise to yield; wheat and weeds together sown, here for joy or sorrow grown; first the blade, and then the ear, then the full corn shall appear: Harvest-giver, grant that we wholesome grain and pure may be.

 

3.  For our God, one day, shall come, and shall take this harvest home; from the field shall in that day all offences purge away; giving angels charge at last in the fire the weeds to cast; but the fruitful ears to store in the garner evermore.

 

4.  Even so, God, quickly come to your final harvest home!  Gather all your people in, free from sorrow, free from sin; there for ever purified, in your presence to abide: come, with all your angels, come, raise the glorious harvest home.

 

SCRIPTURE SENTENCES

 

CHORAL INTROIT:  When We Gather at the Table .....................MV #198

 

LITANY OF APPROACH

One:  This is the season of abundance and beauty, a time for thanksgiving.        

All:  We rejoice in the abundant gifts of God and give thanks for our salvation.

One:  God has blessed us with a rich harvest from tree and vine and field.

All:  We rejoice in the abundant gifts of God and give thanks for our salvation.

One:  We have been clothed and fed and blessed with an outpouring of God’s love and truth.

All:  We rejoice in the abundant gifts of God and give thanks for our salvation.

 

PRAYER FOR THE THANKSGIVING SEASON:  (Unison)

God of the harvest, we bring our gratitude and praise for rich soil, abundant rainfall, and life-giving energy from the sun.  For all the plenty that surrounds us, we give thanks.  Remembering all who have toiled to produce our food and transport it, we rejoice.  May these moments of thanksgiving spill over in generous spirit and unselfish acts of sharing.  Amen.

 

ANTHEM:  Sing to the Lord of Harvest ...................................... VU #519

 

TIME TO PONDER

 

LORD’S PRAYER

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, for ever and ever.   Amen.

 

HYMN:  Grateful ............................................................................MV #182

 

WE GIVE BACK

 

OUR OFFERINGS (Offering plates are available at the back of the church.)

 

DEDICATION OF THE OFFERING:  (Standing)  tune Sandon ...........VU #842

Worship with gladness, make a joyful noise.

Give thanks to God.

Join in the hearty singing God enjoys.

Give thanks to God.

For God is good, and we are here to praise

The One whose steadfast love surrounds our days.

 

OFFERTORY PRAYER:  (Unison)

O God, we have bread, so we will share.  We have water, so we will give to dig wells for others.  We have faith, so we will share this good news.  This sacred moment of giving acknowledges your reign and your rule in the world.  We seek to be caring and responsible and grateful.  Thank you, loving God, for all that you have done for us.  Amen.

 

WE LISTEN

 

GOSPEL:  Mark 10:17 – 31 (Pg. 878)

 

SERMON:  “Only the Very Best”

 

SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUMION

 

COMMUNION HYMN:  As We Gather At Your Table …...................VU #457

1.  As we gather at your table, as we listen to your word, help us know, O God, your presence; let our hearts and minds be stirred.  Nourish us with sacred story till we claim it as our own; teach us through this holy banquet how to make Love’s victory known.

 

2.  Turn our worship into witness in the sacrament of life; send us forth to love and serve you, bringing peace where there is strife.  Give us, Christ, your great compassion to forgive as you forgave; may we still behold your image in the world you died to save.

 

3.  Gracious Spirit, help us summon other guests to share that feast where triumphant Love will welcome those who had been last and least.  There no more will envy blind us nor will pride our peace destroy, as we join with saints and angels to repeat the sounding joy.

 

INVITATION TO COMMUNION

 

COMMUNION PRAYER

 

SACRAMENTAL GIFTS OF BREAD AND WINE

 

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING:  (Together)

Glorious God, here in one small church, in one little town, part of one large nation, on this one great earth that you love, we have received communion.  Thank you for bonding us with the Holy, with one another.  May the strength and the peace of this bond bless us.  May we be fueled to be better blessings in this one small church, little town, large nation and great earth that you love.  Amen.

 

WE GO FORTH

 

HYMN:  Now Thank We All Our God ..............................................VU #236

1.  Now thank we all our God, with heart, and hands, and voices, who wondrous things has done, in whom this world rejoices; who from our mother’s arms has blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.

 

2.  O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us, with ever joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us, and keep us strong in grace, and guide us when perplexed, and free us from all ill in this world and the next.

 

3.  All praise and thanks to God for all that has been given, the Son, and Spirit blest who dwell in highest heaven, the one eternal God, whom heaven and earth adore; for thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore.

 

BENEDICTION

 

SENDING FORTH:  God, Dismiss Us ................................................VU #425

God, dismiss us with your blessing; fill our hearts with joy and peace;

Let us each, your love possessing, triumph in redeeming grace;

O refresh us, O refresh us, travelling through the wilderness.

 

Thanks we give and adoration for your gospel’s joyful sound;

May the fruits of your salvation in our hearts and lives abound,

May your presence, may your presence, with us evermore be found.

 

POSTLUDE:  Sarabande (Handel)

 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS & MEETINGS

Worship Leader for Sunday October 20th:

Rev. Ian Mackay

Lay Reader for Sunday October 20th:

Diane Revill

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRINITY SHARING CUPBOARD:  The use of the Sharing Cupboard is increasing!  The cupboard will be open this Wednesday October 16th as well as October 30th.  Donations of pasta sauce, wet wipes, Kleenex and juice boxes would be appreciated.

 

HOLIDAY CRAFT/VENDOR SALE:  This sale will be held on Saturday November 2nd from 9-2pm in our fellowship hall.  Trinity will be providing and serving a light lunch.  We will also be providing a baked goods table and some gift baskets for raffle.  If you would like to be involved, please see Diane Revill or Sheila Anthony.

 

VACCINE CLINIC:  A drive-through influenza vaccine clinic, hosted through the Sydenham Medical Clinic will be taking place next Tuesday October 22nd from 10am to 1pm, as well as on Tuesday November 5th from 3-6pm At the South Frontenac Public Services Department (2490 Keeley Road, Sydenham).