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
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)
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).