GRACE AND WOODHOUSE UNITED CHURCHES
Port Dover – Woodhouse Pastoral Charge
Box 814, 18 Chapman St. West, Port Dover, ON N0A 1N0
Church Office: 519.583.0342
Email: ; Fax: 519.583.2581
Website: http://www.graceunitedportdover.org
Ministers – All People of the Congregation
Organist – Woodhouse – Pat Tiller
Choir Director – Woodhouse – Willie Moore
Music Director – Grace – Bill Erwin
Secretary – Linda Brzozowski
Pastor – The Reverend Jeffrey Smith
Grace Mission Statement: Grace United Church is a welcoming family of Christian faith, committed to living, learning, growing, and sharing God's love; acting with acceptance, caring and joy, in our community and the world.
Sunday September 7, 2014
* indicates that you are invited to stand as you are able
God Gathers Us For Worship
Prelude: Music in Preparation for Worship
Welcome, Life and Work of the Congregation
Call To Worship:*
Leader: Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song.
People: Let all God’s children rejoice!
Leader: Clap your hands and praise God with dancing.
People: Shout for joy and praise God with music.
Leader: For God brings justice to the people.
People: God brings judgment upon the powerful.
Leader: Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song.
People: Let all God’s children rejoice!
Hymn: # 1MV* “Let Us Build a House”
Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live,
a place where saints and children tell how hearts learn to forgive.
Built of hopes and dreams and visions, rock of faith and vault of grace; here the love of Christ shall end divisions:
Refrain:
All are welcome, all are welcome, all are welcome in this place.
Let us build a house where prophets speak, and words are strong and true, where all God’s children dare to seek to dream God’s reign anew. Here the cross shall stand as witness and as symbol of God’s grace;
here as one we claim the faith of Jesus: Refrain:
Let us build a house where love is found in water, wine and wheat;
a banquet hall on holy ground, where peace and justice meet.
Here the love of God, through Jesus, is revealed in time and space;
as we share in Christ the feast that frees us: Refrain:
Let us build a house where hands will reach beyond the wood and stone to heal and strengthen, serve and teach, and live the Word they’ve known. Here the outcast and the stranger bear the image of God’s face; let us bring an end to fear and danger: Refrain:
Let us build a house where all are named, their songs and visions heard and loved and treasured, taught and claimed as words within the Word. Built of tears and cries and laughter, prayers of faith and songs of grace; let this house proclaim from floor to rafter: Refrain:
Opening Prayer: (in unison)
God of love and judgment, when the Egyptians enslaved the Hebrew people, your love set them free; when rulers oppress the poor and powerless, your judgment brings peace and justice back to the land.
Move us, O God, that we may fulfill the law of love and be a people who radiate your light. Touch our hearts, that we may come to love our neighbour as we come to love ourselves. Amen.
God’s Word Is Proclaimed
Anthem: Woodhouse - “Teach Us”
Grace -
Responsive Reading: Psalm 149 pg. 873
Gloria Patri (Sung)
Glory be to the Father, to the Son and the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be.
World without end, Amen.
Children’s Hymn: #225 VU* “We Praise You for the Sun”
Children’s Time
Old Testament Lesson: Exodus 12: 1-14 (p. 65) Bp. 65 Rp. 70
Lay Readers: WH–Marion Pepper; Grace – Joan Smith
Sermon: “Memories”
Hymn #234 VU* “Let Us with a Gladsome Mind”
God Awaits Our Response
Presentation of our Gifts and Offering:
Stewardship means learning how to receive as well as how to give.
God’s gifts can come from the most unlikely places; when we recognize and accept them for what they are, everyone benefits.
Doxology: Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise God, all creatures high and low;
Give thanks to God in love made known:
Creator, Word and Spirit, One.
Prayer of Dedication:
Good News and Prayer Time
The Fellowship of Prayer:
The Lord’s Prayer: (in unison)
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: #510 VU* “We Have This Ministry”
Commissioning and Benediction
Parting Song (Sung)* “Go Now In Peace”
Go now in peace. Never be afraid.
God will go with you each hour ev’ry day.
Go now in faith, steadfast, strong and true.
Know He will guide you in all you do.
Go now in love, and show you believe.
Reach out to others so all the world can see.
God will be there watching from above.
Go now in peace, in faith, and in love.
Amen, Amen, Amen.
Postlude: Music in Preparation for Service
Please call the church office for assistance at 519.583.0342
or for an emergency, contact
The Rev. Jeffrey L. Smith – Pastoral Charge Minister
@ Home #519.767.0928; Cell# 519.803.7977
or
Request from Rev. Jeff Smith: Favourite Hymns … please let Jeff know.
Scriptures for September 14 - Creation Time BeginsWelcome Back Sunday
Guest Speaker: Rev. Carlene Cooper-Walford
(Caribbean Workers Outreach Program)
Join us for pea-meal bacon on a bun, juice, chips and cake in the Grace Community Hall after the Grace service.
All are welcome.
Flowers Today are Placed in the Grace Sanctuary
In Loving Memory OfJack & Glen Broker
By Elva & family
THE PRAYER CYCLE
(Halton Presbytery)
West Plains, Burlington (905) 529-4871
PASTORAL CHARGE ANNIVERSARIES
Mary & Paul Edwards 10th/60
Larry & Cheryl deKoning 13th/80
PASTORAL CHARGE BIRTHDAYS
Brooke Bridgwater 8th Peter Pow 11th
Sharon Snider 9th Cecil Hatch 11th
Colleen Erwin 10th Michelle Mummery12th
Patricia Luton 11th
Grace Coffee and Conversation - Startup Date
Catch up on what's happening every Sunday before church. On Sunday September 7 at 10:15 am in the Parlour, we will be serving coffee, cookies, and conversation. Drop in before church and hang out with your friends. See you there.
Grace Shop and Support: Order day is Today, Sun. September 7. Lynda Simpson will be available to take your orders. If you will not be in church that day and would like to place your order before then, please contact Nancy at 519-583-3937.
Nations Uniting will be having the next sharing circle meeting on Wed. Sept. 10 from 10-12 noon at the Nations Uniting office in Ohsweken. All are welcome. For more info contact Jim or Marjorie Dawson (see poster).
WEEK AT A GLANCE MON. Sept. 8 - SUN. Sept. 14, 2014
Mon. / 10:00 am / Worship & Music / ParlourTue. / 1:00 pm / UCW Unit 2 / Parlour
Wed. / 7:45 pm / Grace Choir / Sanctuary
Thu. / 1:30 pm
7:00 pm / WH Choir
Christian Education Mtg. / Woodhouse
Parlour
Fri. / 10:00 am / Office Closed
Mission & Outreach Mtg. / Parlour
Sun. /
8:45 am 9:30 am
10:15 am
11:00 am
12:00 pm / Creation Time Begins
Rev. Carlene Cooper-Walford,
Jamaica, Caribbean Workers Outreach Program
Welcome Back Sunday
Coffee & Muffin Social Time
Woodhouse Service
Coffee/Conversation Time
Grace Service
Lunch following the Grace Service /
Woodhouse
Woodhouse
Grace
Grace
G.C. Hall
Rev. Carlene Cooper-Walford from Jamaica will be preaching at both Woodhouse and Grace on Sept 14. She will talk about the Caribbean Workers outreach program as part of her sermon. Lunch will be served after the service at Grace for people wishing to greet Carlene.
Guess Who Is Coming To Dinner? To allow us all to get to know Jeff Smith better, in a more intimate setting and in good United Church tradition, over food, we'd like to hold a series of dinner parties in September and October. If you are willing to host a few people and Jeff in your home for dinner or want to participate by bringing some food, please sign up at the back of the church. Hosts will be responsible for providing the main course and attendees will bring either an appetizer, salad or dessert. Jeff has some food sensitivities so a listing of these is available at the back. So join the fun and come to dinner.
Spirit Journey Lecture Series
Every other Thursday starting September 18:
This year we have Christian Reform Sept. 18, Mennonite Oct. 2, Ukrainian Orthodox Oct. 16 and Mormon on Oct. 30.
Tickets are available at Tan Mar Shoppe, Main Street in Port Dover or from Nancy Sherwin 519.583.3937.
Prices are $10 per lecture or $35 for the series. All lectures start at 7pm and there will be light refreshments following the lecture and question period.
Share Memories! Grace – Woodhouse Reunion
Sunday September 21, 2014 at Grace Church (10:00 am)
Guest Speaker: The Rev. Sheena Marini
Did you attend Sunday School/Church here?
Were you married here? THIS IS FOR YOU!
Bring labelled Memorabilia! Spread the Word!
Lunch to follow joint service.
RSVP or call 519.583.0342.
Let’s explore the joys of friendship/families with each other.