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St. Columba's Port Hardy Sunday Service

Rev. Sheila Cook

Sunday, September 4, 2022

Order of Service and Hymns

Playlist

ST COLUMBA
ANGLICAN-UNITED CHURCH
PO Box 1260, Port Hardy, BC V0N 2P0
Office Phone: 250-949-6247
E-mail: admin@stcolumbaporthardy.ca
Minister: Rev. Christine Muise
E-mail: cmuise@bc.anglican.ca
Lay Minister: Sheila Cook
E-mail: scook@stcolumbaporthardy.ca
Wardens: Robert Fyles & Priscilla O’Neil
Treasurer: Judy Fyles
Music Ministry: Roldan Yuipco
Video: Ammie Yuipco
Community Partner: Cathie Wilson
O’man’s Nam’a LeaderShift: WE ARE ONE
www.stcolumbaporthardy.ca

Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
SEASON OF CREATION: OCEAN SUNDAY
September 4, 2022
United Church Gathering
Leader: Sheila Cook
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Mission Statement
As followers of Jesus the Christ, our church is a community called to love, honour, worship, and serve God. We invite others to share our Christian journey as we grow in faith and engage in ministry in our town and mission in God’s world.

Welcome and Announcements
Land Acknowledgement

Call To Worship
Creator, you are very great. Illumine this space with your majesty. Spirit, you make the winds your messengers and the flames your ministers. Inspire us with the freshness of air and brighten us with the passion of fire. Redeemer, you set a limit to the chaos. Guide us to the space where all may flourish and nothing is lost. Wisdom, your works are manifold. Let us worship your fullness in and with all creation.

Opening Prayer

Hymn:
VU 642 Be Thou My Vision (v. 1,2,4,5)

Be thou my vision, O joy of my heart;
naught be all else to me save that thou art,
thou my best thought, by day or by night,
waking or sleeping thy presence my light.

Be thou my wisdom, my calm in all strife;
I ever with thee, and thou in my life;
thou loving parent, thy child may I be,
thou in me dwelling, and I one with thee.

Riches I heed not, nor vain empty praise,
thou mine inheritance, now and always;
thou and thou only, the first in my heart,
great God of heaven, my treasure thou art.

Great God of heaven, after victory won,
may I reach heaven's joys, O bright heaven's sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
still be my vision, O ruler of all.

Words: Irish; trans. Mary Elizabeth Byrne; vers. Eleanor H. Hull, alt. Music: Irish traditional melody.

Prayer of the Day

THE STORY OF FAITH IS PROCLAIMED
Hutlilala’s! Listen as God’s Word is proclaimed!
Hebrew Scripture: Jeremiah 18: 1-11

Psalm 139: VU 861
Refrain: God, you have searched me, you know me through and through.
O God, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
You discern my path and the places I rest; you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue, you know it, O God, completely. You guard me from behind and before, and lay you hand upon me.
It is beyond my knowledge; it is a mystery; I cannot fathom it.
R: God, you have searched me, you know me through and through.

Where can I escape from your spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I lie down in the grave, you are even there.
If I take wing with the dawn and alight at the sea’s farthest limits,
there also your hand will be guiding me your powerful hand holding me fast.
If I say, “Let the darkness cover me and my day be turned to night,”
even darkness is not dark to you: the might is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.
R: God, you have searched me, you know me through and through.

It was you who formed my inward parts; you fashioned me my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made. Wondrous are your works; that I know very well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was being fashioned in secret, intricately woven in the mystery of clay.
Your eyes saw my substance taking shape; in your book my every day was recorded; all my days were fashioned, even before they came to be.
R: God, you have searched me, you know me through and through.

How deep you designs are to me, O God! How great their number!
I try to count them but they are more than the sand. I come to the end – I am still with you.
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my thoughts.
Watch closely, lest I follow a path of error
and guide me in the everlasting way.
R: God, you have searched me, you know me through and through.

Epistle: Philemon 1-21

Hymn:
VU 506 Take My Life and Let It Be

Take my life, and let it be
consecrated, all for thee;
take my moments and my days;
let them flow in ceaseless praise.

Take my hands, and let them move
at the impulse of thy love;
take my feet, and let them be
swift and purposeful for thee.

Take my lips, and let them be
filled with messages from thee;
take my intellect, and use
every power as thou shalt choose.

Take my will, and make it thine;
it shall be no longer mine;
take my heart, it is thine own;
it shall be thy royal throne.

Take my love; and I will pour
at thy feet its treasure store;
take myself, and I will be
ever, only, all for thee.

Words: Frances Ridley Havergal; Music: unknown

Gospel: Luke 14: 25-33
Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.
Thanks be to God.

Sermon Reflection

Prayers
Minute for Mission/ PWRDF
Our Common Prayers …

You created from the oceans, God. You pulled the land from the sea, and set the animals to live in it. You whispered from the deep for greater care for all that you have made.
Help us, O God.

Help us to see the consequences of our actions, and mend our ways; for there is so much that collides with our concern and our attention is awash with worry for your people.
Help us, O God.

There is death and disease that kills human life as much as it hurts the dolphin, octopus, starfish, and organisms swimming so deep that we don’t yet know their names. Our prayers focus for healing on what we can name.
Help us, O God.

There is destruction and devastation swirling in the deep that we cannot see even if we helped to create it. We focus instead on the many communities rebuilding after hurricanes and typhoons forgetting that we were called to create with you. We were not there when you laid the foundations of the earth but we can heal what has been broken. We can dare to expand our attention as far and wide as the great expanses of this earth. We might not comprehend it but watching and wondering might shift the foundations toward wholeness and hope.
O God, with the many prayers we carry today for Ocean and for ourselves, help us. Watch with us. Wonder with us. We offer now our own prayers and intercessions. (pause)
Hear our prayers that we make together as we pray the prayer that Jesus taught…

The Lord’s Prayer
And now as our Saviour has taught us let us sing: SFGP 12

Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come, your will be done,
on earth as in Heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours
now and forever.
Amen.

As found in Songs for a Gospel People. Setting: Darryl Nixon.

The Peace
Good friends, as followers of Jesus, the new creation God intends is already at work in you. Peace be with you.
And also with you.

Offertory Hymn:
VU 593 Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love