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
Deacon of the North Island: Rev. Sheila Cook
E-mail: scook@stcolumbaporthardy.ca
Wardens: Robert Fyles and Priscilla O’Neil
Treasurer: Judy Fyles
Music Ministry: Roldan Yuipco
Video: Ammie Yuipco
Community Partner: Cathie Wilson
www.stcolumbaporthardy.ca
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
SEASON OF CREATION:
COSMOS SUNDAY
September 25, 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
Hymn:
VU 310 God Who Touches Earth with Beauty
God who touches earth with beauty,
make my heart anew;
with your Spirit recreate me
pure, and strong and true.
Like your springs and running waters,
make me crystal pure;
like your rocks of towering grandeur,
make me strong and sure.
Like your dancing waves in sunlight,
make me glad and free;
like the straightness of the pine trees
let me upright be.
Like the arching of the heavens
lift my thoughts above;
turn my dreams to noble action,
ministries of love.
Like the birds that soar while singing,
give my heart a song;
may the music of thanksgiving
echo clear and strong.
God who touches earth with beauty,
make my heart anew;
keep me ever by your Spirit
pure, and strong and true.
Words: Mary S. Edgar Music: James Edmund Jones.
Opening Prayer
THE STORY OF FAITH IS PROCLAIMED
Hutlilala’s!
Listen as God’s Word is proclaimed!
Hebrew Scripture: Jeremiah 32: 1-3a, 6-15
Hymn:
VU 808 On Eagle’s Wings (Psalm 91)
You who dwell in the shelter of our God,
who abide in this shadow for life,
say to the Lord: "My refuge,
my rock in whom I trust!"
“And I will raise you up on eagle's wings,
bear you on the breath of dawn,
make you to shine like the sun,
and hold you in the palm of my hand.”
The snare of the fowler will never capture you,
and famine will bring you no fear;
under God’s wings your refuge,
God’s faithfulness your shield.
“And I will raise you up on eagle's wings,
bear you on the breath of dawn,
make you to shine like the sun,
and hold you in the palm of my hand.”
You need not fear the terror of the night,
nor the arrow that flies by day;
though thousands fall about you,
near you it shall not come.
“And I will raise you up on eagle's wings,
bear you on the breath of dawn,
make you to shine like the sun,
and hold you in the palm of my hand.”
For to God’s angels is given a command
to guard you in all of your ways;
upon their hands they will bear you up,
lest you dash your foot against a stone.
“And I will raise you up on eagle's wings,
bear you on the breath of dawn,
make you to shine like the sun,
and hold you in the palm of my hand.”
And hold you, hold you in the palm of my hand.
Words and music: Michael Joncas
Gospel: Luke 16: 19-31
Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church!
Thanks be to God
Sermon Reflection
Affirmation of Faith:
The New Creed VU 918
We are not alone, we live in God’s world.
We believe in God: who has created and is creating, who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh, to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others by the Spirit.
We trust in God.
We are called to be the Church: to celebrate God’s presence, to live with respect in Creation, to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope.
In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us.
We are not alone.
Thanks be to God.
Offertory Hymn:
VU 229 God of the Sparrow
God of the sparrow God of the whale
God of the swirling stars
How does the creature say Awe
How does the creature say Praise
God of the earthquake God of the storm
God of the trumpet blast
How does the creature cry Woe
How does the creature cry Save
God of the rainbow God of the cross
God of the empty grave
How does the creature say Grace
How does the creature say Thanks
God of the hungry God of the sick
God of the prodigal
How does the creature say Care
How does the creature say Life
God of the neighbour God of the foe
God of the pruning hook
How does the creature say Love
How does the creature say Peace
God of the ages God of the hand
God of the loving heart
How do your children say Joy
How do your children say Home.
Words: Jaroslav J. Vajda Music: Carl F. Schalk
Response:
VU 541 Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise him, all creatures here below;
Praise him above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
Amen
Words: adapted from Thomas Ken Music: Louis Bourgeois, in Genevan Psalter.
Prayer over the Gifts
Prayers
Minute for Mission/ PWRDF
Our Common Prayers …
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.
Hymn:
VU 226 For the Beauty of the Earth
For the beauty of the earth,
for the glory of the skies,
for the love which from our birth
over and around us lies,
God of all, to you we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.
For the beauty of each hour
of the day and of the night,
hill and vale, and tree and flower,
sun and moon, and stars of light,
God of all, to you we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.
For the joy of human love,
brother, sister, parent, child,
friends on earth and friends above,
for all gentle thoughts and mild,
God of all, to you we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.
For each perfect gift sublime
to our race so freely given;
graces human and divine,
flowers of earth and buds of heaven.
God of all, to you we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.
Words: Folliott Sandford Pierpoint; Music: Conrad Kocher; adapt. William H Monk.
Blessing
... draw nearer to us so we may experience your infinite and limitless wildness as freedom and love.
Amen! Gilakas’la! Amen!
Three-fold AMEN
Sending: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- Coffee following the service!
- Focus: Our Place Victoria
- September 28 at 6:30 PM Church Council
- Loaves and Fishes Depot: September 28: 1-2 PM
FUSION Seasons of the Spirit™ SeasonsFusion Season of Creation • Pentecost 2 2022 Copyright © Wood Lake Publishing Inc. 2021 Opening payer written by Daryl Webber Prayer over the Gifts written by Connie McNamara, from Gathering 2016 Pentecost 2 p 14 and 32
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Voices United 310 God, Who Touches Earth with Beauty Words: Mary S. Edgar, 1925, altered; Music: James Edward Jones, 1925. Words copyright © 1990 Sacred Music Press. All rights reserved. Reprinted under OneLicense.net License #A-720359 (#88123).
Voices United 808 Psalm 91 On Eagle’s Wings Words and music: Michael Joncas, 1979 Words and music copyright © 1979, 1991 New Dawn Music, administered by Oregon Catholic Press. All rights reserved. Used with permission. OneLicense.net License #A-720359 (#80468).
Voices United 229 God of the Sparrow Words: Jaroslav J. Vajda Music: Carl F. Schalk © 1983 Words copyright © 1983 Concordia Publishing House. Music copyright © 1983 GIA Publications Inc. All rights reserved. OneLicense.net License #A-720359 words (#05148) and music (#01556).
Voices United 541 Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow Words: Thomas Ken ca. 1674 Music: Genevan Psalter 1551 Public Domain.
Songs for a Gospel People 12 The Lord’s Prayer Setting: Darryl Nixon, 1987. © SFAGP, 1987. Words: International Committee on English in the Liturgy, 1986. Permission on file (Wood Lake Books and ICEL).
Voices United 226 For the Beauty of the Earth Words: Folliott Sandford Pierpoint 1864 Music: alternate tune (Dix) Conrad Kocher, 1838; adapt. William H Monk 1861. Words and music: Public Domain.
