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St. Columba's Port Hardy Sunday Service

Rev. Christine Muise

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Order of Service and Hymns

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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
and Rev. Sheila Cook
Email: 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

Transfiguration Sunday Year A
February 19 2023
United Church Gathering

Mission Statement
As followers of Jesus 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 our world.

~Leader: regular font
~ All: bold font
~ Sung words: bold italics
~ Asterix* stand as you are able

Welcome and Announcements
Land Acknowledgement

THE COMMUNITY GATHERS BEFORE GOD

Call to Worship

Let us see a wonder a vision never seen. Do we dare to journey?
Yes, for God is there.
Let us start a journey close to God’s hill.
Let us tell the world what God will now fulfill. Do we dare to journey?
Yes, for God is there.
Let us start a journey to worship in this place. Let us seek our God and meet God face to face. Do we dare to journey?
Yes, for God is here.

*Hymn:
VU 415 God, We Praise You for the Morning

God, we praise you for the morning;
hope springs forth with each new day,
new beginning, prayer, and promise,
joy in work and in play.

God, we praise you for creation,
mountains, seas and prairie land.
Waking souls find joy and healing
in your bountiful hand.

God, we praise you for compassion,
all the loving that you show;
human touching, tears and laughter,
help your children to grow.

God, we praise you for your Spirit,
Comforter and daily friend;
restless searcher, gentle teacher,
strength and courage you send.

God, we praise you for the Saviour,
come that we may know your ways.
In his loving, dying, rising,
Christ is Lord of our days.

Hallelujah, hallelujah,
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
Christ is Lord of our days!

Words: Jim Strathdee and Jean Strathdee; Music: Jim Strathdee.

Opening Prayer

Prayer of the Day

THE STORY OF FAITH IS PROCLAIMED
Hutłilala's! Listen deeply as Scripture is read.

Hebrew Scripture: Exodus 24: 12-18

Psalm 2 VU 725

Refrain: Serve God with holy fear.
Why are the nations in turmoil, and why are the peoples engaged in futile plotting?
The monarchs of the earth arise, and the rulers take counsel together against God and against God’s anointed.
“Let us break their fetters,” they say, “and let us cast off their chains.”
The One whose throne is in heaven laughs them to scorn, God holds them in derision.
You speak to them in your wrath, and terrify them in your fury.
“I myself have set up one to rule, on Zion, my holy hill.”
R: Serve God with holy fear.

I will recite the decree of God, who said to me,
“You are my child, today I have begotten you.
Ask, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession.
You will crush them with a rod of iron, and break them into pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
R: Serve God with holy fear.

Now therefore, you monarchs, be wise; be prudent, you rulers of the earth.
Serve God with fear, with trembling bow down.
lest God be angry and you perish, for God’s anger is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who put their trust in God.
R: Serve God with holy fear.

Refrain words, music: Hal H. Hopson

Epistle: 2 Peter 1: 16-21

*Hymn:
MV 138 My Love Colours Outside the Lines

My love colours outside the lines,
exploring paths that few could ever find;
and takes me into places where I’ve never been before,
and opens doors to worlds outside the lines.

My Lord colours outside the lines,
turns wounds to blessings, water into wine;
and takes me into places where I’ve never been before,
and opens doors to worlds outside the lines.

We’ll never walk on water if we’re not prepared to drown,
body and soul need a soaking from time to time.
And we’ll never move the gravestones if we’re not prepared to die,
and realize there are worlds outside the lines.

My soul longs to colour outside the lines,
tear back the curtains, sun, come in and shine;
I want to walk beyond the boundaries where I’ve never been before,
throw open doors to worlds outside the lines.

Words and music: Gordon Light.

Gospel: Matthew 17: 1-9
Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.
Thanks be to God.

Sermon Reflection

Prayer of Confession

O God, for those times we have not followed your call: when we have thought the cross too heavy, and its way too rough for us, when we have walked a more comfortable path, and hidden the way of love by doing so, we pray…
Have mercy, gracious God.
For those times we have not followed your word, when it has been too honest with us, convicting our way of living, when we have reinterpreted it to suit our way, and hidden the truth of the gospel by doing so, we pray...
Have mercy, gracious God.
For those times we have not shared your table, by keeping your goodness to ourselves, tipping the scales of justice in our favour, and leaving folks hungry in doing so, we pray...
Have mercy, gracious God.
For the times we have hidden your light, by living in the shadows, remaining hidden by the darkness, embarrassed by your truth, and hiding your glory in doing so, we pray...
Have mercy, gracious God.

Words of Affirmation

Prayers of the People

Minute for Mission/ PWRDF

Response: Gracious God: May this be a holy transformation.

The 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.

The Peace
The peace of Christ be always with you.
And also with you.

*Hymn:
VU 299 Teach Me, God, to Wonder

Teach me, God, to wonder,
teach me, God, to see;
let your world of beauty capture me.
Praise to you be given,
love for you be lived,
life be celebrated, joy you give.

Let me, God, be open,
let me loving be;
let your world of people speak to me.
Praise to you be given,
love for you be lived,
life be celebrated, joy you give.

Let me, God, be ready,
let me be awake,
in your world of loving my place take.
Praise to you be given,
love for you be lived,
life be celebrated, joy you give.

Teach me, God, to know you,
hear you when you speak,
see you in my neighbor when we meet.
Praise to you be given,
love for you be lived,
life be celebrated, joy you give.

Words: Walter Farquharson, alt. R. Gerald Hobbs; Music: Ron Klusmeier.

*Response:
VU 540 Grant Us, God, the Grace

Grant us, God, the grace of giving,
with a spirit large and free,
that ourselves and all our living
we may offer faithfully.

*Prayer over the Gifts

Blessing

*Hymn:
VU 232 Joyful, Joyful, We Adore You

Joyful, joyful, we adore you,
God of glory, life and love;
hearts unfold like flowers before you,
opening to the sun above.
Melt the clouds of sin and sadness,
drive the gloom of doubt away;
giver of immortal gladness,
fill us with the light of day.

All your works with joy surround you,
earth and heaven reflect your rays,
stars and angels sing around you,
centre of unbroken praise.
Field and forest, vale and mountain,
flowery meadow, flashing sea,
chanting bird and flowing fountain,
sound their praise eternally.

You are giving and forgiving,
ever blessing, ever blest,
wellspring of the joy of living,
ocean depth of happy rest!
Source of grace and fount of blessing,
let your light upon us shine;
teach us how to love each other,
lift us to the joy divine.

Mortals, join the mighty chorus
which the morning stars began;
God's own love is reigning o'er us,
joining people hand in hand.
Ever singing, march we onward,
victors in the midst of strife;
joyful music lifts us sunward
in the triumph song of life.

*Three-fold Amen

Announcements

Please remember to bring in canned or dry goods for our community cupboard and blessing box.
Focus: Blessing Box
Today AGM after church
February 21, 2023 Shrove Tuesday pancake dinner 5 – 7 PM
February 22, 2023 Ash Wednesday service 4 PM
March 2, 2023 Council Meeting 6:30 PM
March 3, 2023 World Day of Prayer 7 PM

Liturgical resources from:
Celebrate God's Presence: A Book of Services. Copyright ©2000 United Church of Canada.

Music copyright:
Seasons of the Spirit SeasonsFusion Advent • Christmas • Epiphany 2022–2023. Copyright © 2022 Wood Lake Publishing Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Voices United 415 God, We Praise You for the Morning Words: Jim Strathdee and Jean Strathdee, 1984 Music: Jim Strathdee, 1984. Words and music copyright © 1985 Desert Flower Music. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-720359 (#59964). All rights reserved.

More Voices 138 My Love Colours Outside the Lines Words and music: Gordon Light, 1995; arrangement Andrew Donaldson. Words and music copyright © 1995 Common Cup Company. Arrangement copyright © Andrew Donaldson. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-720359 words and music (#119027); arrangement (#109416). All rights reserved.

Voices United 299 Teach Me, God, to Wonder Words: Walter Farquharson 1973; altered R. Gerald Hobbs 1987; Music: Ron Klusmeier, 1974. Words: © 1973 Walter Farquharson (admin. Hope Publishing Co.). Music: Ron Klusmeier, © 1974, (admin. Hope Publishing Co.) Reprinted with permission under CCLI License # 11033010 (299164) or ONE LICENSE #A-720359 (#80492). Permission on file via email from Wood Lake Books for altered words. All rights reserved.

Voices United 540 Grant Us, God, the Grace Words: anonymous; Music: attributed Christian F. Witt, P, Psalmodia Sacra, 1715; adaptation Henry John Gauntlett, 1861. Words, music and adaptation: copyright, public domain.

Voices United 232 Joyful, Joyful We Adore You Words: Henry van Dyke 1907; Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, 1824; adaptation Edward Hodges 1864; descant Hal Hopson 1979. Words, Music, Adaptation: Public Domain. Descant: © 1979 G.I.A. Publications, Inc. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-72035 Descant (#98832) [only reported if played or sung]. All rights reserved.

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