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St. Columba's Port Hardy Sunday Service

Rev. Christine Muise

Sunday, October 15, 2023

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
Wardens: Robert Fyles and Priscilla O’Neil
Treasurer: Judy Fyles
Music Ministry: Roldan Yuipco
Video: Ammie Yuipco
Community Partner: Cathie Wilson
www.stcolumbaporthardy.ca

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost Year A
October 15, 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 (Based on Psalm 104:24–34)
How could we ever tell how good our God is? What would we say? How would we move into such praise? How would it feel to be there together with such joy? Play instruments.

Bring every joy. Come with every bit of delight. Gather it all in this pleasing, commendable, and worthy of excellence, with drum, trumpet, and tambourine. Praise God! Play instruments.

How could we live into God’s love? We could rejoice and shout. We could jump and sing. We could tell the truth and hold space for every emotion. Yes! This is what we praise. Praise God, who gathers us together.

Opening Prayer

*Hymn: VU 374 Come and Find the Quiet Centre

Come and find the quiet centre
in the crowded life we lead,
find the room for hope to enter,
find the frame where we are freed:
clear the chaos and the clutter,
clear our eyes that we can see
all the things that really matter,
be at peace, and simply be.

Silence is a friend who claims us,
cools the heat and slows the pace,
God it is who speaks and names us,
knows our being, face to face,
making space within our thinking,
lifting shades to show the sun,
raising courage when we're shrinking,
finding scope for faith begun.

In the Spirit let us travel,
open to each other's pain,
let our loves and fears unravel,
celebrate the space we gain:
there's a place for deepest dreaming,
there's a time for hearts to care,
in the Spirits lively scheming
there is always room to spare!

Words: Shirley Erena Murray; harmony Ronald A. Nelson.

Prayer of the Day

THE STORY OF FAITH IS PROCLAIMED
Hutłilala's! Listen deeply as Scripture is read.
Hebrew Scripture: Exodus 32: 1-14

Psalm 106 VU 830
Refrain: O give thanks to God whose love endures forever.
O give thanks, for God is good; God’s love endures forever.
Who can recount your mighty acts, O God, or tell of all your praise.
R: O give thanks to God whose love endures forever.

Blessed are those who act justly; and always do what is right.
Remember me, God, when you show favour to your people, and come to me with your saving help.
May I see the prosperity of your chosen;
May I share the joy of your nation, and exult with the people you have made your own.
R: O give thanks to God whose love endures forever.

We have sinned like our ancestors;
We have erred, and acted wickedly.
They made a young bull at Horeb and worshipped that molten image.
They exchanged the glory of God for the image of a creature that feeds on grass.
They forgot that you were the god who had saved them by your mighty acts in Egypt,
The wonders you had done in the land of Ham, awesome deeds at the Red Sea.
You would have destroyed them had not Moses your chosen one, stood in the breach,
He turned back your wrath from their destruction.
R: O give thanks to God whose love endures forever.

Epistle: Philippians 4: 1-9

*Hymn: VU 375 Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness