Remembrance Sunday
Today’s Service
(* Indicates when to stand, if you are able.)
PRELUDE
GREETING
CALL TO WORSHIP
On this day of memory we gather to sing and to pray,
we remember the past and look to the future.
On this day when the guns once fell silent,
We come before you God, seeking Your peace.
On this day of hope in the face of terror,
We come before you God, praying with all our hearts:
God our help in ages past, our hope for years to come.
Help us to find the path that leads to the Peaceable kingdom. Open our eyes and the eyes of the nations to find a different path through the disagreements of life in this world. Amen.
* INTROIT #395 “Come In, Come In and Sit Down”
ANNOUNCEMENTS
OPENING PRAYER Michelle Howatt
We come together today Citizens of earth and of heaven to remember:
Those who have given their lives in service of others
To remember with dismay
The suffering, destruction and pain caused by human conflict
To remember with gratitude
Those whose lives, love and friendship, ours has been the privilege to share
To remember with sadness
Those whose death has caused us loneliness and pain
We come together not to glorify or celebrate war and conflict but to recognize its cost
And commit ourselves to be peacemakers and peacekeepers. Amen
* HYMN “Draw the Circle Wide”
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION Rowyn Jardine
Dear God, Please use these scriptures to reveal more of your love, truth and promises to us. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen.
SCRIPTURE John 8:36
ANTHEM “What Did He Die For”
SERMON Freedom Isn’t Free
PASTORAL PRAYER
LORD’S PRAYER
* OFFERING HYMN #540 “Grant Us, God, the Grace”
DEDICATION Rowyn Jardine
As so many have done before us, we make our offering now.
As so many have prayed before us, we ask your blessing upon it.
As so many have dreamed before us,
we pray that our gifts will touch many lives. Amen
ACT OF REMEMBRANCE
National Anthem ‘O Canada’
Laying on Wreath Lieutenant (Navy) (Retired) Barbara J. Stothart
Last Post
1 Minute Silence
Reveille
The Reading of the Names
The Response;
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.
BENEDICTION
* CLOSING HYMN “Spirit Open My Heart”
ROLL OF HONOUR OF PERSONS WHO DIED IN ACTIVE SERVICE
St. James & St. John United Church
First World War:
James Corbett Raymond Hare Gordon Leslie Willard McDonald
William Fogan Alex Ingram R. Arthur MacMurray
Perley Williamson David Gordon
Second World War:
W. Clyde Brown William M. A. Corbett Wilfred Knight Benjamin H. Vye
James H. Cassidy Reginald Horsley Arthur Thomson
Maple Glen United Church
First World War:
Herbert Baker Bernard Beggs Bernard King Douglas Sobey
Second World War:
William Cadger
