OCTOBER 8, 2017 THANKSGIVING SUNDAY
Preacher: Reverend Alice Szemők
Music Ministry: David and Clare Young
Greeters: Ray & Lois McNeill
Counters: Penne Buckley and Grace LeFloch
Technical support: Earle Howe, Edward Gilks, David Watling
Today’s Service
(* Indicates when to stand, if you are able.)
DEEP BLUE SONG
CALL TO WORSHIP: Jenna Grant
This is a time for giving thanks;
a time to be mindful of the good that encircles us.
Thank you, God, for all you have given us!
Friends and family encourage and care,
and this community shows us God’s loving ways.
Thank you, God, for all you have given us!
We find a home in God’s creation
and the earth gives us good food to make us grow.
Thank you, God, for all you have given us!
The seasons change.
Sunshine comes and goes, yet your loving care for us is eternal.
Thank you, God, for all you have given us!
GREETING
SUNDAY SCHOOL ANTHEM “Let’s Go Down to the River”
ANNOUNCEMENTS
* INTROIT “He Has Made Me Glad”
OPENING PRAYER: Rowyn Jardine
This morning, Lord, we want everything to be for your glory.
We want our thoughts, our words, our songs,
our church, our community, our resources, our time, our lives: all to be for you.
Everything ours is yours and we come together to declare this to be so, on this holy day of thanksgiving. Bless our time together with your holy presence, Amen.
* HYMN “Thank You Lord”
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION: Christopher Estey
God our Father, thank you for listening to us no matter how young or how old we are.
Thank you for sending Jesus, who teaches us how to pray. We know that you always listen to us, help us to listen to you today. Amen.
SCRIPTURE Joshua 4:4-7 Sydney Murray
ANTHEM “My Heart is Filled”
SERMON Thanksgiving Reminders
PASTORAL PRAYER
LORD’S PRAYER
* OFFERING HYMN “We Bring a Sacrifice”
DEDICATION: Matthew Murray
We give our offering hopefully, hoping that you can use these gifts, hoping that these gifts can further your kingdom, hoping that your kingdom will come. Your kingdom, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.
BLESSING OF THE PRAYER SHAWLS AND BAPTISMAL BLANKETS
BENEDICTION
* CLOSING HYMN “Days of Elijah”
BIBLE VERSE TO MEMORIZE THIS WEEK
“In the future your children will ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ Then you can tell them, ‘They remind us that the Jordan River stopped flowing when the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant went across.’ These stones will stand as a memorial among the people of Israel forever.” (Joshua 4:6-7 NLT)
