6th Sunday after Easter

Christian Family Sunday

May 9, 2021

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* Please rise in body or spirit.  (On Zoom, please mute)

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Gathering

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Prelude (Please join us eight to ten minutes before the start of the service)

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Welcome and Announcements

Acknowledgment of the Land

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Lighting of the Christ Candle

 

The light of Christ.

Thanks be to God.

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Call to Worship

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As sure as the sun rises and sets,

so constant is your love for us, O God.

As sure as the season changes, fall into winter, winter into spring,

so dependable is your mercy, O God.

God’s love is steadfast and God’s mercy endures forever.

Let us worship our God with joyful, thankful hearts

and faithful actions today and tomorrow.

(Jean Leckie, gathering LE, 2018)

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Opening Prayer

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* Opening Hymn: VU 333    Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

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Confession of Faith “New Creed” (UCC, 1968)

 

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.

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Sharing the Peace

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Word

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Scripture

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Acts          10:44-48

Psalm        98 (VU 818)

1 John       5:1-6                                          

John         15:9-17

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Hear what the spirit is saying to the church.

Thanks be to God.

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Poem: Love

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Reflection

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* Hymn: MV 138    My Love Colours Outside the Lines

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Thanksgiving

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Invitation to Offering

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* Hymn: MV 188    I Thank You, Thank You, Jesus (English vs. 1, 3)

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Offering Prayer

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Prayers of the People

 

The Prayer of Jesus

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, forever and ever.

Amen.

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Sending Forth

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* Closing Hymn: VU 477    I Come with Joy

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Commissioning & Blessing

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Let us go and dare.

We go to dare to follow where Jesus leads:

into the margins and into new relationships.

Let us go and listen.

We go to listen for surprising voices,

found in unexpected places and in ties of wonder.

Let us go and love.

We go to love ourselves by God’s gracious blessing,

loving others with the same open gaze.

(Robin Wardlaw, gathering LE, 2018)

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* Response: MV 224    May the God of Peace (music from )

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Postlude

End of Sunday Worship

Beginning of Service in the Community

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(Please stay after the service for a coffee time. Bring your coffee and let us chat!)

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Next Lectionary Readings (May 16 – 7th Sunday of Easter)   

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