St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Lethbridge
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Thanksgiving Service
*Please stand if you are able
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Our Reason for Being
As a community of the people of God,
called by Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit.
Our purpose is to reach the hearts, minds, bodies
and soul of individuals,
thus bringing the Kingdom of God upon ourselves and others.
We do this through worship, nurture and outreach.
PRELUDE
THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE CHURCH
We Gather to Worship
*†PROCESSIONAL HYMN 803 “Come, ye thankful people, come”
A LITANY OF THANKSGIVING
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Give thanks to the Lord who is good.
God’s love is everlasting.
For the good world; for things great and small, beautiful and
awesome, for seen and unseen splendours;
Than you, God.
For human life; for talking and moving and thinking together;
for common hopes and hardships shared from birth until our
dying;
Thanks you, God.
For work to do and strength to work; for the comradeship of
labour; for exchanges of good humour and encouragement;
Thank you, God.
For family; for living together and eating together; for family
amusements and family pleasures;
Thank you, God.
For the young; for their high hopes; for their irreverence
toward worn-out values; for their search for freedom;
Thank you, God.
For growing up and growing old; for wisdom deepened by
experience; for rest in leisure; and for time made precious by
its passing;
Thank you, God.
For your help in times of doubt and sorrow; for healing our
diseases; for preserving us in temptation and danger;
Thank you, God.
For the church into which we have been called; for the good
news we receive by Word and Sacrament; for our life together
in the Lord;
We praise you, God.
For your Holy Spirit, who guides our steps and brings us gifts
of faith and love; who prays in us and prompts our grateful
worship;
We praise you, God.
Above all, O God, for your Son Jesus Christ, who lived and died
and lives again for our salvation; for our hope in him; and for
the joy of serving him;
We thank and praise you, Eternal God, for all your
goodness to us.
Give thanks to the Lord, who is good.
God’s love is everlasting.
*†HYMN 802
“For the Fruits of All Creation”
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Almighty God, you love us, but we do not fully love you.
You call, but we do not always listen. We often walk
away from our neighbours in need, wrapped in our own
concerns. We often condone evil, hatred, warfare, and
greed. God of grace, help us to admit our sins, so that as
you move toward us in mercy, we may repent, turn to
you, and receive forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our
Redeemer. Amen.
DECLARATION OF PARDON
The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting.
Believe the gospel. In Christ you are forgiven.
In God’s mercy we trust.
CHILDREN’S TIME
We Hear God’s Word
FIRST LESSON: Joel 2:21-27
(page 847)
RESPONSIVE READING Psalm 126
(Refrain 1)
SECOND LESSON: 1 Timothy 2:1-7
(page 208)
Lay Reader: John Wevers
(Red Book: The Book of Psalms)
MINISTRY OF MUSIC “We Plough the Fields and Scatter” (Choir)
GOSPEL LESSON Matthew 6:25-33
SERMON
*†HYMN 685
“Fear Factor”
“How Firm a Foundation”
(page 6)
We Respond in Love
OFFERING OUR GIFTS TO GOD
*†RESPONSE 79 “Praise God from whom all blessings flow”
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S PRAYER
We pray to the Lord
Lord, hear our prayer
*†HYMN 457
“Now Thank We All Our God”
*†BLESSING 553
“May the Lord Bless You”
BENEDICTION
CHORAL AMEN
POSTLUDE
**Large print bulletins are available from your usher
**Sermons are available at the back of the narthex.
The Life and Work of the Church
GOOD MORNING and welcome to this worship
celebration of God’s love and grace. We pray that
your worship experience is filled with the
inspiration and encouragement God has for you. If
you are a guest with us today, please sign the pew binder which
will be passed along during offering. Please join us in the gym,
after the service, for coffee. We would love to meet you.
Elder at the Door: Doug Craik
Greeters: AJ & Karen McKenzie
Coffee Hosts: Irene Vanee & Koshie Van Ree
Nursery Care is available for children, newborn - 3 years of
age. The nursery is located above the kitchen and is
equipped with speakers so you can hear the service.
Busy Bags are quiet activities available in the Narthex, on
green shelf, for children to pick up and use during Worship.
Please return the bags to the Narthex shelf after the service.
Sunday School & Youth Group – We invite all children ages
4 - through to grade 5 to join us in the lower hall, after Children’s
Time. Children in grades 6-9 meet for Youth Group.
Prayer Wall: Bruce Webster is in Taber Hospital. Please
keep him in your prayers. Please continue to pray for Jean
Brotherwood and Susan Helm.
‘These Days’ Subscription is due once again. Regular print is
$ 11.00 and large print is $13.00 for the year. Please pay
Hennie Vander Linden to renew or contact her at 403 381
4116 if you want to be a new subscriber.
"A Handbell” Choir will be starting so that we can prepare for the
Christmas Season. This adult choir will meet on Wednesdays 5 - 6:30 pm
starting on Wednesday, November 4th. If there is enough interest a youth
choir will also be considered.For more information please contact Fiona
Miller - fionasmiller0404@yahoo.ca
Dunamis Fellowship Canada presents
An Expression of Presbyterian-Reformed Ministries
“The Healing Ministry of Jesus” Conference.
Time: Nov.11-14, 2015
Place: Edmonton
To register and more details
At www.dunamisfellowshipcanada.org
Calling all former ECM board members or golf tournament committee
members!!! You are invited to a potluck Oct. 26th at McKillop United Church,
5:00 to gather, eating at 6:00 pm. It has been 20 years of ECM and we want a
chance to gather some history and hear some stories and do a little celebrating! So
please come and if you have photos or clippings bring those too!!
We’d love to see you!
Syrian Refugee Fund
PWSD has a program to support the current Syrian Refugee Crisis and
the Canadian government will again match donations. The Mission Fund
will match donations up to $2,500.00. Please use the envelopes in the
narthex marked “Syrian Refugee Fund”. This fund raiser initiative will run
through to 10/25/15. Thank you for your prayers and continued support.
Join the Lethbridge Pregnancy Care Centre on Friday, November 6
for an evening of uproarious laughter and good company as the LPCC hosts
a dessert evening and silent auction. The entertainment for the evening will
be provided by Panic Squad, a trio of improv comedians who promise an
evening of humor that is fresh, clean and funny.
Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door and are available at the
Lethbridge Pregnancy Care Centre (118-8 St. S.) or online at
lethbridgepregcentre.com. For more information, call the LPCC at (403)
942-1819.
Hospital Visitation and Notification
Rev. Hugh and Irene Vanee check weekly at the hospital to see if
there are any people from St. Andrew’s who have been admitted.
They do not have access to all the people from this region who
have been admitted, only those who identify themselves at
admission as being Presbyterian and desiring a Presbyterian
visitor and people who have no church of any denomination, but
would be open to a visit from someone from the Presbyterian
Church. Therefore, if you do not identify yourself at admission as
desiring a visitor for the Presbyterian Church, Rev. Hugh and Irene
do not have any way of knowing that you are in the hospital, unless
someone from the family of the sick person phones the church
office.
Please do not rely on the doctors, nurses, and other health
professionals in St. Andrew’s congregation to inform the church
about hospital admissions because they are bound by
professional ethics not to disclose to others who is in the hospital.
Irene checks the hospital admissions on Wednesday of each
week while Rev. Hugh checks on Thursday. Therefore, as an
example, if you were admitted to hospital on a Sunday and returned
home on a Tuesday, your admission would be unknown, unless
someone from the family were to phone the church office. Rev.
Hugh visits the hospital once a week, usually on Thursdays, but
will visit on other days, if he is asked to do so.
Time to Celebrate St. Andrew's 130th Anniversary!
Mark your calendar for
Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 6:00 pm.
Dinner tickets go on sale TODAY in the Narthex and during
Coffee Hour.
14
yrs &over $20.00; 13 yrs & under 10.00.
The deadline for tickets is October 18
The Catherine M. Webster
Memorial Music Bursary
Catherine McPherson Webster’s parents moved to Lethbridge shortly after
she was born in Regina on June 17, 1912. She attended Sunday School at
Knox Presbyterian Church, where she joined the choir at age 16. This was
the beginning of an involvement in music that lasted for 40 years until her
retirement in 1968. She became a communicant member of the Presbyterian
Church in Canada in 1933, and remained a dedicated and committed
member of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church until her passing in 1994.
In the 1950’s, Catherine formed a Junior Choir with as many as 40
members,
which she continued to lead into the late 1960’s. After learning the art of bell
ringing at the Banff School of Fine Arts and in Calgary, she formed and
directed the first Bell Choir at St. Andrew’s. Her great love of music, both
religious and classical, led her to encourage young people to achieve their
best in music programs within the church and outside of it.
The Catherine M. Webster Music Bursary was established in 1995. The
Worship Committee will award the Bursary annually on the First Day of
Advent. The value of the awards will vary from year to year, at the
discretion of the Worship Committee.
Applicants must fulfill all of the following: (1) be a member or adherent of
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church (Lethbridge, Alberta); (2) be in school
(Grade 1 through Grade 12). (3) have actively participated in the Music
Ministry of St. Andrew’s for the year (at the discretion of the Music Guides)
prior to submitting an application; and(4) be studying some form of music
(instrumental or voice) with a private instructor.
Applications must be made in writing and addressed to the Worship
Committee Chair, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. Application must
include a letter of confirmation from the applicant’s private instructor. For
more information, please contact Kiyo Adachi 403-328-4001.
Deadline for receipt application is
Sunday, October 25, 2015
“Week at a Glance” October 11th – 18th
Sunday:
10:30 am
10:45 am
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thanksgiving Service
Sunday School & Youth Group
Office Closed
2:00 pm
Meadowlarks
@ Columbia Assisted Living W
4:00pm
StAMP (gr.1-5 instrumental)
10:30 am
Bible Study sings @
Good Samaritans North
4:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:15 pm
StAMP (gr.6-12 performance)
Scottish Dance
Choir
Thursday:
8:00 am
4:00pm
CCH Retreat
StAMP (gr.1-8 choir)
Friday:
9:45 am
Parent & Tot Music (ages 2-5)
Sundays:
10:30 am
10:45 am
Worship Service
Sunday School/Youth Group
Sunday Schedule
Date
October 11th
October 18th
October 25th
Van
Uwe
Eggebrecht
James
Suge
Lawrence
McCune
Usher
Tony
Voort
Hugh
Grant
Terry
Basaraba
John
Wevers
Paula
Degner
Lay Reader
Power Pt
Announcements
Dean
Degner
John
Plomp
Fiona
Miller
Bob
Epp
Margaret
Galloway
John
Bykowski
Uwe
Eggebrecht
Audio
Gary
Van Voorst
Tony
Voort
Tony
Voort
Video
Luke
Hummel
Dick
DeKreek
James
Wiskerke
Outside care
Adrian
Uitbeyerse &
John Plomp
Earl
Bechtel
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Adrian
Uitbeyerse
Gary
Van Voorst
Security
Children’s Time
THE RICH YOUNG RULER
Mark 10:17-31
Church Address: 1818 - 5th Ave South
Lethbridge, AB
T1J 0W6
(403 327-2582)
Minister: Rev. Hugh Jack (403 320-6822 - office) (403 328-0850 - home)
Ministers Email: rev.hugh@telus.net
Church Secretary: Debbie Oxley (403 327-2582) (fax 403 320-5214)
Office Hours: 9-12, Monday- Friday; Email: andrewst@telus.net
Website: www.standrewslethbridge.ca
Hospital Visitation Contact: Irene Vanee 403 327-2557
Televised Service: Sunday from 6-7 pm on Shaw TV#9 (September – May)
Music Guide: Corrie Hausauer (403-380-6068) organist
Music Guide: Jon Helm (403 634-9865) choir director
Clerk Of Session: Bob Epp (403 381-3539)
Roll Clerk: Virginia Wamambo (403 929-1472)
Treasurer: Jannie Van Dyk (403 327-2582)
Church Envelopes: Gerda Van Voorst (403 327-6760)
Prayer Chain Contact: Ena Craik (403 328-2775)
Sunday School Superintendant: Anne Sabo (403 327-3547)
Nursery Coordinator: Brenda Rathwell (403 329-1824)
Building Use: Adrian Uitbeyerse (403 328-4541; cell 403 892 - 0193)
Conveners of Ministry Teams:
*Congregational Life & Spiritual Formation Team:
Karen Robbins 403 329-8083
*Invitation & Hospitality Team: Deb Stankievech 403 328-5195
* Mission, Outreach & Evangelism Team: Bob Epp 403 381-3539
*Administration Team: Gary VanVoorst 403 327-6760
For information regarding meetings, or to discuss ministry matters,
please contact the conveners directly.
803 Come, ye thankful people, come
1. Come, ye thankful people, come,
raise the song of harvest home;
all is safely gathered in,
ere the winter storms begin:
God, our Maker, doth provide
for our wants to be supplied.
Come to God’s own temple, come:
raise the song of harvest home.
2. All the world is God’s own field,
fruit unto God’s praise to yield;
wheat and tares together sown,
unto joy or sorrow grown;
first the blade and then the ear,
then the full corn shall appear.
or harvest, grant mat we
wholesome grain and pure may be.
3.
For the Lord our God shall come,
and shall take the harvest home;
from the field shall in that day
all offences purge away;
give the angels charge at last
in the fire the fares to cast,
but the fruitful ears to store
in God’s storehouse evenmore.
4.
Even so, Lord, quickly come
to thy final harvest home:
gather thou thy people in,
free from sorrow, free from sin;
there, forever purified,
in thy presence to abide.
Come, with all thine angels, come:
raise the glorious harvest home.
802 For the fruits of all creation
1. For the fruits of all creation, thanks be to God; for
the gifts to every nation, thanks be to God;
for the ploughing, sowing, reaping, silent growth
while we are sleeping, future needs in earth’s safe
keeping, thanks be to God.
2. In the just reward of labour, God’s will is done in
the help we give our neighbour, God’s will is done;
in our worldwide task of caring
for the hungry and despairing,
in the harvests we are sharing, God’s will is done.
3. For the harvests of the Spirit, thanks be to God for
the good we all inherit, thanks be to God;
for the wonders that astound us,
for the truths that still confound us, most of all, that
love has found us, thanks be to God.
685 How firm a foundation
1.
How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
is laid for your faith in God’s excellent word!
What more can God say than to you hath been said,
to you that for refuge to Jesus have fled?
2.
“Fear not, I am with thee; oh be not dismayed!
For I am thy God, and will still give thee aid;
I’ll strengthen thee, help thee and cause thee to
stand,upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand.
3.
“When through the deep waters I call thee to go,
the rivers of woe shall not thee overflow,
for I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless,
and sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.
4.
“When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie,
my grace, all-sufficient, shall be thy supply:
the flames shall not hurt thee; I only design
thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine.
5.
“The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose
I will not—I will not desert to his foes;
that soul, though all hell should endeavour to shake,
I’ll never—no, never—no, never forsake!”
457 - Now Thank We All Our God
1. Now thank we all our God
With heart and hands and voices
who wondrous things has done,
in whom God’s world rejoices,
who from our mother’s arms
has blessed us on our way
with countless gifts of love,
and still is ours today.
2. Oh may this bounteous God
through all our life be near us,
with ever-joyful hearts
and blessed peace to cheer us,
and keep us all with grace,
and guide us when perplexed,
and free us from all ills
in this world and the next.
3. All praise and thanks to God
who reigns in highest heaven,
the Father and the Son
and Spirit now be given,
the one eternal God,
whom heaven and earth adore,
for thus it was, is now
and shall be evermore.