Bulletin: August 14, 2011

GATHERING
Welcome
Announcements
Passing the Peace
Lighting the Christ Candle

WE CELEBRATE AND PRAISE GOD
Call to Worship:
L: Sisters and brothers, God gathers us here this
morning because we are God’s beloved people.
P: We open our hearts to God’s tender presence.
L: The Lord God of Hosts entrusts the future to us,
and calls us to be a faithful and generous people.
P: We hear God’s call and we accept God’s
gracious invitation.
We commit our lives and our hearts to our God
of steadfast love.
We offer all of who we are, and all of what we
have for God’s purpose. Amen

Hymn: VU#374 Come and Find the Quiet Centre
Children’s Time: Joseph meets his brothers
Hymn: VU#245 Praise the Lord with the Sound of Trumpet

We listen for God’s Word
Scripture Reading:
Genesis 45:1-15
Psalm 133 VU p. 856
Matthew 15:10-28
Anthem:
Message: “Crumbs from the table”
*A Narrative sermon written by Rev. Richard J Fairchild

Hymn: VU#691 Though Ancient Walls

We Respond In our Lives
Minute for Missions: The work in Haiti Continues
Presentation of Offerings
Offertory Hymn: VU# 537 Your Work, Oh God…

Your work, O God, needs many hands
To help you everywhere
And some there are who cannot serve
Unless our gifts we share.

Because we love you and your work,
Our offering now we make:
Be pleased to use it as your own,
We ask in Jesus’ sake.

Offertory prayer:
Prayer of the People:
The Lord’s Prayer:
Hymn: VU #884 You Shall Go Out With Joy
Commissioning and Benediction:
Go in peace,
May God be merciful and bless you.
May God look on you with kindness.
May God so work in your lives that the world
Around you may know God’s will, and render
praise unto
God’s name on account of you. Amen

Choral Benediction:
Go now in peace, go now in peace
may the love of God surround you everywhere
everywhere you may go.