September 1, 2024

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
REV. KENDRA BALLIET
JAMES ROSS, ORGANIST

Prelude - Adagio-C.M. Widor

Welcome

*Call to Worship
Leader: Welcome, Beloved of God! For truly, you are deeply, wonderfully, beautifully loved by the God of all creation!
All: Come, let us worship God who loves us!
Leader: Whether your week was filled with mountain-high joys or valley-low sorrows, peace like a gently flowing river, or stress like a stormy gale, this is the time to rise and come away to worship God who sustains and tends to you.
All: Come, let us worship God who loves us and tends to us!
Leader: In a world that pulls us this way and that, God’s love is our True North, guiding us with an uncommon wisdom through all that life brings us.
All: Come, let us worship God who loves us and guides us!
Leader: Beloved, the time for singing has come, because God’s love, care, and wisdom sustain and guide us wherever we go.
All: Come, let us worship and sing to the God who loves, tends, guides, and sustains us! Amen!

*Opening Hymn - “Sanctuary” #2164

*Opening Prayer
Creating God, you are the source of nature’s splendor— the beauty and fragrance of delicate flowers, and sweet sound of birdsong. We come to you this morning with delight and gladness, grateful for all of your wonders. As the fields produce their harvest, may your love grow within us, that we too may produce a harvest of love, hope, and joy. Amen.

Affirmation of Faith: A Statement of Faith of the United Church of Canada #883

Gloria Patri

Children's Chat

Music Ministry and Offertory - All Praise to You, O Lord- Mahlon Balderson

Doxology and Prayer of Gratitude

Scripture -  James 1:17-27

Sermon - “Be Doers”

Joys/Concerns

Hymn - "Lord, I Want to Be a Christian" #402

Pastoral Prayer/Lord's Prayer

Communion

Closing Hymn - “Take My Life, and Let It Be Consecrated” #399

Action Steps & Benediction

Postlude - A Festal Fanfare: J. S. Bach

The flowers on the altar today are given to the glory of God and in celebration of Glenn & Janet Humes' 55 years of marriage.

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