Director of Music:  Dean Perry

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

PRELUDE                                

HYMN                                       232, Joyful, Joyful We Adore You

CHORAL INTROIT

Sing your praise to God eternal, sing your praise to God the Son,

sing your praise to God the Spirit, living and forever One.

God has made us, God has blessed us, God has called us to be true.

God rules over all creation, daily making all things new.                         

WELCOME AND LIGHTING OF THE CHRIST CANDLE              

CALL TO WORSHIP (congregation please read bold print)

The voice of God is heard in all the world.

In troubled lands, where people hunger and fear, it speaks of compassionate action.

The voice of God is heard in the church.

In encouragement of each other, in support of wider church, it speaks of community.

The voice of God is heard within each one of us.

It speaks of acceptance, it speaks of forgiveness, it speaks of peace, it speaks of hope.

It speaks now; it will never be silent!

Let us listen to God’s voice.

OPENING PRAYER (congregation please read bold print)

You have blessed us with the sunlit glory of summer days.

And we praise you, Creator God.

You have blessed us with a Christian community of friends.

And we rejoice in our mutual support, O God.

You have blessed us with questioning, enthusiastic young persons, and with older persons full of good sense.

Together they are our strength, O God.

You have blessed us with a church which stands with the powerless.

We’re So Glad You Came!

September 5th, 2010

We know it reflects your mercy and compassion in the willingness to work joyfully with fellow Christians, in the reality of discipleship’s cost, new life is ours, abundant life is possible. 

Thanks be to God!   Amen  

CHILDREN’S HYMN                       570, Jesus’ Hands Were Kind Hands

CHILDREN’S TIME

ANNOUNCEMENTS

THE WORD OF GOD

FIRST READING                       Jeremiah 18:  1 – 11

                                                Lay reader:  Doug Tanner 

RESPONSIVE READING           Psalm 139, V. U., pg. 861

                                                (with sung refrain)

                                                Lay reader:  Doug Tanner 

GOSPEL LESSON                    Luke 14:  25 – 33  

HYMN                                       566, Awake, O Sleeper                                                                                                                                

REFLECTION                          

OUR RESPONSE TO GOD’S WORD

OFFERING

OFFERTORY ANTHEM              I’ve Got Peace like a River

                                                                                                     African-American Spiritual        

DOXOLOGY

Grant us, God, the grace of giving,

with a spirit large and free,

that ourselves and all our living,

we may offer faithfully.

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE                            

LORD’S PRAYER

Our Father, who are 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

for ever and ever.  Amen.

CLOSING HYMN           586, We Shall Go Out with Hope of Resurrection          

BENEDICTION 

Our worship ends, our service now begins.  You are invited to share this bulletin with friends and family.

Thought for The Week

Forget other’s faults by remembering your own.

USHERS                                            Ann and Doug Tanner

                                                            Joyce-Anne and Ted Smith

IN THE NURSERY                            Helen Waters

Thank you Terry

A big thank you to Terry Vint for playing the piano and organ at today’s services.

Meetings, Meetings, Meetings

Sept. 7^th, Property Comm., 7:00 p.m., Fireside Room.

Sept. 8^th, Women’s Spirituality Group, 1:30 p.m., Fireside Room.

Sept. 8^th, Finance Committee, 7:00 p.m., Fireside Room.

Sept. 9^th, WOW (Women of the Word – Bible Study), 12:30, Downstairs.

Sept. 9^th, Choir practice, 5:30 p.m., Chapel.

Sept. 13^th, Bazaar Committee, 9:30 a.m., Downstairs classroom.

Sept. 13^th, Pastoral Care Committee, 9:30 a.m., Fireside Room.

Sept. 13^th, Fellowship Committee, 7:00 p.m., Fireside Room.

Sept. 14^th, Executive of The Official Board, 7:00 p.m., Fireside Room.

Sept. 15^th, Shawl Ministry, 9:30 a.m., Fireside Room

Sept. 16^th, WOW, 12:30 p.m., Downstairs classroom

Sept. 16^th, Choir practice, 5:30 p.m., Chapel.

Sept. 21^st, Sanctuary Committee, 2:00 p.m., Fireside Room.

Sept. 21^st, Official Board, 7:00 p.m., Auditorium.

Sept. 22^nd, Women’s Spirituality, 1:30 p.m., Fireside Room.

Thank you VacationBibleSchool Volunteers

Thank you to all the wonderful volunteers who made the VacationBibleSchool a great success:

Cynthia Dursley, for leading the children in music in the sanctuary;

Lois Shubrook for doing crafts with the children;

Ruth Robertson for games and making everyone’s name buttons;

Doug Tanner for doing stories and parachute games;

Barb Cowan for doing action songs and musical games;

Marcia Groskorth for the planning, setting-up and clean-up of snacks;

Judy Gingerich for supplying snacks on Monday;

Marlene Augustine for supplying snacks on Tuesday;

Sasha Pringle for supplying snacks on Wednesday;

And last but not least – Eileen Trethewey for organizing the entire event.

Sunday School

Sunday School will resume on Sept. 12, at the 10:30 service.  On Sept. 19 the children of the Sunday School and Nursery will join with the Eden Committee to harvest the church vegetable garden.

Coffee Hour

Coffee Hour will resume today.  Your Hostess and Host are Henny and Henry Labrecque.  A sign-up sheet is in the narthex for future dates.   Please pick a date that suits you.

Wanted – 4Litre Plastic Milk Bags

The Haliburton United Church Women are partnering with Haiti Mission Lindsay to create plastic sleeping mats that can be shipped to Haiti.  Will you please save your outer plastic bags that hold the individual milk bags (not the inner bags that actually hold the milk).  The Haliburton UCW is aiming for a work bee in September to see how many mats they can make.  The plastic mats will replace mats made from reeds and grasses as biting insects and scorpions do not like the plastic.  A box is in the narthex for you to place the plastic bags in.

Secretary:  Linda Richardson

Chapel Service 9:15 a.m., Sanctuary Service 10:30 a.m.

Nursery Care at 10:30 a.m. service,

Office Hours:  9:00 a.m. – noon Mon. thru Fri.

Tel:  687-2542      Fax:  687-1435

Rev. Kathleen’s e-mail:   mowatminister@gmail.com

Church’s e-mail:  trinityu@bellnet.ca     Web page:  trinityu.ca

Pastoral Care number:  687-2542