Order of Service for Eugenia United Church's Anniversary Service

16^th Sunday After Pentecost

September 16^th 2012

Eugenia Church Anniversary Sunday

Welcome to worship. May God bless you during this time & renew

your spirit. Please sign the guest book if you are visiting.

OUR WORSHIP APPROACH TOWARD GOD

*Asterisks invite all who are able to stand

Gathering Music:

Welcome and Announcements:

Let us quiet ourselves before God

Lighting of the Christ Candle:

*Introit:         Blessed Assurance                                           HFG 67

Call to Worship:

            One: Greetings to our brothers and sisters in the faith.

            ALL: We come to celebrate God’s presence,

            One: and God’s love expressed through Jesus Christ.

            ALL: We come remembering Christ’s life and ministry,

            One: and the life we are called to live.

            ALL: We come as a pilgrim people

                        searching for ways to live out our faith.

            One: We come seeking the strength to carry on our journey.

            ALL: Let us rejoice in God’s gift to us!

*Hymn:          Amazing Grace                                               HFG 107 

Our Personal Confession and Silent Prayer …

            Silent Prayer …………………..

            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,

                        for ever and ever. AMEN

Prayer of Approach:

One: We feel your welcome, in this time of worship, O Loving God,

            In this place, you welcome young and old, you welcome all who

come seeking peace and all brimming over with energy. In this place you welcome newcomers and long-time members, you welcome all who seek a familiar expression of praise and prayer, and all who come seeking a startlingly new celebration of faith.

            You welcome us all, O Holy and Welcoming God. AMEN.

*Hymn:          Take My Life and Let it Be                            HFG 458

Special Music:

Story Time:                                                               

*Hymn:          I Love to Tell the Story                                  HFG 619

WE LISTEN FOR A WORD FROM GOD

Proverbs 1:20-33

            Psalm 19

James 3:1-12

            Mark8:27-38

*Hymn:          Pass Me Not O Gentle Saviour                       HFG 416

Reflection: Daring to Make Room for God …

WE RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD

Minute for Mission:

Offering:

Offering Hymn: “We Praise You O God”                            VU 218

            We praise you, O God, Our Redeemer, Creator

            In grateful devotion our tribute we bring.

            We lay it before You, we kneel and adore You;

            We bless Your Holy Name, glad praises we sing.

Offering Prayer:

Prayers of the People for Others:

*Hymn:          Onward Christian Soldiers                             HFG 617

*Benediction:

May the grace of God, deeper than our imagination;

the strength of Christ, stronger than our need;

and the communion of the Holy Spirit, richer than our togetherness;

guide and sustain us today and in all our tomorrows.

*Choral Response: Amen, Amen, Hallelujah, Amen           (VU 974)