Worship Service October 4, 2020

October 4, 2020 - Gary Johnson & Verna Kocski 

Let us worship together as we read!

You can follow along with today’s sermon with Gary & Verna on 

Gary Johnson's page:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1654663852

or Unity United Church and Evesham Community Church page following:

https://www.facebook.com/Unity-United-Church-and-Evesham-Community-Church-233687243347894/

WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Today is World Wide Communion Sunday…where normally Communion is offered…BUT due to Pandemic Restrictions we cannot.  THEREFORE, we are inviting each and everyone of you to join us on this week’s “Coffee & Connect” (Wednesdays 10am @ Gary Johnson Facebook Page).

This means we are inviting all of you to partake and gather symbols of the elements.  You can use bread, crackers, or wavers.  For the juice please feel free to utilize any juice that works for you.

May your Lord’s Supper be Blessed…!  

OPENING HYMN: 

Voices United #663 “My Faith Looks Up to Thee”

OPENING PRAYER:

Holy God you call us together to reflect on your Word, and our life in the world.

Be with us now as we sing and pray together, that we may hear your voice and understand your way through the spoken words of scripture and the message. This we pray through Jesus, the Christ. Amen.

SCRIPTURE READING:

Proverbs 2:1-10 

SERMON:

“Are You Listening Out There…??!”

CLOSING PRAYER:

God our refuge and strength, we pause to come before you in prayer of thanksgiving, concern, and surrender.

Thank you for the good harvest season that’s allowed for some farmers to be done. We pray for patience and hope for the farmers who are still working on bringing in their crops.

For the beautiful weather, family, and friends, church and community we thank you.

Help us to accepts your words and store up your commands within us.

To turn up our ear to wisdom and apply our heart to understanding.

May we call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding.

Reveal to us your Holy Presence, where knowledge of truth is revealed.

We lift up to you the lonely and the grieving..(pause).

The sick and the downcast...(pause).

The isolated and rejected..(pause).

Our government officials.

We pray for your healing hand to touch … and whomever else is on our minds and hearts..

Lead us...guide us..fill us with the power of the Holy Spirit, so we can become more like you. In the name of Jesus who taught us to pray, saying: 

THE LORD’S PRAYER

CLOSING HYMN: 

Voices United #672 “Take Time to Be Holy”

CLOSING WORDS:

May the peace of Christ, 

the love of God 

and the Power of the Holy Spirit be your guide. Amen.

If you’re able, donations can be sent to 

Kerrobert United Church PO Box 626 Kerrobert, SK S0L 1R0

WORLDWIDE COMMUNION SUNDAY LITURGY: 

(by Alydia Smith)

Though creation sometimes weeps,

we wait lovingly for you, God.

For you created the heavens, earth, and all that is in them: 

you cast sunbeams, open flowers, and feed insects.

You are beyond the galaxies, under the oceans, and inside each grain of wheat. 

You could sustain all of your creation, 

but you will not, without us.

Thank-you for the wonders of creation and for your great trust in us.

Though humanity sometimes weeps,

we wait lovingly for you, God.

For you smiled on an outcasted Hagar, blessing her descendants,

you guided the doubtful Israelites, leading them to freedom,

you spoke through the Judges and the Prophets, providing words of wisdom,

you lived among us as a teacher, healer, and friend, giving us a sacred path to follow.

You could have made us self-sustaining, 

but you did not, your love sustains us.

Thank you for the worldwide fellowship of disciples,

who faithfully attempt to share your love with all of creation.

In Jesus, love incarnate, 

you provide us all we need for each day:

his words comfort the weary;

his actions challenge the contented;

his touch heals the sick;

his presence feeds the deepest hunger in our souls.

In Jesus and in his feast 

you provide for us the sustenance we need to respond to the cries of creation.

The bread of life, 

nourishes our deprieved bodies.

The cup of blessings,

revives our thirsty souls.

The gathered community, 

strengthens our growing faith.

Though the church sometimes weeps,

we wait lovingly for you, God.

For centuries, Christians of different customs have gathered to commune with you and each other through the sharing of this feast.

In their partaking you have been with them, 

just as you are with us now.

And so we join with our siblings around the world by remembering that 

on the night in which Jesus was betrayed, 

he took bread, blessed it, broke it, and shared it with his disciples, saying: 

“Take eat; this is my body, given for you. 

Do this for the remembrance of me.”

After supper, Jesus took the cup, gave thanks, 

and gave it for all to drink, saying: 

“This cup is the new covenant in my blood,

shed for you and for all people

for the forgiveness of sin. 

Do this for the remembrance of me.”

God, we remember and give thanks for your Son, 

and we ask that you bless and pour your spirit on these simple things, bread and wine:

Make this broken bread whole in our taking.  (partake in bread)

Make this full cup overflow in our sharing.  (partake in juice)

With these elements nourish and sustain us,

our way, our truth, our life;

our Creator, our Redemer, our Sustainer.

Praise be to you, now, tomorrow, and forever.  Amen!