RESOURCES: Gathering, Judy and Richard Frey, Pierceland U.C.
Let us worship together as we read! You can follow along with the service which will be livestreamed on Facebook at 10AM Sunday morning.
For those who are not on Facebook, we will be posting the video onto our YouTube channel early in the week.
WELCOME, ANNOUNCEMENTS, MINUTE FOR MISSION
CALL TO WORSHIP:
One: A new day, a new week is upon us.
All: We dedicate it to God.
One: A new hour of worship is upon us.
All: We dedicate it to God.
One: A new opportunity is here: to become new people
in Christ.
All: We dedicate ourselves to God.
One: Come, now is the time to worship. With hearts and minds, bodies and spirits,
let us give our best to God.
All: All honour, glory, and praise be to God!
OPENING PRAYER:
All: Your abundance fills our lives, O
God. Richness overflows. Mercy abounds. May our worship this day be abundant in
praise, rich in gratitude, abounding in love.
May our souls be restored, that we might be a blessing to you and all
your creations. Amen.
HYMN:
Voices United #291 - All Things Bright and Beautiful
PRAYER OF CONFESSION:
All: Dear God, you are the source of all the wonders of the universe, from the
majestic mountains to the tiniest of seeds, yet your divine presence in nature
is too often ignored. The gifts you have
given so generously are too frequently cast aside. You have always blessed
humankind with the purest water, the richest soil, and the warmest sunlight,
and yet we have allowed nature’s abundance to be abused or unshared, and your
generosity to go un-thanked. We confess
that we do not always do our part. Plant in us the seeds of hope and love. Help us to scatter your word everywhere we
go, so that all your creation can blossom and flourish in the rich soil you
have provided.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON:
One: We carry the love of God like seeds in
our hearts.
All: Each day is an opportunity to nurture the
seed, and to watch the spirit of God grow and spread.
One: His unending forgiveness is upon us.
All: Thanks be to God. Amen.
GOD’S WORD TO US:
Matthew 13:1-9 and 18-23
The Parable of the Sower
MESSAGE:
Fertile Ground (adapted: J & R Frey)
OFFERING INVITATION
OFFERING PRAYER of DEDICATION:
All: You water the earth and spring the seed. You send the sun and grow the grain. You strengthen the arm and sharpen the
mind. You are the source of all that
is. We return these gifts, with grateful
thanks so that they may be given to others in love. Amen.
JOYS AND CONCERNS
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND
THE LORD'S PRAYER
HYMN:
Voices United #217 - All Creatures of Our God &
King
BLESSING & SENDING FORTH:
One: The earth is God’s and the fullness thereof;
the world and all that dwell therein.
All: We are the servants of Christ, the Son of
God. We accept the mission of Christ.
One: To be God’s people in the world; to be the
sowers, and the soil, and the seed.
All: Our worship ends; our work begins. May the blessing of God nurture us all as we
seek to bear fruit. Amen.
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