PLYMOUTH-TRINITY UNITED CHURCH

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1 PLYMOUTH-TRINITY UNITED CHURCH Church Union Sunday - Fourth Sunday after Pentecost - June 12 th, 2016 Prelude Welcome and greetings * Call to worship Response MV 1, v. 3 Let us build a house where love is found in water, wine and wheat; a banquet hall on holy ground, where peace and justice meet. Here the love of God, through Jesus, is revealed in time and space; as we share in Christ the feast that frees us: All are welcome, all are welcome, All are welcome in this place. * Opening prayer * Hymn I heard the voice of Jesus VU 626 Prayer of confession & Affirmation of grace Response VU 237 Ba ni ngye-ti Ba Ya-we, (X3) Amen. Let us praise the God of truth, Let us praise the God of peace, Let us praise the God of love. Amen. Hallelujah. (X3) Amen. Announcements & Sharing in the life of the Community Family time Hymn Jesus, lover of my soul VU 669 Prayer of illumination Readings Galatians 2:15-21 NT 188 Luke 7:36 8:3 NT 66 The word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God. OT: Old Testament NT: New Testament VU: Voices United MV: More Voices * the congregation standing, as able - 1 -

2 Anthem Come Holy Ghost (Thomas Attwood, ) Sermon The Church, United and Uniting Personal reflection * Confession of faith VU 918/919 Holy Communion (see p. 4-5) * Hymn O Jesus, I have promised see page 6 * Benediction * Choral I m gonna live so God can use me VU 575 Postlude Plymouth-Trinity United Church 380 Dufferin Ave. Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 4M plymouthtrinitychurch@gmail.com Ministers: All of us Clergy: the Rev. Samuel V. Dansokho Organist and Music Director: Leslie Young Secretary: Daniel Laplante Caretaker: Christopher Bryant Board Chair: Ann Fowlis - fowlis@sympatico.ca Webmaster: Michael Eby - eby@trainiax.net Welcome to all who are worshipping with us today. On this fourth Sunday of Season after Pentecost, the longest season in the church calendar, may you continue to feel the warm and gentle winds of the Holy Spirit! Bienvenue à l Église Unie Plymouth-Trinity! Il y a des Bibles en français disponibles sur la table à l entrée pour les personnes qui en désirent. If you are a visitor, please join us for fair-trade coffee or juice after the service and take a peace candle back to your congregation. The wooden Benevolent Fund box is on the table at the back of the sanctuary. Each time we share in Holy Communion we have the opportunity to donate to this fund, which is used to purchase food vouchers for the minister to distribute to people in need, including our own members. We thank our volunteers: Reader: Michael Eby Ushers: Val Rawlings & Carol Smith Sexton: Carol Imbeault Communion Servers: Cathy & Allan Marshall - 2 -

3 Bulletin covers this week are donated by Bev & Rick Lepine in memory of Bev s mother Polly Broadbelt, Val Rawlings in memory of her mother Harriet Rawlings (d. June 16 th ) and in memory of Douglas Armitage by a friend. Happy Birthday to Elsie Moore (June 17 th ). Happy Anniversary to Hazel & Jim Innes (June 15 th ). A lost EpiPen was found in the chapel last week. If you know who it might belong to, please speak with Samuel or Vivienne. In the church The Summer Update will be distributed on June 26 th. Please send reports on the work of our boards and committees (and anything else you fancy) to Vivienne s computer vivgal@sympatico.ca as soon as possible. A bilingual prayer group meets on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 7:30; please join us and/or send the minister your prayer requests. A Christian meditation group meets in the chapel on Thursdays, 11 AM to noon. Un groupe de méditation chrétienne se réunit les jeudis de 11 h à midi à la chapelle. ( ; carolepowers@hotmail.com) Summer worship services: during the month of July we will be worshipping at Lennoxville United Church, 6 Church Street, Lennoxville at 10 AM as they welcome their new minister the Rev. Linda Buchanan. Le service en français de 9h continuera d'avoir lieu à Plymouth-Trinity dans la chapelle. Church office: Daniel Laplante will be in Tuesday to Friday mornings from 9 to noon. Messages for Daniel can be sent to plymouthtrinitychurch@gmail.com. This Week The Church Board will meet on Tuesday, June 14 th at 7:30 PM in the parlour. The Education & Outreach Team will meet Thursday, June 16 th at 10 in the parlour. All meetings (except those of Ministry and Personnel) are open to all

4 Next Week Sunday, June 19 th Aboriginal Sunday Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Psalm 42 Luke 8:26-39 Le service en français se tient le dimanche matin à 9 h dans la chapelle. Prière de prendre la porte qui donne sur l aire de stationnement, rue Terrill. English service at 10:30 in the sanctuary. The Rev. Andy Lindley will be our guest preacher. In the Community Leslie Young and Jean-Yves St-Pierre will perform a concert this Saturday, June 18th at 8 PM. They will play Renaissance music on recorder, virginal and harpsichord. Tickets are sold for $15 ($10 for students and seniors). Reserve your ticket at or jystp@videotron.ca. Fourth Annual P-T fundraiser at The Piggery: Enjoy country-folk music? Want to support Plymouth-Trinity? Come to The Piggery Theatre on Saturday, July 2nd at 8 PM and hear Naomi Bristow, The Yodelin Cowgirl. Naomi s love for old tyme tradition country music led her to self-taught yodeling. You can check out her style at or on YouTube. Tickets are $20 and available by contacting Janet McBurney at after PM. Proceeds ($8 from each ticket) to benefit Plymouth-Trinity s UCW. LITURGY FOR HOLY COMMUNION * HYMN All praise to you VU 297 * OFFERING (will be received and brought to the Communion Table during hymn) The peace of the Lord is with you. And also with you. Lift up your hearts. We lift them up to the Lord. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right to give God thanks and praise. It is truly right and our greatest joy to give you thanks and praise, Eternal God, our Creator. Therefore, we praise you, joining our voices - 4 -

5 with the choirs of heaven and with all the faithful of every time and place who forever claim the glory of your name: HYMN Holy, Holy, Holy VU 315 Remembering all your mighty and merciful acts, we take this bread and this wine from the gifts you have given us, we celebrate the redemption won for us in Jesus Christ and we rejoice for the Holy Spirit inside us. Accept this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving as a living and holy offering of ourselves, that our lives may proclaim the One crucified and risen. Great is the mystery of faith. Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again. Gracious God, pour out your Holy Spirit upon us and upon these your gifts of bread and wine, that the bread we break and the cup we bless may be the communion of the body and blood of Christ. By your Spirit unite us with the living Christ and with all who are baptized in his name, that we may be one in ministry in every place. As this bread is Christ s body for us, send us out to be the body of Christ in the world. Amen. BREAKING AND SHARING OF THE BREAD BLESSING AND SHARING OF THE VINE PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION / PRAYER OF THE PEOPLE / LORD S PRAYER O God, today you have called us together to be the church. Let your Spirit empower the life we share and ignite our witness in the world. With all who have gone before us, keep us faithful to the gospel teachings and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. Give us strength to serve you until the promised day of the resurrection, when with the redeemed of all the ages we will feast with you at your table in glory. Through Christ, who taught us to pray together saying: Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen

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7 O ur Voices United hymn book, which we hold in our hands every Sunday, began its life in June 1991 when a freshly-minted Hymn and Worship Resource Committee met for the first time in Mississauga. (Jack and Pam Eby had nominated Martyn Sadler, who was delighted to find himself on the committee. For a full list of the members, see p. ix, following the Preface.) Five years later the task was accomplished, and the book was printed and presented to the church. Today in Toronto, the members of the committee gather to celebrate the 25 th and 20 th anniversaries of the launch and the completion of the project. Each member has been asked to choose a significant hymn to be sung by the committee. Martyn has asked for Let all mortal flesh keep silence (VU 473) because it s based on the Liturgy of St. James from the Syriac Orthodox Church, a church of special significance to us in Sherbrooke.

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