ST. JOHN S UNITED CHURCH

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1 12 th Sunday after Pentecost August 12, 2018 ST. JOHN S UNITED CHURCH WELCOME! A warm welcome is extended to all. Your presence enriches both us and this time of celebration together. A NEW CREED (VU 918) We are not alone, we live in God s world. We believe in God: who has created and is creating, who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh, to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others by the Spirit. We trust in God. We are called to be the Church: to celebrate God s presence, to live with respect in Creation, to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope. In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us. We are not alone. Thanks be to God. The bulletin is dedicated in Loving Memory of Fraser Murray by Daughter, Lynn Murray

2 NOTICES, UPCOMING MEETINGS & EVENTS Aug. 12 Sun. 10:00 a.m. Worship Aug M-F 8:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m. Vacation Bible School Aug. 19 Sun. 10:00 a.m. Worship Aug. 22 Wed. 6:00 p.m. Tidewater Area Council, Girl Guides (Owen Fraser Hall) Aug. 24 Fri. 10:30 a.m. Worship at Royal Court, 6th Floor, Riverview, with the Rev. Aaron Billard Aug. 26 Sun. 10:00 a.m. Worship Sept. 2 Sun. 10:00 a.m. Worship Sept. 3 Mon. Office closed Labour Day Sept. 9 Sun. 11:00 a.m. Worship (note time change) OFFERING FROM Aug. 5, 2018 Local $1, (24) Memorials $ Mission & Service $70.00 (3) Organ Repair Fund $10.00 Plate Loose $22.90 Karing Kitchen $10.00 VBS $ Karing Kitchen Rent $1, Housing (from Trustees) $1, Grocery Cards $ Thank you for your generous and continued support! SOBEYS & SUPERSTORE GIFT CARDS are sold each Sunday at the sales table in the Owen Fraser Hall after Worship during fellowship and coffee time or at the Church Office on weekdays during office hours. We make 4% on every card sold. ~ Your support is needed & appreciated. Year-to-date sales: $12, Profit: $ M&S UPDATE: Goal: $23, Givings to date: $13, (56%) This week, as part of our ecumenical prayers, WE PRAY for the congregation of the Our Lady of Mercy Roman Catholic Church, their pastors, and their ministry. 2

3 NO PARKING ON VICTORIA STREET - Please note the City of Moncton has recently removed the "For Church Purposes Only" parking sign on the south side of Victoria street, due to the no parking restriction by-law being enforced. As a result, we will no longer be able to park or offer Handicap parking on this side of the church on Sunday mornings. Handicap parking will still be available on the Alma street side. UPDATED CHURCH HISTORY - Back in the year 2000, St. John's published Gerry Dayton's wonderful book "A Monument of Faith", a history of the St. John's congregation from We are currently working on updating our church history to bring us to the present day as a way of celebrating our church's 180 th anniversary this November. If you have any news clippings from the Times and Transcript or photographs from the year 2000 to the present, we would gratefully receive them (and return them once they have been copied.) Please see Roberta Bunker, Valerie Roy or Aaron Billard if you are able to share any articles or photographs. Thank you in advance! We look forward to sharing our progress with you! The History Book Committee DID YOU KNOW? The church offers a hearing loop system for anyone who would like to enhance their listening experience during the Sunday morning service. Please feel free to speak to one of the volunteers on the sound board on Sunday morning AUDIO RECORDING OF SUNDAY WORSHIP - We offer audio recording of our Sunday Church Service on-line. If you find yourself missing our Sunday Worship, just check it out on our Church website - Recordings will be posted each week after the morning service. If those of you without a computer, a CD copy of the service can be obtained from the Church Office. MAKING A MEMORIAL DONATION? Did you know that when you make a memorial donation you can select where your giving will be directed? You can direct it to our Church i.e. Local Offering, Organ Maintenance, Piano Maintenance, etc or to the United Church Mission and Service fund, or any other on-going fund within the United Church. For additional details please contact the Church Office. DIME BLITZ - Don't spend a dime this summer - save them for the UCW summer fundraiser. Plastic pill bottles have been placed at the church entrances for your convenience. Deposit in the offering plate in the fall. Thank you for your continued support of UCW projects. 3

4 HEALTH & SAFETY - We have a wheelchair here at St. John s and it is located on a permanent basis in the unused entrance way at the back of the Sanctuary (corner of Alma and Victoria Streets). We also have an AED - automated external defibrillator. It is wall mounted and located right outside the Church Office BULLETINS are available on our website and by ; check the bulletin online at: If you would like to receive a copy of the bulletin by prior to Sunday Worship (Fridays), please your request to church office at sjuc@nb.aibn.com. SERMONS - Printed copies of the sermons are available by and at our main entrances. Please contact the church office if you want to be added to the list. NEWS FROM THE PEWS - We invite you to share news of special events, memories, newspaper clippings of our church family for all to enjoy. You may leave your "clippings" in the box on the table below the bulletin board in the Owen Fraser Hall. Your participation is appreciated. Thank you SCENT FREE ENVIRONMENT - We encourage all people to help us maintain a scent-free environment by not wearing perfumes, aftershaves, and other scented products when attending services & meetings at the church. Many people are extra sensitive to these scents and suffer allergic reactions as a result of being near them. Thank you for making this a healthy place for others to meet and worship. ST. JOHN S UNITED CHURCH CARES... To notify the Minister of personal concerns, anxieties, illnesses, hospitalizations or deaths, to pass along a prayer request, or to arrange homebound communion, contact Rev. Aaron Billard at or sjucrev@gmail.com Announcements from other United Churches, Chignecto Presbytery, Maritime Conference and the Community are located on the bulletin boards located at the Alma St. entrance and outside the Church Office. 4

5 WORSHIP We welcome Christine MacLeod as guest Worship Leader. Christine is a freelance musician who specializes in Music as Spirituality. She designs creative musical programs and performances and is a local voice teacher. She is the former Minister at Visions United Church and a graduate from Dalhousie University receiving a Bachelor s Degree in Music, and from the Atlantic School of Theology receiving a MDIV, Theological and Ministerial Studies. Christine lives in New Scotland, NB with her husband, Greg who is a Nature Educator, her daughter, Machaela who is also a musician and her daughter, Kiona who attends MHS and is focused on writing. (The congregation is invited to join in responses printed in bold) Children are asked to remain with their parents throughout the service. The Nursery is available for parental use. Sunday School and Nursery Care will resume in late September. WE GATHER IN COMMUNITY PRELUDE MUSICAL PRAYER MV #14 WHERE TWO OR THREE ARE GATHERED Where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there, I am there. CALL TO WORSHIP Peace be with you. And also with you. We are called to peace by our very existence within creation. We are a part of a Holy Whole. So, I invite you to come into this prayerful time to restore your peace and increase the world s peacefulness. HYMN # 671 I NEED THEE EVERY HOUR (DEPENDENCE(NEED)) 5

6 OPENING PRAYER Spirit that moves through all things, move through us now, deeply connecting us to your peacefulness. May our breath rest upon your breath, Our mind become at rest, Our hearts overflow with your peace and care For ourselves, for those next to us and far from us, For all within creation. Let there be peace. PRAYER OF CONFESSION God of life, we bring to you the honesty of our lives as we pray openly to you so that you may see who we are and embrace us with love.. (silence) God of patience, we bring to you the broken parts of us that you may surround us with healing and strength. (silence) God of inspiration, we offer to you our confusion and frustrations for our world, that you may enlighten us in ways of peace and understanding. (silence) God of all, restore us to wholeness and grant us peace. ASSURANCE HYMN # Congregation joins in on V. 4 & 5 AMAZING GRACE (AMAZING GRACE(NEW BRITAIN)) WE LISTEN FOR GOD S WORD READINGS Psalm 46 (VU pp ) John 14 REFLECTIONS Christine MacLeod SOLO LET IT BE Christine MacLeod 6

7 PASTORAL PRAYER HYMN # 684 MAKE ME A CHANNEL OF YOUR PEACE (CHANNEL OF PEACE) THE LORD S PRAYER ANNOUNCEMENTS OFFERING WE RESPOND TO GOD S WORD OFFERTORY HYMN # 506, V. 1 & 5 TAKE MY LIFE (MOZART) Take my life, and let it be consecrated, all for thee; take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise. Take my love: and I will pour at thy feet its treasure store; take myself, and I will be ever, only, all for thee. DEDICATION OF THE OFFERING SENDING FORTH COMMISSIONING Go now filled with never-ending peacefulness that comes from the Great Spirit of life and hope. Go to be peace be-ers and peace makers. Allow your lives to be filled and used by God. CLOSING HYMNS # 575, V. 1 & 3 I M GONNA LIVE SO GOD CAN USE ME (I M GONNA LIVE) # 577, V. 1 & 2 I VE GOT PEACE LIKE A RIVER (PEACE LIKE A RIVER) P. 844 YOU SHALL GO OUT WITH JOY (TREES OF THE FIELD) BENEDICTION May the peace of Christ attend thee, the love of God surround thee and the Holy Spirit keep thee this day and forever more. And the People say Amen! POSTLUDE You are invited to join us in the Owen Fraser Hall after Worship for a time of fellowship and refreshments. 7

8 MEMORIALS A donation has been made to St. John s United Church in Memory of: Marg Kennedy (Wife of Jerry Kennedy) by Carolyn Beers, Eunice Burnes, Eleanor Dutcher, Ken & Karen Geldart, Gail Nickerson, Shelly Steeves, Sherry Wilson A donation has been made to St. John s United Church Organ Repair Fund in Memory of: Marg Kennedy (Wife of Jerry Kennedy) by Mike Day, Today s Team Greeters & Ushers: South Door Alma St. North Door Victoria St. Greet: Alvin Edgett Greet: Sonja Buck Offering: Alvin Edgett Offering: Sonja Buck Scripture Reader: Tellers: Coleen Whitford, Sheri Gould Elevator: Pat Arsenault Sound Board: Bob Hebert Grocery Card Sales: Kimberley Buck de Jesus CHURCH MINISTRY PERSONNEL AND STAFF Rev. Aaron Billard, Minister sjucrev@gmail.com Branden Olsen, Music Director Karen Geldart, Office Administrator sjuc@nb.aibn.com Pat Arsenault, Custodian Rev. Dr. Douglas MacEachern Minister Emeritus dougjune@nb.sympatico.ca 75 Alma Street, Moncton, NB E1C 4Y3 T: E: sjuc@nb.aibn.com W: FB: St. John s United Church, United Church of Canada Office Hours: M-F, 9:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 8