MCC Connects - Democratic People's Republic of Korea (formerly North Korea) experiences serious food shortages. MCC is providing training in "conservation agriculture" to increase local harvests. MCCer Kathi Suderman provides leadership. MCC is recruiting for a project coordinator. UPCOMING DATES TO NOTE: -Stewardship Sunday, October 24 -Shekinah's Quilting and Scrapbooking Retreat will be held October 29-31, 2010. This year's fall retreat will feature Lee Klaassen, certified life coach, and is for women interested in strengthening their spirit, celebrating life and spending time quilting, scrapbooking, knitting, painting, or... Brochures/registration forms can be downloaded off Shekinah's web site at www.shekinahretreatcentre.org Worship Leader: Dave Feick Song Leader: Ben Buhler Accompanist: Elsie Epp Scripture: Joanne Feick, Jason Feick Sound: Chris Buhler Ushers: Anna Peters, Carl Martens-Funk This Sunday nursery care: Diana Buhler Next Sunday nursery care: Sarah Guenther The Osler Mennonite Church, Box 129, Osler, Saskatchewan S0K 3A0 Vol. LI October 3, 2010 No. 40 Gordon Allaby, pastor Church Office 306-239-2133 Pastor s Office 306-239-2274 Youth Info line 306-239-2148 Fax 306-239-2279 oslermc@sasktel.net oslermcpastor@sasktel.net website: http://oslermc.sasktelwebsite.net/ OSLER MENNONITE CHURCH Osler, Saskatchewan A Welcoming Christian Community for Peace 10:00 a.m. Worship Service October 3, 2010 WORLD COMMUNION SUNDAY Prelude Welcome and Announcements GATHERING Call to Worship: Leader: Trust in the Lord and do good, and he will help you. People: But wherever I look, I see destruction and violence. I am surrounded by people who love to argue and fight. Leader: Be still in the presence of the Lord; wait patiently for him to act. People: I will climb up to my watchtower and stand at my guardpost. There I will wait to see how the Lord will answer my complaint. Leader: Don t worry about the wicked or envy those who do wrong. All: Show us Lord, how to increase our faith! May justice and mercy shine forth like the noonday sun. Invocation *Hymns: HWB #64 HWB #66 Sing Amen O worship the King Discipline of Silence and Prayer of the church Children s Time PRAISING AND HEARING Christy Martens-Funk Scripture Readings: Lamentations 1:1-5; Psalm 137
Sermon: Part One Desolation Tears Gordon Allaby Hymn: HWB #140 Open, Lord, my inward ear Scripture Readings: Lamentations 3:19-26; Luke 17:5,6 2 Timothy 1:3-14 Offering and Offertory Music Offertory Prayer Hymn: Sermon: Part Two Seeds of Hope Gordon Allaby Hymn: HWB #454 COMMUNION Seed, scattered and sown Litany for Communion: Leader: Dear God, You invite us to come and eat at this table that has been prepared for us food and drink; reminders of nourishment and the blessing of fellowship. People: You bid us come, but our feet are heavy, our spirits hesitant. Who all will be there? Some who ve criticized us? Others we ve passed judgment on? Voice 1: How awkward, even unnerving, to celebrate unity within the diversity of Christian faith when it seems so superficial. Voice 2: How do you, Lord, see past our inflated senses of superiority, and the doubts we have in each other s integrity and beliefs? Voice 1: How is it you ask us in when our arms are full of grudges and complaints? Leader: Jesus said: Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. (Luke 13:24) Voice 2: You want us to let it all go to leave behind all our right answers and the right we have to sue those who have sinned against us. That s asking a lot. People: Lord, with the faith that we have, as little as it may be, toss our deeply rooted prejudices and fellowship-killing stereotypes aside, that we may come into your banquet through the narrow door, and be at peace with all whom you have drawn in. Leader: Bless this bread and drink, and let it inspire us to imitate Jesus choice to lay down everything, even his life, to hold your love and welcome out to all. All: May this communion be ours to enact with all followers of Christ in the worldwide Church. Fill us, Lord, with your Spirit, and with your joy. Make us one body, one light, one united witness. To the glory of your Name we ask it. AMEN. Sharing the bread and the cup *Benediction *Hymn: HWB #338 RESPONDING I know not why God s wondrous *Please rise We welcome all who are worshiping with us today. To all our visitors: WELCOME. We are delighted that you are worshiping with us. Nursery care is provided during the worship service for those who desire it (children over 4 years old should be accompanied by an adult). Children s Worship Binder, an instrument to help children through the worship hour, is available in the foyer.
REMEMBER IN PRAYER: The family of Stacey (Beckman) Myrol. *Please sign up for bringing snack for the Gathering Place. This is your opportunity to share in this ministry. TODAY Beverages and snacks available after the service. SUNDAY SCHOOL for all ages begins at 11:15 am. Potluck lunch and Talk About. *Youth Farm Bible Camp is having a fall supper on Tuesday, October 5, 5:00-7:00 pm. The Menu includes RoastBeef, Turkey and all the trimmings. Location is at the camp and admission is by donation. Money Raised will go towards their Chapel Project. THIS WEEK Church Council meets Thursday, October 7, 7:30 pm. NEXT SUNDAY Homecoming Sunday. We'll enjoy the Joy Singers, hear from those away, recall our past and sing favourite hymns. We will give thanks and celebrate our church home. ANNOUNCEMENTS *Peace in the public square is underway in Saskatchewan! The peace buses are on the streets of Saskatoon until November 28, signs are up, and there are ads in rural newspapers! Go to liveforpeace.org for more details or to get involved. See pictures of the bus ads at www.mcsask.ca. *You re Invited! Leanne Friesen is inviting everyone to come and help her celebrate her 40th birthday at 3:00 pm on October 9 here at OMC. Please see poster on the bulletin board for rsvp details. *Employment opportunity: Rosthern Junior College is issuing a Request for Proposals for responsibilities in Student Recruiting and Fundraising. Please see our website (www.rjc.sk.ca) for the job description and essential elements of your proposal. Closing date: November 15, 2010. *Women s Retreat at Shekinah on October 15 & 16. Poster and registration forms are on the bulletin board. *RJC Alumni Weekend - October 15 & 16. Come join in the fun as a participant or spectator for Football (spontaneous fun on Saturday only), Soccer (Saturday only - meet in Rehearsal Hall at 10:00 am) and Volleyball. Delicious lunch sponsored by Alumni between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm. Email Denelda at deneldafast@hotmail.com to register for volleyball or for information. *MC Sask Equipping day at OMC on Saturday, October 23. Poster and registration forms on the bulletin board. *The MDS update is on the bulletin board. Check out their new projects.
TODAY S SCRIPTURE LESSONS: Lamentations 1:1-5 (NRSV) 1 How lonely sits the city that once was full of people! How like a widow she has become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces has become a vassal. 2 She weeps bitterly in the night with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies. 3 Judah has gone into exile with suffering and hard servitude; she lives now among the nations, and finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress. 4 The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to the festivals; all her gates are desolate, her priests groan; her young girls grieve, and her lot is bitter. 5 Her foes have become the masters, her enemies prosper, because the LORD has made her suffer for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe. Psalm 137:1-9 (NRSV) 1 By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. 2 On the willows there we hung up our harps. 3 For there our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying Sing us one of the songs of Zion! 4 How could we sing the LORD S song in a foreign land? 5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither! 6 Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy. 7 Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem s fall, how they said, Tear it down! Tear it down! Down to its foundations! 8 O daughter Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall they be who pay you back what you have done to us! 9 Happy shall they be who take your little ones and dash them against the rock! Lamentations 3:19-26 (NRSV) 19 The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall! 20 My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me. 21 But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: 22 The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; 23 they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. 24 The LORD is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him. 25 The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. 26 It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. Luke 17:5-6 (NRSV) 5 The apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith! 6 The Lord replied, If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, Be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it would obey you. 2 Timothy 1:3-14 (NRSV) 3 I am grateful to God whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. 4 Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy. 5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, lives in you. 6 For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; 7 for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of selfdiscipline. 8 Do not be ashamed, then, of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God, 9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace. This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, 10 but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 11 For this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher, 12 and for this reason I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know the one in whom I have put my trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that day what I have entrusted to him. 13 Hold to the standard of sound teaching that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 14 Guard the good treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit living in us.