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2024-11-03-Service
Summerlea United Church
225 50th Ave, Lachine, Québec, H8T2T7, Canada. 514-634-2651


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Sunday, November 03, 2024

All Saints Day & Stewardship Sunday


Lucia instructs the choir

before the service.

Click to read the Sunday Bulletin.



I had a Senior's Moment

I had everyting all set to go for the start of the service accept for just one thing.
I neglected to turn on the recorder!
Consequently there is no audio of the service until just after the anthem (darn!!).

Hence I will simply post some pictures from the service
with no audio until the 'Invitation to the Offering.'
Get thee to the video!
(I will resist the tempation to say 'Adios Audio!')



- Introit -


Teach Me, God, to Wonder
(VU 299, verse 1)

Teach me, God, to wonder;
Teach me, God, to see;
Let your world of beauty
Capture me.

Praise to you be given;
Love for you be lived,
Life be celebrated; joy you give.






Call to Worship

For all the saints
who live beside us
whose weaknesses and strengths
are woven with our own,
we praise you, O God.





For all the saints
who live beyond us
who challenge us
to change us
to change the world with them,
we praise you, O God.


God Give Us Life
(VU 704)

God give us life when all around
Spells death and some have died;
And none are clear that hope is near
Or fate can be defied.

God give us love in heart and hand
To hold the hurting one,
To free the anger, meet the need
And wait till waiting's done.



God give us skill, insight and will to find,
Where none are sure,
New threads to mend the web of life,
New means to heal and cure.
God give us faith should all else fail
And death unsheath its sting.
O help us hear, through pain and fear,
The songs that angels sing.

Then, in the end, make death a friend,
And give us strength to stand
And walk to where no eye can stare,
But Christ can clasp our hand.

- Art for All Saints Day by Eva & Alex -


Saint Patrick

Saint Rosa da Lima


All Things Bright and Beautiful
(VU 291, verse 5)

R: All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful:
In love, God made them all.





God gave us eyes to see them,
And lips that we might tell
How great is God our maker,
Who has made all things well. R.


- Scripture -


Ruth 1:1-18
(Text only)

"Wither thou goest, I will go..."
Scripture read this week by

Mary R.
(Sadly, not recorded.)

Refrain: Let the whole creation cry,
"Glory be to God on high."

The Voices United text is HERE



...He asked him,
"Which commandment is the first of all?"

Mark 12:28-34




After a brief message, the Rev. Christine introduced John C. to talk to us of Stewardship and its relationship to Leadership, with a focus on the history of Summerlea, St. Andrew's United and St. Andrew's Presbyterian in Lachine. Again, sadly, not recorded.


- The Silent Anthem -
When Hands Reach Out Beyond Divides
(MV 169)

When hands reach out beyond divides
And hopr is truly found,
Each chain of hate will fall away
And bells of peace shall sound,
And bells of peace shall sound,
Each chain of hate will fall away
And bells of peace shall sound...


News Flash: My senior's 'moment' over, the Audio returns!

- Offering -


Prayer Over the Offering

God of all peoples and God of all places,
we present these offerings,
that they may be used to extend your
liberating reign.
With them, we offer our varied ministries,
that each of us may be part of your answer
to the cries of the world.
Amen.



- Offertory Hymn -

Behold, Behold, I Make All Things New
(MV 115)

Behold, behold, I make all things new,
Beginning with you and starting from today.
Behold, behold, I make all things new,
My promise is true, for I am Christ the way.





Amazing Grace

Amazing grace,
How sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.



'Twas grace that taught
My heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed!


Through many dangers,
Toils and snares
I have already come,
'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far
And grace will lead me home.


The Lord has promised
Good to me
This word my hope secures;
God will my shield and portion be,
As long as life endures.




When we've been there
Ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we've first begun.



Commissioning

Go my Friends, go out and work
at the Kingdom of God.
We are sent out by God, pushed by the
Spirit and inspired by Christ
to do God's will on earth.
You are sent among the saints of this
world and in remembrance of those of the past.
We go out, in praise and thanksgiving.
God is with us.












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