October 16, 2016 - Sherbrooke - Plymouth

PLYMOUTH-TRINITY UNITED CHURCH
– October 16, 2016 – World Food Sunday – 22nd after Pentecost
Prelude
Welcome and greetings
* Call to worship & Opening prayer
* Hymn
We have this ministry
Prayer of repentance and affirmation of grace
* Response
MV 90
VU 510
Don’t be afraid. My love is stronger,
my love is stronger than your fear.
Don’t be afraid. My love is stronger
and I have promised, promised to be always near.
N’a-yez pas peur, mon a-mour est plus fort,
il est plus fort que vo-tre peur.
N’a-yez pas peur, mon a-mour est plus fort ;
je vous ai pro-mis, pro-mis d’ê-tre tou-jours là.
* Confession of faith
* Response
MV 92
Like a rock, like a rock, God is under our feet.
Like the starry night sky God is over our head.
Like the sun on the horizon God is ever before.
Like the river runs to ocean, our home is in God evermore.
Family time
* Hymn
Here I am, Lord
Prayer for illumination
Readings (1) Jeremiah 31:27-34
Psalm 119:97-104
(2) Luke 18:1-8
The word of God for the people of God.
Thanks be to God.
Sermon
To build and to sow
Personal reflection
* Hymn
Three things I promise
Minute for mission
Offering
OT: Old Testament
NT: New Testament
* the congregation standing, as able
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VU: Voices United
VU 509
OT 731
OT 528
NT 81
MV 176
MV: More Voices
* Response Through all our living, we our fruits must give.
Good works of service are for offering.
When we are giving, or when receiving,
we belong to God, we belong to God.
Announcements and sharing in the life of the Community
Prayers for the people & the Lord’s Prayer
* Hymn
Lord, you give the great commission
VU 512
* Benediction
* Response Will you come and follow me if I but call your name?
Will you go where you don’t know and never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown, will you let my name be known,
will you let my life be grown in you and you in me?
Postlude
Plymouth-Trinity United Church
380 Dufferin Ave. Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 4M7
www.plymouthtrinitychurch.org
Ministers: All of us
Clergy: the Rev. Samuel V. Dansokho - 873 200-2011
Organist and Music Director: Leslie Young
Caretaker: Christopher Bryant
Board Chair: Ann Fowlis – [email protected]
Webmaster: Michael Eby – [email protected]
Secretary: Daniel Laplante – 819 346-6373
[email protected]
Office: Tuesday & Wednesday 8-11
Friday 8-11 & 11:30-14:30
Welcome to all who are worshipping with us today. On this fourth
Sunday of autumn, we continue to feel the refreshing and gentle
winds of the Holy Spirit!
Bienvenue à l’Église Unie Plymouth-Trinity! Des Bibles en français sont
disponibles à l’arrière.
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.
We thank our volunteers:
Reader: Ann Fowlis
Ushers: Val Rawlings & Carol Smith
Sexton: Dave Fowlis
Thanks to Shirley Knutson who led worship last week in Samuel’s
absence and to Martyn Sadler who filled in for pastoral emergencies.
Happy birthday to Brenda Imbeault (today) and Mylène GilbertDumas (October 20).
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Happy anniversary to Ashley Cooper-Bowen & Tom Coates (October 18).
Our minister will attend the meeting of Quebec Presbytery Executive on
Tuesday, October 18.
This week
The bilingual Meditation group meets on Thursdays at 11 AM in the
chapel. Welcome to all!
Non-native English-speakers: The next ESL session will on Wednesday,
October 19 at 6 PM. Please inform Val Rawlings (819-562-8630) if you
cannot attend.
The Prayer group meets on Wednesdays, 7 PM in the chapel.
Everyone is welcome.
Le groupe de prière se rencontre les mercredis à 19 h dans la chapelle; tout
le monde est invité.
The next Reach-out Luncheon is on Thursday, October 20 at 11:30 at
Scores. If you need a ride, call Val (819-562-8630).
Next week
October 23 – Peace Sunday – 23rd after Pentecost
Lectionary readings
Jeremiah 14:7-22
Psalm 65
2 Timothy 4:6-18
Luke 18:9-14
Le service en français de 9 h aura lieu dans la chapelle; veuillez entrer par la
porte arrière donnant sur l’aire de stationnement. Bienvenue à toutes et à tous!
English service at 10:30 in the sanctuary.
Advance notice
Pre-Christmas Buffet and Sale: Saturday, November 5 from 3:30 6 PM. Menu will consist of ham, scalloped potatoes, assorted salads,
devilled eggs, baked beans and brown bread, rolls and squares.
There will also be sales tables of home-baking, jams and pickles.
Everyone welcome. Cost $10.00. Think green: please bring a shopping
bag for your purchases. We will also need to borrow some shallow
casserole dishes to bake the scallops in. If you can loan us some,
please leave them in the kitchen before November 3. Be sure your
name is clearly marked on the dish. Covers are not required.
If you have any items to donate to the New to You table, please give
them to Janet or Thelma before November 3.
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Sharing the Christmas spirit: The UCW will be collecting Christmas
tree ornaments or Christmas kitchen linens (towels, dishcloths,
placemats or potholders) to send to the residents of Fort McMurray
who lost their homes earlier in 2016 to the wild fires. We will be
sending the items to First United Church and they will work with
their partners to distribute. If you would prefer to donate cash
towards ornaments or to help defer shipping charges, that is an
option as well. Please make your donations before November 13 to
allow time for packing and shipping. For information: Janet
McBurney, 819-565-9716 or [email protected].
In the community
Empty bowls Lennoxville / Bols du partage: “Empty Bowls” is an
international grassroots movement to help end hunger. Here local
potters have created bowls, local chefs will prepare soup and local
bakers are supplying bread. For $25, you are invited to enjoy a bowl
of soup and you get to keep the bowl.
All proceeds will go to local organizations to fight hunger:
Cornerstone Food Bank, Lennoxville Elementary School Breakfast
Program and The Pastoral Fund which helps needy students on the
Bishop’s / Champlain Campus.
Saturday, October 15, 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Hope Community Church: 102 Queen St, Lennoxville
Tickets are available at BU Bookstore and will be available at the door.
Used Book Sale: The Bishop’s/Champlain Refugee Student
Sponsorship Committee will be holding their annual Used Book Sale
at Lennoxville United Church, 6 Church Street on the following
dates: Thursday, October 20, 4 PM – 8 PM; Friday, October 21, 11 PM –
8 PM and Saturday, October 22, 9 AM – noon. If you have used books
to donate to the sale please take them to the church on Wednesday,
October 19 from 1 PM – 6 PM or Thursday, October 20 from 9 AM –
noon. All proceeds go to assisting our sponsored refugee students.
"Who cares for the caregivers": an information session offered by
Mental Health Estrie on Friday, October 21 at the Amédée Beaudoin
Community Centre in Lennoxville at 7 PM.
Partage biblique oecuménique : À partir de Philippiens 3, 12-16. L’unité
chrétienne : « Au point où nous sommes, avançons tous ensemble. » Avec le
pasteur Claude Dagenais de l’Armée du Salut, le mardi 25 octobre à 19 h à
l’Armée du Salut, 112, rue Wellington Sud, local 101.
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