September 11, 2016 - Plymouth-Trinity United Church / Église Unie

PLYMOUTH-TRINITY UNITED CHURCH
September 11th, 2016 –Seventeenth after Pentecost
Prelude & Welcome and greetings
* Call to worship & opening prayer
* Hymn.e
God is here
VU 389
Litany of Learning: A Prayer for the New School Year
We come before you, Lord, to pray for your help and celebrate the
gifts of creative and curious minds. You call us to care for your
world and your word. Help us to learn about them so that we may
be faithful to our calling. YOU ARE WIDE AND DEEP!
We promise
to use our minds to study your world and your word, to
use our eyes, hands and ears to learn, and
to use our tongues to
discuss, question and probe. We are fearfully and wonderfully
made. YOU ARE WIDE AND DEEP!
We celebrate ideas, numbers, words and skills. We celebrate puzzles,
paints and colours. We celebrate imagination, instruments and
enigmas. All of it, Lord, is a part of your world. Your world is
marvellous! YOU ARE WIDE AND DEEP!
We thank you for teachers who teach about your world and your
Word. We thank you for children, youth, adults and seniors who
see the wonders of your world unfold before them as they study
and teach. YOU ARE WIDE AND DEEP!
Help us to learn and teach with joy. Push us to set higher goals when
learning seems easy, to keep on trying when learning becomes
difficult, and to use the full potential with which you blessed each
of us. YOU ARE WIDE AND DEEP!
We thank you, God, for the whole Sunday school family. We support
and encourage them in learning and expanding their knowledge.
We pledge our support to them. Give us a desire to learn.
Give us
strength and energy.
Give us a desire to do our very best.
God, we
will uphold our children, teachers and the whole Sunday school
family in prayer. Together, Lord, we promise to study and use our
learning today and tomorrow as we serve you faithfully. We pray in
the name of the great teacher, Jesus, who told us not to be afraid.
Amen
OT: Old Testament
NT: New Testament
* the congregation standing, as able
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VU: Voices United
MV: More Voices
* Response
MV 90
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.
Announcements and sharing in the life of the Community
Hymn.e
This is the day / Voici le jour
MV 122
Prayer for illumination
Readings 1 Timothy/Timothée 1:12-17
Luke/Luc 15:1-10
NT 208 / 277
NT 78 / 101
The word of God for the people of God.
Thanks be to God.
Sermon
Learning living… living learning
Apprendre et vivre… vivre et apprendre
Personal reflection
Offering will be received during the hymn and brought to the
communion table. L’offertoire sera recue et amenée à la table pendant le
chant suivant.
* Hymn.e
I need you every hour / J’ai soif de ta présence
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Holy Communion liturgy (insert) / Liturgie de la Ste Cène (encart)
During communion, we will sing the following hymn:
Pendant la communion, nous chanterons le chant suivant.
* Hymn Just as I am / Tel que je suis
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* Hymn.e
Guide me / Guide moi
VU 651
* Benediction
* Choral.e Will you come and follow me
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
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Plymouth-Trinity United Church
380 Dufferin Ave. Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 4M7
819 346-6373 - [email protected]
www.plymouthtrinitychurch.org
Ministers: All of us
Clergy: the Rev. Samuel V. Dansokho - 873 200-2011
Organist and Music Director: Leslie Young
Secretary: Daniel Laplante – 819 346-6373
Caretaker: Christopher Bryant
Board Chair: Ann Fowlis - [email protected]
Webmaster: Michael Eby - [email protected]
elcome to all who are worshipping with us today. On this special
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Sunday, may we continue to feel the refreshing 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.
Today is the inauguration of the Bilingual Children's ministry, a fun
and educational programme for children aged 3-12. Le thème de ce
mois est la gratitude.
Today, we’ll be sharing in Holy Communion. The wooden Benevolent
Fund box is on the table at the back of the sanctuary next Sunday.
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. Please let the minister know if somebody needs to receive
Communion at home or hospital.
All are welcome to our Mission and Service Birthday/Anniversary
celebration after the service. Join us for a delicious hot meal followed
by dessert. With your free-will offering, our community increases
our M&S donations and our love spreads around the world!
We thank our volunteers:
Reader: Vivienne Galanis
Ushers: Val Rawlings & Carol Smith
Sexton: Robert Stratton
Communion servers: Val Rawlings & Kristi Roht
Happy birthday to Nathaniel Patton (today), Florence Bukam and Lena
McElwain (September 15th).
Happy anniversary to Claire Kouamou Petmi & Collins Touoyem
(today), Florence Bukam & Isaac Kamta (today) and to Shanna
Bernier & Gordon Lambie (September 17th).
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Bulletin covers this week are donated by Kristi Roht in memory of her
parents, and by Inge Lunkenbein & family in memory of Dieter
Lunkenbein (d. September 11th, 1985).
Church office: Daniel Laplante will be in Tuesday 8-11, Wednesday
8-11 and Friday 8-11 & 11:30-14:30. 819-346-6373
[email protected]
Next week
Next week, September 18th – Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Jeremiah 8:18–9:1
1 Timothy 2:1-7
Psalm 79:1-9
Luke 16:1-13
Le service en français se tiendra à 9 h dans la chapelle. Veuillez entrer par
la porte derrière l’église. Bienvenue à toutes et à tous !
English service at 10:30 in the sanctuary.
In the Community
Silent Auction offer – Enjoy a 4-5 hour fall foliage tour through
Sawyerville, North River, Island Brook and Gould. Janet McBurney
is willing to take up to 3 passengers on a tour to enjoy the beautiful
fall scenery. The tour will include a lunch stop. Confirm your interest
before 6 PM on Sunday, September 25th either by phone at
819-565-9716 or e-mail [email protected] Donations to the
Funds for the Future (targeted tour date is Saturday, October 1st)
Belated but warm thanks to Ann and Dave Fowlis for organising the
between-the-columns ice-cream socials after worship the last three
Sundays in August. We thank also those who helped set-up, serve
and clean-up and made financial contributions, plus Martyn Sadler
who launched the idea and Samuel V. Dansokho who ran with it and
also did some serving. Not to be forgotten: Michael Eby’s
contribution of blackberries from his garden!
Félicitations à Carno et son équipe ! Congratulations to Carno Tchuani,
who with help from the Rev. Florence Bukam, Michael Eby,
Corentine Navennec, the minister and others, organised the highly
successful barbq at Parc Blanchard for the Plymouth-Trinity family
and new university students on Saturday, September 3rd. Among
those who enjoyed the event: Lydie Nangue and family, Collins
Touoyem and family, Ernest Njiemoun, the Fowlises, Galanises and
Robinsons, Robert and Sarah Stratton and partners, the YoungCloutiers, Inge Lunkenbein and Val Rawlings.
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In the Church
The Board of Trustees plans to meet on Tuesday, September 13th at
7:30 PM.
UCW will meet on Tuesday, September 13th at 7:30 PM. Please remember
your donations for L’Escale (the women’s shelter) for the meeting.
Weekly bilingual Meditation group begins again this Thursday, at
11 AM in the chapel. Welcome to all!
Les sessions de méditation chrétienne reprennent les jeudis à 11 h dans la
chapelle. Bienvenue à toutes et à tous !
There will be a special meeting of the Plymouth-Trinity Church
Board on Sunday, September 18th, 2016 at 10:30 AM. We will be
meeting Kristine Greenaway, in charge of Ministry in French (MiF)
for The United Church of Canada and receiving a report from the
group that has been working on a MiF project for Plymouth-Trinity.
As many of you know, this group, including francophones attending
le culte en français at P-T, has been conducting a sort of ‘market
analysis’ to asses their needs and the opportunities for a United
Church pilot project outreach to the French-speaking population of
Sherbrooke. This will be the only item on the agenda.
As always, everyone is welcome to attend Board meetings; we
encourage you to be present on Sunday, September 18th at 10:30 AM.
(Exceptionally, on September 18th the worship service in English will
be at 6 PM when we will celebrate the baptism of Meredith Lambie.)
Une réunion spéciale du Conseil se tiendra le dimanche 18 septembre
2016 à 10h30. Nous rencontrerons Kristine Greenaway, responsable du
Ministère en français pour l’Église unie du Canada et recevrons un rapport
du groupe qui travaille sur le projet du ministère en français. Ce groupe
recherche depuis quelques mois déjà les possibilités et l’intérêt, à
Sherbrooke, pour le développement d'un projet pilote de ministère en
français de l’Église Unie du Canada. Ce sera le seul sujet à l’ordre du jour.
Les réunions du conseil sont toujours ouvertes à tous ; nous vous
encourageons à venir le dimanche 18 septembre à 10h30.
(Exceptionnellement, le culte en anglais se tiendra à 18h où nous célébrerons
le baptême de Meredith Lambie.)
The Board will meet on Tuesday, September 20th at 7:30 PM.
Non-native English-speakers: Next ESL session in the parlour on
Wednesday, October 28th, from 6-7:30 PM. Please inform Val
Rawlings (819-562-8630) in time if you cannot attend.
Prochain cours d’anglais : mercredi le 8 octobre, de 18 h à 19 h 30. Veuillez
avertir à temps Val Rawlings (819-562-8630) si vous avez un empêchement.
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I NEED YOU EVERY HOUR / J’AI SOIF DE TA PRÉSENCE
1. I need thee every hour, most gracious Lord;
no tender voice but thine can peace afford.
CHORUS
I need thee, O I need thee; every hour I need thee.
O bless me now, my Saviour; I come to thee.
2. Quand l’en-ne-mi, dans l’om-bre, s’as-semble au-tour de moi,
ac-ca-blé par le nombre, que pour-rais-je sans toi ?
REFRAIN
Chaque jour, à chaque heure, oh j’ai besoin de toi !
Viens, Jésus et demeure, demeure auprès de moi !
3. I need thee every hour; in joy or pain;
come quickly and abide, or life is vain. CHORUS
4. O Jé-sus, ta pré-sen-ce, c’est la vie et la paix
la paix dans la souf-fran-ce, et la vie à ja-mais. REFRAIN
JUST AS I AM / TEL QUE JE SUIS
1. Tel que je suis, sans rien à moi si-non ton sang ver-sé pour moi !
Et ta voix qui m'ap-pelle à toi, A-gneau de Dieu, je viens, je viens !
2. Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind, Sight, riches, healing of the mind
Yea, all I need, in Thee to find O Lamb of God, I come, I come!
3. Tel que je suis, ton cœur est prêt à pren-dre le mien tel qu'il est,
Pour tout chan-ger, Sau-veur par-fait, A-gneau de Dieu, je viens, je viens !
4. Just as I am, thy love unknown has broken every barrier down;
now to be thine, yea, thine alone, O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
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Our Mission
As people of Plymouth-Trinity United Church we strive to
 be a welcoming and caring community following the
example of Jesus Christ;
 share in meaningful worship for those who long to hear
Good News;
 deepen our faith and share it with people of all ages;
 listen to and learn from our brothers and sisters of other
faiths and denominations;
 promote justice and peace in our city and in our world.
Notre Mission
Nous, la communauté de l'Eglise Unie Plymouth-Trinity, nous
nous efforçons
 d'être une communauté accueillante et attentionnée en
suivant l'exemple de Jésus-Christ;
 d'offrir un lieu de partage où la prière et la louange prennent
tout leur sens pour ceux qui souhaitent ouvrir leur cœur à la
Bonne Nouvelle;
 d'approfondir notre foi et la partager avec des personnes de
tout âge;
 d'apprendre de nos frères et de nos sœurs de fois ou de
dénominations différentes en pratiquant l'écoute;
 de promouvoir la justice et la paix dans notre ville et notre
monde.