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Order of Service for July 18, 2021

You can stream the service live HERE on Facebook or HERE on our website.  

Guest Preacher the Rev Rebecca Simpson (Elder Klaas Broersma)

Rebecca is the new Director of Denominational Formation at St. Andrew's hall, and Minister of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Mission, BC.  Rebecca graduates Simon Fraser University where she earned a Bachelor of Education with a focus on educational psychology and a major in biology.  Her early teaching years were spent in secondary science labs in Maple Ridge, BC, and an adult education program in Swan River, Manitoba.  Rebecca continued her studies at Vancouver School of Theology and subsequently served as Camp Douglas Director for the Presbytery of Westminster and Minister at St. Paul's.  She lives in Mission with her husband and three nearly-grown children.  With a wide variety of experiences within the Presbyterian Church in Canada, she is poised to share in the spiritual formation of future Ministers of Word and Sacrament.

Call to Worship (Proverbs 8, John 1, Romans 5)

In the beginning, when God drew a circle on the face of the deep,                                            
Wisdom was there rejoicing, delighting in the human race.
In the beginning was the Word, with God, and the Word was God.
And the Word became flesh and lived among us, full of grace and truth.
In every time and place, God’s love is poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
Blessed are you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!

Hymn: #645 "Follow me, the Master said" 

Opening Prayers  

Children's Story 

Choruses: "Amazing Grace (My chains are gone)" (Tomlin)

Scripture Lesson:  Luke 15:4-32 

Sermon: "Who is Missing?" 

Offering & Doxology

Prayers of the People (can be shared in comments of live feed)

Hymn: #640 "Softly and tenderly"

Announcements

BC Covid Update: Restrictions have been removed. Masks are recommended in indoor public settings for all people 12 and older who are not yet fully vaccinated. 
Bible Studies & Sunday School: Our Bible Studies and Sunday School classes are on summer break.
Birthdays & Anniversaries: Hannah de Vries (July 18), Elias Wiest (July 19), Jenny Broersma (July 21), Ann Gerrits (July 24)
Pastoral Care: Pastor Steve will be taking a month of holidays followed by two weeks of study leave. He will be back in the office on August 31. Please speak to your elder if you have any pastoral concerns. 
Election of Elders: Why do churches have elders? The early references in the New Testament describe elders as assisting church ministers: “Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord in whom they had put their trust” (Acts 14:23). From a scriptural point of view, in the early Christian church, the elders were the church leaders who met, thought and reasoned together with the apostles. The tradition of elder in our church today underlines an important principle: The church attempts to seek God’s will through the collective decisions made by God’s people. 

Thought for the Day

Benediction  

Amen

Postlude

 

Video Links:

https://youtu.be/6tOsW0s1JWM

https://youtu.be/-6MP0I2JxfE