August Summer Worship Bulletin

Roxboro United Church welcomes you to our summer worship.
We are pleased you are here to come close to God and neighbour.
Here find a place to call home; here find the sacred time you need;
here find welcome for your faith and doubt; anger and joy; compassion and pain;
here find acceptance for who you are, for you are made in God’s image.
*Words printed in Bold are congregational responses *Stand at Bold Headings*

Gathering & Welcome

Favourite Hymns (2) make sure your favourites are not listed on the back

Prayer
Thanks be to you, Christ,
for the many gifts you have bestowed on us,
   each day and night, each sea and land,         
      each weather fair, each calm, each wild.
Each night may we remember your mercy
given so gently and generously.
   Each thing we have received, from you it came;
      each thing for which we hope,
         from your love it will come;
            each thing we enjoy, it is of your bounty;
               each thing we ask, comes of your disposing.
God, from whom each thing that is, freely flows,
   grant that no tie over strict, no tie over dear,
      may be between ourselves and this world.

Our Father
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
   your kingdom come,
      your will be done on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil
   for the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours,
      now and forever.

The Sacred Story
Listen for the Sacred Story.
   our ears and hearts are open.

Reading See the back of the bulletin

Response
For the Sacred Story is God’s story,
   for the Sacred Story is our story,
for the Sacred Story is our source and inspiration.
   Thanks be to God.

Hymn See the back of the bulletin or hymn board

Sermon