MAY 20, 2012 REV. JANE VAN PATTER

St. David's Mission Statement begins . . .

Celebrating Faith, Family and Community

Welcome! It is always good to worship together. Please note bold print is an invitation for congregational participation.

Please note:  No Sunday School on the Long Weekend - May 20, 2012. Children are welcome to sit with their parents. Activity bags are available on the Sanctuary pick up tables.

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Participating Today ...

 Greeters:  Judy Crane, Jude Gillatt

Ushers: Edith Hillman, Shirley Foster, Virginia & Ted Andrews

Worship Leader: Carol Ewing

Counters:  Lynda Pillon, Kathy & Glenn McDermott

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Church Life & Work:  for announcements NOT received via  e-mail, church website, hard copy on pick up tables

Vs 1 – Voices of Praise

  Congregation

      We are one in the bond of love,

      We are one in the bond of love;

      We have joined our spirit with the Spirit of God,

      We are one in the bond of love

Vs 2 – Voices of Praise

  Congregation

      Let us sing now, everyone,

      Let us feel God’s love begun;

     Let us join our hands that the world will know

     We are one in the bond of love.   

                                                      CCLI #14459

Opening Prayer & The Lord's Prayer

Song of Praise:   Open My Eyes That I May See          # 371

Sripture: Matthew 13: 1-9; 18-23 … the Parable of the Farmer Planting Seeds

Voices of Praise:  Everywhere I Go

Song of Praise:  Touch The Earth Lightly                     # 307

Message: Long Weekend Adventure #1  - Seed Planting & Flower Beds

Prayers of the People:

The Offering:

Offertory Response:   

                        O bless the gifts our hands have brought;

                        And bless the work our hearts have planned.

                        Ours is the faith, the will, the thought;

                        The rest, O God, is in Your hand.

Offertory Prayer

Song of Praise:  In The Bulb There Is A Flower           # 703

Commissioning and Benediction 

Choral Closing: May the God of Hope Go with Us     #424                                    

Go in peace … Go in safety

For you cannot go where God is not

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Coffee Fellowship in Kirk Hall

See You There!

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St. David’s United Church

190 Springbank Ave. N. Woodstock, ON  N4S 7R1

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