HARROWSMITH-VERONA PASTORAL CHARGE

UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA

Worship Time:  10 am at Trinity, Verona

Office Phone: 613-372-2525 or 613-374-2777

Voluntary Associate Minister: Rev. Dr. Peter Bartlett

Retired Voluntary Minister: The Rev’d. Ian MacKay

Office Administrator: Rebecca Peters

Director of Music:  Stan Stinchcombe

Website:  www.h-vpastoralcharge.org

e-mail:  office@h-vpastoralcharge.org

 

 

Trinity United Church acknowledges the traditional territory upon which we gather. For thousands of years, the First Peoples sought to walk gently on this land. They offered assistance to the first European travelers and shared their knowledge for survival. We seek a new relationship with the First Peoples of this land, one based in honour and deep respect.

 

 

Sunday, May 10, 2026

Worship Leader:  Ian Mackay

Lay Reader:  Jane Mackay

EASTER VI

Mothers’ Day - Christian Family Sunday

 

WE GATHER

 

ORGAN PRELUDE 

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 

LIGHTING THE CHRIST CANDLE

 

HYMN:  “It’s a Song of Praise to the Maker”   (MV #30)

 

SCRIPTURE SENTENCES

 

CHORAL INTROIT:  “Let Us Build a House”   (MV #1)

 

LITANY OF APPROACH

One:  The God of heaven and earth calls us together.  We come to explore matters of the Spirit.  

All:  There is so much we do not know or understand.  So much of God is unknown to us.

One:  Let us look carefully at the source of our worship.  Let us exalt in the majesty and power of our God.

All:  We want to worship the One who gives us breath.  We reach for the marvelous Reality that is beyond our knowing.

One:  In God we are alive.  All that we have and are comes from God.

All:  God is not limited to what is made by human hands.  God is everywhere, present in all creation.

 

PRAYER OF APPROACH  (unison)

Let the sound of praising you, O God, be heard among us today, and in all places of your dominion.  We believe you are present with us even when we cannot feel or see or hear you as we would like.  We thank you for the times when you have caught our attention.  We ask you for one of those times today.  Shake us out of our complacency.  Hold us in your steadfast love and call forth within us an awareness of your blessings.  Stimulate among us an eagerness to live as you intend.  Amen.

 

ANTHEM:  “Holy One, O Holy One”   (MV #35)

 

MINUTE FOR MISSION - Bea Moffitt

 

LORD’S PRAYER

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, for ever and ever.   Amen.

 

HYMN:  “Jesus Came, a Child Like Me”   (VU #583)

1.  Jesus came, a child like me, so the face of God I’d see, God is not left far away, God is with us every day.

Live, Jesus, near us, live, Jesus, with us, live, Jesus, in us, come, live in us today.

 

2.  Jesus came to show us all ways to answer our God’s call – came to show us how to share, came to live with God’s own care.

Live, Jesus, near us, live, Jesus, with us, live, Jesus, in us, come, live in us today.

 

3.  Jesus came God’s work to do, came to live in me and you, came to turn the world around till God’s peace and love are found.

Live, Jesus, near us, live, Jesus, with us, live, Jesus, in us, come, live in us today.

 

4.  Jesus came to show God’s face, live God’s ;love, and be God’s grace.  God lives now in me, in you, God’s at work in what we do.

Live, Jesus, near us, live, Jesus, with us, live, Jesus, in us, come, live in us today.

 

(Children and teachers may leave for church school.)

 

WE GIVE BACK

 

OUR OFFERINGS  (Offering plates are available at the back of the church.)  

 

DEDICATION OF THE OFFERING  (standing)   tune Beecher   (VU #528)

You remind us, we are baptized,

Cleansed by water and by grace,

Never orphaned, though we’re chastened,

Offered in your realm, a place.

Thus we live with hope resounding,

Praying for conscience clear,

As your reign of love astounding,

Brings our resurrection near.

 

OFFERTORY PRAYER   (unison)

O God, may all that we give today be used to express your love among us and beyond us.  We are thankful for your gift to us in Jesus Christ.  We are grateful that He is alive and will always be alive in spirit, and in us, especially through our acts of caring and in our giving.  With this offering, we dedicate ourselves in your service.  Amen.

 

WE LISTEN

 

GOSPEL:  John 14:15-21

 

HYMN:  “Come, O Fount of Every Blessing”   (VU #559

1.  Come, O Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing your grace; streams of mercy, never ceasing call for songs of endless praise.  Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above.  Praise the mount; I’m fixed upon it, mount of God’s unfailing love.

 

2.  Here I pause in my sojourning, giving thanks for having come, come to trust, at every turning, God will guide me safely home.  Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God, came to rescue me from danger, precious presence, precious blood.

 

3.  O, to grace how great a debt or daily I am drawn anew!  Let that grace now, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to you.  Prone to wander I can feel it, wander from the love I’ve known: here’s my heart, O, take and seal it, seal it for your very own.

 

SERMON:  “A Place To Be  ”

 

PREPARATION FOR PRAYER:  “And On This Path”   (MV #8)

(sung seated)

        

 PASTORAL PRAYER

 

WE GO FORTH

 

HYMN:  “Are You a Shepherd?”   (MV #126)

 

BENEDICTION  

 

SENDING FORTH:  “Go in Peace”

Go in peace and the peace of God be with you this day.

Go in peace and the peace of God be with you alway.

Celebrate and share the joy! Celebrate new Life!

Go in peace and the peace of God be with you alway.

 

ORGAN POSTLUDE

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS & MEETINGS

Worship Leader for Sunday May 17th:

Rev. Micheline Montreuil

Lay Reader for Sunday May 17th:

Muriel York

 

DONATIONS REQUESTED:  The Camp Quin-Mo-Lac Envelopes are located at the back of the sanctuary if you would like to contribute financially to sending the 2 students to summer camp.  As well, the Blessing Box is available every week if you wish to contribute any spare change.

 

FELLOWSHIP:  The next church potluck fellowship will be held next Sunday May 17th following the church service.  Please bring any dish you wish to share with others.

 

UCW:  The UCW ladies will be meeting Wednesday May 27th at 12:30 pm in the church Memorial Room.  All women are welcome to join.

 

THANK YOU:  A heartfelt thank you is extended to Stan Stinchcombe and Rebecca Peters on the introit solo during last Sundays service.  Well done.

 

WOMEN’S SOCIAL:  Please join us for our next women’s ministry event next Tuesday May 19th at 12:30 pm at the Verona Free Methodist Church.  We will be making our own reusable name tags.  Lunch provided by donation.  Please RSVP to Tricia at 613-530-7621.

 

FOODBANK NEEDS:  The Verona Satellite Foodbank will be open again next Thursday May 14th at the Verona Free Methodist Church and is asking for donations of the following:

·      Soap (men’s bar soap and women’s bar soap)

·      Baby shampoo

·      Men’s body wash

·      Shampoo and conditioner

·      Deodorant (men’s and women’s)

·      Pudding cups

·      Cake mix

·      Cake icing

·      Dish detergent

·      Jam

·      Canned Meat (Tuna, Ham, Chicken, Salmon)

·      Canned Chunky Soup

·      Canned Fruit