God of the seasons, you surround us with beauty and wonder: you smile in the ripening fruit, you dance in the tumbling leaves. Teach us to dance with you, to act justly and the share fairly, to love you in friend and stranger all the moments of our nights and days.

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Bulletin

Announcement Sheet

Shining Waters Regional Council Prayer Cycle:

Today we pray for:  Gilford United Church, Harmony United Church, Kearney, Metropolitan United Church, Toronto, and Filipino Christian Fellowship. 

Minute For Mission:

A Rights-Based Approach to Growing Food: Learning about agroecology at the Dora Alicia Sorto School Farm in El Salvado

Prayers & Devotionals:

Deep, Bold, Daring Prayer: We give thanks for the traditions and faithfulness of all who have gone before us, that provide good soil for us to grow deep roots.

Lectio Divina -  Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

The hymns and music today… 

O God beyond All Praising  (w Michael Perry, m Gastav T. Holst)– Reprinted and podcast with permission under One License #A-718074 and CCLI Licenses #20425240 and #20425257.

Love is the Touch (A. Roberston, J. Bell) - Reprinted and podcast with permission under One License #A-718074

Though Ancient Walls (w Walter Farquharson, m Ron Klusmeier) - Reprinted and podcast with permission under One License #A-718074 and CCLI Licenses #20425240 and #20425257.

Dance with the Spirit (Jim Strathdee) - Reprinted and podcast with permission under One License #A-718074 and CCLI Licenses #20425240 and #20425257.

We Are An Offering (D. Liles) - Reprinted and podcast with permission under CCLI Licenses #20425240 and #20425257.

Spirit of Life (C. McDade) - Reprinted and podcast with permission under One License #A-718074.

Take Up His Song  (m/w Laura A. Herman, arr. Robin King) 

Variations on 'Bourbon' 'It Happened on That Fateful Nigh' 'Now Let Us With One Accord' (Peter Niedmann) - Podcast with permission under CCLI Licenses #20425240 and #20425257.

Crashing Waters at Creation (Dunstan, Cross) - Podcast with permission under One License #A-718074.

The Storm is Passing Over (C. Tinsley, arr. B. Baker)

Lullaby (Mychael Danna)

Now Thank We All Our God (J. S. Bach, arr. Noel Rawsthorne) 

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