We welcome Paul Stott to the pulpit of Aurora United Church this morning.  Paul has been a member of Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church in Toronto for over 70 years. After taking early retirement from a teaching career at Toronto Metropolitan University (formally Ryerson) in 2003, he enrolled at Emmanuel College and obtained a Masters degree in Theology. He has served on committees at all levels of the church including 9 years on General Council Executive.  He is a Licenced Lay Worship Leader in Shining Waters Region. 

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Bulletin

Sacrament of Baptism  (insert)

Shining Waters Regional Council Prayer Cycle:

Today we pray for  Victoria Square United Church, Markham, Kimbourne Park United Church, Toronto, Willowdale Emmanuel United Church, Toronto

Minute For Mission:

Your gifts through Mission & Service support long-term, life-changing work through committed partners like Women for Change. Thank You  

Prayers & Devotionals:

Help to Reawaken Our Love for Creation: A prayer for the Fridays for Future Climate Strike movement by Alydia Smith. 

Lectio Divina -  Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

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The United Church of Canada crest.

The hymns and music today… 

Elegy (Noel Rawsthorne)

God, We Pray at This Beginning (Christopher Redmond, Cyril Vincent Taylor)

Renew Us (Herb Frombach, David Lantz III) Podcast with permission CCLI Licenses #20425240 and #20425257.

Praise Unfolding (Sandra Eithun) Podcast with permission under One License #A-718074 and CCLI Licenses #20425240 and #20425257.

O God We Call (Linnea Good) Reprinted and podcast with permission under One License #A-718074 and CCLI Licenses #20425240 and #20425257.

When You Walk From Here (Linnea Good). –Reprinted and podcast with permission under One License #A-718074 and CCLI Licenses #20425240 and #20425257.

Tree of Life and Awesome Mystery (Marty Haugen)– Reprinted with permission under One License #A-718074 

The Play of the Godhead (w Mary Louise Bringle, m Robert J. Batastini) - Reprinted with permission under One License #A-718074

Called by Earth and Sky (Pat Mayberry)-Reprinted and podcast with permission under One License #A-718074 and CCLI Licenses #20425240 and #20425257.

We Cannot Own the Sunlit Sky (w Ruth Duck, m Mary Haugen) Reprinted with permission under One License #A-718074

The Risen Christ (vs 1,2,4) (w Nigel Weaver, m Walter Greatorex) Reprinted with permission under One License #A-718074

The Church of Christ in Every Age - (vs 1,3,5) (w Fred Pratt Green, m James Willaim Elliott) Reprinted and podcast with permission under One License #A-718074 and CCLI Licenses #20425240 and #20425257.

My Life Flows On (Robert S. Lowry)  

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