Interim Moderator Rev. Robert Shaw B.A., M.Div.
May 6, 2018
Welcome & Announcements
Call to Worship
One: It is not difficult to be God’s beloved child.
All: We are called to obey God’s commandments and live in God’s love!
One: The ways which God ordains are ways of peace and hope.
All: The love of God shall conquer the world.
One: Rejoice, O people of God, for God is near!
All: Praise God for God’s power and might, God’s love and peace.
Hymn # 422 “Sing a new song unto the Lord”
Prayer of Approach
Words of Assurance
Responsive Reading: Psalm 98
Anthem
Children’s Time
Hymn # 687 “Blessed Assurance”
Our Morning Prayer – Lord’s Prayer (trespasses)
We Bring Our Gifts to God: “An acceptable sacrifice, pleasing God”.
Philippians 4:18
Doxology: “Praise God, from whom all blessings flow”
Offertory Prayer
Scripture:
Acts 10: 44-48
1 John 5: 1-6
John 15: 9-17
Hymn # 481 “Blest be the tie that binds”
Message:
Hymn # 350 “To God be the Glory”
Closing Prayer and Prayer for the People
Benediction and God’s Blessing
Choral Response: “Go Now in Peace” (inside back cover of Hymn Book)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
THANK YOU to Mr. Doug Gillard for leading our service today.
UPCOMING SERVICES: Mr. Doug Gillard will be conducting the services during the month of May.
THANK YOU to Ruth Anne McCallum for all of her work on the bulletin during the winter months.
LARGIE WMS AND LADIES AID will meet on Monday May 14th. The topic is Mother’s Day. The roll call will be “A tradition you do or did with your Mother”. The committee is Barb Ross and Dorothy McCallum and the lunch committee is Janith McMillan and Dianne Lilley.