Revelstoke United Church YEARS OF SEEKING, LOVING, AND WALKING

PROCESSIONAL HYMN Please stand VOICES UNITED 415 “God, We Praise You for the Morning” Dickey Words and Music: Jim and Jean Strathdee (1984)

God, we praise you for the morning; Hope springs forth with each new day, New beginning, prayer, and promise, Joy in work and in play.

God, we praise you for creation, Mountains, seas, and prairie land God, we praise you for creation, Mountains, seas, and prairie land. Waking souls find joy and healing In your bountiful hand.

God, we praise you for compassion, All the loving that you show; Human touching, tears, and laughter, Help your children to grow.

God, we praise you for your Spirit, Comforter and daily friend, Restless searcher, gentle teacher, Strength and courage you send.

God, we praise you for the Saviour, Come that we may know your ways God, we praise you for the Saviour, Come that we may know your ways. In his loving, dying, rising, Christ is Lord of our days.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, Hallelujah, hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelujah, Hallelujah, hallelujah! Christ is Lord of our days.

WELCOME AND TERRITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. RESPONSE: AND ALSO WITH YOU. Hallelujah! Christ is risen! RESPONSE: HE IS RISEN INDEED! HALLELUJAH!

WELCOME AND TERRITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We recognize and honour the First Nations on whose traditional unceded territory we gather to worship: The Sinixt First Nations The Ktanaxa First Nations The Schwemec First Nations The Syilx First Nations

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MINUTE FOR MISSION Ken English

OPENING PRAYER

“Jesu, Joy of Our Desiring” HYMN Please stand VOICES UNITED 328 “Jesu, Joy of Our Desiring” Jesu, Joy (Werde Munter) Words: Martin Janus (1661), trans. Robert Serbour Bridges Music: from J.S. Bach (1716)

Jesu, joy of our desiring, Holy wisdom, love most bright; Drawn by you, our souls aspiring Soar to uncreated light. Word of God, our flesh that fashioned, With the fire of life impassioned, Striving still to truth unknown, Soaring, dying round your throne.

Through the way where hope is guiding, Hark, what peaceful music rings; Where the flock, in you confiding, Drink of joy from deathless springs. Theirs is beauty’s fairest pleasure, Theirs is wisdom’s holiest treasure. You, forever, lead your own In the love of joys unknown.

Children’s Question Time Your questions and wonderings are precious in the sight of God. Young people are given the first opportunity to ask questions and the first opportunity to respond.

PRAYER OF CONFESSION Holy God, in earth, sea, and sky, you are there; We come before God, acknowledging our struggles, our brokenness, and our faults, and trusting in the love of the risen Christ. Let us pray to God:   Holy God, in earth, sea, and sky, you are there; in everything we touch, in everyone we meet, your presence is around us.

PRAYER OF CONFESSION You we have not touched but trampled in creation; you we have not met but missed in one another; you we have not received but rejected in the poor and outcast. The Iona Community (Silent confession)

PRAYER OF CONFESSION And so we pray: Lord, have mercy. RESPONSE: LORD, HAVE MERCY. Christ, have mercy. CHRIST, HAVE MERCY. Lord, have mercy. LORD, HAVE MERCY. Mother God, blessed Jesus, Holy Spirit, HEAR OUR PRAYER AND HEAL OUR HEARTS.

Hallelujah! RESPONSE: HALLELUJAH! AMEN. WORDS OF ASSURANCE Hallelujah! RESPONSE: HALLELUJAH! AMEN.

SUNG RESPONSE (GLORIA) Gloria! Gloria in excelsis Deo! Gloria! Gloria! Alleluia! Alleluia! Voices United 37

Your Word is a lamp to my feet, REFRAIN Your Word is a lamp to my feet, And a light unto my path. Voices United 956

FIRST READING ACTS 7: 55 – 60 The Stoning of Stephen But filled with the Holy Spirit, Stephen gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. “Look,” he said, “I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” But they covered their ears, and with a loud shout all rushed together against him.

FIRST READING Then they dragged him out of the city and began to stone him; and the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul. While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” Then he knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” When he had said this, he died. Hear what the Spirit is saying to her church. RESPONSE: THANKS BE TO GOD.

PSALM 31: 1 – 5, 15 – 16 (VU p. 758 pts. 1, 3) RESPONSE: I TRUST IN YOU, YOU ARE MY GOD. In you, O God, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame. DELIVER ME IN YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS; INCLINE YOUR EAR; COME QUICKLY TO MY RESCUE. I TRUST IN YOU, YOU ARE MY GOD.

PSALM Be my rock of refuge, a stronghold to keep me safe. YOU ARE INDEED MY ROCK AND FORTRESS; LEAD ME AND GUIDE ME FOR YOUR OWN NAME’S SAKE. Release me from the net that they hid for me, for you are my protector. INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT, FOR YOU HAVE REDEEMED ME, O GOD OF TRUTH. I TRUST IN YOU, YOU ARE MY GOD.

PSALM My times are in your hands; Deliver me from the hands of my enemies, from those who pursue me. LET YOUR FACE SHINE ON YOUR SERVANT, AND SAVE ME, FOR YOUR MERCY’S SAKE. I TRUST IN YOU, YOU ARE MY GOD.

GOSPEL READING JOHN 14: 1 – 14 Jesus the Way to the Father “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way to the place where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

GOSPEL READING Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if you do not, then believe me because of the works themselves.

GOSPEL READING “Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.” The Gospel of Jesus Christ. RESPONSE: PRAISE TO CHRIST THE WORD.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! RESPONSE Halle-, halle-, hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! (sing twice) Voices United 958

“RADICAL CELEBRATION, PART FOUR: CELEBRATE WITH YOUR WHOLE LIFE” Rev “RADICAL CELEBRATION, PART FOUR: CELEBRATE WITH YOUR WHOLE LIFE” Rev. David

HYMN Please stand “Christ Has No Body Now but Yours” MORE VOICES 171 Words: Adapted from St. Teresa of Avíla Music: Rick Gunn (2006)

Christ has no body now but yours, No hands but yours Christ has no body now but yours, No hands but yours. Here on this earth, yours is the work, To serve with the joy of compassion. No hands but yours to heal the wounded world No hands but yours to soothe all its suffering, No touch but yours to bind the broken hope Of the people of God.

Christ has no body now but yours, No hands but yours Christ has no body now but yours, No hands but yours. Here on this earth, yours is the work, To serve with the joy of compassion. No eyes but yours to see as Christ would see, To find the lost, to gaze with compassion; No eyes but yours to glimpse the holy joy Of the city of God.

Christ has no body now but yours, No hands but yours Christ has no body now but yours, No hands but yours. Here on this earth, yours is the work, To serve with the joy of compassion. No feet but yours to journey with the poor, To walk this world with mercy and justice. Yours are the steps to build a lasting peace For the children of God.

Christ has no body now but yours, No hands but yours Christ has no body now but yours, No hands but yours. Here on this earth, yours is the work, To serve with the joy of compassion. Through ev’ry gift, give back to those in need: As Christ has blessed, so now be his blessing, With ev’ry gift a benediction be To the people of God.

Christ has no body now but yours, No hands but yours Christ has no body now but yours, No hands but yours. Here on this earth, yours is the work, To serve with the joy of compassion.

OFFERING “Christ has no body now but yours; no hands or feet on earth but yours.” — Teresa of Avíla Your gifts and offerings help the work of the church to bring comfort to those in need and to celebrate God’s presence in our world.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! DOXOLOGY Halle-, halle-, hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Voices United 958

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE In our presbytery, we pray for Kamloops United and its minister, Bruce Comrie. We pray for the church in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal.

your will be done on earth THE LORD’S PRAYER Voices United 959 Music: David Haas (1986) Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven.

THE LORD’S PRAYER Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil

for the kingdom, the power THE LORD’S PRAYER for the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours now and forever. Voices United 959

Words and Music: Colin Gibson (1972) HYMN Please stand VOICES UNITED 359 “He Came Singing Love” Singing Love Words and Music: Colin Gibson (1972)

He came singing love and he live singing love; He died singing love He came singing love and he live singing love; He died singing love. He arose in silence. For the love to go on We must make it our song; You and I be the singers.

He came singing faith and he live singing faith; He died singing faith He came singing faith and he live singing faith; He died singing faith. He arose in silence. For the faith to go on We must make it our song; You and I be the singers.

He came singing hope and he live singing hope; He died singing hope He came singing hope and he live singing hope; He died singing hope. He arose in silence. For the hope to go on We must make it our song; You and I be the singers.

He came singing peace and he live singing peace; He died singing peace He came singing peace and he live singing peace; He died singing peace. He arose in silence. For the peace to go on We must make it our song; You and I be the singers.

CLOSING PRAYER AND BLESSING Please stand May the blessing of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; our Mother, Friend, and Comforter; the Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer of us all; be with you today and always. AMEN, AMEN, AMEN. Voices United 967

SUNG BENEDICTION Please stand “Go Now in Peace” Words: Donald Besig & Nancy Price (1988) Music: Donald Besig (1988) While singing, you are invited to turn to your neighbours and sing this blessing to them.

Go now in peace, never be afraid Go now in peace, never be afraid. God will go with you each hour of every day. Go now in faith, steadfast strong and true. Know God will guide you in all you do.

Go now in love and show you believe Go now in love and show you believe. Reach out to others So all the world can see. God will be there, Watching from above. Go now in peace, in faith, and in love. Amen. Amen. Amen.