1. Revelstoke United Church
YEARS OF SEEKING,
LOVING, AND WALKING

2. PROCESSIONAL HYMN Please stand
VOICES UNITED 375
“Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness”
Spirit of Gentleness
Words and Music: James K. Manley (1975)

3. Spirit, Spirit of gentleness, blow thro’ the wilderness calling and free, Spirit, Spirit of restlessness, stir me from placidness, Wind, Wind on the sea.

4. You moved on the waters, you called to the deep, then you coaxed up a mountain from the valleys of sleep; and over the eons you called to each thing: wake from your slumbers and rise on your wings.

5. Spirit, Spirit of gentleness, blow thro’ the wilderness calling and free, Spirit, Spirit of restlessness, stir me from placidness, Wind, Wind on the sea.

6. You swept thro’ the desert, you stung with the sand, and you goaded your people with a law and a land; and when they were blinded with their idols and lies, then you spoke thro’ the prophets to open their eyes.

7. Spirit, Spirit of gentleness, blow thro’ the wilderness calling and free, Spirit, Spirit of restlessness, stir me from placidness, Wind, Wind on the sea.

8. You sang in the stable, you cried from a hill, then you whispered in silence when the whole world was still; and down in the city you called once again, when you blew thro’ your people on the rush of the wind.

9. Spirit, Spirit of gentleness, blow thro’ the wilderness calling and free, Spirit, Spirit of restlessness, stir me from placidness, Wind, Wind on the sea.

10. You call from tomorrow, you break ancient schemes, from the bondage of sorrow the captives dream dreams, our women see visions, our men clear their eyes, with bold new decisions your people arise.

11. Spirit, Spirit of gentleness, blow thro’ the wilderness calling and free, Spirit, Spirit of restlessness, stir me from placidness, Wind, Wind on the sea.

12. 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. Come, Holy Spirit, and kindle in us the fire of your love. RESPONSE: COME, HOLY SPIRIT, COME.

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

14. ANNOUNCEMENTS

15. MINUTE FOR MISSION
Ken English

16. OPENING PRAYER

17. Music: Irish/Scottish folk tune (ca. 1800’s)
HYMN Please stand
MORE VOICES 79
“Spirit, Open My Heart”
Wild Mountain Thyme
Words: Ruth Duck (1994)
Music: Irish/Scottish folk tune (ca. 1800’s)

18. Spirit, open my heart to the joy and pain of living
Spirit, open my heart to the joy and pain of living. As you love, may I love, in receiving and in giving, Spirit, open my heart.

19. God, replace my stony heart with a heart that’s kind and tender
God, replace my stony heart with a heart that’s kind and tender. All my coldness and fear to your grace I now surrender.

20. Spirit, open my heart to the joy and pain of living
Spirit, open my heart to the joy and pain of living. As you love, may I love, in receiving and in giving, Spirit, open my heart.

21. Write your love upon my heart as my law, my goal, my story
Write your love upon my heart as my law, my goal, my story. In each thought, word, and deed, may my living bring you glory.

22. Spirit, open my heart to the joy and pain of living
Spirit, open my heart to the joy and pain of living. As you love, may I love, in receiving and in giving, Spirit, open my heart.

23. May I weep with those who weep, share the joy of sister, brother
May I weep with those who weep, share the joy of sister, brother. In the welcome of Christ, may we welcome one another.

24. Spirit, open my heart to the joy and pain of living
Spirit, open my heart to the joy and pain of living. As you love, may I love, in receiving and in giving, Spirit, open my heart.

25. 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.

26. 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.

27. 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)

28. 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.

29. SUNG RESPONSE Spirit of Life, come unto me.
Sing in my heart all the stirrings of compassion.
Blow in the wind, rise in the sea;
move in the hand, giving life the shape of justice.
Roots, hold me close; wings, set me free;
Spirit of Life, come to me, come to me.
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30. Hallelujah! RESPONSE: HALLELUJAH! AMEN.
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
Hallelujah! RESPONSE: HALLELUJAH! AMEN.

31. Your Word is a lamp to my feet,
REFRAIN
Your Word is a lamp to my feet,
And a light unto my path.
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32. FIRST READING ACTS 2: 1 – 21
The Coming of the Holy Spirit When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.

33. FIRST READING
Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language?

34. FIRST READING
Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.” All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” But others sneered and said, “They are filled with new wine.”

35. FIRST READING
Peter Addresses the Crowd But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, “Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:

36. FIRST READING
‘In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh,     and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions,     and your old men shall dream dreams. Even upon my slaves, both men and women,     in those days I will pour out my Spirit;         and they shall prophesy.

37. FIRST READING
And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist. The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day. Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’ Hear what the Spirit is saying to her church. RESPONSE: THANKS BE TO GOD.

38. FIRST READING
Hear what the Spirit is saying to her church. RESPONSE: THANKS BE TO GOD.

39. PSALM 104: 24– 35 (VU p. 826, pt. 2)
RESPONSE: HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH! O God, how manifold are your works! WITH WISDOM AT YOUR SIDE YOU MADE THEM ALL; THE EARTH IS FULL OF YOUR CREATURES. HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH!

40. PSALM
There lies the great and mighty Sea, teeming with living things both great and small. UPON IT SAIL THE SHIPS, AND THERE IS LEVIATHAN, THE MONSTER YOU MADE TO PLAY IN IT. All these look to you, to give them their food in due season. WHAT YOU GIVE THEM THEY GATHER UP. WHEN YOU OPEN YOUR HAND, YOU FILL THEM WITH GOOD THINGS.

41. PSALM
But when you hide your face they despair; When you take away their breath, they die, and return to dust. BUT WHEN YOU SEND OUT YOUR SPIRIT, THEY LIVE AGAIN, AND YOU RENEW THE FACE OF THE EARTH. HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH!

42. PSALM
May your glory, O God, endure forever. MAY YOU REJOICE, O GOD, IN YOUR WORKS. When you look at the earth, it trembles, WHEN YOU TOUCH THE MOUNTAINS THEY SMOKE. I will sing to God as long as I live. I WILL PRAISE MY GOD WHILE I HAVE BEING. HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH!

43. GOSPEL READING JOHN 20: 19 – 23
Jesus Appears to the Disciples When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

44. The Gospel of Jesus Christ. RESPONSE: PRAISE TO CHRIST THE WORD.
GOSPEL READING
The Gospel of Jesus Christ. RESPONSE: PRAISE TO CHRIST THE WORD.

45. and on this path, the gates of holiness are open wide!
RESPONSE
And on this path, the gates of holiness are open wide,
and on this path, the gates of holiness are open wide,
and on this path, the gates of holiness are open wide!
Open wide! Open wide! Open wide!
The gates are open wide!
(sing twice)
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46. MESSAGE
“RADICAL CELEBRATION, PART SIX: THE SPIRIT OF RADICAL INCLUSIVENESS” Rev. David

47. 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.

48. DOXOLOGY
I’m gonna live so God can use me anywhere, Lord, anytime! I’m gonna life so God can use me

49. I’m gonna work so God can use me anywhere, Lord, anytime!
DOXOLOGY
I’m gonna work so God can use me anywhere, Lord, anytime!

50. I’m gonna pray so God can use me anywhere, Lord, anytime!
DOXOLOGY
I’m gonna pray so God can use me anywhere, Lord, anytime!

51. DOXOLOGY
I’m gonna sing so God can use me anywhere, Lord, anytime! Voices United 575

52. INVITATION TO THE TABLE
Everyone is welcome, without condition or reservation, to come to the table of Christ. No matter who you are or are not, what you have done or have not done, you are a child of God.

53. PASSING OF THE PEACE
The peace of Christ be with you. RESPONSE: AND ALSO WITH YOU. Share the peace of Christ with your neighbour.

54. THE GREAT THANKSGIVING
God is with us. Response: THE SPIRIT IS HERE AMONG US. Let our hearts be open to the Spirit. Response: MAY GOD ENTER OUR HEARTS. Let us join our voices in praise. Response: MAY WE BE ONE IN GOD’S UNITING LOVE.

55. THE GREAT THANKSGIVING
O holy, holy, holy God,
O God of time and space.
All earth and sea and sky above
bear witness to your grace.
Hosanna in the highest heav’n,
creation sings your praise.
And blessed is the one who comes
and bears your name always!
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56. THE GREAT THANKSGIVING
Sing Christ has died and Christ is risen
Christ will come again!
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57. THE GREAT THANKSGIVING
Amen, amen, O Holy One!
Hosanna and Amen!
More Voices 205

58. 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.

59. 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

60. 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

61. COMMUNION
You are invited to come forward and receive a piece of bread and dip it in the wine (grape juice). If you wish, you may also be blessed with oil on your forehead or hand. Everyone is welcome to receive communion.

62. HYMN DURING COMMUNION “Bread of Life, Feed My Soul” MORE VOICES 194
Words and Music: Stephen Spencer (2005)

63. Bread of life, feed my soul, as the presence of the spirit makes me whole. Bread of life, fill my heart with the grace and mercy you impart.

64. I have heard your voice calling, “Come my friend, and share in the feast that is laid out for you to show how much I care.”

65. Bread of life, help me live, a life as pure and true as Jesus did
Bread of life, help me live, a life as pure and true as Jesus did. Bread of life, help me see the boundless love of Christ for you and me.

66. I have heard your voice calling, “Come my friend, and share in the feast that is laid out for you to show how much I care.”

67. Bread of life, feed my soul, as the presence of the spirit makes me whole. Bread of life, fill my heart with the grace and mercy you impart.

68. PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

69. “She Comes Sailing on the Wind”
HYMN Please stand
“She Comes Sailing on the Wind”
She Flies On
Words and Music: Gordon Light (1985)

70. She comes sailing on the wind, her wings flashing in the sun; on a journey just begun, she flies on. And in the passage of her flight, her song rings out through the night, full of laughter, full of light, she flies on.

71. Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.

72. Many were the dreamers whose eyes were given sight when the Spirit filled their dreams with life and form. Deserts turned to gardens, broken hearts found new delight, and then down the ages still she flew on,

73. She comes sailing on the wind, her wings flashing in the sun; on a journey just begun, she flies on. And in the passage of her flight, her song rings out through the night, full of laughter, full of light, she flies on.

74. To a gentle girl in Galilee, a gentle breeze she came, a whisper softly calling in the dark, the promise of a child of peace whose reign would never end, Mary sang the Spirit song with all her heart.

75. Flying to the river, she waited circling high above the child now grown so full of grace. As he rose up from the water, she swept down from the sky, and she carried him away in her embrace.

76. She comes sailing on the wind, her wings flashing in the sun; on a journey just begun, she flies on. And in the passage of her flight, her song rings out through the night, full of laughter, full of light, she flies on.

77. Long after the deep darkness that fell upon the world, after dawn returned with flame of rising sun, the Spirit touched the earth again, again her wings unfurled, bring life in wind and fire as she flew on.

78. She comes sailing on the wind, her wings flashing in the sun; on a journey just begun, she flies on. And in the passage of her flight, her song rings out through the night, full of laughter, full of light, she flies on.

79. 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.
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80. 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.

81. 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.

82. 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.