Announcements

We want to Thank Rev Jamie for preaching today and our brothers and sisters in Christ from Mountsberg and Westover and other guests for being with us on this most special Sunday. We wish to extend our most deepest and sincere thanks for all of the support that you have given Freelton United Church over our many years.  You have helped to empower our work of Christ and ministry to our community.  As we move forward into this new leg of our faith journey we know that we can always count and trust in your support as we all work towards the kingdom of God. 

 
The final worship service for Strabane United Church will be on October 30 at 10:30 We will be serving Sandwiches and goodies following the service and so we are asking people to bring donations of sandwiches and goodies.  Also Anyone wishing to bring flowers to place in memory of those that have gone on before us are more to welcome and leave the names on the pulpit. 

The Inaugural Service for the new Freelton Strabane United Church will be on November 6th at 10:30 with the Rev Jane Wyllie as our guest preacher. There will be a pot luck lunch to follow. 

Mark the date and hang out the holly it’s a

Celebration:

Seasonal Lunch Craft and Bake sale

at the new Freelton Strabane United Church event

 November 26 8 – 1pm

 Rev Will is always Available for calls. If you find you need to talk or need something please don’t hesitate to call the Manse. 

Consider PAR as a means to support the Church   

 Call To Worship

One: In the name of God we welcome all who come to this place

All: We seek the God of righteousness and justice Who comes, unfailing as the dawn, every morning

One: God who greets us in the morning, sustains us through the day and through the night.   

All: We seek to call on the name of God and to serve God with one accord.                     

Lighting the candles of our journey. 

One: From God, in Christ, through the action of the Holy Spirit, the ancestors of the Freelton community came together to form the first Freelton Methodist Church and in time, Freelton United   we light this candle to honour the Ancestors. 

All: We light this candle rejoicing in all the time we have gathered around tables, served, and shared meals. We humbly give thanks for all the times we have been able to extend outreach into the community serving God. 

One: We light this candle for the how the word of God has been proclaimed in this place. How the teachings of Christ have been illuminated and shared.

All We offer praise and thanksgiving for times we have come together as a community of faith to witness and commit our support to children and adults as they begin and continue their faith journey through the sacrament of Baptism.

 One: We give thanks for all times we have come to the table of the Lord to celebrate the blessed gift of the Sacrament of Communion. Renewing our faith, knowing Christ’s presence in a most sacred moment. 

All: We light this Candle for all those moments we have be comforted in the dark moments of our grief. We are grateful that we as a community of faith have been able to gather to offer comfort for those that grieving.

One: We give thanks for those times we have gathered to witness the commitment and joy of a new marriage.  We humbly give thanks that we have been able to be a part of the milestone moments in the lives of those who have looked to this as their faith community. 

All: In the light of God’s love, strengthened in faith by Christ and inspired by the Holy Spirit honour who we are. 

Prayers of the people

Hear our prayer we humbly offer

Grant to us your peace O God

Hear our prayer we humbly offer

Grant to us your peace O God.

Prayers

All God of the ebb and flow of the tide, who watches the ever-changing face of moon. God we breaths life into each new day, and guards our night we come to you knowing that all things in this life move forward.  Help us to honour our history and the ancestors of Freelton Church. We smile remembering all that is good in this place and ask that you help us to carry all that good forward with us as we begin this new journey.  Still, O God, our hearts are heavy and we feel warmth of tears on our faces.  This place has been a place that has shaped and sustained our faith . As you comfort us in our times of grief so now we feel your arm about us assuring us that all shall be well.   We pray that Your hand which has guided us and your arm which has strengthened us may be that same presence for all those in this world who struggle each day. Those who long for wholeness from the brokenness of life.  We pray for those who we know that you may be with them.  We know in our heart that out of the shadows the morning is breaking offering new hope and promise. We offer you these prayer through faith in the your new hope and promise. We offer you our own prayers spoken in the silence of our hearts. 

Private prayer

One : Blessed God thank you for your presence amongst us and we say with one voice the great prayers that binds us as one.  saying. our father

Offering

We give thee but thy own.   The work of the Church continues and there are three ways you can continue to support that work.   Consider using PAR, use the donate button on our Web Site or drop your gift at the Manse.   Let us make our offering and give thanks.       

  One: Praise God who from all Blessing flow

Prayer  . Blessed God for all times you have been the God who has given to us. Here in this time we bring you our gifts and offer the to you for the continued work of your Church in all places and times. Amen.                           

Honouring our journey

One: The Lord is with You.

All: And also with you

One; Take heart for you are not alone.

All: Within our hearts we know we are not alone, therefore we are able to set forward in faith.   

One : For all things there is a time, a time for all things under heaven.   We also know that a grain of wheat must fall to the ground in order to grow. So too must we answer the call the Holy Spirit to plant us in our new space so that we may continue to grow in new and different ways.

The light of God in Christ through the action of the Holy Spirit that gathered the ancestors of the Freelton United Church can never be extinguished. That light burns with in each of us and our collective memory . Who we have been and will be as a community of faith will continue to shine in us  as a community of faith that loves and honours God working towards the coming of God’s Kingdom

All: We take the light of the Ancestors of Freelton United Church and add it to the light of Christ to move us forward. 

One May God guide our way 

All: We take the light of Fellowship and Service through outreach and add them to the light of Christ to move us forward.

One:  May God guide our way

All: We take the light of Sacraments of Communion and Baptism and the proclamation of the Gospels of Christ and add it to the light of Christ to move us forward

One:  May God guide our way

All: We take the light of the milestones that have been observed in this place Funeral and Weddings and add them to the light of Christ to move us Forward. 

One : May God guide our way.  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.  All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life,  and the life was the light of all people.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.

From the Light of Christ, we light this Candle. In it burns the heart of who we have been as the Congregation of Freelton United Church. It is the light of our life, the light that shines in the darkness. We take it with us as we move forward knowing that the darkness shall never overcommit. 

All: Since the, we have such hope, we act with great boldness and move forward to live out our discipleship with integrity and grace.