Worship

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Regular services at George Street United Church take place every Sunday at 11:00 AM from the main Sanctuary. Our Church is located
in beautiful Downtown St. John's on George Street West, immediately across the street from the Delta St. John's Hotel and Conference
Centre, and there is ample parking.

For more information about our regular Sunday Worship or special activities and services taking place at George Street United Church,
please visit our "Announcements Page", or contact the Church Office at (709) 726-8775 or by e-mail.

When visiting St. John's, feel free to make George Street United Church your "church home away from home"... we would love to meet
you!

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GEORGE STREET UNITED CHURCH

ROOTED IN THE ROCK: TRANSFORMING FOR TOMORROW

Sunday March 7th. 2010 – 3nd. Sunday in Lent

*indicates the congregation is to please stand, as you are able

WE GATHER AS GOD’S PEOPLE

Organ Prelude

Introit “Spirit Open My Heart”

*Welcome

Life and Ministry of George Street United Church

*Call to Worship:

O God, your love is so great, how mighty are your works!
My soul thirsts for you, like a dry land

I will praise you, I will remember you, and I will cling to you. You are my God!
In the midst of the journey, you are my constant help Thanks be to God!!

*Opening Hymn: Come In, Come In and Sit Down VU # 395

Prayer of Approach (in unison):
Wondrous God, you are holy mystery, and we seek to know you. Just as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are your ways higher than our ways. Guide us, that we might endeavour to strive for the heights that you
call us to. Enable us to be about the work you lay before us. Bless us as your people and direct us in your way.
In Christ we pray. Amen.

Children’s Hymn: You Servants of God VU# 342 (vs. 1&2 / 3&4)

Children’s Time

Prayer of Confession: (in unison):
Loving God, you call us to gather together that we might journey, not alone, but as a community of faith.
Forgive us for the times that we see only our own issues and concerns, and help us to work together as the
body of Christ in this place. Grant us will all that we need to produce the fruit that shows forth your love
and our devotion. In the power of your presence we pray. Amen.

Our Assurance:
God’s love and guidance is always ours. In God’s love we are brought back into relationship again and again.
We are forgiven and free! Thanks be to God!

*Hymn: There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy VU # 271

WE LISTEN TO GOD’S WORD

Old Testament Reading:               Isaiah 55:1-9                     Christa Chaplin
                             “Come buy wine and milk with no money”
                               The Word of God – Thanks be to God

*Responsive Reading: Psalm 63 VU # 781 Christa Chaplin
“I long for you O God”

Choir Anthem: “It is Well”

Gospel Reading: 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 Rev. Sue
“God knows our limits”

Gospel Reading:                              Luke 13:1-9                                                                         Rev. Sue
                                                       “the fruitless fig tree”
                                       The Word of our Lord – Thanks be to Christ

Meditation “What we offer”

*Hymn: Spirit of the Living God VU # 376

Pastoral Prayer, Words of Remembrance, and the Lord’s Prayer

Offering:

*Doxology Grant Us, God, the Grace VU # 540

*Offertory Prayer:
Lord God, as we engage this Lenten journey may our offering be a sacrifice of our gifts, our time and our talents, that others
may know your presence and peace. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

*Hymn: O God Our Help In Ages Past VU# 806

*Commissioning and Benediction

*Vespers “Go In Love”

Minutes for Mission

March 7, 2010

Slow Down and Be

If you’re following the World Development and Relief 2010 calendar,
this story relates to the theme for Lent Week 3: Live Slower.

Kathleen Stephenson is a United Church overseas personnel working at Coordenadoria Ecumenico de Serviço (CESE) in Brazil. She discovered that
sometimes we need to slow down to see where we are being called to serve.

As the ecumenical relations officer at CESE, I have some specific tasks and assignments. I participate in developing communications initiatives for
churches and ecumenical institutions. I represent CESE on a local ecumenical council, planning celebrations and activities through the year. We
hosted several events during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and developed a workshop on prayer. In the past few months, I have spoken
on behalf of CESE to two local churches that work closely with CESE on a range of projects and ecumenical initiatives.

I have responsibilities, yes, but, perhaps as in all our ministries, sometimes I am just present—that is, walking along with folks. My prayers and
reflection focus to a great extent on how to just be, as appropriately and well as I possibly can. Meanwhile, I trust, with humility, that God will use
me like clay. I am working on what this earthen vessel is intended to hold and pour out!

The work of CESE and of Kathleen is made possible through your gifts to the Mission and Service Fund.

We are a united church! This week, remember Parkdale United and the other congregations of Montreal and Ottawa Conference in your thoughts and prayers. Parkdale is Kathleen’s home church in Ottawa.