FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
Rev. Dawn Garrett-Larsen, Pastor
Trinity Sunday Communion
Jim & Elaine Hilton, Lay Readers
June 7, 2020 Worship 10:30 AM
WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE For the Beauty of the Earth arranged by Margaret Goldston
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: Let us give thanks to the Spirit whose restless energy dances through all creation.
People: Spirit of creation and community we celebrate your power.
Leader: Let us give thanks to the Spirit whose tender embrace gives birth to our longing.
People: Spirit of creation and community we celebrate your power.
Leader: Let us give thanks to the Spirit whose urgent voice summons us to justice.
People: Spirit of creation and community we celebrate your power.
Leader: Let us give thanks for the first-fruits of the earth and rejoice in the Spirit who gives bread for our hunger.
People: Spirit of creation and community we celebrate your power.
Leader: Let us give thanks for the cup of salvation and rejoice in the Spirit who gives wine for our sharing.
People: Spirit of creation and community we celebrate your power.
Leader: Let us give thanks for the food of today as we long for the feasting of all creation.
People: Spirit of creation and community we celebrate your power.
*HYMN All Creatures of our God and King Altar of Praise Chorale
INVOCATION & LORD’S PRAYER (trespasses, in unison)
We join with the earth and with each other, to bring new life to the land, to recreate the human community, to provide justice and peace, to remember our children, to remember who we are…We join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery, for the healing of the Earth, and the renewal of all life.
GLORIA PATRI
SPECIAL MUSIC How Great is Thy Faithfulness piano by Edie Rice
CHILDREN’S TIME
HEBREW BIBLE LESSON Genesis 1: 1-2: 4a
PRAYER REQUESTS
MORNING PRAYER
*HYMN For the Beauty of the Earth Mormon Tabernacle Choir
EPISTLE: 2 Corinthians 13: 11-13
COMMUNION MEDITATION And It Was Good… Rev. Dawn Garrett-Larsen
OFFERING Invitation to Share
Offertory How Can I Keep from Singing arranged by John Carter
The Doxology
PRAYER OF DEDICATION (in unison)
May our offering, O God, be a fitting response to your manifold gifts. May it help to communicate the wonders of your mighty hand and outstretched arm, by which we are protected and blessed. May it send others to give counsel in nations where we cannot go, while equipping us here for the witness we are called to make. Keep us humbly aware that we have much to learn from your children in other times, places, and circumstances. Link us in discipleship. Amen.
COMMUNION HYMN Gather Us In DeSoto Presbyterian Church
(You are invited to read the lyrics as the choir sings)
Here in this place new light is streaming
Now is the darkness vanished away
See in this space our fears and our dreamings
Brought here to you in the light of this day
Gather us in, the lost and forsaken
Gather us in, the blind and the lame
Call to us now and we shall awaken
We shall arise at the sound of our name
We are the young, our lives are a mystery
We are the old who yearn for your face
We have been sung throughout all of history
Called to be light to the whole human race
Gather us in, the rich and the haughty
Gather us in, the proud and the strong
Give us a heart so meek and so lowly
Give us the courage to enter the song
Here we will take the wine and the water
Here we will take the bread of new birth
Here you shall call your sons and your daughters
Call us anew to be salt for the earth
Give us to drink the wine of compassion
Give us to eat the bread that is you
Nourish us well and teach us to fashion
Lives that are holy and hearts that are true
Not in the dark of buildings confining
Not in some heaven light years away
But here in this place the new light is shining
Now is the kingdom, now is the day
Gather us in and hold us forever
Gather us in and make us your own
Gather us in, all peoples together
Fire of love in our flesh and our bones
Fire of love in our flesh and our bones
SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION
Invitation to the Table
Sharing of the Bread and Cup
*HYMN How Great Thou Art Winchester Cathedral
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE Let All Things Now Living arranged by Lloyd Larson
Call to Worship reprinted from Harvest for the World; Invocation adapted and reprinted from Life Prayers by Pat Cane; Unison Prayer of Dedication reprinted from Refreshing Rains of the Living Word
Happy Birthday
June 7 Ann Piorkowski June 11 Bonnie Maguire & Keith Blaker
June 8 Lou Bliss & Joe Kardesh June 13 Barbara Henry & Tim Nevin
June 10 Michael Muscato
Prayer List
Muriel Allemand (Jim & Connie Malone’s friend); Steve Beck (Heidi Schwarz’s brother); Keith Blaker; Brad Bliss; Ruth Bundy (Cheryl Bootes’ friend); Marjorie Case; Cathy Coots; Peggy & Bob DeSantis (Dorice & Don Raw, Sr.’s friends); Don DeSmith; Julie English (Janet & Kim Tenreiro’s friend); Brian Fuscaldo (Mara Huberlie’s nephew); Jerry Gomez (Kathi Nacca’s friend); Gayle Henry; Carin Herren; Jeff Johnson (Jim & John Johnson’s brother); Barb Kutner; Carol Kober (Debbie Lyon’s neighbor); Jim Kolesar (George & Carin Herren’s friend); Sue Kotalik; Laura (Karen DeMay’s sister); Michelle List (JoAnn Reed’s friend); Loren (Meg & Jack Radley’s friend); Lynn (Joan Ryan’s friend); Scott Lyon (Betty’s son); Eileen McCarthy (Carla DeMeco & Betsy Dresser’s friend); Sally Mueller; Liz Nelson (Kathy Ward’s friend); Claude Peters; Chris Pritchard (Rick, Cindy Mullen & George Herren’s friend); Jack and Meg Radley; Sara (Meg & Jack Radley’s granddaughter); Scott and Amanda (nephew and niece of Don & Marilyn DeSmith); John Paul and Pat Smith; Smith/Dworetsky Family (Okke & Kathy Postma’s friends); Sally Stowell (Alice Berry’s mother); Walker (Don & Dorice Raw’s friend); Kathy Ward; Gordon Wenner (George & Carin Herren’s friend); Merle Winn (Amy Ogden’s friend); Josh Yeo (Barb Stahl’s friend); Jason Zeller (Kathy Ward’s son); Linda Zeller (Kathy Ward’s daughter in law)
Many Thanks!
Three thousand four hundred forty-eight thank you’s to this unbelievably generous and compassionate church family! 3,348 — that’s the number of diapers we delivered this week to Healthy Families of Ontario County. In these days when our lives have been turned upside down, when we can’t come together to worship, still, you came together with your incredible spirit. In the words of Charles Dickens, “God bless us, everyone.”
~ Kathi Nacca
DRIVE WAY VISITS
The weather is changing. Spring turns to summer and the warm air brings us out of our houses. The social distancing restrictions remain in place, but that doesn’t mean we can’t see one another. We cannot gather for worship, but I would love to come to your home for a driveway visit!
I know that not everyone is comfortable with having people from outside of their family unit coming to visit, but if you are comfortable with a six or more feet away visit, outside in your driveway, on your porch or in your yard. I’d like to come visit.
Give me a call 905-3105 or send me an email at revdawn@canandaiguachurch.org, so that we can arrange for a time for me to stop by for a short social distanced visit.
I know that not everybody will want me to stop by for a driveway visit, but I look forward to seeing those of you who would enjoy a chance to chat.
Blessings,
Dawn
Calendar
Sun. 6/7 Worship online Communion and Church Picnic at home
Mon. 6/8 Trustees 4:00 Zoom
Friday 6/12 Staff Meeting 10:00
Sun. 6/14 Worship Online; Deacons 11:45 Zoom
Mon. 6/15 Weathervane Deadline
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
United Church of Christ
58 N. Main St., Canandaigua, NY 14424 (585) 394-2184
Website: www.canandaiguachurch.org
E-mail: office@canandaiguachurch.org
We’re a Different Kind of Church
- We value and respect diversity in the ways we express our faith.
- We enjoy thoughtful dialogue about faith issues.
- We encourage each other to work for justice and to care for people in need in our community and in our world.
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