Be Brave, Be Bold, and Stand Up Tall Service for use During Conference Meeting Weekend - May 27, 2018 Many of the elements of this service are the ones that will be used during the Service of Praise at the Annual Meeting of Conference held in North Battleford, Saskatchewan (Treaty 6). Please feel welcome to adjust as appropriate for your local context. is a lot of music in this resource, feel welcome to use it all or however much make sense in your community. Hymns are taken from More Voices and Voices United but substitutions can be made depending on the resources available to you. Love Us into Fullness (More Voices #81) is used throughout the service with a trial being sung/repeated at different points. If this is an unfamiliar piece in your context you may wish to teach it at the beginning of the service, or perhaps substitute something else where it appears. Since each verse is quite short, you may wish to repeat each verse a few times at each point that it appears. The Theme Be Brave, Be Bold, and Stand Up Tall has been the theme message of President of Conference, Krystal Sheremeta, as she has travelled the Province visiting Presbyteries and Communities. She hopes that we will hold these words closely and that they will guide us as individuals, communities, and as The United Church of Canada in Saskatchewan as we look into a future that is both full of potential and possibility, uncertainty and challenge. GATHERING Music Prelude: Processional/Opening Hymn: More Voices #122 is the Day” “This Lighting of Christ Candle: Call to Worship: One: In the morning of our lives, God calls “Come” All: And we come with joy and energy, basking in new life. One: In the noontide of our lives, God calls “Come” All: And we come with knowledge and confidence, journeying in God’s light. One: In the evening of our lives, God calls “Come” All: And we come with experience and insight, remembering that God has always been with us. One: In the beginning and the ending and the beginning again, God calls “Come” All: And we come because it is enough for us to know that God calls us and then journeys with us. One: In this time and in this place, God calls “Come” All: And we come to worship our God who calls to us in love.
Be Brave, Be Bold, and Stand Up Tall Service for use During Conference Meeting Weekend - May 27, 2018 Many of the elements of this service are the ones that will be used during the Service of Praise at the Annual Meeting of Conference held in North Battleford, Saskatchewan (Treaty 6). Please feel welcome to adjust as appropriate for your local context. is a lot of music in this resource, feel welcome to use it all or however much make sense in your community. Hymns are taken from More Voices and Voices United but substitutions can be made depending on the resources available to you. Love Us into Fullness (More Voices #81) is used throughout the service with a being sung/repeated at different points. If this is an unfamiliar piece in your context you may wish to teach it at the beginning of the service, or perhaps substitute something else where it appears. Since each verse is quite short, you may wish to repeat each verse a few times at each point that it appears. The Theme Be Brave, Be Bold, and Stand Up Tall has been the theme message of President of Conference, Krystal Sheremeta, as she has travelled the Province visiting Presbyteries and Communities. She hopes that we will hold these words closely and that they will guide us as individuals, communities, and as The United Church of Canada in Saskatchewan as we look into a future that is both full of potential and possibility, uncertainty and challenge. GATHERING Music Prelude: Processional/Opening Hymn: More Voices #122 “This is the Day” Lighting of Christ Candle: Call to Worship: One: In the morning of our lives, God calls “Come” All: And we come with joy and energy, basking in new life. One: In the noontide of our lives, God calls “Come” All: And we come with knowledge and confidence, journeying in God’s light. One: In the evening of our lives, God calls “Come” All: And we come with experience and insight, remembering that God has always been with us. One: In the beginning and the ending and the beginning again, God calls “Come” All: And we come because it is enough for us to know that God calls us and then journeys with us. One: In this time and in this place, God calls “Come” All: And we come to worship our God who calls to us in love. trial
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