1 All praise to you, O God of all creation:
you made the world, and it is yours alone.
The planet earth you spun in its location
amid the stars adorning heaven’s dome.
We lease the earth but for a life’s duration,
yet for this life it is our cherished home.
2 With wondrous grace you clothed the earth in splendour;
with teeming life you filled the sea and land.
Instill in us a sense of awe and wonder
when we behold the bounty of your hand.
Then when we hear the voice of bird or thunder,
we hear the voice our faith can understand.
3 To tend the earth is our entrusted duty,
for earth is ours to use and not abuse.
O gracious God, true source of all resources,
forgive our greed that wields destruction’s sword.
Then let us serve as wise and faithful stewards
while earth gives glory to creation’s Lord.
Children’s Time
Hymn: Make Me a Channel of Your Peace Prayer of St. Francis 684
1 Make me a channel of Your peace:
where there is hatred, let me bring Your love;
where there is injury, Your healing power,
and where there's doubt, true faith in You: Chorus Oh Spirit, grant that I may never seek so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love with all my soul.
2 Make me a channel of Your peace:
where there's despair in life, let me bring hope;
where there is darkness, --- only light;
and where there's sadness, ever joy. Chorus Oh Spirit, grant that I may never seek so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love with all my soul.
3 Make me a channel of Your peace:
it is pardoning that we are pardoned,
in giving to [each one] that we receive,
and in dying that we're born to eternal life.
We Listen for the Word of God
Message: Summer on the Farm: 6. You Give Them Something To Eat
Gospel: Luke 9:10 - 17
“Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand.” In a lonely, deserted place, Jesus shows his compassion for the hungry multitudes by teaching and feeding them.
Responsive Reading: Psalm 145:2 - 5, 17 - 21 866
“The Eyes of All Look to God.” In this psalm, worshippers offer their grateful praise to God as the Creator and Sustainer of all.”
M Every day we will bless you
and praise your name forever. P O God, you are great and highly to be praised; your greatness is beyond all measure.
M One generation shall praise your works to another,
and declare your marvellous deeds. P I will speak of your splendour and glory, and all your wonderful works.
R We praise you, O God, we bless your holy name.
M You, God, are righteous in all your ways,
and loving in all your deeds. P You are near to all who call to you, to all who call on you in truth.
M You fulfil the desire of those who revere you;
you hear their cry and you save them. P You watch over all who love you, but the wicked you will destroy.
M My mouth will speak your praise, O God. P Let every creature bless your holy name forever.
R We praise you, O God, we bless your holy name.
A New Creed: A New Creed 918
All We are not alone, we live in God’s world.
We believe in God: who has created and is creating, who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh, to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others by the Spirit.
We trust in God.
We are called to be the Church: to celebrate God’s presence, to live with respect in Creation, to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope.
In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us. We are not alone.
Thanks be to God.
Hymn: It’s a Song of Praise to the Maker Praise to the Maker MV 30
1 It’s a song of praise to the Maker,
the thrush sings high in the tree.
It’s a song of praise to the Maker,
the gray whale sings in the sea,
Refrain: And by the Spirit you and I can join our voice to the holy cry and sing, sing, sing to the Maker too.
2 It’s a call of life to the Giver
when waves and waterfalls roar.
It’s a call of life to the Giver
when high tides break on the shore,
3 It’s a song of love to the Lover;
the bumblebees hum along.
It’s a hymn of love to the Lover;
the summer breeze joins the song,
4 It’s the chorus of all creation;
it’s sung by all living things.
It’s the chorus of all creation;
a song the universe sings,
We Respond to God
The Great Prayer of Thanksgiving:
1
M The Lord be with you. P And also with you.
M Lift up your hearts. P We lift them to the Lord.
M Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. P It is right to give God thanks and praise.
2
Therefore we lift up our voices with the faithful of every time and place,
joining with all creation and the glorious company of heaven
to praise and glorify your Holy Name! P Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Bless is the One who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
3
Accept our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving
as a living and holy offering of ourselves,
that our lives may proclaim the mystery of faith: P Dying you destroyed our death, rising you restored our life. Lord Jesus, come again in glory.
The Lord’s Prayer: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us of our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
Breaking the Bread & Raising the Cup
The Invitation
Communion
Silent Reflection
Prayer after Communion
We Go into God’s World
Hymn: Let All Things Now Living The Ash Grove 242
1 Let all things now living
a song of thanksgiving
to God our creator triumphantly raise;
who fashioned and made us,
protected and stayed us,
by guiding us on to the end of our days.
God’s banners are o’er us,
pure light goes before us,
a pillar of fire shining forth in the night;
till shadows have vanished
and darkness is banished,
as forward we travel from light into Light.
2 By law God enforces,
the stars in their courses
and sun in its orbit obediently shine;
the hills and the mountains,
the rivers and fountains,
the depths of the ocean proclaim God divine.
We, too, should be voicing
our love and rejoicing
with glad adoration a song let us raise:
till all things now living
unite in thanksgiving
to God in the highest, hosanna and praise.
Blessing
The Companions’ Song: One in love, one in friendship true, one in hope, one in Spirit too, one in faith that God will care for you till we meet together again.
Announcements
Reverend David will be on holidays from August 8th to 22nd. The Reverend Christina Crawford (Forest U.C.) and the Reverend Marilyn Townsend-Smith (Port Lambton U.C.) have agreed to provide emergency pastoral care support during this time.
