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Worship Service for Sunday, July 24, 2022 in-person, on ZOOM & YouTube

Order of Service – Sunday July 24, 2022 @ 10:30AM

We continue our live broadcast this morning and we welcome in-person worshipers into the Sanctuary (with socially distanced seating). Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this morning’s service both online and in-person.

Join us on our St. Andrew’s Guelph YouTube Channel and select the live service, and remember to invite your friends and families. You can also join us via Zoom by following the link in your Friday or Sunday morning email. If you’d like to begin receiving our weekly emails you can sign up here.

Prelude 

Territorial Acknowledgement

Call to Worship

Hymn – #328 This is My Father’s World (Terra Beata)

Opening Prayer & Assurance of Forgiveness

Scripture – Psalm 122, John 14:23-27

Sermon: Shalom!

Welcome, Rev. Angus Sutherland

Rev. Angus Sutherland is a retired Presbyterian Church minister, Member of the Board of the National Presbyterian Museum, and amateur historian, specializing in the worship of Presbyterian Churches through the centuries.

Hymn – #650 He Leadeth Me

Offering

You can still mail cheques to: St. Andrew’s Guelph, 161 Norfolk Street, Guelph, ON N1H 4J8

Or you can donate to St. Andrew’s through CanadaHelps

Click Here to Donate to St. Andrew’s via Canada Helps here.

You are also invited to sign up for Pre-Authorized Remittance (PAR). Instead of using offering envelopes or giving online, you can set up a regular donation through your financial institution. To learn more, click here.

Presbyterians Sharing is how we support our denomination as a whole. Your gifts the variety of missions and ministries that The Presbyterian Church in Canada supports throughout Canada. It also ensures that we are well resources by our National Office staff.

If you are able, the MOCC would encourage you to consider donating to Presbyterians Sharing. You can do so by clicking here. (Make sure that you indicate that you are from St. Andrew’s Guelph on the online form in order for it to count towards our commitment)

Or you can make a donation directly to Presbyterians Sharing through St. Andrew’s Guelph. Please mark your donation: Presbyterians Sharing.

We are making a difference TOGETHER.

If you’d like to make a donation to Presbyterian World Service and Development (PWS&D) you can do so by clicking here.

Offertory

Prayers of the People

Hymn – #769 Lord of Light (Bethany)

Blessing

Postlude

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Worship Service for Sunday, July 17, 2022 in-person, on ZOOM & YouTube

Order of Service – Sunday July 17, 2022 @ 10:30AM

We continue our live broadcast this morning and we welcome in-person worshipers into the Sanctuary (with socially distanced seating). Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this morning’s service both online and in-person.

Join us on our St. Andrew’s Guelph YouTube Channel and select the live service, and remember to invite your friends and families. You can also join us via Zoom by following the link in your Friday or Sunday morning email. If you’d like to begin receiving our weekly emails you can sign up here.

Prelude 

Territorial Acknowledgement

Call to Worship

Hymn – #414 God Reveal Your Presence

Opening Prayer & Assurance of Forgiveness (Responsive – bolded)

Loving God, we come to you in worship and thanksgiving.
You are greater than we can understand;

open our eyes that we may see the wonderful truths
you have shown to us in Jesus and through the Spirit.

You are more loving than our hearts can respond to;

help us to give ourselves to you in worship
so that we learn what you want us to be.

You are wiser than we can know;

still, our minds as we worship you
so that we can understand the things you are saying to us.

Loving God, in Jesus
you look upon our sinfulness with compassion.

For that reason we come clean before you
Admitting our weakness and our need.

Teach us your way, that we may walk in your truth.
Give us undivided hearts to revere your name.

Set us free to walk in this world in humility
empowered by your suffering love 
for the reconciliation of all things. 
In Jesus name, Amen.

Scripture – Psalm 25: 1 – 7, Ruth 1: 15 – 22, Luke 10: 1 – 2

Sermon: Accompaniment

Welcome, Rev. Glen Soderholm

Glen currently lives in Guelph, Ontario where he spends much of his time inhabiting his downtown neighbourhood establishments, while giving pastoral leadership to a small but feisty missional community called Two Rivers Church. Having established a recording and touring career during the first decade of the 21st century, he continues to travel on occasion to sing, teach on worship, and tell stories about life in his parish.  His wife Sharon is a counselor, and he has two daughters Danielle (30) and Julia (28). 

Hymn – #665 Lord Jesus You Shall Be My Song as I Journey

Offering

You can still mail cheques to: St. Andrew’s Guelph, 161 Norfolk Street, Guelph, ON N1H 4J8

Or you can donate to St. Andrew’s through CanadaHelps

Click Here to Donate to St. Andrew’s via Canada Helps here.

You are also invited to sign up for Pre-Authorized Remittance (PAR). Instead of using offering envelopes or giving online, you can set up a regular donation through your financial institution. To learn more, click here.

Presbyterians Sharing is how we support our denomination as a whole. Your gifts the variety of missions and ministries that The Presbyterian Church in Canada supports throughout Canada. It also ensures that we are well resources by our National Office staff.

If you are able, the MOCC would encourage you to consider donating to Presbyterians Sharing. You can do so by clicking here. (Make sure that you indicate that you are from St. Andrew’s Guelph on the online form in order for it to count towards our commitment)

Or you can make a donation directly to Presbyterians Sharing through St. Andrew’s Guelph. Please mark your donation: Presbyterians Sharing.

We are making a difference TOGETHER.

If you’d like to make a donation to Presbyterian World Service and Development (PWS&D) you can do so by clicking here.

Offertory

Prayers of the People

Hymn – #585 Christ You Call Us All To Service

Blessing

Postlude

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Worship Service for Sunday, July 10, 2022 in-person, on ZOOM & YouTube

Order of Service – Sunday July 10, 2022 @ 10:30AM

We continue our live broadcast this morning and we welcome in-person worshipers into the Sanctuary (with socially distanced seating). Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this morning’s service both online and in-person.

Join us on our St. Andrew’s Guelph YouTube Channel and select the live service, and remember to invite your friends and families. You can also join us via Zoom by following the link in your Friday or Sunday morning email. If you’d like to begin receiving our weekly emails you can sign up here.

COVID update:  Session agreed that effective immediately, masks will be optional for worship and church meetings.  You are encouraged to continue to use self-screening, wear a mask if you are more comfortable doing so, and to stay home if you do not feel well.

Prelude 

Territorial Acknowledgement

Call to Worship

Hymn – Praise to the Lord the Almighty

Song – Open the Eyes of My Heart 

Opening Prayer & Assurance of Forgiveness

Scripture – Psalm 25: 1 – 10  & 1 John 3: 16 – 24

Sermon: Practicing Real Love

Welcome, Rev. Glen Soderholm

Glen currently lives in Guelph, Ontario where he spends much of his time inhabiting his downtown neighbourhood establishments, while giving pastoral leadership to a small but feisty missional community called Two Rivers Church. Having established a recording and touring career during the first decade of the 21st century, he continues to travel on occasion to sing, teach on worship, and tell stories about life in his parish.  His wife Sharon is a counselor, and he has two daughters Danielle (30) and Julia (28). 

Hymn – #I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say 

Offering

You can still mail cheques to: St. Andrew’s Guelph, 161 Norfolk Street, Guelph, ON N1H 4J8

Or you can donate to St. Andrew’s through CanadaHelps

Click Here to Donate to St. Andrew’s via Canada Helps here.

You are also invited to sign up for Pre-Authorized Remittance (PAR). Instead of using offering envelopes or giving online, you can set up a regular donation through your financial institution. To learn more, click here.

Presbyterians Sharing is how we support our denomination as a whole. Your gifts the variety of missions and ministries that The Presbyterian Church in Canada supports throughout Canada. It also ensures that we are well resources by our National Office staff.

If you are able, the MOCC would encourage you to consider donating to Presbyterians Sharing. You can do so by clicking here. (Make sure that you indicate that you are from St. Andrew’s Guelph on the online form in order for it to count towards our commitment)

Or you can make a donation directly to Presbyterians Sharing through St. Andrew’s Guelph. Please mark your donation: Presbyterians Sharing.

We are making a difference TOGETHER.

If you’d like to make a donation to Presbyterian World Service and Development (PWS&D) you can do so by clicking here.

Offertory

Prayers of the People

Hymn – Guide Me O My Great Redeemer 

Blessing

Postlude

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Worship Service for Sunday, July 3, 2022 in-person, on ZOOM & YouTube

Order of Service – Sunday July 3, 2022 @ 10:30AM

We continue our live broadcast this morning and we welcome in-person worshipers into the Sanctuary (with socially distanced seating). Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this morning’s service both online and in-person.

Join us on our St. Andrew’s Guelph YouTube Channel and select the live service, and remember to invite your friends and families. You can also join us via Zoom by following the link in your Friday or Sunday morning email. If you’d like to begin receiving our weekly emails you can sign up here.

COVID update:  Session agreed that effective immediately, masks will be optional for worship and church meetings.  You are encouraged to continue to use self-screening, wear a mask if you are more comfortable doing so, and to stay home if you do not feel well.

Prelude 

Territorial Acknowledgement

Call to Worship

Hymn – #428 We Love Your House, O God (Quam Dilecta)

Opening Prayer & Assurance of Forgiveness

Scripture – Psalm 30  and  Luke 10: 1 – 11

Sermon: “When all else fails, I follow the instructions”

Welcome, Rev. Mark Gaskin

Mark Bennett Gaskin was born in Regina, Saskatchewan; however, when he was 5 years old, his mom and dad moved to Georgetown, Ontario – and Mark followed along. He received his elementary and secondary education in Georgetown; and, his post-secondary studies were at Trinity College and Knox College, (U of T). He received his Master of Divinity degree in May of 1984 and was appointed to a pastoral charge, in Prince Edward Island. In 1986, Mark convinced Kathy to marry him. Kathy and Mark have three grown children – and three grandchildren. After PEI, Mark served pastorates in Exeter, Brantford, and Cambridge. He recently retired as the minister of Westside Church. Mark enjoys cooking chili, making jam and deviled eggs, visiting Kathy’s family in Louisiana, taking photographs, reading the Globe and Mail, and watching any movie that has Tom Hanks in it.

Hymn – #484 The Church is Wherever God’s People (Cornysh Carol)

Offering

You can still mail cheques to: St. Andrew’s Guelph, 161 Norfolk Street, Guelph, ON N1H 4J8

Or you can donate to St. Andrew’s through CanadaHelps

Click Here to Donate to St. Andrew’s via Canada Helps here.

You are also invited to sign up for Pre-Authorized Remittance (PAR). Instead of using offering envelopes or giving online, you can set up a regular donation through your financial institution. To learn more, click here.

Presbyterians Sharing is how we support our denomination as a whole. Your gifts the variety of missions and ministries that The Presbyterian Church in Canada supports throughout Canada. It also ensures that we are well resources by our National Office staff.

If you are able, the MOCC would encourage you to consider donating to Presbyterians Sharing. You can do so by clicking here. (Make sure that you indicate that you are from St. Andrew’s Guelph on the online form in order for it to count towards our commitment)

Or you can make a donation directly to Presbyterians Sharing through St. Andrew’s Guelph. Please mark your donation: Presbyterians Sharing.

We are making a difference TOGETHER.

If you’d like to make a donation to Presbyterian World Service and Development (PWS&D) you can do so by clicking here.

Offertory

Prayers of the People

Hymn – #587 Called as Partners in Christ’s Service (Beecher)

Blessing

Postlude

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Worship Service for Sunday, June 26, 2022 in-person, on ZOOM & YouTube

Order of Service – Sunday June 26, 2022 @ 10:30AM

We continue our live broadcast this morning and we welcome in-person worshipers into the Sanctuary (with socially distanced seating). Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this morning’s service both online and in-person.

Join us on our St. Andrew’s Guelph YouTube Channel and select the live service, and remember to invite your friends and families. You can also join us via Zoom by following the link in your Friday or Sunday morning email. If you’d like to begin receiving our weekly emails you can sign up here.

COVID update:  At its meeting last Tuesday, the Session agreed that effective immediately, masks will be optional for worship and church meetings.  You are encouraged to continue to use self-screening, wear a mask if you are more comfortable doing so, and to stay home if you do not feel well.

Prelude – Hymn Prelude on St. Peter (Arr. R. Brunner)

Territorial Acknowledgement

Call to Worship

Hymn – #337 Ete333 I Sing the Almighty Power of God (Forest Green)

Opening Prayer & Assurance of Forgiveness

Scripture –  2 Samuel 15: 17 – 22 and Luke 9: 57 to 10: 2

Sermon: “When the going gets rough …”

Welcome, Rev. Mark Gaskin

Mark Bennett Gaskin was born in Regina, Saskatchewan; however, when he was 5 years old, his mom and dad moved to Georgetown, Ontario – and Mark followed along. He received his elementary and secondary education in Georgetown; and, his post-secondary studies were at Trinity College and Knox College, (U of T). He received his Master of Divinity degree in May of 1984 and was appointed to a pastoral charge, in Prince Edward Island. In 1986, Mark convinced Kathy to marry him. Kathy and Mark have three grown children – and three grandchildren. After PEI, Mark served pastorates in Exeter, Brantford, and Cambridge. He recently retired as the minister of Westside Church. Mark enjoys cooking chili, making jam and deviled eggs, visiting Kathy’s family in Louisiana, taking photographs, reading the Globe and Mail, and watching any movie that has Tom Hanks in it.

Hymn – #570 I Have Decided to Follow Jesus (Asson)

Offering

You can still mail cheques to: St. Andrew’s Guelph, 161 Norfolk Street, Guelph, ON N1H 4J8

Or you can donate to St. Andrew’s through CanadaHelps

Click Here to Donate to St. Andrew’s via Canada Helps here.

You are also invited to sign up for Pre-Authorized Remittance (PAR). Instead of using offering envelopes or giving online, you can set up a regular donation through your financial institution. To learn more, click here.

Presbyterians Sharing is how we support our denomination as a whole. Your gifts the variety of missions and ministries that The Presbyterian Church in Canada supports throughout Canada. It also ensures that we are well resources by our National Office staff.

If you are able, the MOCC would encourage you to consider donating to Presbyterians Sharing. You can do so by clicking here. (Make sure that you indicate that you are from St. Andrew’s Guelph on the online form in order for it to count towards our commitment)

Or you can make a donation directly to Presbyterians Sharing through St. Andrew’s Guelph. Please mark your donation: Presbyterians Sharing.

We are making a difference TOGETHER.

If you’d like to make a donation to Presbyterian World Service and Development (PWS&D) you can do so by clicking here.

Offertory – Improvisation on Comfort (Arr. R. Brunner)

Prayers of the People

Hymn – #699 All the Way My Saviour Leads Me (All The Way)

Blessing

Postlude – Recessional on “Lancashire” (Arr. R. Brunner)

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Worship Service for Sunday, June 19, 2022 in-person, on ZOOM & YouTube

Order of Service – Sunday June 19, 2022 @ 10:30AM

We continue our live broadcast this morning and we welcome in-person worshipers into the Sanctuary (with socially distanced seating). Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this morning’s service both online and in-person.

Join us on our St. Andrew’s Guelph YouTube Channel and select the live service, and remember to invite your friends and families. You can also join us via Zoom by following the link in your Friday or Sunday morning email. If you’d like to begin receiving our weekly emails you can sign up here.

Prelude – Hymn Prelude on “St. Peter” (Arr. R. Brunner)

Territorial Acknowledgement

Call to Worship

Hymn – #337 Eternal, Unchanging, We Sing to Your Praise (St. Basil)

Opening Prayer & Assurance of Forgiveness

Scripture –  Psalm 16 (selected verses) Luke 9: 51-56

SermonThe Path to Life

Welcome, Rev. Mark Gaskin

Mark Bennett Gaskin was born in Regina, Saskatchewan; however, when he was 5 years old, his mom and dad moved to Georgetown, Ontario – and Mark followed along. He received his elementary and secondary education in Georgetown; and, his post-secondary studies were at Trinity College and Knox College, (U of T). He received his Master of Divinity degree in May of 1984 and was appointed to a pastoral charge, in Prince Edward Island. In 1986, Mark convinced Kathy to marry him. Kathy and Mark have three grown children – and three grandchildren. After PEI, Mark served pastorates in Exeter, Brantford, and Cambridge. He recently retired as the minister of Westside Church. Mark enjoys cooking chili, making jam and deviled eggs, visiting Kathy’s family in Louisiana, taking photographs, reading the Globe and Mail, and watching any movie that has Tom Hanks in it.

Hymn – #566 O Matchless Beauty of o\Our God (St. Botolph)

Offering

You can still mail cheques to: St. Andrew’s Guelph, 161 Norfolk Street, Guelph, ON N1H 4J8

Or you can donate to St. Andrew’s through CanadaHelps

Click Here to Donate to St. Andrew’s via Canada Helps here.

You are also invited to sign up for Pre-Authorized Remittance (PAR). Instead of using offering envelopes or giving online, you can set up a regular donation through your financial institution. To learn more, click here.

Presbyterians Sharing is how we support our denomination as a whole. Your gifts the variety of missions and ministries that The Presbyterian Church in Canada supports throughout Canada. It also ensures that we are well resources by our National Office staff.

If you are able, the MOCC would encourage you to consider donating to Presbyterians Sharing. You can do so by clicking here. (Make sure that you indicate that you are from St. Andrew’s Guelph on the online form in order for it to count towards our commitment)

Or you can make a donation directly to Presbyterians Sharing through St. Andrew’s Guelph. Please mark your donation: Presbyterians Sharing.

We are making a difference TOGETHER.

If you’d like to make a donation to Presbyterian World Service and Development (PWS&D) you can do so by clicking here.

Offertory – Improvisation on “Comfort” (Arr. R. Brunner)

Prayers of the People

Hymn – #663 God Whose Giving Knows No Ending (Rustington)

Blessing

Postlude – Recessional on “Lancashire” (Arr. R. Brunner)

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Worship Service for Sunday, June 12, 2022 in-person, on ZOOM & YouTube

Order of Service – Sunday June 12, 2022 @ 10:30AM

We continue our live broadcast this morning and we welcome in-person worshipers into the Sanctuary (with socially distanced seating). Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this morning’s service both online and in-person.

Join us on our St. Andrew’s Guelph YouTube Channel and select the live service, and remember to invite your friends and families. You can also join us via Zoom by following the link in your Friday or Sunday morning email. If you’d like to begin receiving our weekly emails you can sign up here.

Prelude – Prelude in E flat (Miniature Suite) – H. Willan

Territorial Acknowledgement

Call to Worship

Hymn – #291 Thou Whose Almighty Word – Moscow

Opening Prayer & Assurance of Forgiveness

Scripture – Psalm 8 and John 1: 5 – 14

Sermon: Hearing the Silence After the Question

Welcome, Rev. Mark Gaskin

Mark Bennett Gaskin was born in Regina, Saskatchewan; however, when he was 5 years old, his mom and dad moved to Georgetown, Ontario – and Mark followed along. He received his elementary and secondary education in Georgetown; and, his post-secondary studies were at Trinity College and Knox College, (U of T). He received his Master of Divinity degree in May of 1984 and was appointed to a pastoral charge, in Prince Edward Island. In 1986, Mark convinced Kathy to marry him. Kathy and Mark have three grown children – and three grandchildren. After PEI, Mark served pastorates in Exeter, Brantford, and Cambridge. He recently retired as the minister of Westside Church. Mark enjoys cooking chili, making jam and deviled eggs, visiting Kathy’s family in Louisiana, taking photographs, reading the Globe and Mail, and watching any movie that has Tom Hanks in it.

Hymn – #526 Lift Up Your Hearts – Sing Hallelujah

Offering

You can still mail cheques to: St. Andrew’s Guelph, 161 Norfolk Street, Guelph, ON N1H 4J8

Or you can donate to St. Andrew’s through CanadaHelps

Click Here to Donate to St. Andrew’s via Canada Helps here.

You are also invited to sign up for Pre-Authorized Remittance (PAR). Instead of using offering envelopes or giving online, you can set up a regular donation through your financial institution. To learn more, click here.

Presbyterians Sharing is how we support our denomination as a whole. Your gifts the variety of missions and ministries that The Presbyterian Church in Canada supports throughout Canada. It also ensures that we are well resources by our National Office staff.

If you are able, the MOCC would encourage you to consider donating to Presbyterians Sharing. You can do so by clicking here. (Make sure that you indicate that you are from St. Andrew’s Guelph on the online form in order for it to count towards our commitment)

Or you can make a donation directly to Presbyterians Sharing through St. Andrew’s Guelph. Please mark your donation: Presbyterians Sharing.

We are making a difference TOGETHER.

If you’d like to make a donation to Presbyterian World Service and Development (PWS&D) you can do so by clicking here.

Offertory – Intermezzo (Miniature Suite) – H. Willan

Prayers of the People

Sacrament of Holy Communion

Communion Anthem – Jesu, The Very Thought of Thee – S. Lole

Hymn – #547 For the Bread Which We Have Broken – Omni Die

Blessing

Choral Dismissal – God Be in My Head – c 1490, French – Arr. F.E.W. Gingrich

Postlude – Finale in E flat (Miniature Suite) – H. Willan

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Worship Service for Sunday, June 5, 2022 in-person, on ZOOM & YouTube

Order of Service – Sunday June 5, 2022 @ 10:30AM

We continue our live broadcast this morning and we welcome in-person worshipers into the Sanctuary (with socially distanced seating). Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this morning’s service both online and in-person.

Join us on our St. Andrew’s Guelph YouTube Channel and select the live service, and remember to invite your friends and families. You can also join us via Zoom by following the link in your Friday or Sunday morning email. If you’d like to begin receiving our weekly emails you can sign up here.

Music For Pentecost

Celebrating the Gift of the Holy Spirit

*indicates to please stand if able, Hymns will be unannounced

0 Holy Spirit, by whose breath – Veni Creator

Invocation (organ) – D. Bedard

Come, 0 Holy Spirit come – WaWaWa

0 Holy Dove of God descending – Lois

*Hymn – #395 Fire of God, 0 sacred flame (Gott sei dank)

Litany to the Holy Spirit – P. Hurford

Veni Sancte Spiritus – J. Berthier

Reading: John 14:8-17

If ye love me – T. Tallis

Reading: Acts 2:1-21

Come, O Spirit with your sound – Boundless mercy

Reading: Sonnet for Pentecost – M. Guite

*Hymn – #386 – Come done, O Love divine – Down Ampney

Verbum Supernu Prodiens (organ) – G. Oldroyd

Fill-a-me up – P. Choplin

Rain down – J. Cortez

Send down your Spirit, Lord – D&N Besig

*A Pentecost Blessing – R.W. Sly

Toccata et Grand Choeur sur “Veni Creator” (organ) – D. Bedard

You can still mail cheques to St. Andrew’s Guelph, 161 Norfolk Street, Guelph, ON N1H 4J8

Or you can donate to St. Andrew’s through CanadaHelps

Click Here to Donate to St. Andrew’s via Canada Helps here.

You are also invited to sign up for Pre-Authorized Remittance (PAR). Instead of using offering envelopes or giving online, you can set up a regular donation through your financial institution. To learn more, click here.

Presbyterians Sharing is how we support our denomination as a whole. Your gifts the variety of missions and ministries that The Presbyterian Church in Canada supports throughout Canada. It also ensures that we are well resources by our National Office staff.

If you are able, the MOCC would encourage you to consider donating to Presbyterians Sharing. You can do so by clicking here. (Make sure that you indicate that you are from St. Andrew’s Guelph on the online form in order for it to count towards our commitment)

Or you can make a donation directly to Presbyterians Sharing through St. Andrew’s Guelph. Please mark your donation: Presbyterians Sharing.

We are making a difference TOGETHER.

If you’d like to make a donation to Presbyterian World Service and Development (PWS&D) you can do so by clicking here.

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Worship Service for Sunday, May 29, 2022 in-person, on ZOOM & YouTube

Order of Service – Sunday May 29, 2022 @ 10:30AM

We continue our live broadcast this morning and we welcome in-person worshipers into the Sanctuary (with socially distanced seating). Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this morning’s service both online and in-person.

Join us on our St. Andrew’s Guelph YouTube Channel and select the live service, and remember to invite your friends and families. You can also join us via Zoom by following the link in your Friday or Sunday morning email. If you’d like to begin receiving our weekly emails you can sign up here.

Prelude – Pastorale on “Darwall” (Arr. J. Vandertuin)

Territorial Acknowledgement

Call to Worship

Hymn – #265 Hail the Day That Sees Christ Rise

Opening Prayer & Assurance of Forgiveness

Scripture – John 15 9-17 – Reader: Anne Holman

Sermon: Joy, Love, Friends

Welcome Rev. Darrell Clarke

Darrell Clarke is the father of two daughters Stephanie age 25 and Lindsay age 13. He has been married for 33 years to Olive. He is currently the Clerk of the Presbytery of waterloo-Wellington and director of social enterprise at the Mennonite Central Committee in Kitchener. Prior to that Darrell was the minister at Doon Presbyterian Church from 2013-2019 and before that Darrell had a twenty plus career in the private sector including President and CEO of the Canadian Stewardship Association and a former vice president with |Sears Canada. His hobbies are baking, jigsaw puzzles, other creative activities and a practitioner of mindfulness.

Hymn – #273 Jesus, Our Mighty Lord

Offering

You can still mail cheques to: St. Andrew’s Guelph, 161 Norfolk Street, Guelph, ON N1H 4J8

Or you can donate to St. Andrew’s through CanadaHelps

Click Here to Donate to St. Andrew’s via Canada Helps here.

You are also invited to sign up for Pre-Authorized Remittance (PAR). Instead of using offering envelopes or giving online, you can set up a regular donation through your financial institution. To learn more, click here.

Presbyterians Sharing is how we support our denomination as a whole. Your gifts the variety of missions and ministries that The Presbyterian Church in Canada supports throughout Canada. It also ensures that we are well resources by our National Office staff.

If you are able, the MOCC would encourage you to consider donating to Presbyterians Sharing. You can do so by clicking here. (Make sure that you indicate that you are from St. Andrew’s Guelph on the online form in order for it to count towards our commitment)

Or you can make a donation directly to Presbyterians Sharing through St. Andrew’s Guelph. Please mark your donation: Presbyterians Sharing.

We are making a difference TOGETHER.

If you’d like to make a donation to Presbyterian World Service and Development (PWS&D) you can do so by clicking here.

Anthem – Now Glad of Heart (German, 16th Century)

Prayers of the People

Hymn – #267 Rejoice the Lord is King

Blessing

Postlude – Toccata on “Darwall’s 148th” (Arr. J. Enns)

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Worship Service for Sunday, May 22, 2022 in-person, on ZOOM & YouTube

Order of Service – Sunday May 22, 2022 @ 10:30AM

We continue our live broadcast this morning and we welcome in-person worshipers into the Sanctuary (with socially distanced seating). Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this morning’s service both online and in-person.

Join us on our St. Andrew’s Guelph YouTube Channel and select the live service, and remember to invite your friends and families. You can also join us via Zoom by following the link in your Friday or Sunday morning email. If you’d like to begin receiving our weekly emails you can sign up here.

Prelude – Chorale Prelude on “Lobe deu Herru” arr. J. Walther

Territorial Acknowledgement

Call to Worship

Hymn – #321 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty

Opening Prayer & Assurance of Forgiveness

Scripture – Acts 16:9-15 (CEB)

Sermon

Welcome Back Andrew Hyde (he/him)!

Andrew is the Ecumenical Campus Minister at the University of Guelph. A Designated Lay Minister in the United Church of Canada since 2001, Andrew lives in Guelph with his wife Andrea, and their two teenage children. Andrew recently authored a new resource on vocational discernment for young adults, called “My Daily Discoverment”. The Ecumenical Campus Ministry is the home of the Anglican, Presbyterian, and United Church at UofG. Find out more about ECM’s work on campus at www.ECMguelph.org. 

Hymn – #496 Thy Word is a Lamp Unto My Feet

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Offertory – “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” arr. D Bish

Prayers of the People

Hymn – #775 Seat Fourth by Your Blessing.

Blessing

Postlude – Little Prelude & “Fugue in F” J.S. Bach