Sunday Bulletin and Announcements

Notes on the Notes – November 10, 2013

Saturday, November 9, 2013

This week’s theme:  Now to Eternity – Telling the Stories This week’s scripture:  Psalm 145: 1-5, 17-21 “Come and Find the Quiet Centre” (VU #374)  “Come and find the quiet centre in the crowded life we lead, find the room for hope to enter, find the frame where we are freed:  clear the chaos and the […]

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Notes on the Notes – November 3, 2013

Saturday, November 2, 2013

This week’s scripture reading:  Luke 19:1-10 This week’s music: “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah” (VU #651) – “Guide me, O though great Jehovah, pilgrim through this barren land.  I am weak, but thou art mighty, hold me with thy powerful hand.  Bread of heaven, bread of heaven, feed me till I want no more, […]

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Notes on the Notes – October 27, 2013

Saturday, October 26, 2013

   This week’s theme:  A People of Faith This week’s guest:  Rev. Dr. Lovett Weems This week’s scripture readings:  Habakkuk 2:1-4; Romans 1:16-17 This week’s music: “Jesus Came a Child like me” (VU 583) – Walter Farquharson, a hymn writer and a former moderator of the United Church of Canada, submitted this new children’s hymn for […]

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Notes on the Notes – October 20, 2013

Saturday, October 19, 2013

  This week’s guest: Diane Haglund – United Church archivist This week’s scripture reading: 2 Timothy 4:1-5 This week’s music:   “Let Us Build a House (All Are Welcome) (MV #1) – “Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live, a place where saints and children tell how hearts […]

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Notes on the Notes – October 13, 2013

Saturday, October 12, 2013

“As Those of Old Their First-fruits Brought” (VU #518) – We open our worship today with this Thanksgiving hymn, from Ten New Stewardship Hymns (1961) by Frank von Christierson.  The tune, FOREST GREEN, is a traditional English folk tune arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams for the English Hymnal (1906). “As those of old their first-fruits brought of […]

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Notes on the Notes – October 6, 2013

Saturday, October 5, 2013

This week’s reading: 2 Timothy 1: 1-14 This week’s music: “All Who Hunger”  (VU #460) –  Born in 1955, Sylvia Dunstan attributes her love of song to her grandparents, who kept song alive in the family and entrusted Sylvia’s formal musical education to one of the nuns at the local convent. Sylvia began writing songs […]

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