Sunday Bulletin and Announcements

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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Notes on the Notes – September 29, 2013

Thursday, August 8, 2013

This week’s scripture readings:                                                                       1 Timothy 6:6-19, Luke 16:19-31 This week’s music: “All Things Bright and Beautiful”      (VU #291) – The text, from Cecil Frances Alexander’s Hymns for Little Children (1846), is based on the phrase “Maker of heaven and earth” in the Apostles’ Creed.  The new words for verse four are particularly apt in the […]

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