Read-along service for Sunday, November 3, 2024

Trinity St. Andrew’s United Church
Order of Worship
Sunday November 3, 2024 – 24^th after Pentecost

We welcome the Rev. Matt Gallinger today as our guest speaker.

Gathering

Prelude
Welcome and Announcements
Lighting the Christ Candle

Call to Worship

Greetings to our brothers and sisters in the faith.
We come to celebrate God’s presence,
and God’s love expressed through Jesus Christ.
We come remembering Christ’s life and ministry,
and the life we are called to live.
We come as a pilgrim people
searching for ways to live out our faith.
We come seeking the strength to carry on our journey.
Let us rejoice in God’s gift to us!

Hymn         All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name                              VU 334

1. All hail the power of Jesus’ name!
   Let angels prostrate fall;
   bring forth the royal diadem,
   and crown him, crown him, crown him,
                      crown him Lord of all.

2. O seed of Israel’s chosen race
   now ransomed from the fall,
   hail him who saves you by his grace                 Refrain

3. Crown him, you martyrs of your God,
   who from his altar call;
   praise him whose way of pain you trod,           Refrain

4. Let every tongue and every tribe,
   responsive to the call,
   to him all majesty ascribe                                  Refrain

5. O that, with all the sacred throng,
   we at his feet may fall,
   join us in the everlasting song,                          Refrain

Prayer of Approach

For all the saints who went before us
who have spoken to our hearts
and touched us with your fire,
we praise you, O God.

For all the saints who live beside us
whose weaknesses and strengths
are woven with our own,
we praise you, O God.

For all the saints who live beyond us
who challenge us
to change us
to change the world with them,
we praise you, O God. Amen.

Scripture Reader:         Margo Aubert

First Scripture:              Ruth 1: 1-18
Gospel Reading:          Mark 12: 28-34

Hymn                   For All the Saints                                                 VU 705

1. For all the saints, who from their labours rest,
   all who by faith before the world confessed,
   your name, O Jesus, be forever blest.
   Hallelujah, hallelujah!

2. You were their rock, their fortress, and their might:
   you were their captain in the well-fought fight;
   you, in the darkness drear, their one true light.
   Hallelujah, hallelujah!

3. O blest communion, fellowship divine!
   We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
   yet all are one within your great design.
   Hallelujah, hallelujah!

4. The golden evening brightens in the west;
   soon, soon to faithful warriors comes their rest;
   sweet is the calm of paradise the blest.
   Hallelujah, hallelujah!

5. But lo! there breaks a yet more glorious day
   The saints triumphant rise in bright array:
   As God to glory calls them all away.
   Hallelujah, hallelujah!

6. From earth’s wide bounds, from ocean’s farthest coast,
   through gates of pearl streams in the countless host,
   singing to Father, Son and Holy Ghost:
   Hallelujah, hallelujah!

Homily

Special Music

Thanksgiving 

The Offering
Offering Song      God is So Good

God is so good, God is so good,
God is so good, He’s so good to me

Offering Prayer

Hymn         Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness                       VU 375

Refrain:     Spirit, Spirit of gentleness,
                   blow thro’ the wilderness calling and free,
                   Spirit, Spirit of restlessness,
                   stir me from placidness,
                   Wind, Wind on the sea.

1. You moved on the waters, you called to the deep,
   then you coaxed up the mountains from the valleys of sleep;
   and over the eons you called to each thing;
   wake from your slumbers and rise on your wings.              Refrain

2. You swept thro’ the desert, you stung with the sand,
   and you goaded your people with a law and a land;
   and when they were blinded with their idols and lies,
   then you spoke thro’ your prophets to open their eyes.      Refrain

3. You sang in a stable, you cried from a hill,
   then you whispered in silence when the whole world was still;
   and down in the city you called once again,
   when you blew through your people on the rush of the wind.  Refrain

4. You call from tomorrow, you break ancient schemes,
   from the bondage of sorrow the captives dream dreams,
   our women see visions, our men clear their eyes,
   with bold new decisions your people arise.                          Refrain

Pastoral Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer

Sending Forth

Hymn                   Be Thou My Vision                                             VU 642

1. Be thou my vision, O joy of my heart;
   naught be all else to me, save that thou art,
   thou my best thought, by day or by night;
   waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

2. Be thou my wisdom, my calm in all strife;
   I ever with thee and thou in my life;
   thou my loving parent; thy child may I be,
   thou in me dwelling and I one with thee.

3. Be thou my battle shield, sword for the fight,
   be thou my dignity, thou my delight,
   thou my soul’s shelter, thou my high tower,
   raise thou me heavenward, O power of my power.

4. Riches I heed not, nor vain, empty praise;
   thou mine inheritance, now and always;
   thou and thou only the first in my heart,
   great God of heaven, my treasure thou art.

5. Great God of heaven, after victory won,
   may I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heaven’s sun!
   Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
   still be my vision, O Ruler of all.

Benediction

Choral Amen                  Amen, Amen, Amen                             VU 967

Postlude