This is a shortened version of our in-person Sunday Service. We also offer this service on Zoom, for access please call our office at 519-432-8075 and leave a message. Laura will endeavor to reply as soon as possible.
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Acknowledging the territory
Jesus calls us into the world to love one another as we are loved by God. As we came to this land, First Nations peoples welcomed us, sustained us and taught us. We did not hear them when they shared their vision.
In our zeal to tell them the good news of Jesus Christ, we were closed to the value of their spirituality. We confused Western ways and culture with the depth, breadth, length and height of the gospel of Christ. We imposed our civilization as a condition of accepting the gospel. As a result, the image of the Creator in us is twisted, blurred, and we are not what we are meant by God to be. In our journey toward reconciliation, we acknowledge, this day, that we gather for worship on the traditional territories of:
- the Anishinaabe (the Ojibwe or Chippewa Nation)
- the Haudenosaunee (the Iroquois, and the Oneida Nation)
- the Lenape (the Delaware People)
- the Attawandaron (the Neutral Nation or Algonquin People
- and the Wendat (Huron People) as well as the other indigenous peoples who preceded them.
We acknowledge, with respect, their history, their spirituality, and their culture and seek to live into right relationship with all.
We hear God’s Word: Psalm 100 & Luke 17, 11-19, as read by Darlene Burnett
A Psalm of thanksgiving.
1 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.
2 Serve the Lord with gladness;
come into his presence with singing.
3 Know that the Lord is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;[a]
we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise.
Give thanks to him; bless his name.
5 For the Lord is good;
his steadfast love endures forever
and his faithfulness to all generations.
Jesus Cleanses Ten Men with a Skin Disease
11 On the way to Jerusalem Jesus[e] was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. 12 As he entered a village, ten men with a skin disease approached him. Keeping their distance, 13 they called out, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” 14 When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were made clean. 15 Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. 16 He prostrated himself at Jesus’s[f] feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. 17 Then Jesus asked, “Were not ten made clean? So where are the other nine? 18 Did none of them return to give glory to God except this foreigner?” 19 Then he said to him, “Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well
( NSRV from Biblegateway.com)
Rev Wendy Noble’s Reflection: Filled with Gratitude
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Do you wish to share a prayer ? Please call the church phone line at 519 432 8075 to leave your prayers. If there is no one in the office at that time- please leave your prayers on our voice mail.
Remember….
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.
We still have a building and staff and are still running a community meal program on Tuesday evenings and have resumed hosting the Welcome Wednesday meal with other local church’s . We are thankful for your donation- see main page – click on Canada Helps link.