Our Saviour Jesus Christ has abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. ~2 Timothy 1:10

Processional Hymn  #3 Morning has Broken

Morning has broken like the first morning
blackbird has spoken like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning!
Praise for them springing fresh from the word!

Sweet the rains new fall, sunlit from Heaven,
like the first dewfall on the first grass.
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden,
sprung in completeness where his feet pass.

Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
born of the one light, Eden saw play!
Praise with elation, praise every morning,
God's recreation of the new day!

Welcome & Acknowledgment of Land

Call to Worship 
You are the God of the poor
The human and simple God
The God that sweats in the street
The God with the weathered face
That is why I speak to you
Like my people speak to you
Because you are the labourer God
The worker Christ. Amen
(Invitatation – Misa Campesina Nicaraguense: by Carlos Godoy)
(We prepare our hearts for worship in silence)

The Gathering of the Community (Service begins on p. 185) 

Glory to God p.186

Kyrie Eleison p. 186 

Collect: Almighty God, you have taught us through your Son that love fulfils the law. May we love you with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind, and all our strength, and may we love our neighbour as ourselves; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen

The Proclamation of the Word   (Led by Joyce Bainbridge)
First Reading:    2 SAMUEL 1:1, 17-27
PSALM 130     R:  The Lord shall redeem us from all our sins.
Second Reading:    2 CORINTHIANS 8:7-15

Gradual Hymn:  #292 We Cannot Measure How you Heal  

We cannot measure how You heal
or answer every sufferer’s prayer,
yet we believe your grace responds
where faith and doubt unite to care.
Your hands, though bloodied on the cross,
survive to hold and heal and warn,
to carry all through death to life
and cradle children yet unborn.

The pain that will not go away,
the guilt that clings from things long past,
the fear of what the future holds,
are present as if meant to last.
But present too is love which tends
the hurt we never hoped to find,
the private agonies inside,
the memories that haunt the mind.

The Gospel:    MARK 5:21-43

Gradual Hymn:     :  #292 We Cannot Measure How you Heal  (cont'd)

So some have come who need Your help
and some have come to make amends,
as hands which shaped and saved the world
are present in the touch of friends.
Lord, let Your Spirit meet us here
to mend the body, mind and soul,
to disentangle peace from pain
and make Your broken people whole.

Homily:  “The Riddle of King Saul”

Affirmation of Faith: (Apostles Creed p. 189)

Prayers of the People    (Led by Nancy Booth)

Confession and Absolution p. 191

The Peace    p. 192

Offertory Hymn: #585  Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service 

Lord, whose love in humble service
   bore the weight of human need,
who upon the cross, forsaken,
   worked your mercy’s perfect deed:
we, your servants, bring the worship
   not of voice alone, but heart;
consecrating to your purpose
   ev’ry gift which you impart.

Still your children wander homeless;
   still the hungry cry for bread;
still the captives long for freedom;
   still in grief we mourn our dead.
As you, Lord, in deep compassion
   healed the sick and freed the soul,
by your Spirit send your power
   to our world to make it whole.

As we worship, grant us vision,
   till your love’s revealing light
in its height and depth and greatness
   dawns upon our quickened sight,
making known the needs and burdens
   your compassion bids us bear,
stirring us to ardent service,
   your abundant life to share.

Prayer over the Gifts: God of wisdom, receive all we offer you this day. Enrich our lives with the gifts of your Spirit, that we may follow the way of our Lord Jesus Christ, and serve one another in freedom. We ask this in his name. Amen

The Celebration of the Eucharist 

The Great Thanksgiving  (Prayer #1, p.193)

The Lord’s Prayer (sung)        p. 211

The Breaking of the Bread (prayer # 2)     p. 212

Agnes Dei (sung) O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us… Grant us Thy peace. 

¬The Communion (all are welcome to receive communion, or to come up to the altar for a blessing)

Communion Hymn: MV 79. Spirit Open my Heart
 Refrain: 
Spirit, open my heart 
to the joy and pain of living.
As you love may I love, 
in receiving and in giving, 
Spirit, open my heart.

God, replace my stony heart 
with a heart that’s kind and tender.
All my coldness and fear 
to your grace I now surrender. R

Write your love upon my heart 
as my law, my goal, my story.
In each thought, word, and deed, 
may my living bring you glory. R

May I weep with those who weep, 
share the joy of sister, brother.
In the welcome of Christ, 
may we welcome one another.  R

Prayer after Communion:  God of power, we are nourished by the riches of your grace. Raise us to new life in your Son Jesus Christ and fit us for his eternal kingdom, that all the world may call him Lord. We ask this in his name. Amen

Doxology (Old 100th)

The Blessing

Closing Hymn: #MV 145 Draw the Circle Wide  
 Refrain
Draw the circle wide, draw it wider still.
Let this be our song: no one stands alone.
Standing side by side, draw the circle wide.
 
God the still-point of the circle
Round whom all creation turns
Nothing lost but held forever
in God's gracious arms.   Refrain 

Let our hearts touch far horizons
So encompass great and small
Let our loving know no borders
Faithful to God's call.   Refrain 
 
Let the dreams we dream be larger
Than we've ever dreamed before
Let the dream of Christ be in us
Open every door!   Refrain

The Dismissal    p. 215