Worship Leader: Lori Unger
Speaker: Tobi Thiessen
Song Leader: Dennis Giesbrecht
Pianist: Mark Andrews
Ushers: Rachel Schmidt, Lara Munro
Tech Team (In-Person / Online): Brad Lepp/ Nathaniel Penner
Prelude
Gathering Songs
VT 496 I owe the Lord a morning song
VT 745 God whose giving
Welcome and Land acknowledgement
Announcements
Call to Worship/Opening Prayer
Scripture: Psalm 24
Children’s Time
VT 757 There’s enough for all
Reflective Prayer
a time for killing and a time for healing,
a time for tearing down and a time for building up,
Praying for wisdom in what we need to leave behind in our church.
“Holy Wisdom, hear our prayer. Amen”
VT 653 “Nothing is lost on the breath of God”
Kindom Report – Harold Thiessen
VT 88 “Lobe den Herren” (1st v. German, then 2 verses English)
Giving with Gratitude
VT 1024 – There is no scarcity
Prayer: Creator Spirit, you clothe the flowers of the field; enable us to rejoice in all the gifts with which you fill us, and may that be enough. Amen.
Sharing and Congregational Prayer
Scripture: Matthew 6:24-33
Sermon “Giving back and paying forward when money is digital”
VT 289 See the Birds that Fly (English only, 3 verses)
Benediction
Scripture
Psalm 24
Of David. A Psalm.
The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it,
the world, and those who live in it;
for he has founded it on the seas,
and established it on the rivers.
Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?
And who shall stand in his holy place?
Those who have clean hands and pure hearts,
who do not lift up their souls to what is false,
and do not swear deceitfully.
They will receive blessing from the Lord,
and vindication from the God of their salvation.
Such is the company of those who seek him,
who seek the face of the God of Jacob.*
Selah
Lift up your heads, O gates!
and be lifted up, O ancient doors!
that the King of glory may come in.
Who is the King of glory?
The Lord, strong and mighty,
the Lord, mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, O gates!
and be lifted up, O ancient doors!
that the King of glory may come in.
Who is this King of glory?
The Lord of hosts,
he is the King of glory.
Selah
Matthew 6:24-33
No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink,* or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?* And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, “What will we eat?” or “What will we drink?” or “What will we wear?” For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom of God* and his* righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
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Listen to Harold Thiessen’s Kindom report on the 100th anniversary of Mennonite refugees arriving in Rosthern Saskatchewan from Russia here.