Order of Service for Sun Nov 20, 2022 Eternity Sunday
Worship Leader: Jan Kraus
Speaker: Peter Haresnape
Music: Jeff Taylor/ Sandra Horst
Technical Team: Ted Steenburgh/ Brad Lepp
Ushers: Doreen Martens
Coffee Hour Hosts: Carolyn and Bob Loewen
Gathering Hymns: VT 42 Could It Be That God is Singing
VT 9 Come Away from Rush and Hurry
Welcome
Introduce visitors
Land Acknowledgement
Announcements
Call to Worship: Psalm 46
Opening Prayer
Song of the Month: VT 422 Called or Not Called, God is There
Children’s Time
Giving with Gratitude and prayer of thanksgiving
Hymn: VT 603 Still My Soul
Congregational Prayer
Scripture Reading: John 12: 1-8, John 13: 31-35
Hymn: VT 640 My Shepherd will supply
Sermon
Hymn: VT 47 God, Be the Love
Memorial Ritual
Benediction
Closing Music
Scriptures this week
Psalm 46
To the leader. Of the Korahites. According to Alamoth. A Song.
God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change,
though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea;
though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains tremble with its tumult.
Selah
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy habitation of the Most High.
God is in the midst of the city; it shall not be moved;
God will help it when the morning dawns.
The nations are in an uproar, the kingdoms totter;
he utters his voice, the earth melts.
The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah
Come, behold the works of the Lord;
see what desolations he has brought on the earth.
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear;
he burns the shields with fire.
‘Be still, and know that I am God!
I am exalted among the nations,
I am exalted in the earth.’
The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah
John 12: 1-8
Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, ‘Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?’ (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.) Jesus said, ‘Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.’
John 13: 31-35
When he had gone out, Jesus said, ‘Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, “Where I am going, you cannot come.” I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.’
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