COLORS of the SPIRIT. the “ “ Emerson May 24, 2015 NATUR E wears St. Andrew’s United Church.

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Opening our DoorsPrelude Wendy Hardman & Aubrey

Smith “ O Happy Day”/"Just a Closer Walk..."

Welcome & AnnouncementsChildren's Message Bianka Warren* Passing the Peace* Hymn "Wind Who Makes..."

(Voices United #196 & Screen)

“Nature wears

the colors of

the spirit.”- Emerson

Wind who makes all winds that blow, gusts that bend the saplings low, gales that heave the sea in waves, stirrings in the mind’s deep caves,

aim your breath with steady power on your church this day, this hour. Raise, renew the life we’ve lost, Spirit God of Pentecost.

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the colors of


Fire who fuels all fires that burn, suns around which planets turn, beacons marking reefs and shoals, shining truth to guide our souls,

come to us as once you came: burst in tongues of sacred flame! Light and Power, Might and Strength, fill your church, its breadth and length.

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Holy Spirit, Wind and Flame, move within our mortal frame. Make our hearts an altar pyre, kindle them with your own fire.

Breathe and blow upon that blaze till our lives, our deeds and ways, speak that tongue which every land by your grace shall understand.

- Words: Thomas H. Troeger- Music: Joseph Parry

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* Invitation to WorshipOne: Come touch our hearts that

we may know compassion, from failing embers build a blazing fire;

ALL: love strong enough to overturn injustice, to seek a world more gracious, come touch and bless our hearts.

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One: Come touch our souls that we may know and love you, your quiet presence all our fears dispel;

ALL: create a space for spirit to grow in us, let life and beauty fill us, come touch and bless our souls.

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One: Come touch our minds and teach us how to reason, set free our thoughts to wonder and to dream;

ALL: help us to open door doors of understanding, to welcome truth and wisdom, come touch and bless our minds

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One: Come touch us in the moments we are fragile, and in our weakness your great strength reveal;

ALL: that we may rise to follow and to serve, steady now our nerve, come touch and bless our wills.

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One: Come touch us now, this people who are gathered, to break the bread and share the cup of peace;

ALL: that we may love you with our heart, our soul, our mind, our strength, our all come touch us with your grace. AMEN.

- Gordon Light (2002)

Opening our HeartsPrayers for Peace & Candle LightingSilent Prayer & Lord's Prayer Presentation of Tithes & OfferingsOffertory "Amazing Grace"

Wendy Hardman & Aubrey Smith

* Song "God of Love" Screen (sung to the tune of "Edelweiss")

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Oh Father Almighty, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as in heaven the same.

Oh give us this day our daily bread, forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who have trespassed against us, forgive us our trespasses.

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Alle-lu-ia, al-le-lu-ia; All-le-lu-ia, al-le-lu-ia. Lead us not, oh Father, into

temptation, but save us from the Evil One, for the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours, forever and ever, amen.

Opening our HeartsPrayers for Peace & Candle LightingSilent Prayer & Lord's Prayer Presentation of Tithes & OfferingsOffertory "Amazing Grace"

Wendy Hardman & Aubrey Smith

* Song "God of Love" Screen (sung to the tune of "Edelweiss")

“Nature wears

the colors of


God of love, hear our prayer, bless this offering we bring you. May our lives do your will, guide and guard us forever.

Give us courage to stand for truth, help us care for others. God of love, hear our prayer, bless this offering we bring you.

* Prayer of Dedication* Hymn “Spirit God, Be Our Breath” ( More Voices #150 & Screen)

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Spirit God: be our breath, be our song. Blow through us, bringing strength to move on. Our world seems inward, defensive, withdrawn: Spirit God, be our song.

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Patient God: soothe our pride, calm our fear. Comfort us. When we know you are near we grow more certain, our vision is clear: Patient God, calm our fear.

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Loving God: be our voice, be our prayer. Reaching out, joining hands as we share, we seek your guidance through friendship and care. Loving God, be our prayer.

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Spirit God: be our breath, be our song. Blow through us, bringing strength to move on. Through change, through challenge we’ll greet the new dawn: Spirit God, be our song.

- Words: Jean Janzen

Opening our Minds

Ancient Wisdom: Acts 2:1-12

Song "Spirit of God..."(Voices United #378 & Screen)

Contemporary Wisdom: SunyataMessage Rev. James

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Spirit of God, descend upon my heart; wean it from earth, through all its pulses move; stoop to my weakness, strength to me impart, and make me love you as I ought to love.

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I ask no dream, no prophet ecstasies, no sudden rending of the veil of clay, no angel visitant, no opening skies, but take the dimness of my soul away.

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Have you not bid me love you, God and King; all, all your own, soul, hearth, and strength and mind? I see your cross: there teach my heart to cling. O let me seek you and O let me find!

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Teach me to love you as your angels love, one holy passion filling all my frame, the baptism of the heaven-descended dove, my heart an altar and your love the flame.

- Words: George Croly- Music: Frederick Atkinson

Opening our Minds




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1. How to bring people together from different cultures and backgrounds and communities.

The power of Pentecost!

2. The impact of our own, individual decisions- and all our lives.

The importance of introspection!

Opening our Minds




Opening our Lives* Congregational PrayerYour Spirit, God, works in our weakness

until we are aflame with your love and power. Fill the hearts of your faithful with living fire, that we may set the world ablaze; through Jesus Christ, to whom with you and the Spirit, be honour and praise, now and forever. AMEN.

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* Hymn "It Only Takes a Spark" (Voices United #289 & Screen)

It only takes a spark to get a fire going, and soon all those around can warm up in its glowing:

that’s how it is with God’s love, once you’ve experienced it:

you spread God’s love to everyone, you want to pass it on.

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What a wondrous time is spring, when all the trees are budding, the birds begin to sing, the flowers start their blooming:

that’s how it is with God’s love, once you’ve experienced it:

you want to sing, it’s fresh like spring, you want to pass it on.

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I wish for you my friend, this happiness that I’ve found- on God you can depend, it matters not where you’re bound;

I’ll shout it from the mountain top; I want my world to know:

The Lord of love has come to me, I want to pass it on.

- Words: St. Teresa of Jesus- Music: Jacques Berthier

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* Benediction* SongFire of God, undying flame,

Spirit who in splendour came,let your heat my soul refine,

till it glows with love divine.* Postlude “Masterpiece” Wendy Hardman & Aubrey Smith

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