Dear friends,
THIS SUNDAY the Rev. Linda Faith Chalk will be leading us in worship.
WE WILL BE HOLDING OUR FALL LUNCHEON, BAKE SALE AND NEARLY NEW TABLE next week, on Saturday, November 2, 2024. You are all encouraged to participate in this congregational fundraiser. Please get your apron on and start baking up a storm for this community event. Cake, cookies, bread, lemon loaves, scones, short bread, pies, fudge etc. will all sell well at our bake table. Frozen foods such as meat pies, quiche, shepherd’s pie, sausage rolls, hamburger soup, spaghetti sauce, mac & cheese and of course the all-time favorite, apple pie will also sell very well. The funds raised at this event will go towards our Operating Fund. Be sure to tell all your friends to come and join you for a delicious homemade lunch and to bring along their shopping bags so they can fill them up with all the homemade food and trinkets that will be on sale. Lunch will be served from 11am to 2pm. Tickets for the soup and sandwich lunch, including coffee, tea and dessert are $12. We encourage everyone in the congregation to come out for lunch on the 2nd, looking forward to seeing you all there! Please sign-up during coffee hour to indicate the times you will be available to help with setup, selling, serving, and clean-up. The food you have prepared for the luncheon and/or the bake sale may be dropped-off at the church between 4 and 7 pm on Friday November 1 which is also the setup time for the event. Please come and help-out if you are able.
OUR SCRIPTURE LESSON this week continues from the book of Mark 10: 46-52, “Jesus Heals Blind Bartimaeus”. Jesus and his disciples arrive in Jericho, where a blind beggar, Bartimaeus, is sitting by the roadside. When he hears that Jesus is passing by, he calls out to him, asking for mercy. Despite being told to be quiet by the crowd, Bartimaeus continues to call out. Jesus stops, asks for him to be brought over, and inquires what he wants. Bartimaeus requests that he recovers his sight, and Jesus heals him, saying, “Your faith has made you well”. Immediately, Bartimaeus regains his sight and follows Jesus on the way.
The 19th century preacher, Charles Spurgeon, comments: “That is prayer, when the poor soul in some weighty trouble, fainting and athirst, lifts up its streaming eyes, and wrings its hands, and beats its bosom, and then cries, ‘Son of David, have mercy on me’.”
EVERYONE IS INVITED to join us downstairs after the service on Sunday to enjoy coffee, cookies and conversation. We thank Denise Dupont and Clifford Gregory for hosting coffee hour this week.
Order of Service
Prelude
Welcome
Call to Worship
Hymn 678: I greet thee, who my sure Redeemer art
Prayer of Adoration
Prayer of Confession
Declaration of Grace
The Lord’s Prayer
Children’s Time
Hymn 500: Open my eyes, that I may see
Responsive Reading: Psalm 34: 1-8, 19-22
Gloria Patri
Hebrews 7: 23-28 (en français BFC– English on the screen)
Mark 10: 46-52
Sermon: “It was a day just like any other day!”
Confession of Faith – The Apostles’ Creed
Hymn 203: When Jesus the healer passed through Galilee
Offering and Offertory
Prayer of Thanksgiving and Intercession
Hymn 497: Word of God, across the ages
Benediction
Go now in peace
Postlude