September 5, 2010 Food Bank Sunday 11:00am

Worship Committee will be leading our service this morning

We Gather To Praise God
Prelude
Welcome and Announcements
*Friendship Greeting
Centring Music
We Approach

*Introit: "Where Two or Three are Gathered"

* Call to Worship:
One: Come; let us go down to the Potter's House.
All: God has invited us to witness the work of the Potter.
One: The Potter is shaping holy vessels from clay.
All: We are clay, waiting to be shaped by the Potter's hands. We have come to hear the Potter's words.

*Hymn: #415 God, We Praise You for the Morning

Prayer of Confession:
Creator God: you have given us the freedom to live in disobedience and the freedom to choose to return to you. We confess that there are times when we follow our own plans, failing to hear your holy word. We confess there are times when we don't want to have a change of heart or mind. As you reworked a clay vessel in the sight of Jeremiah, so we ask today that you rework us, too. Amen.

Words of Assurance

Theme Conversation: Shaping with Clay

* Hymn # 377 Holy Spirit Hear Us

We Listen

Scripture Lessons:
Jeremiah 18: 1-11
Psalm 139 (VU p.861) (Seated)
Luke 14: 25-33

*Hymn # 260 God Who Gives to Life its Goodness

Message: "The Potter and the Clay".

*Hymn # 382 Breathe on Me Breath of God

We Respond

*Offering Prayer: (Together)
We are thankful to be clay vessels, bearing the imprint of the Potter's fingers as our gifts from God. With your help O God we now share the gifts you have given us with your world. We ask you to bless our offerings to do your work on earth. Amen.

Offering

*Offering Hymn # 544
In gratitude and humble trust, we bring our best today
To serve your cause and share your love with all along life's way
O God, who gave yourself to us, in Jesus Christ, your son
Teach us to give ourselves each day, until life's work is done.

Invitation to Prayer - Prayers of the People
The Lord's Prayer

*Hymn # 625 I Feel the Winds of God Today

*Benediction
All: As we go into the world, may we be centered in Christ; moulded and shaped by the Potter; and fired by the Spirit; that each of us will be usable vessels for God.
One: Go with the Potter's blessing.

*Congregational Choral Closing
Walk with me, I will walk with you
and build the land God has planned
where loves shines through.

Postlude

Greeter: Leona & Hugh Brown
Lay Reader: Helen Hall
Coffee Host: Christine Amirault