Worship Leader: Michele Rizoli
Speaker: Christina Reimer
Music: Peter Voth\/ Carmen Wiebe
Technical Team: Brad Lepp\/ Ben Thiessen
Ushers: Kathryn Gray\/ Lara Munro
Coffee Hour Hosts: Dennis and Elizabeth Giesbrecht
Activity Period: Laura Giesbrecht<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gathering Songs:
VT 545 Here I am, Lord.
VT 514 I saw a Tree by the Riverside
Opening Prayer
Poem: Trees of Life by Peter Voth
VT 44 We Long to Know Her
Welcome and Land Acknowledgement and Announcements
Kindom Reflection – Melana Janzen
VT806 Called by Earth and Sky
Congregational Prayer
VT673 Our God in Heaven (Song of the Month)
Children\u2019s time
Scripture: Ezekiel 37:1-9 – Donny Cheung
Sermon The Garden Going On Without Us
VT120 – For the Beauty of the Earth
Benediction<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scripture<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ezekiel 37:1-9 (CEB adapted)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God’s power overcame me, and while I was in the Spirit, led me out and set me down in the middle of a certain valley. It was full of bones. 2 God led me through them all around, and I saw that there were a great many of them on the valley floor, and they were very dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3 God asked me, \u201cHuman one, can these bones live again?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I said, \u201cSovereign God, only you know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4 God said to me, \u201cProphesy over these bones, and say to them, Dry bones, hear God’s word! 5 The Sovereign God proclaims to these bones: I am about to put breath in you, and you will live again. 6 I will put sinews on you, place flesh on you, and cover you with skin. When I put breath in you, and you come to life, you will know that I am the Sovereign God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7 I prophesied just as I was commanded. There was a great noise as I was prophesying, then a great quaking, and the bones came together, bone by bone. 8 When I looked, suddenly there were sinews on them. The flesh appeared, and then they were covered over with skin. But there was still no breath in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
9 God said to me, \u201cProphesy to the breath; prophesy, human one! Say to the breath, The Sovereign God proclaims: Come from the four winds, breath! Breathe into these dead bodies and let them live.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Listen to the service here<\/a>. (Note: The first part of the service is cut off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Listen to the sermon here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n