{"id":10500,"date":"2023-09-12T08:47:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T12:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?p=10500"},"modified":"2023-09-12T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:37:17","slug":"sunday-september-10-2023-gathering-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?p=10500","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, September 10, 2023 Gathering Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Worship Leader: <\/strong>Elizabeth Loewen
Speaker:<\/strong> Michele Rizoli
Song Leader:<\/strong> Geoff Wichert
Pianist:<\/strong> Audrey Wichert
Ushers: <\/strong>Tobi and Harold Thiessen
Tech Team (In-Person \/ Online):<\/strong> Jon Brandt\/ Stephanie Hanna
Coffee:<\/strong> Carolyn and Bob Loewen
Activity Period: <\/strong>Laura Giesbrecht<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gathering Music:<\/strong>
VT 6 <\/strong>\u2013 Let\u2019s Walk Together
VT 111<\/strong> \u2013 10, 000 Reasons\/Bless the Lord
Welcome and Announcements<\/strong>
Land Acknowledgement<\/strong>
Call to Worship<\/strong>
Prayer<\/strong>
Hymn: VT 1<\/strong> \u2013 Summoned by the God who made us
Children’s Story: <\/strong>Grade 3 Book presentation
Prayer:<\/strong> Blessing for Teachers (Lori Unger)
Giving with Gratitude<\/strong>
Hymn: VT 701 <\/strong>– You are all we have
Congregational Prayer<\/strong>
Hymn: VT 719<\/strong> – Jesus help us live in peace
Scripture:<\/strong>
Psalm 119: 8-10
Romans 12<\/strong>
Sermon<\/strong>
Benediction<\/strong>
Closing Hymn: VT 812<\/strong> – Sent forth by God\u2019s Blessing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scripture
Psalm 119: 8-10<\/strong>
8 I will observe your statutes;
do not utterly forsake me.
9 How can young people keep their way pure?
By guarding it according to your word.
10 With my whole heart I seek you;
do not let me stray from your commandments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romans 12<\/strong>
I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God\u2014what is good and acceptable and perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgement, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 4For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, 5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. 6We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith; 7ministry, in ministering; the teacher, in teaching; 8the exhorter, in exhortation; the giver, in generosity; the leader, in diligence; the compassionate, in cheerfulness.
9 Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; 10love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honour. 11Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord. 12Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. 13Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. 15Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. 16Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be wiser than you are. 17Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. 18If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. 19Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, \u2018Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.\u2019 20No, \u2018if your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink; for by doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads.\u2019 21Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Worship Leader: Elizabeth LoewenSpeaker: Michele RizoliSong Leader: Geoff WichertPianist: Audrey WichertUshers: Tobi and Harold ThiessenTech Team (In-Person \/ Online): Jon Brandt\/ Stephanie HannaCoffee: Carolyn and Bob LoewenActivity Period: Laura Giesbrecht Gathering Music:VT 6 \u2013 Let\u2019s Walk TogetherVT 111 \u2013 10, 000 Reasons\/Bless the LordWelcome and AnnouncementsLand AcknowledgementCall to WorshipPrayerHymn: VT 1 \u2013 Summoned by the God who made usChildren’s Story: Grade 3 Book presentationPrayer: Blessing for Teachers (Lori Unger)Giving with GratitudeHymn: VT 701 – You are all we haveCongregational PrayerHymn:…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons-a-worship-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10505,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10500\/revisions\/10505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}