{"id":11506,"date":"2024-04-23T10:39:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T14:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?p=11506"},"modified":"2024-04-24T08:30:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:30:50","slug":"sunday-april-21-2024-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?p=11506","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, April 21, 2024 Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To listen from here, click the links below or right-click + save link as\u2026 to download the audio file.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can listen to the service here<\/a>.
You can listen to the sermon here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read the sermon here<\/a>. <\/strong>Please note that the paragraphs in grey highlight were not included in the verbal presentation since it was too long,\u00a0but have been left in here for your interest.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worship Leader: <\/strong>Melana Janzen
Speaker:<\/strong> Shannon Neufeldt
Song Leader:<\/strong> Jeff Taylor
Pianist: <\/strong>Mark Andrews
Ushers:<\/strong> Jeff Taylor\/ Doreen Martens
Tech Team (In-Person \/ Online):<\/strong> Ryan Janzen\/ Jonah Thiessen
Coffee: <\/strong>Sherry and David Nelligan
Activity Period: <\/strong>Kathryn Gray<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pre-Service <\/strong>– Opening Prelude and Slide Show
Gathering Hymns<\/strong>
VT6 <\/strong>Let\u2019s Walk Together
VT179 <\/strong>At the Dawn of Your Creation
Welcome, Introductions, & Land Acknowledgement<\/strong>
Call to worship:<\/strong> Peace Candle VT1006
Joys & Concerns <\/strong>\/ Prayer of Lament
Imagining Futures<\/strong>
VT205<\/strong> Light Dawns on a Weary World
Blessing of the Bikes<\/strong> – Peter Haresnape
VT762<\/strong> This Little [Bike] of Mine
Scripture Reading <\/strong>– 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Time with the Children<\/strong> – Laura Giesbrecht
Giving with Gratitude<\/strong>
VT750 <\/strong>God of Fertile Fields
Scription Reading <\/strong>– Creation Poem
Sermon <\/strong>
Sermon Response<\/strong>
VT571<\/strong> Oh God, We Read the Holy Law
Announcements and Planning for Photo for Gaza Pilgrimage
Benediction\/Sending
Closing Postlude and Slide Show
Congregational Photo for Gaza<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scripture
2 Corinthians 5:16-21<\/strong>
16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view;* even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view,* we know him no longer in that way. 17So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; 19that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself,* not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us. 20So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we mark Earth Day with both lament and hope. Lament for what we have done to our planet through our greed; hope for the many actions and people who are striving to make a difference following the way of Jesus. <\/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-11506","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\/11506","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=11506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11514,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506\/revisions\/11514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}