Order of Service / Transfiguration Sunday / March 2, 2025

*Gathering Hymn Let All Things Now Living (#242 VU)

Welcome& Land Acknowledgement

Lighting the Christ Candle

Call to Worship

One: We are a community called by grace.

All: We are a community summoned to pray andpraise.

One: We are a community commissioned to compassion and mercy.

All: We are the Body of Christ.

One: Let us worship and live as God’s faithful people.

*Frances Flook, Gathering ACE 2024-2025. Page 53.

Opening Prayer

*Opening Hymn We Have Come at Christ’s Own Bidding(#104 VU)

Prayer of Confessional and Renewal (Unison)

Loving God, we confess that though we call ourselves your people, we often fail to live as faithful disciples. We speak of making a difference, yet we turn away from the needs of those around us. We claim to care for your creation, but our actions harm the world you have entrusted to us. We say we love our neighbours, yet we overlook those in need of kindness and compassion. Forgive us, O God, and awaken in us a renewed commitment to your truth, that we may see, hear, and respond with love. (a time of silent confession) Amen.

Words of Assurance

One: God is full of love and mercy. God forgives us and makes us new.

All: In Christ, we are restored and called to live with love. Amen.

Announcements and Minute for Mission

Prayer for Illumination

Proclaiming the Scriptures

Exodus 34:29-35 Moses is radiant as he comes down the mountain.

Psalm 99 (VU p.819) God rules and delights in justice.

Luke 9:28-36 Jesus is transfigured upon the mountain.

This is the Good News from the Bible.

  Thanks be to God.

Anthem

Sermon

*HymnHow Good, Lord, to Be Here (#103 VU)

*Offering

*Offertory Hymn(#540 VU | Grant Us, God, the Grace)

Grant us, God, the grace of giving, with a spirit large and free,

That ourselves and all our living we may offer faithfully.

*Offertory Prayer (Unison)

Loving God, just as you have blessed your peoplein days gone by and blessed those who haveworshipped in this congregation for generationsbefore us, we, too, have been blessed with avariety of time, talents, and treasures. From you comes all that we are and all that wecan be.We ask that you receive our response as our giftback to you.Take and mould us as servants and disciples.Amen.

*Beth W Johnston. Gathering ACE 2024-2025. Page 50.

Prayers of the People and Lord’s Prayer

*Closing Hymn Go Forth for God(#418 VU)

*Commissioning

One: We have all been called.

All: Not just a select few!Not just the professionally religious!

One: The call is for all Christians.

All: So, as we go from this time of worship, let us payattention, let us seek God’s guidance, and thenlet us live our lives in response to God’s call.Amen.

*Beth W Johnston. Gathering ACE 2024-2025. Page 54.

*Commissioning Song Walk with Me(#649VU|Refrain)

Walk with me, I will walk with you and build the land that God has planned where love shines through (x2)

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