Order of Service / Thanksgiving Sunday / October 11, 2026

 # Gathering Hymn For the Fruit of All Creation (#227 VU)

Welcome & Land Acknowledgement

Lighting the Christ Candle

Call to Worship

One: Welcome, family of God!

  All: God has visited the earth and watered it.

One: God has provided the people with grain and crowned the year with overflowing bounty.

  All: The earth has yielded its increase, God; our God has blessed us!

One: Let us give thanks and praise to God!

*Anne Mathewson. Gathering Pentecost 2 2026. Page 42.

Opening Prayer

*Opening Hymn As Those of Old Their First-fruits Brought (#518 VU)

Prayer of Confessional and Renewal (Unison)

Forgive us, Gracious God, for our reluctance to share and our easy acceptance of the way things are. Forgive us for the irreverent ways we treat your gifts and the way we take what we have for granted. We trust in your mercy as we seek to be merciful to others. We trust in your forgiveness as we seek to forgive others. We trust in your love as we seek to love others. In silence, we bring to you our own confessions and our hope for a new beginning. (a time of silent confession) Amen.

*Robin Wardlaw. Gathering Pentecost 2 2017. Page 44.

Words of Assurance

One: To all who turn from sin in sorrow, to all who turn to God in hope, this is God’s word of grace:

  All: we are accepted, we are forgiven, we are loved. 

One: This gift we have from God.

  All: Thanks be to God.

*Celebrate God’s Presence, Page 43.

Announcements and Minute for Mission

Time for God’s Children (Hymn – Like a Rock, #92 MV)

Like a rock, like a rock, God is under our feet

Like the starry night sky, God is over our head

Like the sun on the horizon, God is ever before

Like the river runs to ocean, our home is in God evermore.

Prayer for Illumination

Proclaiming the Scriptures

2 Corinthians 9:6-15 God loves a cheerful giver.

Psalm 65 (VU p.782) God provides; the valleys shout and sing.

Luke 17:11-19 Ten healed; one returns to offer thanks.

This is the Good News from the Bible.

  Thanks be to God.

Sermon

*Hymn God Who Gives to Life Its Goodness (#260 VU)

*Offering

*Offertory Hymn (#542 VU, We Give You But Your Own)

We give you but your own, whate’er the gift may be,

all that we have is yours alone, we give it gratefully.

*Offertory Prayer (Unison)
 Giver of Great Gifts, we pray surrounded by family, friends, and neighbours. We bring our offerings to celebrate the goodness of community and all that being community entails. We lift up our hearts in gratitude to become part of the gift that we give. This we pray with sincerity and hope. Amen.

*Jim Mckean. Gathering Pentecost 2 2017. Page 43.

Prayers of the People and Lord’s Prayer

*Closing Hymn We Plough the Fields (#520 VU)

*Commissioning

One: As we leave this time of worship, may gratitude shape the way we live.

All: May we receive God’s gifts with thankful hearts and share them with care.

One: May we notice the needs around us, honour the goodness of creation, and make room for one another.

  All: With Christ beside us and the Spirit guiding us, we will live with generosity, hope, and love. Amen.

*Commissioning Song Peace Be with You (#215 MV)

Peace be with you, peace forever, peace be with you my friends.

Till we meet again, may God be with you. Peace, peace, peace.

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