Welcome to our church today – we're glad that you could come.
We're honoured to share this day with you as we worship God's risen Son.
And that you leave this place today with the peace of God inside.
We give a warm welcome to one and all and to our visitor and lay reader, Rae Phillips. Rae comes to us from St. Barnabas Church in St. Lambert and we are so very pleased to have her with us today. May God bless her and our Service here today.
Never underestimate your influence in the life of another person.
We are collecting school supplies for those in need of them.
Please place your donations in the box by the Sanctuary door.
Almighty God, we are taught by Your word that all our doings without love are worth nothing. Send Your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of love, the true bond of peace and of all virtue; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
We pray for the Anglican Church of Southern Africa – the Most Reverend Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Capetown and Primate of Southern Africa.
We pray for the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and the Yukon – Archbishop Melissa Skelton and the Provincial Council.
Dear God, we ask for Your help in remembering to put on Your full armor every day, for You give us all that we need to stand firm in this world. Forgive us, God, for the times we've been unprepared, too busy to care, or trying to fight and wrestle in our own strength. Thank You that we never fight alone, for You are constantly at work on our behalf, shielding, protecting, and strengthening us. In the powerful name of Jesus. Amen.