Order of Worship

 March 14th, 2021 

Fourth Sunday of Lent – Laetare Sunday 

Service Notes and Announcements 

 

Hymns 

187		We Have Come At Christ's Own Bidding
336		Kyrie Eleison
681		We Have Heard A Joyful Sound
339		Mighty Hands

 

Scriptures 

Judges 11   

 

Sermon: Messy People, Merciful God, Week 4 – Dark Times (Jephthah) 

 

Announcements 

• Today is Spring Forward… and you are not late to worship!  😊   

• In some Church circles, this is known as Laetare (lay-TARE-ay) Sunday, as the fourth Sunday of Lent comes just 21 days before Easter – the end is in sight!  In denominations where strict fasts were observed and other celebrations (such as weddings) forbidden, on this Sunday they would be allowed.  Priests may wear rose-coloured vestments, as on Gaudete Sunday (the Sunday of Joy) during Advent.     

• We continue to be cautious regarding re-opening for public worship again –please pray for wisdom and discernment as we consider the question.   

• Limehouse Session meets on Thursday at 7:00. 

• The Weekly Check-in with Rev. Steve on Zoom is held on Tuesdays at 3:00.  You can use this link if you wish to access the Zoom room (and any who wish to check in from Limehouse are also welcome!).  

• The Bible Study on the Epistle to the Hebrews has begun again!  We continue into Chapter 8 – this meeting is also on Zoom, and you can click on these words to activate the link to join in!   

• Thank you to everyone who has already contributed to the Easter Basket Brigade grocery card campaign – for those who have not yet given them in, please have the cards or the cash to the church or to Rev. Steve by March 25th.   

• Anna McNiven, a member of the Knox congregation for the past 74 years, passed on Monday, March 8th.  Her funeral was this past Friday.   

• Easter will be celebrated on Sunday, April 4th.  Everyone is invited to view our Good Friday service on April 2nd as well.  There will NOT be a Maundy Thursday service this year.   

• Thanks, as always, to everyone for your continued support of the work and ministry of our congregations!  Please remember that you can mail in your offering or, for the case of Knox folks, contribute through Canada Helps, starting at www.knoxgeorgetown.com/index.php/donations  

 

February 28, 2021, Order of Worship

 

Second Sunday of Lent

Service Notes and Announcements

Hymns

196		Throughout These Lenten Days and Nights
video		Wade In The Water
336		Kyrie Eleison
687		Blessed Assurance

 

Scriptures

     Judges 4 

 

Sermon: Messy People, Merciful God, Week 2 – Expect the Unexpected (Deborah)

 

Announcements

·       We continue to be cautious regarding re-opening for public worship again –please pray for wisdom and discernment as we consider the question. 

·       The Weekly Check-in with Rev. Steve on Zoom is held on Tuesdays at 3:00.  You can use this link if you wish to access the Zoom room (and any who wish to check in from Limehouse are also welcome!).

·       The Bible Study on the Epistle to the Hebrews has begun again!  We continue into Chapter 8 – this meeting is also on Zoom, and you can click on these words to activate the link to join in! 

·       Our music video today is a recording of “Wade In the Water” by the gospel acapella group Sweet Honey From the Rock

·       Thank you to everyone who has already contributed to the Easter Basket Brigade grocery card campaign – for those who have not yet given them in, please have the cards or the cash to the church or to Rev. Steve by March 25^th. 

·       Those wishing to contribute to the Limehouse Drive Shed repairs, please make any cheques out to the Limehouse PC Building Fund. 

·       Next Sunday, March 7^th, we will celebrate Communion together.  Please remember to bring your elements to your time of worship next Sunday!

·       The World Day of Prayer service is this coming Friday, the first Friday of March.  It will be done over Zoom, and it has been discovered that you don’t need a camera or a microphone in order to simply listen in!  The link is available on the sheet that was sent out with the announcements, and it should be very interesting as the nation that prepared the service is the island of Vanuatu, in the New Hebrides island chain, northeast of Australia!  The service starts at 7:30, and everyone is welcome to join in! (see attached announcement!)

·       Ilean Hancock was known to many in the congregation, although she had not been a member of any specific congregation for some time.  She passed last Sunday and her funeral was this past Friday, co-conducted by Peter Barrow and myself. 

·       Thanks, as always, to everyone for your continued support of the work and ministry of our congregations!  Please remember that you can mail in your offering or, for the case of Knox folks, contribute through Canada Helps, starting at www.knoxgeorgetown.com/index.php/donations

An update for all...

Dear Friends, Recently we've had a few rumors and misinformation circulating around the community, suggesting that Limehouse Presbyterian Church is closing. Nothing could be further from the truth. Like all other places of worship, we are still closed under the shutdown created by the Province of Ontario’s state of emergency, and will remain so until notified otherwise. I’m sorry for those who were concerned, and feared that the church was closing. I will continue to monitor this website and keep you posted on any new developments. In the meantime, look after each other, be safe, and pick up the phone and call a friend. We will all get through this pandemic together. 

 Sincerely, in God’s name, 

 Ted Brown, 

 Clerk of Session, 

 Limehouse Presbyterian Church

A letter of Encouragement for all.... April 01, 2020

April 1, 2020
Good day to one and all!
I hope everyone is keeping as well as can be expected during this time of crisis.  I know many are chafing at the restrictions, but I hope we can all understand that this time will come to an end!  The word from the medical officials all over the media is that this week, the first week of April, will be the critical week in “flattening the curve”, because in theory it will be the week in which everyone who was infected two weeks ago will be reaching the end of the worst of their illness and, by extension, the worst time of their ability to infect others!  However, we will still be “locked in place”, more or less, for at least a couple more weeks.  
This, of course, means that the church will not be open for Easter, something that I believe has happened only once in its history – in 1919, when the Spanish Flu epidemic caused churches to be closed.  Dawn Livingstone has sent over a wonderful article that was written a few years ago regarding the closure of Knox Church during that epidemic, and I imagine Limehouse’s experience was much the same!  I will still be recording and broadcasting services on Good Friday morning and on Easter Sunday itself, and I am exploring the theology of “communion with us all in our homes”, thanks to an item that has been circulated by the PCC!
Building Fund Sunday was supposed to be the last Sunday of April, but it looks as though we may be closed until at least the first Sunday of May, so this will have to be reconsidered by Session and the Board alike.  
Memorial Sunday was to be the last Sunday of May, but Session has resolved that it would be best if we combined its celebration with that of our 159th Anniversary in September!  More details on this decision will come out as time goes on.  
Donations and offerings to the church can still be made by mailing your offering envelopes to Bill Karn.  While we have been able to make all of our commitments to date, again, we don’t know how long this will last.  
Lastly, I hope those of you with computer access are able to enjoy the devotions and Sunday worship services being posted on Knox’s YouTube channel.  If you haven’t tuned in yet and have lost the link, you can find it at :  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9L5NMnLIPCcIPDz7LmvT8A or by searching for “Knox Presbyterian Church Georgetown” on the YouTube site itself.
Please don’t hesitate to contact either myself, your elder, or someone else from the congregation if you have a need, either pastoral or purchasable, and we can help you with it.  
God is with us in this time of trial, and we will get through it by being His Church – not in the building, but in our hearts and in our lives! 
Sincerely, 


Rev. Steve