Sunday July 14, 2024
Join us this week in our July LIGHT worship series as we explore the transformative theme of showing up and truly seeing each other. Drawing from Rabbi Sharon Brous' teachings in "The Amen Effect," we reflect on the importance of genuine connection in our Christian tradition. Discover how the act of seeing each other deeply can foster empathy, understanding, and spiritual enrichment.
This Sunday, we will hear how Jesus, amidst a crushing crowd, compassionately attended to a woman in need of healing—truly seeing her in all her frailty and fullness.
With this story resonating, we continue our journey with renowned Rabbi Sharon Brous and her insightful book, “The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World.” Drawing from her rich Jewish tradition and compassionate wisdom, we are encouraged to show up for one another and truly see each other.
Because it turns out that showing up for each other’s griefs and celebrations, learning to see and be seen by each other, is indeed a sacred practice.
Music: Gordon Miller
Presider: Colleen Nichol
Lighting the Christ Candle: Richard Wey
Scripture: Mark 5: 25-34
Scripture Reader: Mahima Sylvester
Reflection reader: Marg Lunam
Prayers of the People: Karla Weir (offered by Elvira Sentes)
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Sunday service is also live-streamed from the sanctuary at 10:15am Sunday morning. Please participate, live on YouTube. The platform has the option for you to add your comments, prayers and concerns in the live chat window. You may also choose to write your prayers down, speak them aloud during the service, or send your prayer requests to us via email. Arrive at 10:15am to greet each other, then the service will begin right at 10:30am.
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Our worship each Sunday is intended to be a collective experience, a communal practice.
We might step into whatever is our sanctuary, each one of us as individuals, and yet as we assemble, from wherever we are, we become a people, drawn together through song and prayer, through word and ritual, and through the Spirit who breathes through it all, through us all.
One and the same Spirit uniting us breathing us into life!
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