GRIEVING WHAT MAY BE LOST – A Prayer for Many Voices
Note: Each paragraph will be read by a different pray-er, hopefully scattered throughout the worship spaceOK God, I think we all know that something new has to come.It has been too long waiting, we need a re-birth of our economy.And yet we want it to be the same basic model,an economy we know and find comfortable.A new basis for how we work may leave some people behind,it may mean that jobs we once took for granted no longer exist,it may mean that new skills and new realities need to be learned.And that frightens and worries us.That fear and worry may blind us to the new birth that is possible.God who crea

For November 29, 2009 -- 1st Sunday of Advent
CALL TO WORSHIPThe day is coming, it is getting nearer.Soon a baby will be born, soon the world will be changed.We await the day with hope and joy. We wait for the child with nervousness and wonder.Come let us wait for the child together,Let us worship God who gives lifeLet us pray…OPENING PRAYER God we await the coming of Christ with hope-filled hearts,the birth of a child, the birth of a new world.God we await the coming birth with wondering hearts,wondering what changes that birth will bring to our lives.

November 11 Prayer of Invocation
God of many names, another year has come and gone. Once again we gather in this place on the 11th of the 11th. Once again we pause to remember the fallen, young men and women from many different lands who answered the call of their country and never returned.God of peace, just as the guns fell silent on this day so many years ago, allowing people to hear the sounds of hope and promise again, may our hearts be quieted this hour. And in that silence may we hear the screams of the dead and dying. In that silence may we hear you calling us anew to a world of peace and justice.God of life, in this time of prayer and song and memory awaken us to your life-giving presen

For the Last 4 Sundays of Ordinary TIme 2009
OPENING PRAYER Creating and re-creating God, you have called us together in this place,move among our gathering, opening our hearts and souls to your presence.We have come here to be refreshed and renewed,so that we can go from here as lights to the world.In our time of worship this morning,awaken in us a vision of what is possible in the world.We pray in the name and memory of Jesus who taught his friends to pray together with these words…PRAYER OF CONFESSION/ASSURANCE OF PARDONGod, you have called us to be forward-looking people of vision,and we confess that

New Beginnings -- A Pageant Service (comments welcome)
Speaking Parts:Narrator/LiturgistBetty: older woman, recently widowed and alone for Christmas (this part could easily be changed into a male role with a few re-writes)Miriam: single mother, currently staying at a shelterSetting: Church, day of the Annual Christmas PageantWelcome & Announcements (narrator)Opening Carol: Children Run Joyfully {during this carol Betty and Miriam enter and take seats on opposite sides of the Chancel}Betty: I do love Christmas. And this is one of my favourite Sundays of the year. Seeing all the little ones dressed up like shepherds and angel