First Sunday of Advent (2023) | Rev. Jeff Rock | Dec. 3, 2023 | Canadian Memorial United Church

Join us on our first Sunday of Advent with Rev. Jeff Rock as we start Advent 2023 season, live streamed on December 3, 2023 at Canadian Memorial United Church. The title of this week's sermon is "It’s the end of the world as we know it… and I feel fine”. Join us for Christmas tree lighting at 7pm today. You'll be invited to light a candle with us during the service, so you may wish to get one ready now. The order of service is below. Everything else you'll need to follow along will be on the screen.

ALL ARE TRULY WELCOME here. We love newcomers! Feel free to join the live chat either below or at the top right corner of this window. We love to hear where people are tuning in from, and learning whose traditional lands they are on.

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CMUC Order of Service - Dec 3, 2023
Coordinating Minister: ​​Rev. Jeff Rock
Minister of Community Life: Rev. Cathy Merchant
Minister of Children, Youth and Families: Rev. Tama Ward
Director of Music Ministry: Jay Esplana
Musicians: Jason Nickel, Jay Leonard Juatco, Jon Holisko, Bruce McKenzie
Singers: Rose McNeil, Lindsay Warnock

Organ Prelude: Bruce McKenzie

Welcome

Land Acknowledgement

Opening Prayer

“Hope Is A Star” [VU 7] VERSE 1 ONLY
Words: Brian Wren 1985, Music: Joan Collier Fogg 1987
Words and music copyright © 1989 Hope Publishing Company
ONE LICENSE License #A-732941

Lighting of the Christ Candle

“Great Is Thy Faithfulness” [VU 288]
Words: Thomas O. Chisholm 1923, alt. Music: William M. Runyan, desc. Joachim Segger 1995
Words and music copyright © 1923, renewal 1951 Hope Publishing Company.
CCLI Licenses 11548725 & 20109504

“My Love Colours Outside The Lines” [MV 138]
Words and music by Gordon Lightfoot
© 1995 Common Cup Company
Arrangement by Jay Esplana
Permission to stream/reprint obtained from ONE LICENSE License A-732941

Announcements

Offering
Passing of the Peace

“Lean On Me”
by Bill Withers
©1972 Interior Music Corp.

Reading: Mark 13:24-37 (NRSV)

Sermon: “It’s the end of the world as we know it… and I feel fine”

“In Times Of Trouble”
Music by: Paul Zach
© 2020 Integrity's Alleluia!
CCLI Licenses 11548725 & 20109504

Prayers of the Community
Lord’s Prayer

“Like A Healing Stream” [MV 144]
by Bruce Harding
©2003 by Bruce Harding, www.evensong.ca
Permission to stream/reprint obtained from ONE LICENSE License A-732941

Blessing

“Go In Peace”
by Brian Tate
© Copyright © 2012 JEHMS, Inc. A Division of Alliance Music Publications, Inc

Organ Postlude: Buce McKenzie

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Here's the link to today's Virtual Coffee Hour or 3D Virtual Connection Circle, if you'd like to join us immediately after the service ends: https://zoom.us/j/732738581
[Tip: Press pause on the video above before joining the call!]


Blessings on your week ahead!


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Canadian Memorial United Church is a member of the United Church of Canada, and we aim to be an open-hearted, open-minded & Affirming Christian community in Vancouver, BC.
We acknowledge that we worship on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl’ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

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2nd Sunday of Adevnt: https://youtube.com/live/8cPBxXulBV8?feature=share

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