How do we read and live in response to Scripture? (Incorporating the Sacrament of Baptism)
Also Back to School Sunday.
Entry of choir & minister
Welcome and Intimations (session clerk)
Choir Introit (Bible is placed in pulpit) Today I awake (CH4)
Call to worship
Hymn Be Thou my vision (MP 51)
Prayer and Lord’s Prayer
Baptism (with Sung Blessing — The Lord Bless you and Keep you)
Hymn Baptised in water (CH4)
Offering uplifted by duty team
Offering dedicated by minister, then children leave for ‘young church’
Anthem — Is it spooky? (CH4)
Reading/s 2 Timothy 3:10-17 Matthew 14:22-33
Hymn Lord you sometimes speak in wonders (CH4 606)
TODAYS MESSAGE
Hymn Spirit of God unseen as the wind (CH4 600)
Prayers of intercession
Hymn Lord for the Years your love has kept and guided (MP 428)
Benediction and three-fold amen (Sung)
Sung Blessing– May God’s blessing surround you each day
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