The light is lit. recommend to the Annual Meeting. To help inform our discussion we will have a special study evening on Monday, Feb 6 at 7pm to look at these statements and the issues involved. Please come and bring your questions and perspectives. Leader: Let us pray: Lenten Study: This year we will be using the book "The Last Week" by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan. It takes us through Holy Week day by day. We will meet on Wednesdays during Lent at 7pm beginning March 7. Please sign up so we have enough books. God of light and life, we thank you for the gift of this new day and for the

1. MINUTE FOR MISSON
The young man was filled with remorse and a sense of worthlessness. Sitting in the
circle of a KAIROS Marathon, an innovative program for offenders, he is given an
opportunity to share his story. Volunteers and inmates listen with care. Together they
seek truth, share pain, and help him reconcile with himself, others, and God. The circle Order of Worship for
is a group spiritual process offered by the Christian Council for Reconciliation at the
Springhill Institution in Nova Scotia. OROMOCTO & PINE GROVE
Later the young man continues toward healing and hope at St. Luke’s Renewal Centre, UNITED CHURCH
a retreat centre on the grounds of the Springhill Institution, built and staffed by the
council. He is welcomed into a retreat of silence and peace where he can leave the nega-
tivity of the prison behind. Here, with others, he can name his pain, weep for the grief
he has caused, seek the image of God within, and find the strength to begin anew. We welcome everyone to this time together in worship. We gather in this church in the
The council also offers strength to the family members of inmates. A young woman belief that we are all equally God’s guests whether we’ve been here all our lives or this
makes a five-hour drive with three children under age seven. Her situation is even more is our first time. We welcome everyone in this spirit of Christ as it is our belief that this
difficult because her partner is incarcerated and she is trying to make it on her is how we are to live. Everyone, without exception, belongs equally at God’s table.
own. There is not a lot of money left for even phone calls, let alone for visits to the
prison. Finally arriving in Springhill, exhausted and worried, she finds a warm welcome If you are visiting with us please sign our guest book opposite the usher’s table. If you
at Springhouse. In the homey kitchen the anxiety of the journey begins to lessen and are new with us and wish a follow up contact please fill out a ‘Guest/New Member
warmth fills her heart.
Card which can be found with the guest book. As well you may pick up an orientation
package on the table in the entrance. We invite visitors from other churches to pick up
Your gifts to the Mission and Service Fund enable the Christian Council for Recon-
one of our Peace Candles to take home with you. An explanation of this symbol
ciliation to continue its ministry of supporting, nurturing, and engaging inmates and
accompanies each candle and these can be found on the usher’s table.
their families in the journey of reconciliation.
Should you require a rest room it is at the end of the hall and it is equipped with a baby
change station. If you have young children who become restless there is a nursery
Together, we carry out the work of our United Church. Make a behind the back pew where they can play while you hear the service over the speakers.
difference! Join the partnership! Support the work of the Mission You are welcome to bring a coffee into worship with you. The coffee pot is in the
and Service Fund today. entrance.
*While we stand for most hymns and at others times in our worship, please feel free
not to if for any reasons you can not or would rather not. VU stands for Voices United
and MV for More Voices. You are also invited to pick up a Bible version of your choice
Minister Rev Robert McDowell at usher’s desk. Should you have any concerns please speak to an usher.
Accompanist/ Choir Director Joyce Andrews VU: Voices United – our hard cover red hymn book
Office Administration Jennifer Chiasson MV: More Voices – our soft covered hymn book
Rev Bob McDowell
Oromocto United Church Office 357-3423; Cell 470-1155; Home 488-2154
144 Winnebago
Email: mcdowell@nb.sympatico.ca
Oromocto
oromoctopinegroveunitedchurch.ca
January 29, 2012
10:30 am

2. SERVICE Announcements
Announcements: Dates to Note:
Annual Reports are due ASAP.
Welcome and About Today: Jan 30, Monday, 7pm, Remit Study
Jan 31, Tuesday, 6:30, Church Council
Feb 5, Sunday, Baptism Jacob and Allison Allaby
*Introit: VU 87, verse 1 Feb 8, Wednesday, 6pm, Worship Leadership Team Meeting
Feb 12, Restorative Justice Sunday and Workshop and Pot Luck
Leader: May the Peace which passes all understanding be with you! Feb 19, Communion Sunday
Feb 16, Thursday, 7pm, Session
Feb 19, Annual Reports available
All: And also with you!
Feb 26, Annual Meeting Sunday, finger food pot luck
Feb 29, Wed, 6pm, Membership and Pastoral Care Team Meeting
Leader: In this season of ‘light’ we acknowledge that light is our symbol of
God's goodness and of all that is created. We celebrate the light of the Restorative Justice Sunday, Feb 12. We will be hosting a special Sunday on this theme that is
world. offering hope for new approaches to restoring people to proper relationships in society when
thing go awry. Christina Farnsworth will be our guest speaker and workshop leader as we
engage this topic with the intent of creating awareness and appreciation for how the restora-
Lighting the Resurrection Candle and Lighting our Peace Candle: tive justice approach can represent a more faithful response to crime and punishment. The
workshop will begin at about 12 noon. Please invite neighbours and friends to both or just the
Leader: Let us place among us this candle. Let us light it and let it stand as
workshop. Of course they are welcome to join us for lunch.
a beacon calling us from darkness and warfare to light and peace.
Bible Study this winter will be on Mark’s gospel. We will be meeting Thursday afternoon from
All: God who created light that your children might walk in light and live 1:30-3:00. Please bring a friend!
an abundant life, we dedicate this candle in faith and in hope that even
Special Study Evening: The UCC is asking the question of just how inclusive can we be. There
now the nations might choose to walk in light and put aside warfare and exists a wide range of belief in the church. If we think of this range as a continuum the ques-
killing. tion is how much of it can be accommodated within our official statements. To that end three
statements of faith are being suggested to add to our Basis of Union, the statement of faith
that formed the UCC in 1925. It is the Session that has to vote on this question and to that end
Leader: We again dedicate ourselves to the ministry of Peacemaking in the
is hosting a special study evening Monday Jan 30 and everyone is invited.
name of the God who brings true Peace.
Reverse Offering papers are in the offering plates. These are items the food bank especially
All: We declare ourselves again in opposition to war and killing, in the needs. If you wish you can select one and bring that item next week.
name of the Lord of life.
Please sign up to help lead in worship by lighting the candle, reading scripture or some of the
other roles. Signup sheets are in the Narthex [entrance].
Leader: We denounce war as a final rupture of the human family and viola-
tion of God's will for our lives. Snow Day Cancellation Plan. From time to time it is predictable the weather will dictate there
is wisdom in cancelling our church services machine. If Oromocto is cancelled we will decide
Leader: Let us seek the ways of security that hold promise for life and last- by 8 a.m. We will also try to put it on the website, send out an email and ask the radio stations
to broadcast our cancellation. You can also check the office number 357-3423 and a message
ing peace.
should be there if service is cancelled. Should the power be off due to a winter storm you can
safely assume cancellation.
All: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace!
Leader: Peace be with you!
All: And also with you!

3. SERVICE SERVICE
Our Offering Presented [vs 1 #603 VU] *Our Hymn to Begin: VU 670, Precious Lord Jesus
Joyful Joyful Lord we give you and the food offering collected and presented by the children
Gifts that You may use this day
Take them, Bless them, may Your Kingdom Our Prayer for This Time Together
Spread to all the world we pray.
Here we are, our time our talents Our Children’s Hymn: MV 48, I Can Feel You Near Me God
We now dedicate as well.
May we show Christ’s love within us Some Time with the Children
By our lives of faith to tell.
Our Prayer and our Lord’s Prayer
Our Prayers of Thanks and Concern and the Lord’s Prayer The children leave to reconvene downstairs
Our Hymn to Leave With: VU 586, We Shall Go Out With… Our Children’s Hymn: MV 48,vs 1 again, I Can Feel You Near Me God
Our Benediction: Our Reading from the Christian Scriptures, Mark 1:21-28, Shirley Dubois
Our Choral Blessing
Go make a difference, We can make a difference Lighting Our Candle of Concern
Go make a difference in the World
Go make a difference, We can make a difference Our Hymn: VU 359, He Came Singing Love
Go make a difference in the World
A Message for Today
Rev Bob will be joining the children after the message today
Anthem:
*Our Words of Faith, page 918 VU [standing]
Lighting Our Candle of Concern:
Our Prayer of Concern
A Minute for Mission
Our Offering Collected