This document provides an order of service for a joint worship service between two United churches celebrating the Third Sunday of Creation Time. The service includes hymns, prayers, scripture readings from Isaiah and Romans, a children's time, offering, prayers of the people, and a sermon titled "Holy Mountains". The service focuses on God's presence in creation and mountains as places of holy encounters with God.

1. Joint Worship Service with
Oriole-York Mills United Church and
Centennial-Japanese United Church
2609 Bayview Avenue, Willowdale, ON M2L 1B5
Seventeenth After Pentecost
Third Sunday of Creation Time
Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 11:00 a.m.
Praising God
Prelude "These are the Holy Ten Commandments" J.S. Bach
Welcome and Announcements
CMacLean & K Shikaze
Musical Interlude
Call to Worship
One: God called Moses to the top of Mount Sinai
All: to give humanity the Ten Commandments.
One: God called Elijah to the top of Mount Horeb
All: to give him courage to face his fears.
One: God called Jesus and three disciples to the Mount of Transfiguration
All: to reveal God’s presence and change them forever.
One: God calls us to this holy place
All: to inspire, sustain and be with us.
One: Let us give God thanks and praise!
Hymn (835) “Praise to the Lord”
Welcome Back Greetings
Opening Prayer (unison)
Creator God, this is Your wondrous world and we rejoice in Your gift of life all around us.
Today we seek to heighten our awareness of your Presence in rocks and hills and rugged
mountains. We marvel at these ancient wonders that have graced the earth for eons, long
before we were born. May the mountains become far more than majestic marvels and a joy to
ski and climb, but also living sanctuaries for holy encounters with You. Amen.
Hymn (884) “You Shall Go Out with Joy” (repeat once)
A Time with the Children
Prayer and The Lord’s Prayer (unison)
Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name,
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day, our daily bread;
And forgive us our trespasses,

2. As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory.
For ever and ever. Amen.
Hymn (884) “You Shall Go Out with Joy” (Young people are invited to go to classes.)
Prayer for Grace (unison)
God of breathless beauty, thank You for mountains that loom large on the horizon and soar
toward heaven. Grant us mountaintop perspectives that reveal Your higher truth and wisdom.
Plant our feet on solid ground that has stood the test of time. Then lead us to discover the gem
beneath our feet and the preciousness of life. May our worship renew our commitment to
preserve and protect this holy Earth, in the name of the incarnate Christ. Amen.
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Assurance of Grace
Listening for God’s Word
Solo “The Worship of God in Nature” Beethoven
Lauren-Eve Lazar
Hebrew Reading Isaiah 65:17-25
(The prophet dreams of a mountain where people and animals live in harmony and peace.)
Epistle Lesson Romans 8:28-31 and 38-39
(Nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God.)
Choir Anthem "I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes" Gordon Young
Sermon “Holy Mountains” Rev. Cindy Cooper
Hymn (289) “It Only Takes a Spark” vs. 1 & 3
Responding to God
Offertory “From Foreign Lands and People”
(Scenes of Childhood) Schumann
Dedication (tune V.U. 173)
Come, and be thankful, for what God has done.
Give from life’s abundance; share with everyone.
In this world of chaos, God’s love still shines bright,
When we seek together, Christ’s abiding light.
Come, and be thankful, for what God can do,
through these tithes and offerings, from both me and you.
(Bill Steadman)
Prayer
Prayers of the People
Hymn (264) “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise” vs. 1,2,3
Commissioning and Benediction
Choral Amen
Go with us, Lord, as now we depart,
Calming the fears that trouble each heart.
Keep us all in Your grace,
Until we come again to this place.
Now we will walk, in peace with the Lord.

3. Living in faith and teaching His Word.
Share His love ev’ry day,
For He has surely shown us the way.
A—men. A—men.
Postlude “Capriccio in D Minor” Brahms Op.116 #7
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