Worship Service 

February 21, 2021, Lent One

News and Announcements
 
Prelude
Lighting of Candle
HYMN:  # 108 VU Throughout these Lenten Days and Nights
 
Call To Worship
Loving God, you are our companion on this challenging pandemic journey, and we will trust you.
As we search for a new routine, a fresh daily way, you calm us.
You are our companion and we will trust you.
As we keep in steady contact with family members and friends, you reassure us.
You are our companion and we will trust you.
As we are present to those who are anxious, lonely, and frail, you support us.
You are our companion and we will trust you.
As we find strength in a faith community changed but inspired, you rejoice with us. Amen.
 
Opening Prayer (based on Psalm 25)
Prayer Of Confession  (based on Psalm 25)
Words of Assurance
COMING TOGETHER, Introduce our Lenten Garden of Habits
Steadfast - "You are Here"
 
Reading from Scripture:
Psalm 25:1-10
Mark 1:9-15
We respond:
In ages past, disciples, prophets, priests and historians wrote down their faith. 
This is a faithful witness of our ancestors. 
Word of God for us today.
Thanks be to God.
 
Sermon Renewing habits for 40 days:  CONFESSION.
 Singing: VU 105 Dust and Ages
 
TEARS EXERCISE
Doxology:  MV197 v1-2
 
Offering:
 
Prayer of the People
The Lord’s Prayer
Singing:  MV 144 Like a Healing Stream

Commissioning
God’s hand is offered to us.
Much like a child takes the hand of a parent,
we can take God’s hand and move forward in the assurance that we are not alone.
We are held up by a strength greater than our own.
Thanks be to God for this good news. Amen.
 
Singing: MV 216 Wherever You May Go
 Postlude
Today’s prayers were written (or inspired by) Susan Lukey, David Sparks, Gord Dunbar, Beth W Johnston and Juanita Austin.  They are used with permission and taken from Gathering, Lent/Easter 2021.