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Danforth Mennonite Church
June 9, 2024  11:00 a.m.
Order of Service

Land Acknowledgement

Welcome

Call to Worship

Hymn VT #182   I sing the mighty power of God

Announcements

Offering

Hymn:   VT #365   Lord, I lift your name on high

Congregational Prayer (VT #996)

Scripture:  Genesis 1:1-31    John 1: 1-14

Hymn:  VT #177 All things bright and Beautiful

Message: Eco-Spirituality in Action

Hymn of Response: VT #436   Oh Lord, my God

Benediction

 

Leading Us in Worship
Message                             Michael V. D.
Worship Leader             Linda D.
Song Leader                     Kathy W.
Musicians                          Jessica M. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                             Dalton & Carol J.
Zoom Host                        Bonnie W.
A/V Technician               Mike D.

Hymn of the month:  VT #365  Lord, I lift your name on high

Our speaker

Michael V. D. is an Anglican Deacon from the Church of St. Aidan on Queen St. East. He is a member of St. Aidan’s Eco-Spirituality group, the Anglican Social Justice and Advocacy Committee and a member of the Faith and Climate Action Coalition, a multi-faith group which is working to address climate change from a faith perspective. He has a decades-long commitment to environmental and climate advocacy recently involving keeping the Greenbelt free from development. He is currently working with Faith and Climate Action to persuade the Royal Bank of Canada to stop its huge investments in fossil fuel developments. (He has been pleased to work with Murray L. on many projects involving advocacy and climate action.)

Adult Discussion Group

Judi will be leading the conversation.

Baby and Bathwater:

Please read the Chapter entitled, 96 Images – but Who’s Counting (p21-24).

Call to Worship

Leader: In the beginning when it was very quiet, the Word was with God.

All: And the Word was God.

Leader: In the beginning when it was very dark, God said, “Let there be light”,

All: And there was light.

Leader: When the time was right, God sent the Son.

All: Christ came among us and was one of us.

Scripture Reading

Genesis 1:1-31 (NRSVUE)

Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath
1 When God began to create the heavens and the earth, ² the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. ³ Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. ⁴ And God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. ⁵ God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

⁶ And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” ⁷ So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so. ⁸ God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

⁹ And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. ¹⁰ God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. ¹¹ Then God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so. ¹² The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good. ¹³ And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

¹⁴ And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, ¹⁵ and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. ¹⁶ God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. ¹⁷ God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth, ¹⁸ to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

²⁰ And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.” ²¹ So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good. ²² God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” ²³ And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

²⁴ And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.” And it was so. ²⁵ God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind and the cattle of every kind and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good.

²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the wild animals of the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”

²⁷ So God created humans in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

²⁸ God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” ²⁹ God said, “See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. ³⁰ And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. ³¹ God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

John 1: 1-14 (NRSVUE)

The Word became flesh
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was in the beginning with God. ³ All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being ⁴ in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. ⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.

⁶ There was a man sent from God whose name was John. ⁷ He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. ⁸ He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. ⁹ The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, yet the world did not know him. ¹¹ He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. ¹² But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, ¹³ who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.

DANFORTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Ladies Walking group

We will not be walking on June 11.

Summer Hours will
commence June 30.
Our Church service will be
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
There will be no Adult Class or
Hymn Sing during the summer.

Reminder:  Correction to DMC Directory
Barb’s unit # is 131

Treasurer’s Report: We received $6,422 in offerings in May. Our budget calls for $8,114 each month in offerings. Due mostly to the absence of a paid Pastor we now have a $19,011 operating surplus to the end of May.
 
In May there was $250 donated to the Benevolence Fund and there is now $351 in the fund. Our goal, as stated in the policy, is to have a minimum of $2,000 in the fund for future situations of need.
 
There was an additional $25 donation in memory of Salome H. which has been placed in the Professional Development Fund.
 
We have forwarded $400 from our Food Bank Designated Fund to the Neighbourhood Group who administer the 40 Teesdale Food Bank. Designated food bank donations through DMC are always welcome. We support the 40 Teesdale Food Bank and the Nourish East End Food Bank with these donations.
 
Donations to Danforth Mennonite Church are always welcome through Sunday morning offerings, mailed cheques or email transfers at dmmc2174@gmail.com. Please contact Roger H. if you would like to join the monthly giving program which happens through bank transfers on the 15th of each month. Thank you to all for your generous support for the work of our church.

Worship Schedule reminder

June 16
Message:                Carol O.
Worship leader   Linda D.
Song Leader          Dalton J.
Musicians              Jessica M. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                John E., Anne R.
ZOOM host          Bonnie W.
A/V Tech                Murray L.

June 23
Message:                 Pieter N.
Worship leader   Sue S.
Song Leader          Sue S.
Musicians               Roger H. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                 Vic & Mary Jane G.
ZOOM host          Bonnie W.
A/V Tech                Don B.

WIDER CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Save the Date
Joint Service and Potluck

at Willowgrove on August 17-18 from 10:30am – 4pm.
Swimming, wagon rides, games, and more. For more details
please visit willowgrove.ca.

Google Form for Joint Service & Picnic

Leah R.-K. will be offering a workshop titled: 
Tending Hope: supporting parents & caregivers
to talk about climate change

This is an interactive workshop to help people who love and care about the young people in their lives to have courageous and hopeful conversations about climate change.

Drawing on her book Tending Tomorrow: Courageous Change for People and Planet, Leah will provide practical examples and resources. Participants will also be encouraged to reflect on their own faith and wisdom traditions to think about what has sustained them to live in hope during times of adversity, and how they can share this with the young people in their lives.

https://www.willowgrove.ca/events/climate-change-workshop

Between the River and the Sea: A Lunch and Learn Conversation
with Jeff H.
June 25, 2024
12-1 p.m.
Community Room, 50 Kent Ave., Kitchener

Join the MCEC Palestine Israel Network Working Group as they welcome Jeff H., an Israeli anthropologist working to address injustice against Palestinian people. Jeff will speak for 30 minutes, leaving time for discussion.

Jeff is a founding member of the Palestinian-led One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC), will present the ODSC’s program for replacing Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory with a democratic state of equal rights for all – including the returning refugees. This, he argues, is the only substantially just way forward, but it is strewn with complex and difficult issues we will discuss.

More Information

The constituency-based MCEC Palestine Israel Network Working Group serves the MCEC constituency by promoting awareness and education on specific issues and topics. The information and links are those of the Working Group and do not necessarily represent MCEC as a whole.

Mennonite Church Canada Annual General Meeting
Saturday, June 22, 12:00-1:30 p.m. Central time
Online – Zoom

Join our nationwide community of faith for Mennonite Church Canada’s Annual General Meeting. Along with our business agenda, we will hear updates from our program directors, enjoy worship and reflect together as Joint Council members share what God has showed them over the past year. All are welcome. Agenda, information packet, audited financial statements, and registration portal coming soon.

In summary, upcoming events

 At Danforth

June
8  Men’s breakfast
11  Service for Gregory G.
11 Ladies walking group – CANCELLED
18  Ladies walking group
25 Ladies walking group – last walk until Sept.
30  Summer hours – service at 10:30 a.m.

August
17/18 Willowgrove joint service

Wider Church

June
22  Mennonite Church Canada AGM
25  Between the River and the Sea

Community corner

June
9  Pax Christi Chorale