DANFORTH MENNONITE CHURCH
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Danforth Mennonite Church
January 26, 2025   11:00 a.m.
Order of Service

Land Acknowledgement

Welcome

Call to Worship

Opening Hymn: VT #91    We Praise Thee O God

Announcements

Offering Prayer

Hymn: VT #714    Let there be light, O Lord

Congregational Prayer

Hymn: VT #374     There are many gifts

Scripture:  1 Corinthians 12:12-31, Luke 4:14-21

Message: The Standard of the Spirit:  Part 1

Hymn of Response: VT #839   Go Ye Now in Peace

Benediction

Leading Us in Worship
Message                             Pieter N.
Worship Leader             Linda D.
Song Leader                     Ed F.
Musician                            Kathy W. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                             Wilda S., Tessa R.
Zoom Host                        Bonnie W.
A/V Technician               Fazal S.

Hymn of the month:  VT #839   Go Ye Now in Peace

Adult Discussion Class

We live in a culture of death. This Sunday we explore the reaction to the presence of New Life. Join us. We are reading Acts (5:17-42).

If you would like to receive emails regarding what’s happening in our class, please contact Bonnie.

Call to worship

Leader: Christ is like a single body that has many parts.

All: It is still one body though every part is different.

Leader: Therefore the foot cannot say,

Men: I am not part of the body

Leader: nor can the ear say,

Women: I am not part of the body

Leader: The eye cannot say to the hand,

Men: I don’t need you,

Leader: nor can the head say to the feet,

Women: I don’t need you.

Leader: If one part suffers,

All: all parts share the pain,

Leader: if one part is praised,

All: all parts share the joy.

Leader: Together we are Christ’s body

All: each one of us is a part of it.

Offering Prayer

Leader: What will you offer the body of Christ today?

All: Bring all that you have.  Bring all that you are.

Men: The gifts of silence and the gifts of words are welcome.

Women: The gifts of leading and the gifts of following are welcome.

Men: The gifts of doubt and the gifts of faith are welcome.

Women: The gifts of the head and the gifts of the heart are welcome.

Men: The gifts of planning and the gifts of spontaneity are welcome.

All: May all that we are as individuals come together to strengthen the living body of the church, Christ Incarnate.

Scripture Reading

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Unity and Diversity in the Body
¹² Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. ¹³ For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. ¹⁴ Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

¹⁵ Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. ¹⁶ And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? ¹⁸ But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. ¹⁹ If they were all one part, where would the body be? ²⁰ As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

²¹ The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” ²² On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, ²³ and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, ²⁴ while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, ²⁵ so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. ²⁶ If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. ²⁸ And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. ²⁹ Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? ³⁰ Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? ³¹ Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.

Luke 4:14:21

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth
¹⁴ Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. ¹⁵ He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.

¹⁶ He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, ¹⁷ and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

¹⁸ “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
¹⁹     to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

²⁰ Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. ²¹ He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

 

DANFORTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Danforth Mennonite Church
Annual General meeting
February 2, 2025

Dates to note:

• printed copies upon request – will be available January 26 (Sunday before the meeting)

DMC Policy on Attending and Voting at
DMC Business and Congregation meetings

Everyone is welcome to attend the business and/or congregation meeting and participate in the discussion.  You are welcome to vote if you have been participating at DMC, and plan to continue doing so in the future.

I am updating the church directory and the birthday/anniversary list.

When you are at church, please review and initial the documents on the table outside the sanctuary that:

• Information is correct AND
• You give permission to publish.

I will contact via email those persons that don’t come in person to church.

The directory will only be distributed for those persons listed in it.

The birthday and anniversary information is used for notices in the bulletin.  I don’t put in the year unless it is requested.  We highlight (with your permission) birthdays ending in zero and five (e.g.  5. 50, 75, 80) in the church newsletter.

I am now focused on the birthday and anniversary list.

Ladies Walking group
will start up again on
January 28^th
at Taylor Creek Park.

See you in a week.

Worship Schedule reminder

February 2
Message                  Pieter N.
Worship leader   Cindy R.
Song Leader          Dalton J.
Musicians              Roger H. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                 Dalton & Carol J.
ZOOM host          Bonnie W.
A/V Tech                Don B.

Hymn Sing             our favorites

February 9
Message                  Pieter N.
Worship leader   Erma M.
Song Leader          Don B.
Musicians               Roger H. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                 Dalton & Carol J.
ZOOM host          Bonnie W.
A/V Tech                 Murray L.

Book study             Murray

WIDER CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Hope Starts at Home:

An evening with Phyllis Webstad

March 24, 2025 at 6 pm, Bingemans Conference Centre, 425 Bingemans Centre Dr, Kitchener
Join us on March 24 along with author and speaker, Phyllis Webstad, the founder and ambassador of the Orange Shirt Society. Phyllis will share her childhood of healing and reconciliation in Canada as we seek to restore justice, foster belonging and address poverty in Ontario. Funds raised at the event will supply MCC Ontario’s new meat cannery. To learn more and order your tickets, go to

mcc.org/evening-with-phyllis-webstad.

In This together presents a webinar series…Faithfully at Variance: Engaging with the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective. Webinar #2 takes place on Sunday February 2, 6pm CT. We will be discussing Queer Relationships to the Confession. Theologian and MCEC Pastor Eliot Chandler Burns will reflect on historical and current impacts of the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective on Queer Mennonites, followed by responses by Anita Fast and Nessa Schattman. For more details and to register, visit inthistogethernetwork.ca/news-and-events.

In Summary, upcoming events:

At Danforth

January
26  AGM booklet printed copies available on request
28  Ladies Walking Group – Taylor Creek Park
 
February
1  Pastor Pieter joins us as our Pastor
2  DMC AGM
4  Ladies walking group
8  Men’s breakfast
8  Messy Church
11  Ladies walking group
18  Ladies walking group
25  Ladies walking group

Wider Church

February
2  In This Together webinar

March
24  Evening with Phyllis Webstad