DANFORTH MENNONITE CHURCH
416-422-2406
Pastor Stephen Reist
We welcome all guests who have joined us.
Danforth Mennonite Church
June 11, 2023
Order of Service
Land Acknowledgement
Welcome
Call to Worship
Opening Hymn: VT 31 Come, We That Love
Announcements
Offering
Offering Prayer: VT 1023
Hymn: VT 698 Somebody Prayed for Me
Congregational Prayer
Scripture: 1 Samuel 17: 20-47
Hymn: VT 428 Praise with Joy the World’s Creator
Message: Worthy of our Admiration
Closing Hymn: VT 161 I Sought the Lord
Benediction
Our theme: Think on these things
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:8–9
Leading Us in Worship
Message Margaret A.
Worship Leader Linda D.
Song Leader Sue S.
Musician Jessica M. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters Leslie S., Murray L.
Zoom Host Bonnie W.
A/V Technician Roger H.
Adult Discussion group at 10:00 a.m.
June 12 – Mr. Ryerson and Mr. Truman
June 19 – The devil
Did you do your homework?
Dear Danforth thinkers,
This week Margaret invites us to think on whatever is admirable.
So, start by brainstorming your list of the top 10 things or people you admire.
Then, choose a couple of those things you listed and consider these questions:
- a) What routines in your life support your admiration of this thing or person?
- b) If you were to have a conversation with Jesus, telling him about this thing you admire, how would that go?
It is said “we are what we love (admire)” Does that make sense to you? Does your list reflect who you are?
May God’s Spirit be at work in our minds and hearts through this exercise.
Stephen
Scripture Reading
1 Samuel 17: 20-47 (NIV)
20 Early in the morning David left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry. 21 Israel and the Philistines were drawing up their lines facing each other. 22 David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers how they were. 23 As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. 24 Whenever the Israelites saw the man, they all fled from him in great fear.
25 Now the Israelites had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel.”
26 David asked the men standing near him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
27 They repeated to him what they had been saying and told him, “This is what will be done for the man who kills him.”
28 When Eliab, David’s oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, “Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.”
29 “Now what have I done?” said David. “Can’t I even speak?” 30 He then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter, and the men answered him as before. 31 What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.
32 David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”
33 Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. 36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. 37 The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”
Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you.”
38 Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. 39 David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them.
“I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off. 40 Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.
41 Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. 42 He looked David over and saw that he was little more than a boy, glowing with health and handsome, and he despised him. 43 He said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 “Come here,” he said, “and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals!”
45 David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. 47 All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.”
DANFORTH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Make sure that you check
out the website below.
https://sowingforpeace.org
Congratulations to Jessie and Anthony on your website for Sowing for Peace. Jessie says “This will officially be complete within 2 weeks (with some major changes).” We thank you for all the work you are doing to promote peace.
Treasurer’s Report: We received $7,475 in offerings in May. $8,200 is needed each month to meet our 2023 operating budget. Our operating deficit is -$115 to the end of May.
We also received a designated donation of $100 for the 40 Teesdale Food Bank and an additional $200 directed towards our Danforth Grow Hope budget line.
Would you like to be a part of
our worship team?
For our schedule covering October through December 2023, we would like additional:
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- musicians (song leading and instruments),
- worship leaders (we provide you with resource materials)
- greeters for our lobbies
- zoom hosts
Contact Bonnie if you are interested or would like additional information.
Summer Hours will
commence July 2.
Our Church service will be
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
There will be no Adult Class or
Hymn Sing during the summer.
Would you like to join other congregations in publicly thanking Toronto fire and police services, as well as Enbridge Gas, for safely repairing the June 6th natural gas leak near Michael Garron Hospital? The date and time are not yet determined, so we're not asking for a firm commitment; just whether you would try to attend. Please contactRoger H. by Sun. June 10.
We need books for our Little Library
Our shelves are empty
An investment for you, bonus interest
for what you believe in!
Kindred Credit Union offers you a unique way to invest through Community Inspiration GIC’s. You invest in a guaranteed investment certificate (GIC) that earns a competitive interest rate and, in return, Kindred donates an additional quarter percent interest to your congregation or qualifying charity.
This offer is available for a limited time. If you are interested in investing, please contact Kindred before June 30 and consider naming Danforth Mennonite Church as the bonus interest recipient. For more information, call or visit your local branch or kndredcu.com/CI-GIC.
Ladies Walking group
On Tuesday, June 13th at 10:30 am (weather permitting), we will be at Greenvale Park. Take Kingston Road to Celeste Drive (which is about halfway between Scarborough Gold Club Road and Galloway. Go north on Celeste Drive. Turn left on to Greenvale Terrace.
An email will go out on Monday June 12 to confirm the place and time.
If you need to be picked up or dropped off, please check in with fellow walkers or email Bonnie.
Worship Schedule reminder
June 18
Speaker Stephen R.
Worship leader Dalton J.
Song Leader Ed F.
Musician Kathy W. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters Leslie & Fazal S.
ZOOM host Bonnie W.
A/V Tech Don B.
June 25
Speaker Carol O.
Worship leader Sue S.
Song Leader Sue S.
Musician Roger H. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters Cindy R., Bethany W.
ZOOM host Bonnie W.
A/V Tech Murray L.
WIDER CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
War in Ukraine: When Peace Cannot be Won on the Battlefield
Do you want peace in Ukraine? As a person of faith, do you feel the urgency to do something but feel powerless? Grace Mennonite Church in St. Catharines made a podcast from a presentation by Ernie Regehr, Co-Founder and former Executive Director of Project Ploughshares, Officer of the Order of Canada, Pearson Peace Medal laureate, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College. Listen here.
https://www.gracemennonitechurch.com/seminars-2023.html
In summary, upcoming events
At Danforth
June
10 Men’s breakfast
13 Ladies Walking group – Greenvale Park
13 Cooking class
20 Ladies Walking group
20 Cooking class
24 Messy Church
27 Ladies Walking group – our last walk until Sept.
27 Cooking class
Wider Church
June
24 MCC AGM
August
13 Worship at Willowgrove
September
16 Greater Toronto Area Mennonite Festival at Willowgrove