pentecost 12+ - united service

We welcome everyone to our United Service at Yetholm on Sunday where, as Cheviot Churches, we are joined by Kelso Old & Sprouston. Please stay for refreshments after the service. We remind visitors to sign the Visitors’ Book. Also remember to check the News section of the website, where there are a couple of new posts.

• Coffee and chat at Yetholm Kirk on Tuesdays from 10.30 -12 noon. All welcome.
• Prayer Service is on Tuesdays at 12 noon in Yetholm
• There will be a joint Kirk Session meeting with Kelso Old & Sprouston on Tuesday 2nd September at 7pm at Kelso Old.
• Colin will be at the Roxburgh Hall on Wednesdays between 10.30 and 12 noon.
• Corbet Tower will be open under the Scottish Garden Scheme on Saturday 6th September from 2-5pm. Tea and cake available. Proceeds to Cheviot Churches.
• Cheviot Churches Coffee morning on Wednesday 10th September at 10.30am at Wauchope Hall, Town Yetholm.
• We will host an Indian visitor on the weekend of 12-14th September and Rev Muriel Pearson, minister at Tiberias, on Sunday 21st September, which will include a potluck lunch at the manse.
• Thanks to all who donate to the Foodbank. It is short of the following: tins of meat, vegetables (tin) Potatoes (tin), jam, cereal, jars of pasta sauce, desserts.

Next Sunday we have our services at 10am at Linton (Trish) and Yetholm (Rev Colin) and at 11.30am at Sprouston (Rev Colin).
Call to Worship
Come all you travellers tired from the journey. Come to the feast; there is room at the table.
Come all you questioners, looking for answers. Come to the feast; there is room at the table.
Come let us worship God, who welcomes us in with love and grace: We worship God with gladness
Hymn 198 – Let us build a house
Prayers of Adoration/ Confession/ Lord’s prayer
Hymn 5 – O Lord our God
Wee Talk
Handbells
Readings – Jeremiah 2: 4-13 (pg 756)
                     – Luke 14: 7-14 (pg 1047)
Hymn 251 - I the Lord of sea and sky 
Weekly Prayer
Almighty God, as we worship together here in our joint service today, we pray for your churches in Cheviot, Kelso Old and Sprouston.   We ask for your blessing on our work as we seek to create a church community that welcomes the stranger, provides a refuge for those who feel threatened or alone and a place where everyone feels that they belong. Amen
 
Reflection
Choir
Dedication of Offering
623 - Here in this place
Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession
511 - Your hand, O God has guided
Benediction
Recessional – You shall go out with joy