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We welcome everyone to our services at Yetholm and Linton this Sunday. Rev Colin will lead worship at Yetholm and Trish Gentry at Linton. Please stay for refreshments after the service at Yetholm. We remind visitors to sign the Visitors’ Book.

• Craft Group meets at Yetholm Kirk on Mondays from 2pm. All welcome.
• 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
• Mission committee meets on Tuesday 9th September in Yetholm at 3pm.
• Cheviot Churches Coffee morning on Wednesday 10th September at 10.30am at Wauchope Hall, Town Yetholm. Entry by donation.
• The Guild Rededication Service will be held next Sunday, 14th September, at Morebattle at 10am.
• The Kirk Session meets on Thursday 18th September at 7pm at Morebattle.
• 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.
• The Yetholm Macmillan coffee morning is on Saturday 27th September at 10.30am in Wauchope Hall. Entry by donation.
• Cheviot Churches will have a stall at the Yetholm Show on Saturday 4th October. Anyone willing to help set up/ man the stall, please speak with Susan Stewart.
• Presbytery’s Worship Leaders’ Course on the Gospels & Acts begins on Wednesday 22nd October. If interested, speak with Colin.
• Colin is making a pilgrimage from Vigo to Santiago in Spain. It is 100km, and if you would like to sponsor him, sheets are available at the back of the church.
• 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 Yetholm (Rosie Wilson) and Morebattle (Rev Colin) 
Service at Yetholm
O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
You know when I sit down and when I rise.
O Lord, may we open ourselves in worship,
and give of ourselves in worship and service.
O Lord, receive our praise
as we gather to worship you.
 
Hymn 172- Sing of God’s glory
Prayer of Adoration and Confession/ Lord’s Prayer
Readings – Philemon1: 1-21 (Pg 1200)
                        Luke 14: 25 – 33 (Pg 1048)
Hymn 117 – There’s a wideness in God’s mercy
Weekly Prayer
Faithful God, we praise you for all you have done in the past and look forward with hope for all you will do in the future. We thank you for today and for all your blessings we experience. Help us to faithfully share our faith as followers of the risen Christ. Amen
Sermon
Hymn 595 – O breath of life
Dedication of Offering/ Prayers of Intercession
Hymn 291 – When out of poverty is born
Benediction
Service at Linton
Call to worship
God of time and space
you call us to discern your presence in the world,
grant us wisdom to perceive you
grant us courage to work with you
grant us power to proclaim you.
Above all grant us a heart to love you through Jesus Christ our Lord,
 who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit
One God now and forever,    Amen
 
Hymn124     Praise to the Lord
Prayer inc. Lord’s prayer
Dear Auntie Doris
Readings: Philemon 1;  1-21
                 Luke 14; 25-33
Hymn 97    O God you search me and you know me
Weekly Prayer
Faithful God, we praise you for all you have done in the past and look forward in hope for all you will do in the future. We thank you for today and for all the blessings we experience. Help us faithfully to share our faith as followers of the risen Christ. Amen
Talk
Hymn 402   ‘Take up your cross’  the saviour said
Dedication of offering
Prayer
Hymn 246   Great God of every shining constellation
Blessing