Pentecost 14 - On the beach

Welcome to our services at Yetholm (10am) and Morebattle (11.15am). Our theme is : On the Beach

• Join us in a Songs of Praise outside the Institute in Morebattle on Sunday 25th August at 6pm. If the weather is inclement, it will be held in Morebattle Kirk.
• Coffee and chat at Yetholm Kirk on Tuesdays from 10.30 -12 noon. All welcome.
• A Service of Thanksgiving for Rev Marion Dodd will be held at Melrose Parish Church on Tuesday 27th August at 1pm. It will be livestreamed at: https://www.youtube.com/live/T5pJMNahzWY
• Prayer Service is on Tuesdays at 6.30 -7pm at Linton Kirk. All welcome. Please note that from September the service will be at 12 noon in Yetholm Kirk.
• The Funeral of Annie Smith will take place at Morebattle Kirk on Thursday 29th August at 12.45pm. Thereafter to the cemetery.
• We are sad to learn of the death of Violet Lessenger. Details to follow.
• Next Sunday our services are at Yetholm (10am) and Linton (11.15).

 
Call to Worship
Where can I escape from your spirit, O Lord?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there
If I take the wings of the dawn and settle at the farthest limits of the sea
even there your right hand shall hold me
 How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
I try to count them––they outnumber the grains of sand

Hymn 159 – Lord for the years
Prayers of Adoration & Confession/ Lord’s Prayer
Reflection 1
Readings –  Acts 28: 1-10 (Pg 1126)                 
                         John 21: 1-13 (Pg 1090)
 
Hymn 641 – Seek ye first
Prayer
Disturb us when we are too well-pleased with ourselves; when we arrive safely because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us to venture on wider seas, where storms will show your mastery; where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. Push back the horizons of our hopes and push us in the future in strength, courage and love.
(St James, New York)

Reflection 2
Hymn 565 – My life flows on (Yetholm)/ Hymn 570 -When the storms of life are raging (Morebattle)

Prayers of Dedication & Intercession
 
Hymn 532 – Lord, you have come to the seashore
Benediction