pentecost 15+

We welcome everyone to our services at Yetholm and Morebattle, both at 10am. Rev Muriel Pearson, minister at Tiberias in the Holy Land, will preach at Yetholm and Stuart Kelly at Morebattle. Please stay for refreshments after the service at Yetholm. We remind visitors to sign the Visitors’ Book.

• There will be an opportunity to meet Muriel over a potluck lunch at the manse in Morebattle at 1.15pm
• There will be an evening communion service at Linton Sunday 21st at 6pm.
• 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
• The Yetholm Macmillan coffee morning is on Saturday 27th September at 10.30am in Wauchope Hall. Entry by donation. Also at Morebattle.
• Presbytery’s Worship Leaders’ Course on the Gospels & Acts begins on Wednesday 22nd October. If interested, speak with Colin by this Sunday.
• 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. He will be away from 22nd September to 2nd October
• Yetholm Show Saturday 4th Oct. Anyone interested in helping to man the stall in Craft Tent please get in touch with Susan Stewart.
• 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.
• The first meeting of the Cheviot Churches Guild will be on Thursday 9th October at 2pm in Morebattle Institute. Rev Colin will speak on the theme ‘Living Stones’. All are welcome
• The annual Blythswood Shoe Box Appeal is underway, making a difference to someone living in poverty this Christmas. Please see posters. All boxes to be handed in by 19th October please.
• The Crossreach catalogue is now available for perusal in the Morebattle and Yetholm churches. If you wish to order Christmas cards or calendars    please use the order form provided by 10th October.

Next Sunday we have our services at 10am at Morebattle (Rev Ian Clark) and Yetholm (Arthur Bates).  In the afternoon the KCT Songs of Praise will be in the Square, Kelso, at 2.30pm, led by the Jedburgh Brass Band.
Order for Yetholm
Call to Worship
Praise the name of the Lord.
Blessed be the name of the Lord!
From the rising of the sun to its setting, praise God.
We will bless God’s holy name now and evermore.
The glory of the Lord is high above the heavens, but God raises up the poor and needy on the earth.
So we will sing God’s praise.
Hymn 211 – Today I arise
Prayer of Adoration/ Confession/Lord’s Prayer
All-age talk
Readings – Micah 6: 1-8 (Pg 934)
                        Luke 4: 14 – 21 (Pg 1031)
Hymn 532 – Lord, you have come to the seashore
Weekly Prayer
Everlasting God, we cannot begin to understand how wonderful you are, for you have shown us the way to live; to act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with you. Thank you that you came bringing good news to the poor, sight to the blind, freedom and forgiveness to all who trust in You. Amen
Sermon – Rev Muriel Pearson
Hymn 259 – Beauty for brokenness
Dedication of Offering
Prayers of Intercession
Hymn 562 – Through the love of God our Saviour
Benediction
Order for Morebattle
Call to worship
Hymn 110: Glory be to God the Father
Prayers of adoration and confession, including the Lord’s Prayer
Small homily
Jeremiah 8:18-19:1
Luke 16:1-13
Hymn 73: Bless the Lord, O saints and servants 
Prayer for the Week
Sermon
Choir anthem
Blessing of offerings
Hymn 537: We do not hope to ease our minds
Prayers of intercession
Hymn 529: Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go 
Benediction