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Children's Time: Great 'G' Words: Giving and being Generous (Feb 16, 2014)

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Children’s Time: Giving and Being Generous Good morning, friends. Today, I would like to talk with you about some good, great ‘G’ words. I think that words that start with ‘G’ are Generally Good! What ‘G’ words can you think of, that are Good? (Gold, good, give, get, gentle… One of the first ‘G’ words that my 3 year old younger son learned from his daycare was ‘Be Gentle.’ What else? Green…? Let’s continue to talk after watching a ‘G’ood video clip about other Good ‘G’ words. Let’s talk about the story in the video clip. The little boy happened to find money stuck to the tire, and wanted to use it to buy things for himself. Then, what did he see? An older boy was playing with a football and kicked it, and unfortunately, it fell on the cart of an old lady and broke the glasses she uses to sell drinks.       The old lady was upset at first, wasn’t she? Did you think she would yell at the boy who broke her drinking glasses? What did she do?

Prayers - Feb 16, 2014 (Announcements)

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Welcome Welcome, everyone, to the Sunday service of Chemainus United Church. We are a welcoming, intergenerational Christian community that seeks spiritual growth as we connect with the Holy and with people in friendship and faith in Christ. Our core values that are based on our mission statement are being welcoming, growing spiritually, and planting a seed for change in the world and in our lives.  If it is your first Sunday service at Chemainus United Church, would you introduce yourself to the rest of us so that we can welcome you with great joy. We would like to invite everyone to coffee time after the service. It is a wonderful way to enjoy friendship in the love of Christ. Announcement We’ve got a lot of exciting things coming up in the life of the church, so this morning, the announcements are going to be LONG. MEMBERSHIP CLASS I am very happy to announce an emerging circle being initiated and growing among us. MEMBERSHIP CLASS – There are n

Sermon Series: Leading Adaptive Changes (1) - Stewardship (Feb 9, 2014)

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Sermon series: Leading Adaptive Changes (1)  - Stewardship Good morning. We opened this part of the service by watching a video, Street Compliments ,  filmed by a group called Soul Pancake. (The name of the group reminded me of the pancakes Min Goo often makes my family for Saturday breakfast) Did you feel moved when you watched this video clip? I did. I was moved and my eyes even welled up with tears. It triggers a deep longing in our hearts. What people in the video clip said to each other, one person in the booth and the other person on the big speaker phone, were not empty, mindless, flattering compliments. It was a “gifting of grace” to one another, recognizing that each one is a true gift – precious and irreplaceable. We call ourselves by many names. We are children of God. We are disciples of Jesus. We are followers of Jesus. We are the fruits of the Spirit. And we also see our role as stewards . Think of the first gift you ever received as

Children's Time: The Light of the Earth (Feb 9, 2014)

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Children’s Time: The Light of the Earth Good morning, my friends. Have you ever wondered about the universe – about the stars, the earth, the moon, the galaxies, the planets in our solar system and outside of it? Me too! I have done that so many times. When I was a child, on some nights, I would stay awake for a really long time thinking about the mysteries that surround us in the night sky, especially the idea about how the whole universe began, everything exploding out of nothing all at once. (the Big Bang theory) When you look up at the stars, what do you see? It may sound like a silly question - of course you see stars . What else do you see when you look out the stars at night? (Children may answer, the moon, starlight, clouds, etc.) And we also see the blackness between the stars….. The darkness. But - just because it’s dark doesn’t mean that it’s empty, or that there’s nothing great or special there. It just means that we don’t kn