Thursday, October 23, 2008
Pictou United marks World Food Day & dedicates new hymn books
by Angie Burrell
Pictou - Greeting the congregation were Ruby, Jade and Lena Roberts. Steward was Harris MacKenzie. Lay Leaders were Josh Young, Donna Weaver and Brenda Parker.
This week’s bulletin was dedicated in celebration of the choir from a grateful congregation.
The congregation also welcomed Lennie Burris to Pictou United having transferred his membership from Sharon United in Tatamagouche. Welcome Lennie!
Pictou United marked World Food Day and dedicated the More Voices hymn books. The congregation was reminded of the millions of people suffering from hunger and malnutrition - that 16,000 children die from hunger related causes daily and that people using the food banks in Nova Scotia is 12% higher than ten years ago. A quote from Bono (of U2) “You can’t fix every problem, but what you can fix, you must.” was included in our bulletin.
On a lighter note, Rev. Moriarity reminded us that there is music in all of us as we dedicated More Voices and sang the following hymns from it : This is the Day; Let Us Build a House; Spirit Open My Heart; Take O Take Me As I Am; Deep in Our Hearts, It’s A Song of Praise to the Maker; Spirit Good, Be Our Breath; I Am the Dream; and the sung blessing was May God’s Sheltering Wings, and the congregation celebrated the Ministry of Music.
Rev. Moriarity shared with the congregation that we now experience music from a global village, noting that many of our hymns are now translated from other languages, and that we are becoming more in tune to the world in which we live. Rev. Moriarity pointed out to the congregation that the life span of a hymn book is 10 to 15 years and that all the old favourite hymns were new at one time.
The Hebrew Scriptures today were Psalm 8 - A Song of Praise and Psalm 100 – Make a Joyful Noise.
Next Sunday, Pictou United welcomes from Trinity United in Charlottetown the musical group “Step By Step”. Refreshments to follow.
Pictou - Greeting the congregation were Ruby, Jade and Lena Roberts. Steward was Harris MacKenzie. Lay Leaders were Josh Young, Donna Weaver and Brenda Parker.
This week’s bulletin was dedicated in celebration of the choir from a grateful congregation.
The congregation also welcomed Lennie Burris to Pictou United having transferred his membership from Sharon United in Tatamagouche. Welcome Lennie!
Pictou United marked World Food Day and dedicated the More Voices hymn books. The congregation was reminded of the millions of people suffering from hunger and malnutrition - that 16,000 children die from hunger related causes daily and that people using the food banks in Nova Scotia is 12% higher than ten years ago. A quote from Bono (of U2) “You can’t fix every problem, but what you can fix, you must.” was included in our bulletin.
On a lighter note, Rev. Moriarity reminded us that there is music in all of us as we dedicated More Voices and sang the following hymns from it : This is the Day; Let Us Build a House; Spirit Open My Heart; Take O Take Me As I Am; Deep in Our Hearts, It’s A Song of Praise to the Maker; Spirit Good, Be Our Breath; I Am the Dream; and the sung blessing was May God’s Sheltering Wings, and the congregation celebrated the Ministry of Music.
Rev. Moriarity shared with the congregation that we now experience music from a global village, noting that many of our hymns are now translated from other languages, and that we are becoming more in tune to the world in which we live. Rev. Moriarity pointed out to the congregation that the life span of a hymn book is 10 to 15 years and that all the old favourite hymns were new at one time.
The Hebrew Scriptures today were Psalm 8 - A Song of Praise and Psalm 100 – Make a Joyful Noise.
Next Sunday, Pictou United welcomes from Trinity United in Charlottetown the musical group “Step By Step”. Refreshments to follow.
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