Sunday, March 23, 2025 The Third Sunday of Lent

 

This is also the first Sunday in spring for this year! As we watch and wait for signs of new life around us, let us also hear the call to repentance and renewal we find in our faith. 

Hymn       Let Us with a Gladsome Mind #234VU

Scripture Lessons:       Isaiah 55:1-9

                                     Psalm 63:1-8 p. 781 VU

                                     Luke 13:1-9

Hymn       I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say

Message

Prayers God, with Lent we approach the springtime of the year when the face of the earth is renewed and life emerges out of death. 

   We pray that this season of Lent may be a true springtime for our souls, so that our lives, quickened by the breadth of the Spirit and warmed by the sunshine of your love, may bear abundant fruit and be made radiant with the beauty of holiness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ( a prayer written by Frank Colquhoun and printed in Contemporary Parish Prayers.)

Hymn         Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life #681VU

This Sunday’s services will be 9:30 in Ormstown and 11:00 in Howick. Next Sunday we will hold a combined service in Howick at 11:00, with coffee and goodies starting at about 10:30. 

Copies of both the newsletter and the annual report are now available. Let us know if you would like to receive a copy. 

Howick Stewards will meet on Tuesday, March 25th at 7pm in the church hall. 

Nakonhaka Regional Council is inviting applications from post-secondary students for the Hugh Duncan and IFE bursaries. Students must be confirmed members of the United Church of Canada. The application deadline is June 2, 2025 and applications are available from the Nakonhaka Regional Council website, nakonhaka.ca. Or you can request a copy from Barbara, she will be happy to provide a copy. 

There will be an online cross-Canada check-in to be held with the GeneralSecretary of the General Council Executive, The Rev. Michael Blair and other members of the General Council Executive, on April 2nd at 6pm. Registration is available through CHURCHx (churchx.ca).