Sunday Bulletin
Celebration Service
Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
July 6, 2025 9:30am
Prelude “Prelude in D Minor” Bach
Welcome & Announcements
Call to Worship Lay Leader: Ruth Roy
We are children of God:
Called to praise, and to bless, and to show mercy.
We are citizens of a nation:
Called to care, and to respond, and to share our freedom.
We are members of a community: Called to know each other,
and to accept each other, and to welcome all.
We belong to God and, through God, to one another.
So may our hearts be as one, and let us worship our God.
Hymn* “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee” #2
Unison Prayer
You have made all of the people of the earth for your glory.
You invite us to serve you in freedom and peace.
Give to the people of our nation a passion for justice
and the strength for forbearance,
that we may use our liberty
in accordance with your will now and always, Amen.
The Lord's Prayer #307
Baptism Emily, Brook and Charlotte Macalaster
Prayer after Baptism “Blessing of Children” #364
Hymn “Child Of Blessing Child Of Promise”
Psalm 46 page 517
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change,
though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea;
Though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains
tremble with its tumult.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the
holy habitation of the Most High.
God is in the midst of the city; it shall not be moved; God will
help it when the morning dawns.
The nations are in an uproar, the kingdoms totter; he utters
his voice, the earth melts.
The Lord of hosts is with us; The God of Israel is our refuge.
Come, behold the works of the Lord, see what desolations he
has brought on the earth;
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the
bow, and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire.
“Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the
nations, I am exalted in the earth.”
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
The Gloria Patri* #35
Special Music “In The Garden” Lisa Macalaster, soloist,
Chris Guerra, piano
Prayers of the People
Reading Romans 12:9-21 page 162
Message “The Fruit of the Spirit: Peace” Rev Dan Haugh
Offering
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Offertory “Modal Sequence” Young
Doxology* #46
Offertory Prayer*
Communion
Hymn “Let There Be Peace on Earth” #677
Benediction*
Closing: “Go in Peace” #445
Postlude “Fugue in D Major” Bach
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Calendar of Events
Monday, 7/7 Noon AA meeting in Fellowship Hall
Tuesday, 7/8 7:30 AA meeting in Fellowship Hall
Wednesday, 7/9 Noon AA meeting in Fellowship Hall
Happy Birthday this week to:
Rachel Ross and Yannah Ziegler today, 7/6
Brad Burkhardt on 7/7
David Bradbury and Miller D’Alberto on 7/8
Sebatian James on 7/9
Hansen Johnson and Michelle Martin on 7/11
Announcements
The ushers today are the deacons. Thank you for helping today.
Congratulations to Andy and Emily Macalaster for bringing their children Brook Spencer Macalaster and Charlotte Elizabeth Macalaster here today for baptism. Emily is also being baptized today, too.
Would you like to host a coffee hour after church? Maybe there is a special event you would like to celebrate? Maybe two families? Please let Marylou know if you can and what date you would like to do that.
Bible Camp Registration is live! Our Theme is True North this year, August 18-22. We have a Bible Camp Volunteer Tree in the Narthex, please consider taking an Ornament, signing up for a Volunteer Job and leaving it in the bowl on the CE Table. Thank you!
SCC Green Tip
July 2025
This summer you’ll likely find yourself enjoying one of Vermont’s many fresh water lakes. But before you launch yourself into the crisp water, quicky scan the surface for fluffy, green, pin-head sized balls of algae, commonly known as Blue-Green Algae or Cyanobacteria. Blue-green algae are fueled by sunny days, warm water temperatures, and run-off containing nitrogen and phosphorus from synthetic fertilizer. Climate change is accelerating its growth due to the warming of the planet. The problem you ask? Blue-green algae may release toxins that can cause skin irritation and GI disturbances, neither of which look good on you in the summer. What should you do if you see an algae bloom? Don’t go swimming and report it to the VT Department of Health https://www.healthvermont.gov/environment/tracking/cyanobacteria-blue-green-algae-tracker . You can also use this website to track blooms prior to visiting your favorite swimming hole. As of today, 6/26, there were no reported blooms in Lamoille Co.
Join us in welcoming Nate Beyer from Lamoille Community House on July 20th during our mission moment.
The Lamoille Community House offers shelter, security, and hope to people experiencing homelessness. With dignity and kindness, they provide guests with a clean bed, nourishing meals, connection to services, and a safe space to discover their own path toward sustainable housing.
To find out more information on how you can help, visit their website at: https://lamoilleshelter.org/
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Musical Notes by Karen Miller
Prelude: J. S. Bach (1685-1750) was known as a virtuoso organist, but his opportunities to demonstrate this gift were subject to the placement of the organ wherever he was employed. In the course of his career, he filled positions at Weimar, Arnstadt, Muhlhausen, Weimar (again), Cothen, and finally Leipzig. While at the barn-like Neukirche in Arnstadt he was in full view with a packed church gazing up at him. Later, while serving the Dukes of Weimar, he played an organ high in the cramped musicians' gallery, near the ceiling, where he and his musicians were out of sight and only their music wafted down to the congregants below. When on tour in recitals at Dresden, Hamburg, Halle, and Potsdam, Bach's organ technique was marveled by many. Ernst Ludwig Gerber, whose father studied with Bach in Leipzig, lauded his superhuman technique:
On the pedals his feet had to imitate with perfect accuracy every theme, every passage that his hands had played. No appoggiatura, no mordent, no short thrill was suffered to be lacking, or even to meet the ears in less clean and rounded form. He used to make long double thrills with both feet, while his hands were anything but idle.
In his last and longest position as cantor of the Thomaskirche he was responsible for overseeing the music education of the school plus the music for the services at the church there and at the Nikolaikirche. He directed a choir and orchestra from the west galleries of these two main churches in Leipzig and was largely invisible to three quarters of the congregation. He was less recognized for his virtuoso organ technique.
Little of his music was published in his lifetime, and it awaited Mendelssohn's presentation of Bach's music in the next century to bring his splendid music to light. The prelude and postlude feature two of Bach's shorter, less complex organ works.
Offertory: A "sequence" is a succession or series. Modal implies the use of an older key system that pre-dated our major-minor key system. The modal system is simulated by using only the white keys on the piano and playing a scale starting on C, or D, or E, etc. Each "scale" will have a different pattern of whole-steps and half-steps and give it its unique sound and mood. Gordon Young's "Modal Sequence" is a short piece using the Dorian (starting on D) mode.
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