Please participate - Deadline September 30
I am grateful for the responses we have recieved to date but I'm hoping to hear from so many more. Please take time to take the survey. It's important to hear from you.
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Or pick up a paper copy at worship on Sunday's or from the the church office during the week. Completed forms (online or paper copy) will be accepted any time until Monday September 30th
Thanks for making an effort to participate!
In Christ,
Richard
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Theme: Jesus and Forgiveness Part 4 of 4
“For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.” Matthew 6:14
Gathering Music
Welcome
Hymn #321 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Announcements
Call to worship and Lighting of the Christ Candle
Prayer of Adoration and Confession
Assurance of Pardon
Hymn #498 Sing them over again to me
Children’s Time
Scripture: Isaiah 33:13–24; Matthew 6:7–15; Colossians 3:12–15
Sermon “Praying for Forgiveness to come”
Musical Offering
Prayers of the People
Hymn #483 Glorious things of thee are spoken (verses 1,2, 4)
Blessing and Benediction
Sung Response – Go now in peace (Don Besig)
Sending music
- KPC Regular Choir Practice Saturdays, 10:30 am to noon
- Online Bible Study - Wednesday September 25th - 7:30 pm
- Rachel Wei & Friends Benefit Concert -
Friday, Sept 27, 7 pm - KPC men's breakfast - Saturday, Oct 5, 8:30 am
- Janet Thomson Group Meeting - Tuesday, Oct 8, noon
- Games, Giggles and Gab - Thursday, Oct 10, 2-3:30 pm
KPC regular choir practice this Saturday, September 14, 2024, from 10:30 a.m. until noon. If you are interested in participating in the music ministry, please send Chang Hwa an email at kim6191@telus.net.
Ratanak’s Road to Freedom Challenge - Saturday Sept 21st
Below is an summary of a letter by Brian McConaghy, founder of Ratanak:
Over 30 years ago, I was given the opportunity to tour a building named 5-21 that had been used as a torture centre in Cambodia by the previous regime. I was not prepared for the experience. Row upon row of tiny makeshift holding cells had been built and spilling out of them was an abundance of evidence of the torture, pain and suffering of the occupants. The sense of evil was overwhelming. Thousands of people had died horribly in this place. To visit was unpleasant but necessary for me to understand the depth of the darkness and suffering of the Cambodian people. I asked myself how could any hope ever be seen in such a dark space?
Fast forward to 2023 and another Cambodian space—our Ratanak van. This one creates a special space for safety. This is the van that picks up traumatized young people at the airport as they return from slavery; this is the van that takes them home to be reunited with their families after years of torment; this is the van where life-giving trauma therapy is undertaken in villages where survivors have no private and secure places to share their burdens. It’s a space that brings tenderness, encouragement, recovery, and safety. But above all, to me, it represents freedom… Our mobile space of light and hope.
Recently, I happened to take that van down to 5-21, which I had first visited over30 years ago. It’s now a museum visited by thousands. We stopped outside the complex, and I entered with other Ratanak staff from Canada. We toured the interrogation rooms, and it was all quite routine for me until I saw our van. Our driver had moved it from where he had dropped us off and it was now parked inside the S-21 complex. A symbol of light, safety and freedom was right in the centre of this place of darkness, not four feet from a torture cell.
Memories came flooding back and I was suddenly overcome with emotion. 33 years ago, I could not have conceived of anything like light or hope entering the overwhelming darkness of S-21. But there it was, the Ratanak van representing hope, freedom and restoration, parked smack in the middle of it. The symbolism was not lost on me!
Decades-old dreams and prayers that felt so hopeless have been answered. With the Lord’s blessing and your dedicated support, Ratanak is parking hope in the centre of the dark world of slavery. It brings me great joy, as I hope it does for you.– Brian McConaghy, Founding Director
In a few days Anahita Hirmanpour (https://www.roadtofreedomchallenge.com/anahita-hirmanpour), Ramesh Mardani (https://www.roadtofreedomchallenge.com/ramesh-mardani) and Marg Buschman. It’s still not too late to support this deserving charity. Please click on one of the links to donate. Many thanks to those who have already done so.
KPC men's breakfast will be held at 8:30 a.m., Sat., Oct. 5, 2024, in the KPC church hall (on the north side of the church parking lot). The speaker will be Paul Thiessen of Union Gospel Mission in Vancouver, who will speak about UGM's work in downtown eastside. Please let our minister Richard Watson, or Kiejoon Kim know if you are coming. You can also put your name down on the sign-up sheet at the church narthex on Sunday mornings.
Donations received at the Oct. 5 men's breakfast meeting will go to UGM. If writing a cheque, please make the donation in favour of Kerrisdale Presbyterian Church, along with a note in the memo line saying, "for Union Gospel Mission in Vancouver."
Monthly Lunch meeting - Tuesday, October 8, noon
Join the fellowship at the Janet Thomson monthly group meeting.
All are welcome.
G-3 (Games, Giggles and Gab) will meet at Crofton Manor on Thursday, 10 Oct. from 2 - 3:30 pm.Join us for a fun time with the residents. For more information contact Marg or Bill Buschman through the church office. Phone at 604-261-1434 or email kpc@telus.net.
The Committee continues to prepare for the Rachel Wei and Friends Benefit Concert for the Refugee Sponsorship Fund on Friday 27 Sept at 7 pm. This is a very important fundraiser so we are hoping for a large turnout to show support and encouragement for Rachel and her Friends as well as the Refugee Committee. Her young Friends always appreciate the opportunity to perform in public. Invite your family, friends and neighbours.
Tickets, at $25.00 each, will be for sale at coffee time after the Sunday Service. Tickets will also be available at the door on Fri, 27th or in advance online by using e-transfer to kpc.offerings@gmail.com.Please specify "Refugee Concert Ticket(s)" in the message box and indicate how many tickets you are buying. E-tickets will be sent via e-mail. You may wish to make a donation in addition to your $25.00 per ticket purchase. Donations of $20.00 and over qualify for a tax receipt. These will be sent out at year's end. We will need your postal or email address to ensure the receipt gets to you.You can also donate directly to the Refugee Sponsorship Fund by using the church website www.kerrisdalechurch.ca/qry/sr_donate.taf