Summer Service 2 - God's Gift of Water

July 10, 2022

Join us in our Shared Summer worship services this Sunday, July 10, 2022

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

 – from The Four Waters of Prayer, Teresa d’Avila


Update from last week: Despite our intention to offer last week's service hybrid-style, we ran into come technical hiccups at the last minute! Our livestream audio feed cut off almost before we got started. However, Eric and Rev. Teresa have re-recorded her sermon, and it is now available on YouTube, in case you missed it last week!

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A warm welcome to those of you joining us here. We particularly extend a welcome to members of our sister congregations who may be joining us for our shared summer services. If you'd like to read the sermon, prayers and even the story, the Service Bulletin is linked below.


Our service this week will be lead by Coordinating Minister, Rev. Teresa Burnett Cole, with a message about some of the lessens the Celtic Saints can teach us today. Our scripture reading comes from Mark 4:35-41, read by Donna-Fay Mailhot. James Caswell, our Minister of Music will lead us in music and song.


Our service bulletin with hymns, texts and announcements is linked here.


Join in on the virtual offering plate for M&S, Outreach & GSJ operational needs! If donating online, you can indicate on the 'paypal' page where you want your gift to be dedicated to. 


You can watch the video of the service here on YouTube. Please consider 'subscribing' to the GSJ YouTube c

hannel and use the 'notification' (the 'bell' symbol on the GSJ YouTube channel) to be notified when we go live. If, for any reason, the webcast is interrupted you should still be able to connect by looking for the red 'live' thumb-nail image.



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