Worship

At the heart of Waterford Mennonite is worship. We gather every Sunday morning to worship with joy-filled sharing of gifts, wisdom and life experiences that represent the full diversity of the congregation, all to the glory of God. An intentional effort is made to blend worship and music styles, mixing hymns and choruses, instrumental and vocal, lively and contemplative. We value the God-given gifts of all ages and work diligently at their discernment, practice and growth. Drawing upon scriptural themes, we include visual arts, drama, and other art forms to further our praise of God in our worship services.

If you would like to be involved in worshiping with us at Waterford Mennonite Church come to one of our two services and become an active part of our community praising God.

Advent Worship Series

Together on the Journey

December 1 marks the beginning of the season of Advent. During this liturgical season of the church, we will join believers around the world in a time of watching, waiting, preparing, and expecting. Once again, this year we will use the worship resource in The Leader, a periodical produced by MennoMedia. For the first time, The Leader will be following the assigned texts from the Narrative Lectionary instead of the Revised Common Lectionary. We are excited about this opportunity to enter the familiar season of Advent with unfamiliar pairings of biblical stories.

The theme this year is “Together on the Journey.” The resource planners, from Mennonite Church Canada, noted an overarching theme to the responses of the biblical characters in this year’s Advent lectionary scriptures, inviting others to walk “together on the journey.” In their introduction they write, “This theme found in scripture readings starts with persistently walking with God (Advent 1) and being open to the guidance of God’s Spirit (Advent 2). Then the theme extends to including the marginalized (Advent 3), the support of others (Advent 4), those who help us ‘see’ what God is doing (Sunday after Christmas), and mentors who teach us along the way (Epiphany).”

For this Advent we have invited intergenerational pairs to serve as our worship leaders, a tangible representation of how we are together on the journey. Behind the scenes, mentor/mentee pair Zoë Brown and Layna Stoltzfus will be creating our weekly worship visual arts.

Within the weekly worship services we will dwell with the assigned biblical passages, join our voices in singing the theme song “How Many Times We Start Again” (Voices Together 553), and hear from some travelers during the children’s time. Speaking of children’s time, during Advent all are invited to join the children in collecting our spare change (and dollars) to go toward purchasing a children’s all-terrain wheelchair for Amigo Centre. As the children learn about traveling together in God’s creation, we desire to make the beautiful creation of Amigo Centre more accessible for all.

We welcome you on this journey of Advent as we once again prepare to fully welcome and celebrate the arrival of Emmanuel.

 

 

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