Sunday Bulletin
Celebration Service
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
October 11th, 2026 9:30 am
Prelude Prelude on “Divinum Mysterium” Richard Purvis
(Of the Father’s Love Begotten)
Introit “Open Now the Gates of Beauty”
Welcome & Announcements
Call to Worship Lay Leader: Mitch Mitchell
God has set this day before us,
A day set apart, a day of rest and praise.
God has set our lives before us,
A span of years in which we love, and learn, and serve.
God has set Gods’s seal upon our hearts,
So that we might live fully in deep love.
Let us worship God.
Hymn “Morning Has Broken” #53
Unison Prayer “God’s Love for All People”
The Lord’s Prayer
Children’s Message
Special Music “Revelation” Kari Jobe
Lisa Macalaster, soloist and Ian Robertson, jazz violinist
Baptism Dailey Alexandra Leisman
Prayer after Baptism “Blessing of Children” #364
Hymn “Child of Blessing Child of Promise”
Psalm 65
Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion; and to you shall vows be
performed,
O you who answer prayer! To you all flesh shall come.
When deeds of iniquity overwhelm us, you forgive our
transgressions.
Happy are those whom you choose and bring near to live in your
courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, your
holy temple.
By awesome deeds you answer us with deliverance. O God of our
salvation; you are the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the
farthest seas.
By your strength you established the mountains; you are girded with
might.
You silence the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the
tumult of the peoples.
Those who live at earth’s farthest bounds are awed by your signs;
you make the gateways of the morning and the evening shout for joy.
You visit the earth and water it, you greatly enrich it; the river of God
is full of water; you provide the people with grain, for so you have
prepared it.
You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with
showers, and blessing its growth.
You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow
with richness.
The pastures of the wilderness overflow, the hills gird themselves
with joy,
The meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck
themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy.
The pastures of the wilderness overflow, the hills gird themselves
with joy,
The meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck
themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy.
The Gloria Patri #35
Anthem “Rejoice in God” Schutz/Grundahl
Passing of the Peace*
The first words of the risen Christ to his followers were “Peace be with you.” May the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
And also with you.
Please share Christ’s peace.
Congregation greets one another and shares the peace of Christ.
Prayers of the People
Reading Luke 17:11-19
Message “Do Not Forget” Rev. Dan Haugh
Offering
Offertory “Fugato” Guilmant
Doxology* #46
Offertory Prayer*
Hymn “For the Healing of the Nations” #668
Benediction
Closing “God, Dismiss Us with Your Blessing”
Postlude “Sortie in D Major” Cesar Franck
Calendar of Events
Monday, 10/12 Noon AA meeting in Fellowship Hall
Tuesday, 10/13 3:30 Annie rehearsal
7:30 AA meeting in Fellowship Hall
Wednesday, 10/14 9 – 11:30 Women’s Fellowship FH
Noon AA meeting in Fellowship Hall
5:30 Choir Rehearsal in Organ Loft
Thursday, 10/15 3:30 Youth Choir rehearsal
Friday, 10/16 2:00 Wedding & Reception
Happy Birthday this week to:
Henry Alario, Alysdair Arnot, and Amy Marshall on 10/12
Peter Ballyk and David Proulx on 10/13
Ben Brayton, Eric Grover, Dean Salvas and Tracy Wall on 10/14
Kelley Kartluke on 10/16
Travis Spaulding on 10/17
Happy Anniversary this week to:
Christopher and Elizabeth Saylor on 10/14
Bryce and Brice Simon on 10/15
Announcements
The flowers today are in memory of Peter Jones from Wendy and Katie Jones and her family.
The ushers today are Lisa and Spencer Macalaster. Thank you for helping today.
Congratulations to Julia Macalaster and Andrew Leisman for bringing their daughter Dailey Alexandra Leisman for baptism today. She was born on June 11, 2026. Her grandparents are Spencer and Lisa Macalaster. Her godparents are Amy & Seth Johns and Scott & Karen Stevenson.
Christmas Wreaths! We know it’s early but this year please pre-order by October 12. You can call Marylou to place your order. Lots of choices: 12 inch wreath ($28) or 16 inch wreath ($34), add $2 for bow or $4 for fully decorated. Bow colors: deep red, bright red, burgundy or plaid. If you have a preference you can choose to have the bow located on top, side or bottom. Give contact info to Marylou, either phone or email. 802-253-7257 or info@stowechurch.org.
Women’s Fellowship will meet in Fellowship Hall to work on the Christmas Fair Wednesday, 10/14/26 9:00 – 11:30.
“There Is Love” A concert to benefit Camp Ta Kum Ta, a year round camp for kids with cancer, presented by Voices For All Seasons featuring works by Rodgers and Hammerstein, John Rutter, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and others. Sunday, October 18, 2026, 3:00 pm at Stowe Community Church.
The Mission and Service Committee is pleased to highlight the United Community Church of Morrisville as our October Mission of the Month. Their Breakfast on Us ministry provides a free, hot breakfast to anyone in the community, five mornings a week. Since beginning in 2015, the ministry has grown to serve more than 10,000 breakfasts each year. More than just a meal, Breakfast on Us offers a welcoming place where people can gather, connect with others, and access additional community resources.
Kathy Miller will speak to our congregation on Sunday, October 18th during worship. She will share more about this important ministry and the many ways United Community Church of Morrisville reaches out to support people who may be experiencing food insecurity, homelessness, or other challenges. Through hospitality, food, and connection, their ministry strives to offer dignity and welcome to all.
We will need your help again this Halloween. Both Church and Parsonage will be open to trick or treaters. Please bring in candy for us to hand out. Thank you. There will be a bin in the Narthex for your contributions.
SAVE THE DATE: Harvest Party — October 23
Mark your calendars for a Harvest Party at Taryn’s home on October 23rd! More details about time, activities, and what to bring will be coming soon.
The Africa Trip is ready for you. See information in the Quest for the July 8th , 2027 trip to visit Africa. There are links for the brochure and registration. You can find our trip itinerary, options and details at the website https://bodymindspiritjourneys.com/africa27.html. Anne Bongiorno has been working hard on the interfaith journey which will begin with a support trip to our Mission in Kenya. Due to the size of our accommodations and the rural nature of our mission area, we will need to limit the trip to a smaller group. The recommended minimum age of participation is multigenerational, with a minimum age range of middle/high school. Our trip includes round trip airfare from Kennedy Airport in New York, so that we can get the most direct, cost-effective airfare. We have also reserved a hotel block for those who would like to arrive in New York with assurance of making that all important flight! For our Kenya portion of the trip, Pastor Ouma who runs the program there, is incredibly grateful and excited to have us with him.
Musical Notes by Karen Miller
Prelude: "Divinum Mysterium" is the title of the tune used, in the Chalice Hymnal, as the music for "Of the Father's Love Begotten, hymn no. 104. This tune is a plainsong melody found in numerous European manuscripts from the 12th to 15th centuries. It is considered to be a Sanctus "trope" - a musical interpolation of the medieval liturgy. Numerous organ composers have used the melody to create pieces for the organ, including Richard Purvis. Richard Irven Purvis (1913-1994) studied at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, and in London at the Royal Conservatory of Music. He was briefly a prisoner of war in WWII, and then served as organist at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in San Francisco, St. James' in Philadelphia, and at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco for 24 years, from 1947. He wrote a variety of organ pieces ranging from small liturgical pieces to large recital works. One of these shorter pieces was his work based on "Divinum Mysterium" written in 1943. The piece begins quietly and then increases in volume and intensity.
Anthem: "Rejoice in God" is an anthem arranged by Nancy Grundahl that uses a paraphrase of Psalm 33 as its text and music by Heinrich Schutz. We thank Amy Cobaugh for playing the flute part of this piece for us today. Nancy Grundahl (b. 1946) has conducted four choirs in the Minnesota area. She has also been a solo singer and voice teacher, a choral clinician, and a guest conductor. The text of this anthem reads:
Rejoice in God, all Christendom, your hearts and voices raising,
with glad new songs, rejoicing, come, God's wondrous mercy praising.
Sing unto God with psaltery, let harps and strings accompany your hymns of praise and honor.
The word of God is always true, and we must trust it ever,
What God has promised, God will do, for love will fail us never.
We sing of truth and righteousness, the earth which God did make and bless is full of love and
goodness.
Our soul doth wait for thee, O God, our help and protection. Our heart rejoiceth in your word,
we trust in thy direction. Thy mercy, God, upon us be according as we hope in thee.
Thou art our mighty refuge. All Christendom, in God rejoice!
Offertory: A "fugato" is a passage in fugal style. A fugue is a contrapuntal composition where voices enter successively using the same tune. In Guilmant's "Fugato" the tenor begins, followed by the alto, then soprano, and finally the bass in the pedal line.
Postlude: In Cesar Franck's last year of life, 1890, he was commissioned by the publisher Enoch to write a collection of pieces for manuals that could be played on the organ or harmonium. On vacation in Nemours that summer he alternated between writing these pieces and writing his three organ chorales. Originally the manual collection was to consist of ninety-one pieces, with seven in each key distributed between major and minor modes. At his death on November 8, his L'Organiste was unfinished. It was still published with the fifty-nine pieces that he had written. His "Sortie in D Major" is from this collection. This piece is in six sections, some very short, some in minor.