On Sunday, October 11th we celebrate Thanksgiving Sunday and take this opportunity to thank God for the many blessings in our lives.  Please join Rev. Dr. Joshua Lawrence, our Minister of Worship & Congregational Life, for this special service.  He will preach a sermon entitled "Reframing Generosity," based on this week's lectionary.  Our first Scripture will be 2 Corinthians 9: 6-15, read by Paul Merritt.  The Gospel reading will be Luke 17: 11-19.  Our Acknowledgement of the Traditional Territory this Sunday will include an abridged version of the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address (Ohen:ton Karihwatehkwen).

For the special Thanksgiving edition of "Singing Solidarity" this week, Minister of Music, Chris Fischer has selected TLUS #2 "A Strand in the Web of Life Let Me Be," TLUS #1 "Simply to Be," and TLUS #50 "As the Moon."  Our Gathering / Candle Lighting Music will be a traditional song from Botswana called "Reamo leboga" ("We Give Our Thanks").  It is found in our More Voices hymnbook, #187. We will sing it in the traditional Tswana, then English & French.  Sunday's Musical Reflection will be William Byrd's "Sing Joyfully."  This anthem will be sung by an ensemble of Sonja Gustafson, Rebecca Neaves, Lesley Andrew, Chris Fischer, Roland Beach, and Alex Neaves.  Our Musical Offering will be Jonathan Dove's setting of the anonymous Navajo text "In Beauty May I Walk." This week's congregational hymns also include VU #217 “All Creatures: Let Your Voices Ring!" with new inclusive text by Bruce Harding, VU #518 “As Those of Old Their First-fruits Brought, and VU #236 “Now Thank We All Our God.”  Chris Fischer will close our service from the organ with “Improvisation on LASST UNS ERFREUEN” by Gilles Leclerc.