Category Archives: Thanksgiving

2019 Thanksgiving Feast (Celebration)

Collect: Thanksgiving Day

Almighty and gracious Father, we give you thanks for the fruits of the earth in their season and for the labors of those who harvest them.  Make us, we pray, faithful stewards of your great bounty, for the provision of our necessities and the relief of all who are in need, to the glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen

Deuteronomy 26:1-11 . . . the Lord’s mighty salvation of Israel from slavery in Egypt is recalled, and the people are bid to offer in thanksgiving the first fruits of their fields.
Psalm 100 . . . A call to praise and to offer thanksgiving to the LORD.
Philippians 4:4-9 . . . Paul invite the new disciples at Philippi to exult in the Lord, who is near at hand.
John 6:25-35 . . . the story of the feeding of the five thousand people by Jesus.  (a non-dual perspective on this reading)

The Sermon by Rev. Colleen Ogle

of  Kings Ave, United Methodist Church