To God be our Thanks

not to ourselves
works of our hands
we give our humble prayer
as a people, a nation
to God be our thanks
for the abundance,
the blessings of our land
pausing in reverent thanks
remembering God provides
even in our disobedience
our of his boundless love


November 26, 2009
Call to Worship, thanking God
&
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/GW/gw004.html
President George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
October 3, 1789
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/source/sb2/sb2w.htm
President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation,
October 3, 1863
&
Acts 2:44-47
Children’s Sermon,
“Out of Our Abundance,
by Pastor Ruth L. Foss
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
&
Psalm 118:1
Youth Sermon
by Pastor Kevin Twombley
http://www.gccnh.com/
Grace Capital Church,
Concord, NH
&
Deuteronomy 8:11-20
Sermon, “We are living in a dangerous world”,
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson,
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
both part of
Pembroke – Allenstown Community Thanksgiving Service
http://www.pembrokechurch.org/templates/System/default.asp?id=40672
First Congregational Church of Pembroke
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church,
Suncook, NH
http://www.gccnh.com/
Grace Capital Church,
Concord, NH
http://www.catholicnh.org/directory/index.cfm?intType=1&id=72
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Allenstown, NH
http://cs.newhampshire.com/blogs/hooksett_editor/archive/2009/11/25/There-are-many-ways-to-make-the-holiday-bright.aspx
Allenstown – Pembroke Interfaith Food Pantry
November 25, 2009
at First Congregational Church of Pembroke
http://www.pembrokechurch.org/templates/System/default.asp?id=40672
Pembroke Street
Pembroke, NH

Pastor Ruth Foss
https://twitter.com/PastorRuthFoss
http://www.facebook.com/pastorruthfoss
http://www.ahandmaidenofthelord.blogspot.com
http://pastorruth.posterous.com/
A Handmaiden of the Lord
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
http://www.suncookumc.org
http://facebook.com/groups/136632035559/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Suncook-United-Methodist-Church/102221356487965
Suncook, NH


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