Worship Service - May 8, 2022

                                 Elkton United Methodist Church

                                   Festival of the Christian Home

                                                  Mother’s Day

                                            Sunday, May 8, 2022

                                                               8:30 a.m. † 11:00 a.m.

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Prelude........................................... “Like the Murmur..... arr. by Michael Burkhardt

                                                            of the Dove’s Song”¹

Introit............................ “Alleluia, Alleluia!  Give Thanks”¹ .............Chancel Choir

Greeting and Welcome

Time of Centering Prayer

Response #2164 (TFWS)............................................................................................. “Sanctuary”

Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary, pure and holy, tried and true.  With thanksgiving, 

I’ll be a living sanctuary for you.

**Call to Worship

Leader:   Come, let us gather in the awareness of God’s love.

People:  God’s love has brought us to this place; it has made of us a church.

Leader:   We can live with confidence and hope, in the assurance that we are

               forgiven and accepted by a power greater than ourselves.

People:  Because we are forgiven, we too can forgive.

All:         Let us praise this God of endless grace, and offer our hearts’ true

               worship.

**Hymn #102 (UMH)..................................................................... “Now Thank We All Our God”

Call to Confession

Prayer of Confession (in unison)

Almighty God, for the day you have given us, with all its possibilities, we thank you.  

For your gifts of life and love, of labor and rest, we praise your holy name.  Forgive us 

that too often we are unappreciative while your goodness surrounds us; that we feel 

alone when there are many who love us; that we despair when your strength is near at 

hand.  Tear down the walls that isolate us, make strong the ties that bind us, and help us 

to walk together with joy in all your ways, through the grace of Jesus Christ and the 

power of your Spirit.  Amen.

Silent Prayers of Confession

Words of Pardon and Assurance

Musical Offering.......................... “Shine, Jesus, Shine”¹............. Women of the Choir

New Testament Lesson, Colossians 3:12-17 (page 201)

Leader: This is the Word of God for the people of God.

People: Thanks be to God!

Musical Offering................ “Rise Up and Call Her Blessed”¹ ............hancel Choir

**Gospel Lesson, John 19:25b-27 (page 114)

Leader: Christ is risen!

People: Christ is risen indeed!

**Response #445 (UMH)............................................. “Happy the Home When God Is There”

Sermon.................................................. “Family Portraits”............... Rev. Karen Bunnell

Hymn #2051 (TFWS).......................................... “I Was There to Hear Your Borning Cry”

Prayer Concerns/Pastoral Prayer

The Lord's Prayer (in unison)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.  Thy kingdom come, thy will be 

done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread.  And forgive us our

trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.  And lead us not into temptation, 

but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. 

AMEN.

Response #2215 (TFWS)....................................................................................... “Cares Chorus”

I cast all my cares upon you, I lay all of my burdens down at your feet, and anytime 

that I don't know what to do, I will cast all my cares upon you.

Announcements

**Hymn #695 (UMH)........................................... “O Lord, May Church and Home Combine”

**Benediction

**Congregational Response

Bind us together, Lord, bind us together with cords that cannot be broken.

Bind us together, Lord, bind us together, bind us together in love. 

Postlude............................................ “Look, Ye Saints!”¹................. Thomas Chesterton

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                                        Flowers on the altar are given in honor of all Mothers

                                                                by the Women of EUMC

                              Flowers on the organ – Remembering dearly Connie and Marlene

                                                         All of our love, The Gautsch Family

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**Indicates the congregation should stand if able

UMH: United Methodist Hymnal (red cover)

TFWS: The Faith We Sing (black cover)

W&S:  Worship & Song (green cover)

¹Public Music performance provided for and reported to CCLI Licensing

Copyright License:  #1824650/Recording License:  CSPL148932