GREETING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE.............................................. “THAXTED”1................... ARR. BY CHARLES
CALLAHAN
INTROIT........................... “COME,
CHRISTIANS JOIN TO SING”1...................... CHANCEL
CHOIR
OPENING
TIME OF CENTERING PRAYER
Leader: Some of us come today with hearts weighed
down with anxiety, fear,
despair, and hurt. Together we cling to this truth:
People: God’s steadfast love endures forever.
Leader: Some of
us come today with hearts that feel light with relief, joy, comfort,
and
gratitude. Together we cling to this
truth:
People: God’s steadfast love
endures forever.
Leader: Some of us come today not knowing what we
think about God, confused
and disappointed that the
world God made is so full of evils of every kind.
Together we cling to this
truth:
People: God’s steadfast love endures forever.
Leader: Be with us, God, in all that we bring with
us, as we gather to encounter your
unchanging love.
All: We come today to enter the dance of
the Trinity who is immutable in love.
AMEN.
**HYMN #140 (UMH)......................................................................... “GREAT
IS THY FAITHFULNESS”
We know what it is like to be rejected, but we also remember turning our backs on others.
We have experienced conflict, as well as caused pain to others. Let us confess our sins to the
One who seeks
to forgive us on this day, and every day.…
Holy and uncontainable God,
For trying to contain you, forgive us.
For trying to limit you, forgive us.
For trying to bind you, forgive us.
Sometimes we are foolish enough to believe
that it is to our advantage to reduce you to something we can
comprehend.
Forgive us, Almighty God. AMEN.
SILENT PRAYERS OF CONFESSION
Leader: Do not lose heart! God seeks to fill us with forgiveness, wonder,
and joy!
People: Glory to you, God of mercy and grace. You want only the best for us,
and so we give our praises to
you. Thanks be to God, we are forgiven!
AMEN.
**RESPONSE #103 (UMH)............................................. “IMMORTAL,
INVISIBLE, GOD ONLY WISE”
SERMON.....................................
“GOD HEARS US” .......................................... REV.
ERIC WARNER
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is peace; where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
love. There is comfort in life’s darkest hour; there is light and life, there is help and
power in the Spirit, in the Spirit of the
Lord.
PRAYER CONCERNS/PASTORAL PRAYER
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.
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.
GRADUATE PRESENTATION
**HYMN #2243 (TFWS)...................................................................... “WE
ALL ARE ONE IN MISSION”
This is the faith
that Christians proclaim:
The power of God
that created the world is the power of love.
The power in Jesus
that rescues the world is the power of love.
The power in us
that changes the world is the power of love.
Therefore, I bid
you go in the name of love. AMEN!
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.
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Flowers on the altar are given in loving memory of Sarah & Fred Schmidt
by Susan, Susanna & Mary Schmidt
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**Indicates the
congregation should stand if able
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