I Speak for the Seas

Service of Worship

Prelude – Hani

All For Jesus
Malcolm Archer

Welcome and Opening Prayer

God of life and love
We rejoice in your abundant gifts
God of all peoples and all places
We celebrate your generosity and grace
God of the earth and the heavens
We praise you for your provision
You visit the earth and water it
Softening it with showers and blessing its growth
You make springs gush forth in the valleys
From your lofty abode you water the mountains
God of life and love
We bless your holy name and offer our worship
In praise of all you do. Amen.

Opening Hymn — #145 Morning Has Broken

1. Morning has broken,
Like the first morning,
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird;
Praise for the singing,
Praise for the morning,
Praise for them springing
Fresh from the Word.

2. Sweet the rain’s new fall,
Sunlit from heaven,
Like the first dewfall
On the first grass;
Praise for the sweetness,
Of the wet garden,
Sprung in completeness
Where His feet pass.

3. Mine is the sunlight,
Mine is the morning,
Born of the one light
Eden saw play;
Praise with elation,
Praise every morning,
God’s re-creation
Of the new day.

Morning Has Broken (Bunessan)
Elenor Farjeon | Carlton R. Young
Words: Public Domain
Music: © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
Used by Permission. CCLI License # 656051

Scripture Reading — Psalm 65 (NRSV)

1 Praise is due to you,
O God, in Zion;
and to you shall vows be performed,
2 O you who answer prayer!
To you all flesh shall come.
3 When deeds of iniquity overwhelm us,
you forgive our transgressions.
4 Happy are those whom you choose and bring near
to live in your courts.
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house,
your holy temple.

5 By awesome deeds you answer us with deliverance,
O God of our salvation;
you are the hope of all the ends of the earth
and of the farthest seas.
6 By your strength you established the mountains;
you are girded with might.
7 You silence the roaring of the seas,
the roaring of their waves,
the tumult of the peoples.
8 Those who live at earth’s farthest bounds are awed by your signs;
you make the gateways of the morning and the evening shout for joy.

9 You visit the earth and water it,
you greatly enrich it;
the river of God is full of water;
you provide the people with grain,
for so you have prepared it.
10 You water its furrows abundantly,
settling its ridges,
softening it with showers,
and blessing its growth.
11 You crown the year with your bounty;
your wagon tracks overflow with richness.
12 The pastures of the wilderness overflow,
the hills gird themselves with joy,
13 the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,
the valleys deck themselves with grain,
they shout and sing together for joy.

Children’s Time with Ms Becky

Announcements, Joys and Concerns

Pastoral Prayer
God, our Creator, whose glory fills our planet, help us to discern your vibrant presence among us and our kin in creation, especially in the rivers, the streams and waterways of Earth. Help us empathize with your creatures who are suffering. Lift our spirits to rejoice with the vibrant world of the rivers. In the name of Christ, who reconciles and restores all things in creation. Amen.

Offering Our Gifts to the Lord
For those who are called and able, gifts and tithes can still be made through online giving, by mailing them in, and by dropping them off to the office through the secure mail slot to the left of the double door entry to the church hallway.

Offertory — Marshall and Leah

He Is There!
Mary Kay Beall
© 1990 Provindense Press
Used by Permission. CCLI License # 656051

Doxology

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
praise him, all creatures here below;
praise him above, ye heavenly host;
praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow (Old 100th)
Louis Bourgeois | Thomas Ken
Public Domain

Offertory Prayer
God, our Creator, through your love you have given us these gifts to share. Accept our offerings as an expression of our deep thanks and as signs of our concern for those in need, including our fellow creatures on planet Earth. With all Creation we give our praise, amen.

Sermon – Pastor Stacy Dickson
I Speak for the Seas

Communion Song – Los Cancioneros Master Choral Quartet (Video)
Let Us Break Bread Together
William Farley Smith
© 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
Used by Permission

Communion Invitation

Come, for all things are now ready. Come to the table with all your kin and share with all in need:
the gift of healing for those in pain, the gift of forgiveness for those in sin, the gift of assurance for those in doubt, and the gift of hope for those in tears.

Communion Blessing

Closing Hymn — #2008 Let All Things Now Living

1. Let all things now living
A song of thanksgiving
To God the Creator
Triumphantly raise
Who fashioned and made us
Protected and stayed us
Who still guides us on
To the end of our days
God’s banners are o’er us
His light goes before us
A pillar of fire
Shining forth in the night
Till shadows have vanished
And darkness is banished
As forward we travel
From light into light

2. His law He enforces
The stars in their courses
The sun in His orbit obediently shine
The hills and the mountains
The rivers and fountains
The deeps of the ocean
Proclaim Him divine
We too should be voicing
Our love and rejoicing
With glad adoration
A song let us raise
Till all things now living
Unite in thanksgiving
To God in the highest
Hosanna and praise

Let All Things Now Living
Katherine Kennicott Davis
© 1939. Renewed 1966 E.C. Schirmer Music Company
CCLI License # 656051

Benediction

May the Spirit of God,
who is above all and in all and through all,
fill you with the knowledge of God’s presence in Earth and the impulse of Christ within you.

Go in peace,
serving Christ and loving Earth!

Postlude – Hani

Allegro Moderato Maestoso
F. Mendelssohn
Public Domain