Service of Worship
Prelude – Hani
Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord
Andreas Armsdorf
© Public Domain
Welcome and Opening Prayer
Opening Prayer
Jesus calls us
to praise and prayer,
to song and silence;
Jesus calls us to worship.
Jesus calls us
to hearing and healing,
to service and solidarity;
Jesus calls us to love.
Jesus calls us
to advocacy and action,
to protest and provision;
Jesus calls us to justice.
Let us heed the call of Christ.
Let us worship together with joy.
Opening Hymn 369 — Blessed Assurance
1 Blessed assurance Jesus is mine
O what a foretaste of glory divine
Heir of salvation purchase of God
Born of His Spirit washed in His blood
Refrain
This is my story this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
This is my story this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
2 Perfect submission perfect delight
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight
Angels descending bring from above
Echoes of mercy whispers of love
3 Perfect submission all is at rest
I in my Savior am happy and blest
Watching and waiting looking above
Filled with His goodness lost in His love
Blessed Assurance
Fanny Jane Crosby | Phoebe Palmer Knapp
© Public Domain
Children’s Time with Ms Becky
Joys and Concerns — Pastoral Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
Lord we come, sitting in our living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms and backyards.
We come seeking your Spirit to lift us up and renew our strength.
We come seeking a hope that only comes from you.
We come dear Lord.
Fill us with your Spirit.
Fill us with your hope.
Fill us with your presence.
Attend to our prayers.
Hear our cries of mourning, heartache and frustration.
Be with those who are struggling, fighting and enduring.
Protect our frontline workers.
And help us all to find the safety of your shore.
We offer all our hearts to you as we pray together the
prayer that binds us as brothers and sisters in Christ,
Taught to us by our Savior Jesus Christ,
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,
for ever. 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 – Mason
Be Thou My Vision (Slane)
Carlton Raymond Young | Eleanor Henrietta Hull | Mary Elizabeth Byrne | United Methodist Publishing House
© Words: 1964, 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
© Music: 1964 Abingdon Press
CCLI License # 656051
Doxology
Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow (Old 100th)
Louis Bourgeois | Thomas Ken
© Public Domain
Offertory Prayer
Generous and loving God, we remember. We remember the others who have encouraged us. Many people have taught us. We have been forgiven. We have been loved. We admit that we haven’t done it all ourselves. In a way, this offering is a response to all that has come before us. We pray that the money will be used to encourage, to teach, to forgive, and to love in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Scripture Reading – Matthew 4:18-25 (NRSV)
18 As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea—for they were fishermen. 19 And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fish for people.” 20 Immediately they left their nets and followed him. 21 As he went from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them. 22 Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed him.
23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people. 24 So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought to him all the sick, those who were afflicted with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics, and he cured them. 25 And great crowds followed him from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.
Sermon – Pastor Stacy Dickson
The Cat and the Hat
Closing Hymn 428 — For The Healing Of The Nations
1 For the healing of the nations
Lord we pray with one accord
For a just and equal sharing
Of the things that earth affords
To a life of love in action
Help us rise and pledge our word
2 Lead us forward into freedom
From despair Your world release
That redeemed from war and hatred
All may come and go in peace
Show us how through care and goodness
Fear will die and hope increase
3 All that kills abundant living
Let it from the earth be banned
Pride of status race or schooling
Dogmas that obscure Your plan
In our common quest for justice
May we hallow life’s brief span
4 You Creator-God have written
Your great name on humankind
For our growing in Your likeness
Bring the life of Christ to mind
That by our response and service
Earth its destiny may find
For The Healing Of The Nations (Cwm Rhondda)
Fred Kaan | John Hughes
© Words: 1968 Hope Publishing Company
© Music: Public Domain
CCLI License # 656051
Benediction
Postlude – Hani
Trumpet Voluntary
John Travers
© Public Domain