April 3, 2022
The Fifth Sunday in Lent
Enhance your online worship experience
Whether you’re a first-time online visitor or a life-long member, we welcome and celebrate the ways you enrich our collective worship of a scattered yet gathered Children of God. As we begin our service, we invite you to light a candle, just as we do in the prelude during our in-person worship. Our two altar candles symbolize that Christ was both a human being and God. A light being carried into the world shows that Jesus Christ is for all people - everywhere. Just as a the acolyte carries the lighted candlelight into the congregation, the light symbolizes the light of Jesus Christ preceding us into the world where we as the church are to serve.
Gathering: The Chiming of the Trinity
Prelude
Morning Has Broken | arr. Malcolm C. Wilson
Handbell Choir, directed by Lucy Butterworth
Welcome and Announcements
Call to Worship
Inspired by Isaiah 43:2
One: When we pass through the waters,
Many: God is there with us.
One: When we suffer and feel hopeless,
Many: God is there with us.
One: When we are joyful and celebratory,
Many: God is there with us.
One: Whether we feel triumphant or defeated,
Many: God is there with us, always.
Come, let us worship together with Emmanuel, God with us.
Written by Rex. Mindi
Praising God
Hymn
You Satisfy the Hungry Heart | UMH# 629
Musical Meditation
Be Still, My Soul | arr. Sandra Eithun
A Reading from the Epistles
Concerns and Prayers with the Lord’s Prayer
UMH# 895
Hearing and Proclaiming the Word of God
The Reading from the old testament
Sermon
Doing a New Thing | Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Responding to the Word
Prayer of Confession & Assurance of Pardon
Trust in the promise of redemption. Trust in the new and abundant life here for you now. In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven and made new.
In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven and made new.
Thanks be to God.
Solo
Give Me Jesus | arr. Moses Hogan
Alex Ngamhuy
The Celebration of Holy Communion
The Great Thanksgiving and Communion | Musical Setting D pp. 23-24
Breaking the Bread
Giving the Bread and Cup
The Prayer of Thanksgiving
Sending Into God’s World
Blessing of the tithes and offerings
Doxology | UMH# 94
Hymn
Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy | UMH# 340
Stanzas 1,2,3
Dismissal with Blessing
Postlude
Nearer, My God, to Thee | arr. James Koerts
Today’s Worship Participants
Our Pastor: Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Music Director: Dr. Joel Reed
Pianist: Patty Higgins
Handbell Director: Lucy Butterworth
Pastor Emeritus: Rev. Wiley cooper