May 15, 2022
Fifth Sunday of Easter
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
They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love arr. Mark Hayes
Welcome and Announcements
Call to Worship
*Call to Worship
One: When the people of God had forgotten who they were through their long years as slaves, God used Moses to tell them
Many: Behold, I am doing a new thing
One: When the people of God were taken into captivity, broken, defeated, and lost, the prophets let them know God said.
Many: Behold, I am doing a new thing
One: When the people of God were trapped in legalism and insular thinking, the Word became flesh and God lived into the words.
Many: Behold, I am doing a new thing
One: When we are fearful of the future and looking for hope to cling to, the Lord speaks to us again
Many: Behold, I am doing a new thing. Follow me into a future of hope.
Praising God
Opening Hymn
This Is a Day of New Beginnings UMH# 383
Concerns and Prayers with the Lord’s Prayer
UMH # 895
Solo
He Never Said a Mumbalin’ Word arr. Moses Hogan
Brooke Reyes
Hearing and Proclaiming the Word of God
A Reading from the New Testament
Revelation 21:1-6 | The New Heaven and the New Earth
Solo
My God, How Endless Is Thy Love Gordon Young
Elijah Smith
The Reading from the New Testament
Acts 11: 1-18 | Peter’s Report to the Church at Jerusalem
Sermon
Expanding Love | Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Responding to the Word
Prayer of Confession & Assurance of Pardon
God of Miraculous reimaginings of life, you bring forth life out of death. Bring us into new life, abundant and full. 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.
Sending Into God’s World
Blessing of the Tithes and Offerings
Doxology UMH# 94
Hymn
If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee UMH# 142
Dismissal with Blessing
Postlude
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling arr. Sharon Wilson
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
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