May 29, 2022

Seventh 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

  Leaning on the Everlasting Arms      arr. Anna Laura Page

Welcome and Announcements

Call to Worship  

One:  Children of God: welcome!
Many:  Welcome to this place of love and grace,
One:  Welcome to this place of hope and perseverance.
Many:  God invites all of us to be a part of the beloved community,
One:  God invites all of us to share in the good news:
Many:  We are welcome, just as we are. We are loved, just as we are.
            In gratitude for all of this, let us worship God. **

Praising God

Opening Hymn

Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken           UMH# 731

Concerns and Prayers with the Lord’s Prayer

UMH # 895

Anthem    

Create in Me a Clean Heart           arr. Mark Patterson
Danielle Fann, flute

Hearing and Proclaiming the Word of God

A Reading from the New Testament

Romans 6:15-23

Solo

Be Thou My Vision                     arr. Brenda Portman
Brooke Reyes

A Reading from the New Testament

Acts 16:16-34 

Sermon

Slaves of the Most High God | Rev. Lisa Hartzog

Responding to the Word

Prayer of Confession & Assurance of Pardon

The Easter season is a season of miraculous power. Let us embrace the power that God has for us this day. 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

We Are God’s People       TFWS# 2220

Dismissal with Blessing

Postlude

God of Love and God of Power         arr. J. Bert Carlson


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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