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
Solo
Be Thou My Vision arr. Brenda Portman
Brooke Reyes
A Reading from the New Testament
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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