June 19, 2022
Second Sunday After Pentecost
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
As the Deer arr. Sharon Wilson
Opening Prayer
Loving God, you who are our father and our mother, we thank you that you have shown us how important it is to follow your example as we grow in faith. Teach us to be obedient to your will, respecting you as children ought. Thank you for your mercy despite our disobedience. Strengthen us to stand up against the challenges of this world, honoring your name and trusting your grace.
In the Name of your Son, we pray. Amen.
Call to Worship
One: Our relationships with our fathers are complicated.
Many: For some of us, our father's love is like God’s love --too deep, too long, too wide, too strong to measure.
One: Some of our dads are here; some were never here.
Many: For some of us, God's love fills in the empty spaces our fathers left behind.
One: All of us are shaped by the relationship or lack of relationship with our fathers.
All: On this day when we remember what it means to have a father or be a father, we recognize the importance of fathers in our communities. We pledge as a congregation to love and nurture the fathers among us so that they will manifest the love of God in all that they do. **
Opening Hymn
Rejoice, the Lord is King UMH# 715
Concerns and Prayers with the Lord’s Prayer
UMH# 895
Readings from the Old Testament
Solo
Seek the Lord John Carter
Alex Ngamhuy
The Reading from the Epistles
Sermon
A Father’s Dilemma | Rev. Wiley Cooper
Prayer of Confession & Assurance of Pardon
In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven and made new.
Thanks be to God.
Blessing of the Tithes and Offerings
Doxology UMH# 94
Hymn
The Spirit Sends Us Forth to Serve TFWS# 2241
Dismissal with Blessing
God Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens arr. Olive Huisman
Today’s call to worship was written by the Rev. Dr. LaGretta Bjorn is the pastor of the United Methodist Churchof Spring Valley in Spring Valley, New York and is a clergy member of the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Today’s Worship Participants
Our Pastor: Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Pastor Emeritus: Rev. Wiley Cooper (Preaching)
Music Director: Dr. Joel Reed
Pianist: Patty Higgins
Handbell Director: Lucy Butterworth
Pastor Emeritus: Rev. Wiley Cooper
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