August 21, 2022
Eleventh 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
O Master Let Me Walk with Thee arr. Livvy Huisman
Welcome and Announcements
Call to Worship
Inspired by Luke 13: 10-17
One: Come, all you who are struggling.
Many: Come, all you who are crippled by pain and suffering.
One: Come to worship a God who heals your pain.
Many: Come to worship a God who gives forgiveness.
Let us worship God, who sets us free and gives us new life!
~ posted on Waiting for Water
Hymn
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty UMH# 139
Concerns & Prayers with the Lord’s Prayer
Rev. Lisa Hartzog UMH# 895
A Reading from the Gospels
Solo
How Beautiful Are the Feet G. F. Handel
Brooke Reyes, Soprano
A Reading from the Old Testament
Sermon
What Are We Capable Of | Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Prayer of Confession & Assurance of Pardon
God is with you. Has always been with you since you were knit together in your mother's womb. Will always be with you. Know without doubt 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.
Blessing of the Tithes and Offerings
Doxology UMH# 94
Closing Hymn
The Spirit Sends Us Forth to Serve TFWS# 2241
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
Liturgist: Ann Clark
Handbell Director: Lucy Butterworth
Pastor Emeritus: Rev. Wiley Cooper
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