April 16, 2023
Second 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
Jesus Christ Is Risen Today arr. James Koerts
Welcome and Announcements
Call to Worship
Based on Psalm 122
One: I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!”
Many: To give thanks to the name of the LORD.
One: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.”
Many: “Peace be within your walls, and security within your towers.”
One: For the sake of my relatives and friends I will say, “Peace be within you.”
Many: For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.
Hymn
Jesus Shall Reign UMH# 157
Children’s Message
Concerns and Prayers with the Lord’s Prayer
UMH# 895
A Reading from the New Testament
Duet
When the Mist Clears Away Larry Groce
Cindy Fulton and Chip Hayden
The Reading from the Gospels
Sermon
Peace & Life | Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Prayer of Confession & Assurance of Pardon
Jesus enters into the locked doors of our spirits! Receive this Spirit and allow the peace of Christ to be within you. 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.
Affirmation of Faith
A Statement of Faith of the Korean Methodist Church
UMH #884
Blessing of the Tithes and Offerings
Make a Gift of a Tithe or Offering
Doxology | UMH# 94
Hymn
The Spirit Sends Us Forth to Serve TFWS# 2241
Postlude
Crown Him with Many Crowns arr. James Koerts
Today’s worship participants
Our Pastor: Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Music Director: Dr. Joel Reed
Pianist: Patty Higgins
Music Intern: Nick Skaggs
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