November 6, 2022
All Saints Sunday | Worship + Holy Communion
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
Chimes of the Trinity
Prelude
Morning Has Broken arr. Malcolm C. Wilson
Handbell Choir directed by Lucy Butterworth
Welcome and Announcements
Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Call to Worship
One: In all our weakness and strength, with our youth-filled spirits and aging bodies,
Many: we come to be your people, O God.
One: Strong in faith and eager with questions, singing our praise and whispering our prayers,
Many: we come to be your people, O God.
One: Filled with saintly determination yet mindful of our human limitations,
Many: we come to be your people, O God.
One: Made strong in your endless love for us, we know ourselves to be yours and
Many: we come to be your people, O God.
One: May we truly become your people today. Amen. +
Hymn
For All the Saints UMH# 711
Stanzas 1,2,3, and 6
Concerns & Prayers with the Lord’s Prayer
Rev. Lisa Hartzog UMH# 895
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come; thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever. Amen
A Reading from the Old Testament
Solo
Jesus, My All, to Heaven Is Gone arr. K. Lee Scott
Alex Ngamhuy
A Reading from the Gospels
Sermon
God of the Living | Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Prayer of Confession & Assurance of Pardon
God's perpetual light shines on all the saints, all gathered here and the cloud of witnesses that surround us with love. Nothing can separate us from the love of God revealed in Christ Jesus. 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.
The Celebration of Holy Communion
Remembering Our Saints
Kathy Beck; Rev. R.C. (Grump) and Isabel Griffeth; Linda Langhrun; Henry Mugabe, President, Zimbabwe Theological Seminary; Colton Schmid; J.C. and Sallie Spinner; John Charles Wells; and Emily Cooper’s mother, Margaret
The Great Thanksgiving and Communion
Musical Setting D UMH pp. 23-24
Breaking the Bread
Giving the Bread and Cup
The Prayer of Thanksgiving
Blessing of the Tithes and Offerings
Doxology UMH# 94
Hymn
O God, Our Help in Ages Past UMH# 117
Postlude
Remember James Koerts
Today’s Worship Participants
Our Pastor: Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Music Director: Dr. Joel Reed
Pianist: Patty Higgins
Liturgist: Tony Payne
Handbell Director: Lucy Butterworth
Pastor Emeritus: Rev. Wiley Cooper
Music Intern: Alex Ngamhuy
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