October 2, 2022
World Communion Sunday / Seventeenth 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
Chimes of the Trinity
Prelude
Now the Silence arr. John Carter
Welcome and Announcements
Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Call to Worship
One: We come this morning from weeks that held joy and sorrow
Many: We gather with all that we are
One: We come to find Jesus, who calls us to seemingly impossible heights
Many: How can we follow when our pain weighs us down
One: We come to live into our faith, walking with the One who comes to us
Many: We come to be transformed by the one who loved us first
Hymn
Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation UMH# 559
Stanzas 1,2,4
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
Duet
Lord of the Starfields Bruce Cockburn
Chip & Cindy Hayden
A Reading from the Gospels
Sermon
Increasing Faith | Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Prayer of Confession & Assurance of Pardon
Faith can move mountains and mulberry trees. If we allow ourselves to trust in the grace and power God offers, our lives can be transformed.
In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven and made new. Thanks be to God.
The Celebration of Holy Communion
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 Thou Who This Mysterious Bread UMH# 613
Postlude
O Thou Who This Mysterious Bread arr. Dorothy V. Frisch
Today’s Worship Participants
Our Pastor: Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Music Director: Dr. Joel Reed
Pianist: Patty Higgins
Liturgist: Margaret Cirtain
Handbell Director: Lucy Butterworth
Pastor Emeritus: Rev. Wiley Cooper
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