September 11, 2022
Fourteenth 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
The Solid Rock arr. Gary McCoy
Welcome and Announcements
Call to Worship
Inspired by Psalm 139
One: We’ve come to worship God,
Many: who loved us before we were yet born,
One: who knows us even better than we know ourselves,
Many: whose presence never leaves us,
One: and whose love for us never ceases.
Many: This is our God. Let’s worship together!
Concerns & Prayers with the Lord’s Prayer
Rev. Lisa Hartzog UMH# 895
Hymn
Morning Has Broken UMH# 145
A Reading from the Old Testament
Musical Meditation
Abide with Me arr. Ron Mallory
Handbell Choir, directed by Lucy Butterworth
A Reading from the Gospels
Sermon
Seeking What’s Lost | Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Prayer of Confession & Assurance of Pardon
Our perfect parent in heaven searches endlessly for all children with the open arms of love. None of us are ever forgotten or forsaken. 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
This Is My Song UMH# 437
Stanzas 1 and 3
Postlude
Amazing Grace arr. James Koerts
Today’s Worship Participants
Our Pastor: Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Music Director: Dr. Joel Reed
Pianist: Patty Higgins
Liturgist: Carol Kinsey
Handbell Director: Lucy Butterworth
Pastor Emeritus: Rev. Wiley Cooper
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