Posts from 2024

WELCOME/CALL TO WORSHIP OPENING WORSHIP SONGS“Rising Sun”“Love Like This” PRAYERS OF GOD’S PEOPLE CHILDREN’S MESSAGE READINGRuth 1:8-9, 16-18 But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back each of you to your mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me. The Lord grant that you may find security, each of you in the house of your husband.” Then she kissed them, and they wept aloud… But Ruth said, “Do not press me to leave you…

PRELUDE“Wade in the Water” (arr. Jacqueline Hairston)Rachel Calvert,  Tim Graf                          WELCOME  CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESSGathered into one by God’s Spirit, we are bold to confess our sins, our shortcomings, our failures, right here in the open, in the presence of God and of one another. (silence for reflection) God of grace,We confess that we have failed you, failed ourselves, failed one another. We assume the worst about those around us, rather than giving anyone the benefit of the doubt. We do…

WELCOME/CALL TO WORSHIP OPENING WORSHIP SONGS“Christ Our Hope in Life and Death” PRAYERS OF GOD’S PEOPLE CHILDREN’S MESSAGE READING1 Samuel 25:18-20 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves, two skins of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys and said to her young men, “Go on ahead of me; I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband…

PRELUDE“  ” (J. S. Bach)Jodi Edstrom, Tim Graf WELCOME CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESSGathered into one by God’s Spirit, we are bold to confess our sins, our shortcomings, our failures, right here in the open, in the presence of God and of one another. (silence for reflection) God of grace,We confess that we have failed you, failed ourselves, failed one another. We assume the worst about those around us, rather than giving anyone the benefit of the doubt. We do the same…

WELCOME/CALL TO WORSHIP OPENING WORSHIP SONGS“Remember”“Lord, I Need You” PRAYERS OF GOD’S PEOPLE CHILDREN’S MESSAGE READINGDeuteronomy 6:4-9 Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. Bind them…

PRELUDE“Trio Sonata No. 1 in E-flat Major” (J. S. Bach)Gary Denbow,  Tim Graf                          CALL TO WORSHIP“I Like To“ (Yancy)VBS Kids WELCOME CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESSGathered into one by God’s Spirit, we are bold to confess our sins, our shortcomings, our failures, right here in the open, in the presence of God and of one another. (silence for reflection) God of grace,We confess that we have failed you, failed ourselves, failed one another. We assume the worst about those around us, rather…

WELCOME/CALL TO WORSHIP OPENING WORSHIP SONG“House of the Lord” PRAYERS OF GOD’S PEOPLE SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION WORDS OF INSTITUTION THE LORD’S PRAYER COMMUNION SONG“Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)”   CHILDREN’S MESSAGE READINGGenesis 50:15-21 Realizing that their father was dead, Joseph’s brothers said, “What if Joseph still bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong that we did to him?” So they approached Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this instruction before he died, ‘Say to…

PRELUDE “Prelude“ (Reinhold Gliere)Barb Carroll WELCOME CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESSGathered into one by God’s Spirit, we are bold to confess our sins, our shortcomings, our failures, right here in the open, in the presence of God and of one another. (silence for reflection) God of grace,We confess that we have failed you, failed ourselves, failed one another. We assume the worst about those around us, rather than giving anyone the benefit of the doubt. We do the same to ourselves, and sometimes,…