Posts from July 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…