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GATHERING MUSIC WELCOME OPENING MUSIC“Fully Yours” (words projected)“Walk in Love” (words projected) PRAYER READINGExodus 14:11-12, 15:24, 16:2-4   They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt? Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, ‘Let us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us…

PRELUDE“In Thee is Gladness” (arr. Tim Graf)Tim Graf                                     WELCOME CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS GREETINGThe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And also with you. GATHERING HYMN“All Are Welcome” (St. 1-2, 5) (words projected)ELW # 641 PRAYER OF THE DAYLoving God, you are attentive to your people’s prayers as we cry out to you. Help us therefore learn to listen to others and grant us hearts that…

GATHERING MUSIC OPENING MUSIC“Holy Ground” PRAYER CHILDREN’S MESSAGEArlene Flancher READINGExodus 3:1-5, 7-8a, 13-15    Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness and came to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. Then Moses said, “I must turn aside and look at this great…

PRELUDE“Plenty Good Room” (arr. Jacqueline B. Hairston)Rachel Calvert, Tim Graf                                     WELCOME GATHERING HYMN“Holy, Holy, Holy” (Words Projected) PRAYER OF THE DAYLoving God, you meet us in the wilderness, and you transform our barren spaces into holy ground with your divine presence.  Help us to hear your voice as you call each of us into roles of leadership and service for the sake of your kingdom.   We pray this is Jesus’ name, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,…

PRELUDE“When in Our Music God is Glorified” (arr. Mark Albrecht)Jodi Edstrom, Barb Carroll WELCOME   GATHERING HYMN“Christ, Be Our Light”ELW # 715                                                     PRAYER OF THE DAYLoving God, you have given us a new identity through our baptisms, and you call us to love and serve others in your name.  Help us to live by the example that Tabitha set, as she faithfully pointed to you through her acts of love and kindness, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord,…

GATHERING MUSIC OPENING MUSIC“Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly” PRAYER CHILDREN’S MESSAGEShawna Berg READINGActs 12:6-17 The very night before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while guards in front of the door were keeping watch over the prison. Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off…

PRELUDE“Aprés Un Rêve” (Gabriel Faure)Anna Vazquez, Tim Graf  WELCOME GATHERING HYMN“Signs and Wonders”ELW # 672                                                     PRAYER OF THE DAYLoving God, the good news of the Gospel comes to us from unexpected places.  Help us to hear your voice as it comes to us through the lowly and the outcasts so that we remember that your love is for all people, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now…

GATHERING MUSIC OPENING MUSIC“Story to Tell” PRAYER CHILDREN’S MESSAGEShawna Berg READINGPsalm 121Grace Parker   I lift up my eyes to the hills—    from where will my help come?My help comes from the Lord,    who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved;    he who keeps you will not slumber.He who keeps Israel    will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper;    the Lord is your shade at your right hand.The sun shall not strike you by day    nor the moon by night.  The Lord will keep you from all…

PRELUDE“Idyll on Shall We Gather at the River”  (Sondra K. Tucker)Jodi Edstrom, Tim Graf                                     WELCOME  GATHERING HYMN “Children of the Heavenly Father”ELW # 781 PRAYER OF THE DAYLoving God, you have been our refuge and strength, and you will keep us when times are hard.  Help us to look to you in all circumstances of life and give us a renewed vision of your purposes for us and for our world.  We pray this is Jesus’ name, who lives and reigns…

GATHERING MUSIC“Greater Things” WELCOME/CALL TO WORSHIP SONG“You Are My All in All” PRAYER WELCOME/CAMP MINUTE CAMP BLESSING & SENDING READINGActs 8:26-38 Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire…

PRELUDE“Vocalise” (Sergei Rachmaninoff)Gary Denbow, Tim Graf WELCOME GATHERING HYMN“Awake, O Sleeper, Rise from Death” ELW # 452 PRAYER OF THE DAYLoving God, you call us to share the good news, and you send people our way who need to receive it! Keep us hopeful and grace-filled in these turbulent times and make us shine as your hands and feet in the world, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one…

GATHERING MUSIC“Rain” (Rob Scallon) Bodie Hanninen WELCOME/CALL TO WORSHIP SONG“My Lighthouse” PRAYER WELCOME/CAMP MINUTE CAMP BLESSING & SENDING READINGExodus 2:1-10 Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the…