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to our worship! We invite visitors to take a church
brochure (located at the Visitor’s Center in
the north entrance). If you would like more information about our church, please talk to Pastor Janis. After the 9:00 service, we welcome you to join us for fellowship time in the lounge. ![]() We are a welcoming Christian community where all can experience the saving grace of Jesus Christ. We are growing as disciples of Christ as we teach, support, and nurture one another in ministry to our community and world. |
Worship Service
Bulletin[Church and Society Ministry Team] [ Resources ] Week
of September 4 & 5, 2010
Saturday, 5:00 p.m. ORDER OF WORSHIP Fifteenth Weekend After Pentecost PRELUDE “Little Partita on Lord Jesus Christ, Thou Living Bread” Gerhard Krapf WORDS OF WELCOME AND COMMUNITY CONCERNS QUIET PREPARATION FOR WORSHIP “I Love You, Lord” *CALL TO WORSHIP Leader: O Lord, you have searched me and known me! People: You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. Leader: You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. People: Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it altogether. Leader: You pursue me behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. People: Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it. *OPENING HYMN #152 “I Sing the Almighty Power of God” *UNISON PRAYER O God, you have bound us together in this life. Give us grace to understand how our lives depend on the courage, the industry, the honesty, and the integrity of all who labor. May we be mindful of their needs, grateful for their faithfulness, and faithful to our responsibilities to them, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. SUNG REPONSE #186 (vs. 1) “Alleluia EPISTLE READING Philemon 1:1-7 (page 215 in NT) GOSPEL READING Luke 14: 25-33 (page 78 in NT) TIME OF PRAYER Sharing Joys and Concerns Pastoral Prayer Lord’s Prayer 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, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. SPECIAL MUSIC “We Will Glorify” Twila Paris GIVING OF OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS Offertory “A Charge To Keep Have I” Gordon Young *Presentation of Gifts and Doxology #94 Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise God, all creatures here below: Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise God the source of all our gifts! Praise Jesus Christ whose power uplifts! Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! *Prayer of Dedication…in unison Gracious God, who has filled all heaven and earth with good things for us to share and enjoy, we would use our offerings to honor you. May the ministries our offerings support bear fruits of justice and peace. We look to Jesus as our model for giving of ourselves. Amen. OLD TESTAMENT READING Jeremiah 1:4-10 (page 698 in OT) SERMON “Known to the Depths” Rev. Wesley Falk, Interim Pastor *HYMN#617 (Vs. 1,2) “I Come With Joy” SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION Consecration of the Elements Receiving the Bread and Cup *HYMN #614 “For the Bread Which You Have Broken” *BENEDICTION *SUNG RESPONSE #666 “Shalom To You” Shalom to you now, shalom, my friends. May God’s full mercies bless you, my friends. In all your living and through your loving, Christ be your shalom, Christ be your shalom. *POSTLUDE “On What Has Now Been Sown” Gordon Young Welcome to our worship! Please join us in the Lounge on Sunday for Fellowship Time after the service. Organist/Special Music: John Abuya Saturday Liturgist: Karen Bowes Saturday Greeters: Chuck & Mary Lou Himes and Eleanor Goodwill Sunday Greeters: North: Don & Carol Clement South: Vicki Roth Sunday Fellowship Time (Ice Cream!): Debra Matthies & Norene Lowers Sunday Power Point: Tom Calenberg Sunday, 9:00 a.m. See above. |