Week of  September 4 & 5, 2010

Saturday, 5:00 p.m.

Sunday, 9:00 a.m.

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.