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Please use this outline as you participate in our online worship. You can also download a PDF of our order of worship, here. The weekly announcements for our community can be found on our website home page.
Our online worship will begin at 10:30am central on Sunday morning. Grab a candle to recall the light of Christ, and something that you can use for communion so that you are ready to worship God.
Send us an email and let us know you joined us! See you at 10:30!
Our online worship will begin at 10:30am central on Sunday morning. Grab a candle to recall the light of Christ, and something that you can use for communion so that you are ready to worship God.
Send us an email and let us know you joined us! See you at 10:30!
Words of Welcome
Sharing Christ's Peace
Prelude to Worship
Gathering in the Light
Invitation to Worship
one: How do we come to know the love of God?
ALL: Not through word or speech alone!
one: The love of God is truth and action.
ALL: Embodied and incarnate.
one: Tangibly turning the world on end,
ALL: Their love is bold and brave.
one: Manifesting materially,
ALL: that life may thrive today,
one: Their presence is a force.
ALL: Love is felt. Love is witnessed.
one: Love is experienced and encountered.
ALL: Let us worship the God who dwells in the flesh of the kind and the just.
Opening Song (Sing with us!) - CH 558 Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us
Invocation
Prayer of Illumination (Sing with us!) - Be still and know, that I am God.
Scripture - The Good Shepherd and the Lost Sheep, a Children Worship & Wonder story based on Psalm 23 and John 10, by Sonja M. Stewart and Jerome Berryman
Scripture - Matthew 28:11-15 (CEB)
Meditation - Proof of Life - Guest Preacher, Rev. Josh Patty, the Regional Minister and President of the Christian Church (DOC) in the Upper Midwest
Song of Response - “He Leadeth Me”
Prayers of the People (Submit a Prayer Request) and Our Lord's Prayer
Invitation to Stewardship - Click Here to Donate
Doxology (Sing along!) - CH 25 (v. 3) Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Prayer of Dedication
Celebration of Communion - ALL are welcome!
Words of Institution: Matthew 26:26-29
Musical Response (Sing along!) - CH 384 Here at Thy Table, Lord
Invitation to Discipleship
Closing Hymn (Sing along!) - CH 556 Trust and Obey
Sharing the Light
Blessing & Benediction
one: The Spirit of Christ rises to meet the needs of a world in pain –
ALL: a world threatened by violence and exploitation,
one: by a refusal to change,
ALL: by condemnation and greed.
one: The groans of the earth,
ALL: the precious lives of all people,
one: the possibilities of genuine cooperation and collaboration –
ALL: they depend on the manifestation of a radical love:
one: Bold. Bodily. Baptismal.
ALL: May it become so among us.
Postlude
Acknowledgements and permissions:
Permission to use and stream the music in this worship service obtained from ONE LICENSE #A-730652 and CCLI #36152 and CSPL143030. All rights reserved.
Portions of our liturgy written by or adapted from Led by Love: Worship Resources for Year B, by Lavon Bayler. United Church Press: Cleveland, OH 1996. Pages 92-93, and from ©enfleshed, April 25, 2021.
Sharing Christ's Peace
Prelude to Worship
Gathering in the Light
Invitation to Worship
one: How do we come to know the love of God?
ALL: Not through word or speech alone!
one: The love of God is truth and action.
ALL: Embodied and incarnate.
one: Tangibly turning the world on end,
ALL: Their love is bold and brave.
one: Manifesting materially,
ALL: that life may thrive today,
one: Their presence is a force.
ALL: Love is felt. Love is witnessed.
one: Love is experienced and encountered.
ALL: Let us worship the God who dwells in the flesh of the kind and the just.
Opening Song (Sing with us!) - CH 558 Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us
Invocation
Prayer of Illumination (Sing with us!) - Be still and know, that I am God.
Scripture - The Good Shepherd and the Lost Sheep, a Children Worship & Wonder story based on Psalm 23 and John 10, by Sonja M. Stewart and Jerome Berryman
Scripture - Matthew 28:11-15 (CEB)
Meditation - Proof of Life - Guest Preacher, Rev. Josh Patty, the Regional Minister and President of the Christian Church (DOC) in the Upper Midwest
Song of Response - “He Leadeth Me”
Prayers of the People (Submit a Prayer Request) and Our Lord's Prayer
Invitation to Stewardship - Click Here to Donate
Doxology (Sing along!) - CH 25 (v. 3) Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Prayer of Dedication
Celebration of Communion - ALL are welcome!
Words of Institution: Matthew 26:26-29
Musical Response (Sing along!) - CH 384 Here at Thy Table, Lord
Invitation to Discipleship
Closing Hymn (Sing along!) - CH 556 Trust and Obey
Sharing the Light
Blessing & Benediction
one: The Spirit of Christ rises to meet the needs of a world in pain –
ALL: a world threatened by violence and exploitation,
one: by a refusal to change,
ALL: by condemnation and greed.
one: The groans of the earth,
ALL: the precious lives of all people,
one: the possibilities of genuine cooperation and collaboration –
ALL: they depend on the manifestation of a radical love:
one: Bold. Bodily. Baptismal.
ALL: May it become so among us.
Postlude
Acknowledgements and permissions:
Permission to use and stream the music in this worship service obtained from ONE LICENSE #A-730652 and CCLI #36152 and CSPL143030. All rights reserved.
Portions of our liturgy written by or adapted from Led by Love: Worship Resources for Year B, by Lavon Bayler. United Church Press: Cleveland, OH 1996. Pages 92-93, and from ©enfleshed, April 25, 2021.
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