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A Service for the Lord’s Day
2nd Sunday of Easter
(*Please stand in body or in spirit)
The Instrumental Prelude and Time for Meditation
Announcements, Rev. Hana Elliott
Celebrations and the Birthday Song,
Happy birthday, happy birthday, your friends are all singing.
May the year that is coming bring gladness to you.
May it teach you to be helpful, kindhearted, and loving.
Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to you.
*Call to Worship: (1)
Leader: O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
People: His steadfast love endures forever!
Leader: The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.
People: This is God’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.
Leader: O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
People: His steadfast love endures forever!
Leader: This is the day that the Lord has made;
People: Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
*Hymn #47 “Holy, Holy, Holy”
*Call to Confession:
When we keep our fears and faults locked up inside us, it is hard to be healed and receive new life. So trusting the Lord’s desire to give us peace, let us open ourselves to God in confession, first in silence, and then aloud together.
*Prayer of Confession, In Unison (2)
(Begin with individual silent prayer before joining in unison)
God of empty tombs and empty people: when we hesitate to speak of your hope, forgive us, and give us voice. When we find it difficult to love another, forgive us, and give us new compassion. When we want to stand with the high and mighty, forgive us, and put us next to the poor and oppressed. When we stay locked behind our fears and doubts, forgive us, and send us out to share your grace. When we cannot believe your Word of new life, forgive us, and fill us with your joy.
*Assurance of Forgiveness:
Hear the good news of God’s promise: I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven! Thanks be to God!
*The Gloria #108, In Unison
Glory be to the Father And to the Son and to the Holy Ghost
As it was in the beginning, Is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
*Passing of the Peace:
God makes peace within us. Let us claim it.
God makes peace between us. Let us share it.
May the peace of Christ be with you. And also with you.
Prayer for Illumination:
Living God, as the risen Christ came into the locked room of the first disciples, may your Word enter into us, by the power of your Holy Spirit, so that we who have not seen may yet believe. Amen.
First Scripture Reading: Acts 5:27-32 (pg. 1710)
Second Scripture Reading: John 20:19-31 (pg. 1697)
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord
People: Let our thanks and praise be to God!
Children’s Message, Mrs. Phyllis Holt
Sermon: “So I Send You”
*Hymn #584 “I Would Be True”
*Affirmation of Faith, (3)
Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death—even death on a cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess to the glory of God: Jesus Christ is Lord! Amen.
Call to Offering:
God gives new life to all that is, including ourselves and all that sustains us. So let our tithes and offerings be our songs of praise and thanksgiving in response to the God who loves us and frees us!
Offering, Monetary gifts may be placed in the offering plates as they are passed among the pews.
*Doxology #109
Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Praise God all creatures here below,
Praise God above ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
*Prayer of Dedication, (4)
Let us Pray: Generous and surprising God, when we thought that death had claimed your only Son, you amazed us with the resurrection. Surprise us again with your ability to turn these humble offerings into gifts that will transform the world through our witness to your love. Amen.
Prayers of the People, (5)
….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 debts as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.
Choral Response
Hear our prayer, O Lord, hear our prayer, O Lord,
Incline thine ear to us, and grant us thy peace. Amen
*Hymn “Christ Is Risen! Shout Hosanna!” (Back Page)
*Charge & Blessing, (6)
The busy world awaits our compassion. God believes in us.
Sometimes we will give our best yet fail. God believes in us.
At other times we will succeed in spite of our stumbling. God believes in us.
Go gladly, daring to succeed or fail to the glory of God. God believes in us.
*Choral Response: “Go, My Children, with My Blessing” (Insert)
Go, my children, fed and nourished, closer to me.
Grow in love and love by serving, joyful and free.
Here my Spirit’s power filled you;
here my tender comfort stilled you.
Go, my children, fed and nourished, joyful and free.
*The Choral Amen,
Amen, Amen, Amen.
(1) from Psalm 118
(2) by Thom Shuman
(3) Philippians 2:5-11
(4) adapted from Laura Jaquith Barlett.
(5) adapted from Susan Miller
(6) adapted from Bruce Prewer.
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