August 7 @ St. Paul's UMC: Worship

The table is set

Jim & Joey prepare the elements for communion

Ron and Lorie offer their musical gift

                                  Ninth Sunday after Pentecost                                 

Today’s Meditation Verse: “Faith is the reality of what we hope for, the proof of what we don’t see.” —Hebrews 11:1

Welcome... Pastor Charles

Prelude... Lorie Courier / “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty”

*Call to Worship... Rebecca Glancy

The Spirit of God calls to us, with sighs too deep for words. The Spirit of God calls to us, claiming us, Summoning us to become more than we now are, calling us by name: God’s children.

—Reprinted by permission of the publisher from Touch Holiness, ed. Ruth C. Duck and Maren C. Tirabassi. © 1990 The Pilgrim Press

*Hymn... “Here I Am” (TFWS #2178)

A Modern Affirmation of Faith (UMH #885)... Rebecca Glancy    

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is the one true Church, apostolic and universal, whose holy faith let us now declare: 

WE BELIEVE in God the Father, infinite in wisdom, power and love, whose mercy is over all His works, and whose will is ever directed to His children’s good. WE BELIEVE in Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of man, the gift of the Father’s unfailing grace, the ground of our hope, and the promise of our deliverance from sin and death. WE BELIEVE in the Holy Spirit as the divine presence in our lives, whereby we are kept in perpetual remembrance of the truth of Christ and find strength and help in time of need. WE BELIEVE that this faith should manifest itself in the service of love as set forth in the example of our blessed Lord, to the end that the kingdom of God may come upon the earth. Amen.

*Offering/Doxology

Community prayer requests, concerns, and celebrations

Pastoral Prayer... Pastor Charles

Gospel Lesson: Luke 24:13-16, 28-35... Rebecca Glancy

Special Music... Lorie Courier and Ron Revier, “My Lord, What a Morning”    

Second Lesson: Revelation 22:1-5... Pastor Charles

This is the Word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God.

Sermon... Pastor Charles / "Street food in New Jerusalem"  

Communion / The Lord’s Prayer

*Hymn... “You Satisfy the Hungry Heart” (UMH #629)

*Words for the Journey... Pastor Charles

*Postlude... Lorie Courier / “Shine, Jesus, Shine”