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| Our guests from Ghana and Pastor Charles |
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| Selma Adevu shares with the congregation. |
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| Fellowship before worship |
Fourth Sunday of Easter
(YouTube Link of the morning's worship)
Today’s Meditation Verse: “The believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to the community, to their shared meals, and to their prayers.”
—Acts 2:42
Welcome... Pastor Charles
Prelude... Lorie Courier / “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” arranged by Lloyd Larsen
*Call to Worship... Rebecca Glancy
Out of a world of cut-throat competition, of winners and losers, and too many left behind we come together. The world’s ways are not our ways. The world’s ways are not Christ’s ways.
Out of a world of hatred, violence, individualism, and life-taking power we gather as Koinonia, as God’s people. God’s ways are inclusive, expansive, and life- giving for all peoples.
Come and worship the One whose love knows no limits! Swim and splash in the cleansing waters of divine community! Resurrect your spirits and souls in worship of the One! Praise be to the Everlasting One!
—written by Tim Graves, posted on LiturgyBits
*Hymn... “Jesus, United By Thy Grace” (UMH #561)
Litany for Others (inspired by 1 Peter 2:2-10)...Rebecca Glancy
God of grace and light, found within and out with the structures of humanity, You cannot be contained, but on occasion choose to dwell in hearts and homes. Glance lightly upon the hearts and homes dear to us, the people and places where we seek blessing.
Build up our homes: Where the happy may find peace; The sad may find comfort; The hungry may find food; The weary may find rest.
Build up the places where we work: Where the honest may find reward; The dedicated may find
delight; The imaginative may find new horizons.
Build up our community: Where the isolated may find friendship; The marginalized may find welcome; The unloved may find acceptance.
Build up our nation, loving Lord, And bless those entrusted with the care of our society’s fabric. May they use their skills, their calling, their hard graft to fashion communities of grace and under- standing, where generosity of heart and mind and soul may be not only the gilding of our daily life but its very core.
Build up the Church, redeeming Lord, So that all Your children may find their place, unique and special, chosen and essential to the living edifice of grace, whereby Your grace each one might know their value in Your economy, and their significance in Your eyes.
Help us all, this day, to be living stones, and not dead weights, dreaming dreams, and living gloriously the joy and kindliness Of a faith that edifies everything that life should be. In the name of our Saviour, our cornerstone, we pray. Amen
—written by the Rev. Dr. Derek Browning, posted on the Church of Scotland’s website
Community prayer requests, concerns, and celebrations
Pastoral Prayer / The Lord’s Prayer... Pastor Charles
Gospel Lesson: John 10:1-10... Rebecca Glancy
Choral Anthem... “Antiphonal Cantate” by Greg Gilpin
Epistle Lesson: Acts 2:42-47... Pastor Charles
This is the Word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God.
Sermon... Pastor Charles / “Devotion 101”
*Hymn... “Blest Be the Tie that Binds” (UMH #557)
*Words for the Journey... Pastor Charles
Postlude... Lorie Courier / “Let All Things Now Living,” arranged by Lloyd Larsen
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