May 21 @ St. Paul's UMC: Worship

Flowers from Sandra Jordan

Choir offering!

Hyeji Park offers the postlude

Fellowship fun

Claudia Mills was today's fellowship hostess.

Ascension Sunday

Service begins at this link.

Today’s Meditation Verse: “Look, I’m sending to you what my Father promised, but you are to remain in the city until you have been furnished with heavenly power.”  —Luke 24:49

Welcome... Pastor Charles

Prelude... Hyeji Park / “I Love to Tell the Story,” by William G. Fischer

*Call to Worship (Psalm, 47, CEB)... Amy Abshire

Clap your hands, all you people! Shout joyfully to God with a joyous shout!    Because the LORD Most High is awesome, He is the great king of the whole world. He subdues the nations under us, subdues all people beneath our feet. He chooses our inheritance for us: the heights of Jacob, which He loves. God has gone up with a joyous shout— the LORD with the blast of the ram’s horn. Sing praises to God! Sing praises! Sing praises to our king! Sing praises because God is king of the whole world! Sing praises with a song of instruction! God is king over the nations. God sits on His holy throne The leaders of all people are gathered with the people of Abraham’s God because the earth’s guardians belong to God; God is exalted beyond all. 

*Hymn... “Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain” (UMH #315)

Prayer for Ascension Sunday... Amy Abshire

O God, You have glorified our victorious Savior with a triumphant resurrection from the dead, and ascension into heaven, where He sits at Your right hand. Grant, we ask You, that His triumphs and glories may ever shine in our eyes to make us see more clearly through His sufferings, and more courageously endure our own; being assured by His example, that if we endeavor to live and die like Him, for the cause of Your love in ourselves and others, You will raise our dead bodies again, and conforming them to His glorious body, call us above the clouds, and give us possession of Your everlasting kingdom. Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

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Community prayer requests, concerns, and celebrations

Pastoral Prayer / The Lord’s Prayer... Pastor Charles

Epistle Lesson: Ephesians 1:15-23... Amy Abshire

Choral Anthem... “Old Time Religion Medley,” arranged by Mark Hayes

Second Lesson: Acts 1:1-11... Pastor Charles

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

Sermon... Pastor Charles / “There’s a lot to tell”

*Hymn... “Thine Be the Glory” (UMH #308)

*Words for the Journey... Pastor Charles

Postlude... Hyeji Park / “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name,” by Oliver Holden