January 7 @ St. Paul's UMC: Worship

Flowers from Sandra Jordan

Heyji offers the postlude

Fellowship treats!

We enjoy spending time together!!

First Sunday after Epiphany

(link to today's worship service)

Today’s Meditation Verse: “And there was a voice from heaven: ‘You are my Son, whom I dearly love; in You I find happiness.’” —Mark 1:11 (CEB)

Welcome...Pastor Charles

Prelude...Hyeji Park / “Here I Am to Worship” by Tim Hu

*Call to Worship...Rebecca Glancy

In worship, we who are called “Christian” gather to express our unity with God and with each other. We are a community which spans centuries, bound together by a covenant whose signature is baptism. 

We have inherited this covenant in baptism from those in ages past who bequeathed to us their faith and their faithfulness. In our worship today, we renew our commitment to live in this covenant, and we draw together a wider community of believers, including those who bore witness at our baptism. As faithful people have done for years, let us worship God.

—Touch Holiness (1990, Ruth C. Duck & Maren Tirabassi)

*Hymn...“This Is the Spirit’s Entry Now” (UMH #608)

Prayer for Baptism of the Lord (UMH #23)...Rebecca Glancy

God in heaven, at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan You pro-claimed Him Your beloved Son and anointed Him with the Holy Spirit. Grant that all who are baptized into His name may keep the covenant   they have made, and boldly confess Him as Lord and Savior, who with You and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, One God, in glory everlasting. Amen.

Community prayer requests, concerns, and celebrations

Pastoral Prayer...Pastor Charles

Old Testament Lesson: Genesis 1:1-5...Rebecca Glancy

Choral Anthem...“Let Us Come” by Karen Marrolli

Celebration of Ministry...Scott Glancy / PATH Fund

New Testament Lesson: Acts 19:1-7...Pastor Charles

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

Sermon...Pastor Charles / “It doesn’t have to be complicated”

Communion 

*Hymn...“At the Font We Start Our Journey” (TFWS #2114)

*Words for the Journey...Pastor Charles

Postlude...Hyeji Park / “All Creatures of Our God and King” from Geistliche Kirchengesang