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+Amy Abshire is thankful that her husband is home from the hospital.
+Louise Cook gives thanks for family visits.
+Judy Waller is thankful for the twenty-four who are going as a group to the BDT to see the Sound of Music.
+Belinda Alkula gives thanks for the amazing dinner circle yesterday at the Old Spaghetti Factory.
+Pastor Charles and Belinda are blessed to begin their fifth year at St. Paul's UMC.
+We celebrate this week's birthday: Marcy Roberts
+We are blessed by those who served this week: Belinda Alkula (videographer / Zoom host), Etta Levitt (Zoom usher), Hyeji Park (piano), Suzanne Polacek (fellowship), Jim Vander Vorste (greeter), and Joey Vander Vorste (liturgist / flowers).
Concerns:
+Our church family mourns the death of Jerry Beaber yesterday at Morning Star.
+We lift up in our prayers all those from our fellowship who are traveling during this season.
+We join with the people of Baltimore who are waking up this morning to news of a mass shooting where two died and twenty-eight were injured.
+We join with many across our nation in mourning the deaths of the 150 killed and 468 injured due to gun violence last week.
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+As of now, 19 of us are signed up to see The Sound of Music at BDT Stage on Thursday, July 20. We still have tables available. We’d love to have you join us for this next-to-last show at BDT. Let Judy Waller know if you want to be a part of this group. Final count is due by June 22.
+Join us next Sunday for Hank Troy & Wende Harston's annual appearance at St. Paul's UMC. After the worship service, we will celebrate the July birthdays and anniversaries with a Sundae Sunday!
+Be sure to submit your anniversary information to the church office. There is also a sign-up sheet on the greeter's table. We are going to printing them in the newsletter along with the birthdays.
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| Flowers from the Vander Vorstes |
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| Let's celebrate! |
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| Hyeji Park offers the postlude |
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| We love to share! |
Today’s Meditation Verse: “I was glad when they said unto me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord.’” Psalm 122:1 (KJV)
Welcome...Pastor Charles
Prelude...Hyeji Park / “We Gather Together,” arranged by Bonnie Heidenreich
*Call to Worship (Psalm 33:1, 3-5, 20-22, Inclusive Bible)...Joey Vander Vorste
Sing out your joy to God, you who love justice— praise is fitting for loyal hearts. Sing God a new song, play with all your skill, and with shouts of joy! For the word of God is true and everything God does can be trusted. And so we wait for God, our help and our shield. For in You our hearts find joy; we trust in Your holy Name. May Your love be upon, O God, as we place all our hope in You.
*Hymn...“I Am Thine O Lord” (UMH #419)
Re-Instill in Us the Dreaming...Joey Vander Vorste
Our God, we pray on this occasion remembering, in particular, our country. We give you thanks for the good dreaming that envisioned a land of freedom and opportunity —a land in which to grow respect for all its citizens. We give you thanks for all who sacrificed in so many ways to create and to sustain such dreaming. We give you thanks for the many ways in which that dream has been and continues to be embraced and made manifest—as a better tomorrow is shaped for all—all within these borders and all without them too. We thank you for the call to let freedom shine, to let celebration of the dignity of all resound. But we also confess to you the many ways in which we fall short of our best dreaming—fall into immaturity, and selfishness—into shortsightedness—into too much of a focus on immediate benefits for some and a lesser tomorrow for all. We confess to binding the dream we apparently sometimes want to claim in word only—not in words made flesh. Re-instill in us the dreaming, God. Guide us into the disciplines of love and grace that cultivate those ideals of discipline and sacrifice—Of a commitment to our children and our children’s children that theirs should be a better land than ours is now—with more mature leaders and citizens than we are— with greater opportunities than we have known—with even deeper respect for all its citizens—a more far reaching vision—with richer examples of freedom and bravery because that’s the way we dream it to be. Ah, may it be so. Amen. —John Ballenger, A Preacher Musing website
Community prayer requests, concerns, and celebrations
Pastoral Prayer...Pastor Charles
Old Testament Lesson: Deuteronomy 10:12–13, 17–22...Joey Vander Vorste
Special Music...Hyeji Park / “How Great Thou Art,” arranged by Tiffany Hobson
Gospel Lesson: Matthew 7:21-29...Pastor Charles
This is the Word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God.
Sermon...Pastor Charles / “The Christian Airplane”
Communion / The Lord’s Prayer (See insert)
*Hymn...“Living for Jesus” (TFWS #2149)
*Words for the Journey...Pastor Charles
Postlude...Hyeji Park / “Abide with Me,” arranged by Summer D. Nelson
