I give you a new commandment,
that you love one another.
Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.
John 13:34
THE WORSHIP OF GOD
May 22, 2016 v 10:45 a.m.
Traditions v Sanctuary
Mission Festival Sunday
THE WORSHIP OF GOD
May 22, 2016 v 10:45 a.m. Sanctuary
Mission Festival Sunday
PRELUDE
We Walk By Faith (Dunlap’s Creek)
Dr. Diana Lee Lucker
James Biery
CHIMING OF THE HOUR
INTROIT
Unclouded Day
Chancel Choir, Paige Armstrong, Directing
John Ross
PRAYER OF INVOCATION
+ PROCESSIONAL HYMN
Rev. J.K. Alwood
arr. Shawn Kirchner
We Are Walking in the Light of God
Chris Paulson, Gjembe
Red # 366
We are walking in the light of God.
We are singing in the light of God.
We are dancing in the light of God.
We are praying in the light of God.
+ UNISON PRAYER & LORD’S PRAYER Lindy Purdy
Leader: We come to worship today because we love You, and we
want to love You more.
All: We come to worship seeking love in our lives; love for family, friends, strangers and enemies.
Leader: In this time of worship touch and fill our hearts with love.
All: and open our hearts to Your love which passes all understanding.
Leader: Guide us all, o God, as we seek to inspire the world with the inclusive love
of Jesus.
All: Help us to love one another as You have loved us.
Leader: Hear us now as we pray the prayer He taught, saying:
All: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily
bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us
not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
+ GLORIA PATRI Glory be to the Father
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.
+ PASSING OF THE PEACE
COMMUNITY MOMENTS
Lindy Purdy
John Ross
CALL TO GENEROSITY
Checks made payable to WCC designated to Mission Festival in the memo line
will be given to our ministry partners, Opportunity International’s
Emprendedora Technical High School in Nicaragua
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
Jacob Watson, Tenor
OFFERTORY
American Spiritual
arr. Moses Hogan
+ DOXOLOGY
Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise God all creatures here below;
Praise God above, ye heavenly host; Creator, Christ and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Lindy Purdy
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
I Dream a World
Chancel Choir
ANTHEM
Langston Hughes & Dwight Bigler
SCRIPTURE
John 13:34
Leader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.
All: Thanks be to God!
Molly Whitman
Word, Inc.
Mark Thompson
MESSAGE
Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love
+ CLOSING HYMN
Red #459
(Refrain:) Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love,
show us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
Kneels at the feet of his friends, silently washes their feet,
Jesus, our brother, a humble man. (refrain)
Neighbors are wealthy and poor, varied in color and race;
neighbors are near and far away. (refrain)
These are the ones we would love, these are the ones we would serve;
all these are neighbors, your children, too. (refrain)
Text © 1969 Hope Publishing Co. Carol Stream, IL. All rights reserved. Used with permission, CCLI 50578
+ BENEDICTION
John Ross Leader: For what does the Lord require of us?
All: To do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with our God. (Micah 6:8)
Siyahamba
John Behnke
Dr. Diana Lee Lucker, Organ POSTLUDE
+ You are invited to stand.
…The End of Worship, the Beginning of Service…
We are Called to Care for one another. Following the Benediction, a member of our
Clergy Team will remain at the front of the Sanctuary to receive your joys and concerns.
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Join us downstairs following worship
as our Mission Festival continues with fun, games, lunch, & fundraising!
All net profits will go to Opportunity International’s
Opportunity Nicaragua, Emprendedora Technical High School.
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The Chancel flowers are given by
Jodie Nyberg, Patrick Morgan & Autumn Toussaint
in celebration of these beautiful children and youth we are blessed to work with weekly.
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Speaker
Liturgists
Music
Deacon Chancel Guild
Head Ushers
Ushers
WORSHIP LEADERS
Mark Thompson, Chair of Opportunity International Global Board
Rev. Dr. John F. Ross, Rev. S. Lindy Purdy Dr. Diana Lee Lucker, Paige Armstong
Shirley Hogan
Jane Norris
Jake Beard & Peggy Douglas
The Ken Thome Team MUSIC TODAY (Thomas Paulson)
The Chancel Choir is singing a new 2015 setting of Langston Hughes’ (1902-1967) iconic
poem. It is an eloquent expression of hope for a world where all humankind treats each
other with dignity, respect and selflessness.
I dream a world where man no other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth and peace its paths adorn.
I dream a world where all will know sweet freedom’s way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul, nor avarice blights our day.
A world I dream where black or white, whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth, and every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang its head,
And joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankindof such I dream, my world!