May 29, 2016
Gathered at The Family Life Center, 16349 Chillicothe Road
Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023
Ministers to the World: All the Congregation
Ministers to the Congregation: All the Church Staff
May 29, 2016
Prelude
9th Sunday in Ordinary Time
10 am
Battle Hymn of the Republic (Traditional/C. Marohnic) Marcia Snavely, organ
Welcome and Announcements and Fellowship of Prayer
Rev. Hamilton Throckmorton
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Introit
How Great Is our God (Tomlin, Reeves and Cash)
Bill Haddix, solo
* Call to Worship
Tina DiFranco, Worship Leader
One: We gather together from diverse paths and places, to worship as one body.
All: But no matter where we are, or where we are from, we are welcome here.
One: We come with beliefs and doubts, failures and successes. We are sinners and
we are saints, all fully human.
All: But God knows us deeply, and loves us just as we are.
One: We ask for grace to see as God sees, to love as God loves.
All: May we open our hearts and minds to God’s love and compassion.
One: As a sign of our welcoming to all, let us offer each other a sign of peace.
* Passing of Christ’s Peace
* Hymn
O Beautiful for Spacious Skies
(See Back)
Invocation (unison)
Uniting God, grant us your vision for this world.
Open our eyes to see the gifts of unity as well as the blessings of diversity.
Open our ears to hear those who think as we do, as well as those with different beliefs.
Open our hearts to embrace those we love, as well as those we have a hard time loving.
Move us that we may understand that all people are your children.
We ask this in Jesus’ name.
Amen.
* Those who are able stand
**** Worshipers may be seated
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Scripture
Psalm 96:1-9
Message from Padre Tomas Sergio Alberto Zamora Calderon of Chacraseca, Nicaragua
* Hymn
Santo, Santo, Santo
Santo, santo, santo. ¡Mi corazón teadora!
Mi corazón te sabe decir: ¡Santo eres Señor!
Holy, holy, holy. My heart, my heart adores you!
My heart knows how to say to you: Holy are you, Lord!
Invitation to Offering Our Lives and Resources
Anthem
Breathe (M. Barnett)
Bill Haddix, solo
* Hymn of Dedication
Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Praise God, all creatures here below.
Praise God, above ye heavenly hosts,
Creator, Christ and Holy Ghost.
No. 47
* Lord’s Prayer
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 sins, as we forgive those
who sin against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Scripture
Galatians 1:1-12
Sermon
* Hymn
Rev. Hamilton Throckmorton
Somos el Cuerpo de Cristo (We Are the Body of Christ)
Somos el Cuerpo de Cristo
We are the body of Christ
* Benediction
* Postlude
God of Our Fathers (National Hymn) (Warren/Seal)
~ Departing to Service ~
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Marcia Snavely, organ
O Beautiful for Spacious Skies
O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain,
for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed full grace on thee,
and crown thy good with servanthood from sea to shining sea.
O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife,
who more than self their country loved,
and mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine,
till all success be nobleness and every gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years
thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears!
America! America! God mend thine every flaw,
confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law.
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