Sunday Worship - November 8

Order of Worship - Sunday, November 8 The memorial candle is to honor the memory of Paul McWilliams. Welcome and Announcements Sam Hodges Choral Call to Wors...

Order of Worship - Sunday, November 8

The memorial candle is to honor the memory of Paul McWilliams.

 

Welcome and Announcements                                                                     Sam Hodges

 

Choral Call to Worship.     “But the Lord is Mindful of His Own”         Felix Mendelssohn

Cassie Evans, Diana McKinght, Diane Dillard, Janet McEowen, Jeanne Stephens, Linda Chianese.                                                      

                                                

At this time, please comment via Facebook Live what prayers you have so we can pray over them later   in the service

                                                                                        

Call to Worship                                                                                              Sam Hodges

 

Are you awake? Are you alert?

Christ is coming into our lives in a new way.

 

Are you watching the signs?

Are you interpreting what is happening today?

Christ is coming into our lives in a new way.

 

Do you see opportunities for ministry?

Do you see the poor, the homeless, the hungry, the needy?

Christ is coming into our lives in a new way.

 

Come, let us worship and let us work in the reign of God.

Christ has extended the invitation:

let us work together in the reign of God on earth.

  

Hymn                                         “Lift Every Voice and Sing”                             UMH 519

Lift ev'ry voice and sing ‘til earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies

of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud

as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us;
sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; facing the rising

sun of our new day begun, let us march on 'til victory is won.

Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope

unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the

place for which our fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has

been watered; we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
out from the gloomy past, ‘till now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our

bright star is cast.

 

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, thou who has brought us thus far

on the way; thou who has by thy might led us into the light, keep us forever in the

path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee;
lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee; shadowed beneath

thy hand, may we forever stand, true to our God true to our native land.

 

Passing of Peace                                                                                                   Adam White

 

Stewardship Moment                                                                                           Sam Hodges

 

Scripture                                            Amos 5: 18-24                                        Sam Hodges

Link to scripture: http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=471423186

 

 

Sermon                                            “Why Are We Here?”                            Jonathan Grace

 

Electronic Offertory Prayer                                                                       Jonathan Grace

 

Electronic Offering                                                                                    Jonathan Grace

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Offertory                         “O Lord, Support Us All the Day Long”                      Alan Pote Diana McKinght, Oboe

 

Doxology

Prayer Practices/Prayers of the People                                                   Jonathan Grace   

(Praying for what is shared on FB Live.)

 

Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name.

Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses,

As we forgive those that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation,

But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever.Amen

 

 

Birthdays                                                                                                        Adam White

Ezra Mwirigi                           11-10

Benjamin Pannell                    11-10

Ryan Hollimam                       11-14

Griffin Roberts                       11-14

 

Anniversaries

Andy Smith and Paul VonWupperfeld                               11-08                      

 

  

Benediction and Words of Assurance                                                         Jonathan Grace

Postlude                                “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”                  Johann Walther