(Image: “Transfiguration” 20th Cent. Koenig, Peter)
©Order of Worship for Sunday February 11, 2024
Transfiguration Sunday
Black History Month
Scouting Sunday
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The worship video will be available live at 11:00 am
Prelude:………….“Steal Away to Jesus”…………………Greg D.
Words and Music: Afro-American Spiritual
Coming of the Light:………………………………………
Greetings:……………………………………Pastor Steven
Opening Prayer: …………….………..……Elizabeth B.
Opening Hymns: “Holy Ground” #2272 TFWS
Words and Music: Geron Davis © 1983 Meadowgreen Music Co.
/Songchannel Music Co.
We are standing on holy ground, and I know that there
are angels all around; let us praise Jesus now; we are
standing in his presence on holy ground.
We are standing on holy ground, and I know that there
are angels all around; let us praise Jesus now; we are
standing in his presence on holy ground.
We are standing in his presence on holy ground.
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” #703 UMH
Words: Afro-American spiritual Music: Afro-American spiritual
adapt. and arr. By William Farley Smith, 1987
Refrain
Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home;
swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.
1. I looked over Jordan, and what did I see,
coming for to carry me home? A band of angels
coming after me, coming for to carry me home.
Refrain
Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home;
swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.
2. If you get there before I do,
coming for to carry me home; tell all my friends I’m
coming too, coming for to carry me home.
Refrain
Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home;
Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.
3. I’m sometimes up, I’m sometimes down,
coming for to carry me home;
but still my soul feels heavenly bound,
coming for to carry me home.
Refrain
Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home;
swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.
4. The brightest day that I can say,
coming for to carry me home, when Jesus washed my
sins away, coming for to carry me home.
Passing of the Peace:……………………………Pastor Steven
Let us offer signs of reconciliation and peace to one another.
Gloria Patri:………“Glory Be to the Father” #71 UMH
Words: Lesser Doxology, 3rd-4th century
Music: Henry W. Greatorex, 1851
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.
Announcements:…………………………………………Lorri B.
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Offertory:…………….“Almighty”…………..Handbell Choir
Music: Wayne Watson, setting: Patricia Sanders Cota © 1998 Word Music
Offertory Response:….. “The Doxology” #94 UMH
Words: Thomas Ken, 1674 Music: Geistliche Kirchengesänge, 1623;
Adapt. © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise God,
all creatures here below: Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise God the
source of all our gifts! Praise Jesus Christ, whose power up-lifts! Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Prayer After Receiving:…………………………Pastor Steven
Prayers of the People:…………………………..Pastor Steven
Anthem:…………..“Simple Gifts”…………..Handbell Choir
Shaker Melody arr. By Patrician Sanders Cota © 1996 Agape
Gospel Lesson:………….Mark 9:2-9……….Melanie B.
Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them. And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, who were talking with Jesus.
Then Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” He did not know what to say, for they were terrified.
Then a cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud there came a voice, “This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him!” Suddenly when they looked around, they saw no one with them any more, but only Jesus.
As they were coming down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one about what they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
Hymn of Preparation: “God Is Here Today” #2049 TFWS
Words and Music: Trad. Mexican trans. C. Michael Hawn
© 1999 Choristers Guild
God is here today; as certain as the air I breathe,
as certain as the morning sun that rises, as
certain when I sing you’ll hear my song.
Sermon:….“The One From Eternity”……….…….Pastor Steven
Closing Hymn: “Shine, Jesus, Shine” 2173 TFWS
Words: Graham Kendrick (2 Cor. 46)
Music: Graham Kendrick; arr. By Jack Schrader, adapt.
© 1987 and this arr. ©1998 Make Way Music, admin. by Music Services in the Western Hemisphere
Refrain
Shine, Jesus, shine, fill this land with the
Father’s glory, blaze, Spirit, blaze, set our hearts on
fire; flow, river, flow, flood the nations with
grace and mercy, send forth your word, Lord,
And let there be light.
1.Lord, the light of your love is shining
in the midst of the darkness shining;
Jesus, Light of the World, shine upon us,
set us free by the truth you now bring us.
Shine on me, shine on me.
2.Lord, I come to your awesome presence
from the shadows into your radiance;
by the blood I may enter your brightness,
search me, try me, consume all my darkness.
Shine on me, shine on me.
3.As we gaze on your kingly brightness,
so our faces display your likeness;
ever changing from glory to glory,
mirrored here may our lives tell your story.
Shine on me, shine on me.
Dismissal with Blessing:………………………………Pastor Steven
Postlude:……………“Oh, I Know the Lord”……………..Greg D.
Afro-American Spiritual
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Sunday February 11th Worship Service