Join Us for September 13th Worship Service!!!

Order of Worship September 13th, 2020, 15th Sunday After Pentecost

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The worship video will be available live at 11:00am.
Text for hymns are found below each hymn.  Click on the hymn highlighted text for music. 

Prelude: “Theme from Exodus” by Ernest Gold………Gregory Dixon
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Greeting & Opening Prayer….Pastor Juan                                                   
 
Opening Hymn: “Go Down Moses”  #448 (lines 6-10 only)
The United Methodist Hymnal
© 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
Words and Music: African American spiritual, adapted and arranged by William Farley Smith, Exodus 3:7-12
 
“6. As Israel stood by the water’s side,
let my people go;
at God’s command it did divide,
let my people go.
Go down (go down) Moses (Moses)
way down in Egypt’s land;
tell old Pharaoh to let my people go!
 
7. When they had reached the other shore,
let my people go;
they sang a song of triumph o’er,
let my people go.
Go down (go down) Moses (Moses)
way down in Egypt’s land;
tell old Pharaoh to let my people go!
 
8. O Moses, the cloud shall cleave the way,
let my people go;
a fire by night, a shade by day,
let my people go.
Go down (go down) Moses (Moses)
way down in Egypt’s land;
tell old Pharaoh to let my people go!
 
9. Your foes shall not before you stand,
let my people go;
and you’ll possess fair Canaan’s land,
let my people go.
Go down (go down) Moses (Moses)
way down in Egypt’s land;
tell old Pharaoh to let my people go!
 
10. This world’s a wilderness of woe,
let my people go;
O let us on to Canaan go,
let my people go.
Go down (go down) Moses (Moses)
way down in Egypt’s land;
tell old Pharaoh to let my people go!”
      
1st Old Testament Reading: Exodus 14:19-31…….Juliet Kallon
 
Prayers of the People: Please comment with your prayer concerns and especially offer up those things that cause your soul to be in a place of deep lament this day.
After each concern:
Leader: Lord in your mercy
All: Hear our prayers
 
Hymn of Preparation:
“In the Midst of New Dimensions” #2238
The Faith We Sing
© 1994 Julian B. Rush
 
“1. In the midst of new dimensions,
in the face of changing ways,
who will lead the pilgrim peoples
wandering in their separate ways?
 
God of rainbow, fiery pillar,
leading where the eagles soar,
we your people, ours the journey
now and ever, now and ever, now and evermore.
 
2. Through the flood of starving people,
warring factions and despair,
who will lift the olive branches?
Who will light the flame of care?
 
God of rainbow, fiery pillar,
leading where the eagles soar,
we your people, ours the journey
now and ever, now and ever, now and evermore.
 
3. As we stand a world divided
by our own self-seeking schemes,
grant that we, your global village,
might envision wider dreams.
 
God of rainbow, fiery pillar,
leading where the eagles soar,
we your people, ours the journey
now and ever, now and ever, now and evermore.
 
4. We are man and we are woman,
all persuasions, old and young,
each a gift in your creation,
each a love song to be sung.
 
God of rainbow, fiery pillar,
leading where the eagles soar,
we your people, ours the journey
now and ever, now and ever, now and evermore.
 
5. Should the threats of dire predictions
cause us to withdraw in pain,
may your blazing phoenix spirit
resurrect the church again.
 
God of rainbow, fiery pillar,
leading where the eagles soar,
we your people, ours the journey
now and ever, now and ever, now and evermore.”
 
2nd Old Testament Reading: Exodus 15:1b-11, 20-21……Juliet Kallon
 
Sermon: “God is in this place” Pastor Juan      
 
Giving of our tithes and offerings……………………Juliet Kallon
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Offertory Hymn: “El Shaddai” #123
The United Methodist Hymnal
Words and Music by Michael Card and John Thompson
© 1981 Mole End Music
 
(Please sing twice)
“El Shaddai, El Shaddai,
El Elyon na Adonai;
age to age you’re still the same
by the power of the name.
 
El Shaddai, El Shaddai,
Erkahmka na Adonai;
we will praise and lift you high,
El Shaddai.”
 
Translation of Hebrew
El Shaddai: God Almighty
El Elyon: The Most High God
na Adonai: O Lord
Erkahmka: We will love you
 
Doxology: “Glory Be to the Father” #71
The United Methodist Hymnal
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.”
 
Prayer after receiving……………………………………Pastor Juan
 
Closing Hymn: “What a Mighty God We Serve” #3016
Worship & Song
Words & music: Traditional African Folk song
Arrangement © 2011 Jackson Henry
(Please sing twice)
 
“What a mighty God we serve.
What a mighty God we serve.
Angels bow before you,
heaven and earth adore you.
What a mighty God we serve.”
 
Announcements………………………………………..Lorri Bingham
 
Dismissal with blessing…………………Pastor Juan                                    
 
Postlude: “Shalom to You” #666
The United Methodist Hymnal
Words: Elise S. Eslinger, 1980
Music: Traditional Spanish melody; harmony by Carlton R. Young, 1989
Words © 1983 and harmony © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
 
(Please sing once)
“Shalom to you now, shalom, my friends.
May God’s full mercies bless you, my friends.
In all your living and through your loving,
Christ be your shalom, Christ be your shalom.”

 
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