Join Us for Worship Sunday September 27th at 11:00 am!!!

Order of Worship September 27th, 2020, 17th Sunday After Pentecost

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

Prelude………………………………………….…………Brittany Hayes
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Greetings & Opening Prayer……………………………Pastor Juan                                                    
 
Opening Hymn: “Lead On, O Cloud of Presence” #2234
The Faith We Sing
Words by Ruth Duck (Exodus 13: 21-22)
Music by Henry T. Smart
© 1992 GIA Publications, Inc.
 
“1. Lead on, O cloud of Presence, the exodus is come,
in wilderness and desert our tribe shall make its home.
Our slavery left behind us, new hopes within us grow.
We seek the land of promise where milk and honey flow.
 
2. Lead on, O fiery Pillar, we follow yet with fears,
but we shall come rejoicing though joy be born of tears.
We are not lost, though wandering, for by your light we come,
and we are still God’s people. The journey is our home.
 
3. Lead on, O God of freedom, and guide us on our way,
and help us trust the promise through struggle and delay.
We pray our sons and daughters may journey to that land
where justice dwells with mercy, and love is law’s demand.”
 
Psalms Reading: Psalms 78:1-4, 12-16………………Diane Corbin
 
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 prayer read:
Leader: Lord in your mercy
All: Hear our prayers.
 
Hymn of Preparation: “He Leadeth Me, O Blessed Thought” #128
The United Methodist Hymnal
Words by Joseph H. Gilmore, 1862 (Psalm 23)
Music by William B. Bradbury, 1864
 
“1. He leadeth me: O blessed thought!
O words with heavenly comfort fraught!
Whate’er I do, where’er I be,
still ’tis God’s hand that leadeth me.
 
He leadeth me, he leadeth me, by his own hand he leadeth me;
his faithful follower I would be, for by his hand he leadeth me.
 
2. Sometimes mid scenes of deepest gloom,
sometimes where Eden’s bowers bloom,
by waters still, o’er trouble sea,
still ’tis his hand that leadeth me.
 
He leadeth me, he leadeth me, by his own hand he leadeth me;
his faithful follower I would be, for by his hand he leadeth me.
 
3. Lord, I would place my hand in thine,
Norever murmur nor repine;
Content, whatever lot I see,
since ‘tis my God that leadeth me. 
 
He leadeth me, he leadeth me, by his own hand he leadeth me;
his faithful follower I would be, for by his hand he leadeth me.
 
4. And when my task on earth is done,
when by the grace the victory’s won,
e’en death’s cold wave I will not flee,
since God through Jordan leadeth me. 
 
He leadeth me, he leadeth me, by his own hand he leadeth me;
his faithful follower I would be, for by his hand he leadeth me.”
 
Old Testament Reading: Exodus 17:1-7……………Diane Corbin
 
Sermon:”I will be there…in front of you”…………Pastor Juan   
 
Giving of our tithes and offerings…………………Lorri Bingham
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Offertory Hymn:“Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow” (The Doxology) #95
The United Methodist Hymnal 
Words by Thomas Ken, 1674
Music attributed to Louis Bourgeois, 1551
 
“Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
praise him, all creatures here below;
praise him above, ye heavenly host;
praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.”
 
Prayer after receiving…………………………………Pastor Juan
 
Closing Hymn: “Let All Things Now Living” #2008
The Faith We Sing
Words by Katherine K. Davis with a traditional Welsh melody
Words © 1938, 1966 E.C.Schirmer
 
“1. Let all things now living a song of thanksgiving to God the Creator triumphantly raise, who fashioned and made us, protected and stayed us, who guides us and leads to the end of our days.
 
God’s banners fly o’er us; God’s light goes before us, a pillar of fire shining forth in the night, till shadows have vanished and darkness is banished, as forward we travel from light into light.
 
2. The law God enforces, the stars in their courses and sun in its orbit obediently shine; the hills and the mountains, the rivers and fountains, the depths of the ocean proclaim the Divine.
 
We, too, should be voicing our love and rejoicing; with glad adoration a song let us raise, till all things now living unite in thanksgiving: To God in the highest hosanna and praise!”
 
Announcements………………………………………….Lorri Bingham
 
Dismissal with blessing……………………..Pastor Juan                                    
 
Postlude……………………………………………………Brittany Hayes
 

 
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