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©Order of Worship October 03, 2021
Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost
&
Hispanic Heritage Month

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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: “Que Empiece la Cancion”, Traditional Puerto Rican Melody………………………………………Greg D.
 
Greetings……………………….……………Elizabeth B.
 
Opening Prayer: ……………….…………….…Diane C.
 
Opening Hymn: “Days of Elijah” #3186 W&S
Words and Music: Robin Mark ©1996 Song Solutions Daybreak UK, Admin.
North and South America by Integrity’s Hosanna Music (ASCAP)
 
1. These are the days of Elijah,
declaring the Word of the Lord.
And these are the days of your servant, Moses;
righteousness being restored.
And though these are days of great trials,
of famine and darkness and sword,
still we are the voice in the desert crying,
‘Prepare ye the way of the Lord.’
 
Behold he comes riding on the clouds,
shining like the sun at the trumpet call.
So lift your voice, it’s the year of Jubilee.
And out of Zion’s hill salvation comes.
 
2. These are the days of Ezekiel,
The dry bones becoming as flesh.
And these are the days of your servant, David;
rebuilding the temple of praise.
And these are days of the harvest; 
the fields are as white in the world.
And we are your laborers in your vineyard
declaring the Word of the Lord.
 
Behold he comes riding on the clouds,
shining like the sun at the trumpet call.
So lift your voice, it’s the year of Jubilee.
And out of Zion’s hill salvation comes.
 
Behold he comes riding on the clouds,
shining like the sun at the trumpet call.
So lift your voice, it’s the year of Jubilee.
And out of Zion’s hill salvation comes.
 
Old Testament Lesson Genesis 2:18-24…………Diane C.
2:18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.”
 
2:19 So out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
 
2:20 The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper as his partner.
 
2:21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
 
2:22 And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
 
2:23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.”
 
2:24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.
 
Hymn of Preparation: “Holy, Holy, Holy,
 (Santo, Santo, Santo)   #2007 TFWS
Words and Music: Argentine folk song
 
Holy, holy, holy. My heart, my heart adores you!
My heart knows how to say to you: You are holy, Lord!
 
Santo, santo, santo. ¡Mi corazón te adora! Mi
Corazón te sabe decir: ¡Santo eres, Dios!
 
Gospel Lesson:  Mark 10:13-16………………Diane C.
 
10:13 People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them.
 
10:14 But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.
 
10:15 Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.”
 
10:16 And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.
 
Sermon….……….…………………………….Pastor Steven
 
Offertory Solo: “Through It All”, Words and Music by Andrae Crouch © 1966. Renewed 1994 by Manna Music, Inc.………………….…………….…….Michael L.
 
Giving of our tithes and offerings………… Diane C.
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Offertory Response:  “The Doxology” #95 UMH
Words: Thomas Ken, 1674 Music: Attr. 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……………………………………Diane C.
 
Prayers of The People………………….…Elizabeth B.
 
Closing Hymn: “Jesus Loves Me” #191 UMH
Words: Stanza 1 by Anna B. Warner, 1860
Music: William B. Bradbury, 1862
Public Domain
 
1. Jesus loves me! This I know, for the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to him belong; they are weak, but he is strong.
Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so.
(Sing Twice)
 
Jesus Loves the Little Children
Words: Clare H. Woolston 1800s
Music: George F. Root
Public Domain
 
Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red and yellow, black & white
They are precious in His sight
Jesus loves the little children of the world
(Sing Twice)
 
Dismissal with Blessing……….………..Pastor Steven
 
Postlude: “Lord, Here Am I”, Words by Fanny J. Crosby, Music by John Ness Beck, © 1984 Beckenhorst Press, Inc………….…………………………….……………..Greg D.  

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