Join Us For Worship, Sunday April 24th at 11am in Person or on Youtube!!!

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©Order of Worship April 24, 2022

Second Sunday of Easter

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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: “I’d Rather Have Jesus” ………………Greg D.
Words by R. Miller, Music by George Shea, ©1939. Renewed 1967 Word Music, LLC
 
Greetings………………………………………Pastor Steven
 
Opening Prayer: ………………………………..…Chris M.
 
Opening Hymns: “Up from the Grave He Arose” #322 UMH
Words and Music: Robert Lowry, 1874
 
1.Low in the grave he lay, Jesus my Savior,
waiting the coming day, Jesus my Lord!
 
Refrain
Up from the grave he arose, with a mighty triumph
O’er his foes; he arose a victor from the dark domain,
and he lives forever, with his saints to reign. He
arose! He arose!  Hallelujah! Christ arose!
 
2.Vainly they watch his bed, Jesus my Savior;
vainly they seal the dead, Jesus my Lord!
 
Refrain
Up from the grave he arose, with a mighty triumph
O’er his foes; he arose a victor from the dark domain,
and he lives forever, with his saints to reign. He
arose! He arose!  Hallelujah! Christ arose!
 
3.Death cannot keep its prey, Jesus my Savior,
he tore the bars away, Jesus my Lord!
 
Refrain
Up from the grave he arose, with a mighty triumph
O’er his foes; he arose a victor from the dark domain,
and he lives forever, with his saints to reign. He
arose! He arose!  Hallelujah! Christ arose!
 
“In the Garden” #314 UMH
Words: C. Austin Miles, 1913 Music: C. Austin Miles, 1913;
adapt. By Charles H. Webb, 1987
 
1.I come to the garden alone while the dew is
still on the roses, and the voice I hear falling on my ear,
the Son of God discloses.
 
Refrain
And he walks with me, and he talks with me, and he
tells me I am his own; and the joy we share as we
tarry there, none other has ever known.
2.He speaks, and the sound of his voice is so sweet the
birds hush their singing, and the melody that he gave to
me within my heart is ringing.
 
Refrain
And he walks with me, and he talks with me, and he
tells me I am his own; and the joy we share as we
tarry there, none other has ever known.
 
3.I’d stay in the garden with him though night
around me be falling, but he bids me go; thru the
voice of woe his voice to me is calling.
 
Refrain
And he walks with me, and he talks with me, and he
tells me I am his own; and the joy we share as we
tarry there, none other has ever known.
 
Giving of our tithes and offerings ……………Chris M.
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Offertory: “Hands of Time”/“In His Time…..arr. Greg D.
 
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:……………………Pastor Steven

Hymn of Preparation:   “He Is Lord”  #177 UMH
Words: Philippians 2:9-11 Music: Trad.; arr. By Tom Fettke, 1986
 
He is Lord, he is Lord! He is risen from the
dead and he is Lord! Every knee shall bow,
every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
 
New Testament Lesson: ……John 4:1-26 ……Chris M.
 
4 Now when Jesus Learned that the Pharisees had heard, “Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John” ² —although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized— ³ he left Judea and started back to Galilee. ⁴ But he had to go through Samaria. ⁵ So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ⁶ Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. ⁷ A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” ⁸ (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) ⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.)
¹⁰ Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” ¹¹ The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? ¹² Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” ¹³ Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” ¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”
¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.” ¹⁷ The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; ¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!” ¹⁹ The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. ²⁰ Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” ²¹ Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. ²² You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. ²³ But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. ²⁴ God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” ²⁵ The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” ²⁶ Jesus said to her, “I AM, the one who is speaking to you.”
 
Sermon: ……”Come See, Go and Do”…… Pastor Steven
 
Anthem: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”….Bobbie Jo Bone
Words by E. Y. Harburg, Music by Harold Arlen. © 1938, 1939 (Renewed 1966, 1967) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer INC.
 
Prayers of the People: …………………… Pastor Steven
 
Announcements: …………………………………Lorri B.
 
 
Closing Hymn:“We Walk by Faith”  #2196 TFWS
Words: Henry Alford Music: Attr. to Hugh Wilson
 
1.We walk by faith, and not by sight: No
gracious words we hear of him who spoke as
none e’er spoke, but we believe him near.
 
2.We may not touch, his hands and side, nor
follow where he trod; yet in his promise
we rejoice, and cry, “My Lord and God!”
 
3.Help then, O Lord, our unbelief, and
may our faith abound; to call on you when
you are near, and seek where you are found:
 
4.That when our life of faith is done in
realms of clearer light we may behold you
as you are in full and endless sight.
 
5.We walk by faith, and not by sight: No
gracious words we hear of him who spoke as
None e’er spoke, but we believe him near.
 
Dismissal with Blessing:…………………Pastor Steven
 
Postlude: “The King of Love My Shepherd Is”……Greg D.
 by C Gounod

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