Image: “Hannah at Prayer” Wachtel, Wilhelm, 1875-1942, Painting

©Order of Worship for Sunday May 12, 2024

Seventh Sunday of Easter

Festival of the Christian Home / Mother’s Day


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Prelude:……“O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go”……….Greg D.
Words: G. Matheson, 1882  Music: A. Peace, 1884
 
Coming of the Light:……………………………………………..
 
Greetings:……………………………………Pastor Steven
 
Opening Prayer: ………….…….………………Melrose D.
Wondrous God, our hearts are full of praise for all of the glorious things you have given to us.  When we look upon your creation, we realize that it reflects your glory.  When we experience the gift of a parent’s love, we are reminded of your tender love for us.  When we worship in the great congregation of all who name you as Lord, we are blessed to be counted among your children.  Hear our prayer of joy and thanksgiving this day, and sustain in us grateful hearts, that we might praise you eternally.  Through Christ, our Lord.  Amen.
 
Opening Hymns:.“Happy the Home When God Is There” #445 UMH
Words: Henry Ware, Jr., 1846 Music: John B. Dykes, 1866
 
1. Happy the home when God is there,
and love fills every breast; when one their wish, and
one their prayer, and one their heavenly rest.
 
2.Happy the home where Jesus’ name
is sweet to every ear; where children early
speak his fame, and parents hold him dear.
 
3. Happy the home where prayer is heard,
and praise is wont to rise; where parents love the
sacred Word and all its wisdom prize.
 
4. Lord, let us in our homes agree
this blessed peace to gain; unite our hearts in
love to thee, and love to all will reign.
 
“Our Parent, by Whose Name” #447 UMH
Words: F. Bland Tucker, 1939, Music: John David Edwards, ca. 1838
 
1. Our Parent, by whose name all parenthood is known,
who in your love proclaim each family your own:
direct all parents, guarding well, with constant love
as sentinel, the homes in which your people dwell.
 
2. O Jesus, who, a child within an earthly home,
with heart still undefiled did to adulthood come:
our children bless in every place, that they may all
behold your face, and knowing you may grow in grace.
 
3. Blest Spirit, who can bind our hearts in unity,
and teach us so to find the love from self set free:
in all our hearts such love increase that every home,
by this release, may be the swelling place of peace.
 
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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Offertor……“Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”/The Wind Beneath My Wings”………………………………………Greg D.
Music: J. S. Bach/Words and Music:L. Henley and J. Silbar © 1982, 1984
Warner House of Music and WB Gold Music Corp.
 
Offertory Response:…..“Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow” (The Doxology) #95 UMH
Words by Thomas Ken, 1674
 
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
 
Prayers of the People:…………………………..Pastor Steven
 
Anthem:.. “In My Heart There Rings a Melody”…………Choir
Arr. Joseph M Martin, © 2022 Hal Leonard-Milwin Music Corp.
 
Scripture Lesson:……1 Samuel 1:1-8……..… Melrose D.
 
There was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham son of Elihu son of Tohu son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. He had two wives; the name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
Now this man used to go up year by year from his town to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord.  On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters,  but to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb.  Her rival used to provoke her severely, to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.  So it went on year by year; as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.  Her husband Elkanah said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? Why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?”
 
Hymn of Preparation:.“The Family Prayer Song” #2188 TFWS
Words and Music: Morris Chapman
© 1993 Maranatha Praise, Inc. admin. By The Copyright Co.
 
1. Come and fill our homes with your presence;
you alone are worthy of our reverence.
 
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
We will serve the Lord.
 
2. Lord we vow to live holy,
bowing our knees to you only.
 
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
We will serve the Lord.
 
Sermon:……….“A Love Letter to Mom’s”……….Pastor Steven

Closing Hymn:…….“Blest Be the Tie That Binds”  #557 UMH
Words: John Fawcett, 1782 Music: Johann G. Nageli
 
1. Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love;
the fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above.
 
2. Before our Father’s throne we pour our ardent prayers;
our fears, our hopes, our aims are one, our comforts
and our cares.
 
3. We share each other’s woes, our mutual burdens bear;
and often for each other flows the sympathizing tear.
 
4. When we asunder part, it gives us inward pain; but we shall still
be joined in heart, and hope to meet again.
 
Dismissal with Blessing:……………………Pastor Steven
 
Postlude:……………………………………………………..Greg D.
 
Service ends, witness and service begins.

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