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©Order of Worship for Sunday August 11, 2024
Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
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Prelude:.………………………………………………………Valerie W.
Coming of the Light:………………………………………..
Greetings:……………………………………….……Lusi R.
Opening Prayer: ………………………………….…Kelly G.
Family of God, what is our story?
We are part of God’s good creation, created and sustained by the Triune God.
Family of God, what is our story?
Though created by our loving God, we have sinned and harmed ourselves, one another, and creation.
Family of God, what is our story?
While we were yet sinners, God sent Jesus to show us how to turn away from sin and toward the love of God.
Family of God, what is our story?
We carry the weight of the Word in our hearts, our hands, and our voices, proclaiming with our lives the good news of God’s love and the mercy of God’s grace.
Family of God, this is our story and our song!
Thanks be to God! Amen.
Opening Hymns: “Blessed Assurance” #369 UMH
Words: Fanny J. Crosby 1873 Music: Phoebe P. Knapp 1873
1. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
born of his Spirit, washed in his blood.
Refrain
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long;
this is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.
2. Perfect submission, perfect delight,
visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
angels descending bring from above
echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
Refrain
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long;
this is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.
3. Perfect submission, all is at rest;
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
watching and waiting, looking above,
filled with his goodness, lost in his love.
Refrain
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long;
this is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.
Jesus’ Hands Were Kind Hands” #273 UMH
Words: Margaret Cropper, 1975, Music: Old French melody
Words © 1979 Stainer & Bell, Ltd.
1. Jesus’ hands were kind hands, doing good to all,
healing pain and sickness, blessing children small,
washing tired feet, and saving those who fall;
Jesus’ hands were kind hands, doing good to all.
2. Take my hands, Lord Jesus, let them work for you;
make them strong and gentle, kind in all I do.
Let me watch you, Jesus, till I’m gentle too,
till my hands are kind hands, quick to work for you.
Passing of the Peace:……………………………………..Lusi R.
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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Offertory: ……………………………………..Valerie M.
Offertory Response: “The Doxology” #94 UMH
Words: Thomas Ken, 1674 Music: Geistliche Kirchengesänge, 1623;
Adapt. © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise God,
all creatures here below: Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise God the
source of all our gifts! Praise Jesus Christ, whose power up-lifts! Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Prayer After Receiving:…………………………………..Lusi R.
Prayers of the People:…………………………………….Lusi R.
The Lord’s Prayer
Epistle Lesson…………1 Corinthians 12:4–11….Kelly G.
4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8 To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.
Hymn of Preparation: ..“Take My Life, and Let It Be” #399 UMH
Words: Frances R. Havergal, 1873
Music: Louis J.F. Harold, 1839, arr. by George Kingsley, 1839
1.Take my life, and let it be consecrated
Lord, to thee. Take my moments and my
days; let them flow in ceaseless praise.
Take my hands, and let them move at the
impulse of thy love. Take my feet, and let
them be swift and beautiful for thee.
2.Take my voice, and let me sing always,
only, for my King. Take my lips, and let
them be filled with messages from thee.
Take my silver and my gold; not a mite
would I withhold. Take my intellect, and
use every power as thou shalt choose.
3.Take my will, and make it thine; it shall
be no longer mine. Take my heart, it is
thine own; it shall be thy royal throne.
Take my love, my Lord, I pour at thy feet
its treasure store. Take myself, and I
will be ever, only, all for thee.
“Sermon:…………….“God Gives Us Gifts”…………..Lusi R.
Closing Hymn:“Take Up Thy Cross” #415 UMH
Words: Charles W. Everest, 1833 Music: William Gardiner’s
Sacred Melodies, 1815
1.“Take up thy cross” the Savior said, “if thou wouldst
my disciple be; deny thyself, the
world forsake, and humble follow after me.”
2. Take up thy cross, let not its weight fill thy weak
spirit with alarm; his strength shall bear thy
spirit up, and brace thy heart and nerve thine arm.
3. Take up thy cross, nor heed the shame, nor let thy
foolish pride rebel; thy Lord for thee the
cross endured, to save thy soul from death and hell.
4. Take up thy cross and follow Christ, nor think till
death to lay it down; for only those who
bear the cross may hope to wear the glorious crown.
Dismissal with Blessing:……………………………………..Lusi R.
Postlude:………………………………………………………Valerie W.
Worship Ends, Witness and Service Begins
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Sunday August 11th Worship Service