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Prelude  Welcome and Announcements  Call to Worship.    Luke 24:48-53  Introit.   Come to the Mountain    Duet, Nikayla Myers, Sophie Rice “Celebration of Rogation Day”  Liturgy for Creation  pg. 26.  Offerings our Gifts/Remembering God’s Gifts Hymn 819. “For the Life that You Have Given” Prayers of the People  Pastoral Prayer and Lord’s Prayer  Continue reading “May 22, 2022”

May 15. Prelude  Welcome and Announcements  Introit  Call to Worship  “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.    By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”  John 13:34-35 Liturgy forContinue reading “May 15, 2022”

May 8, 2022  Prelude Welcome and Announcements  Call to Worship and Invitation to Lovefeast – John 21:15-17  The Moravian Grace  Be present at our table, Lord,   Be here and everywhere adored,  From thine all bounteous hand, our food,  May we receive with gratitude.  Amen.   Lovefeast Conversations “Our love for Jesus is reflected inContinue reading “May 8, 2022”

May 1, 2022  Prelude Welcome and Announcements  Introit  .  Call to Worship (from the Mennonite Church Canada website, used with permission, inspired by John 20 and 21)  We are here today because the weeping Mary of Magdala once said: “I have seen the Lord!” We are here because Jesus still comes into our locked spaces and says:Continue reading “May 1, 2022”

April 24, 2022  Prelude Welcome and Announcements  Introit  .  Call to Worship – Hymn 399 (verses 1 and 4) All Hail, our Church’s Elder Dear  Liturgy for Celebration  pg. 43  Offerings our Gifts/Remembering God’s Gifts Hymn 819. “For the Life that You Have Given” Prayers of the People  Pastoral Prayer and Lord’s Prayer   Scripture Continue reading “April 24, 2022”

Easter Sunday – April 17, 2022  Prelude Welcome and Announcements  Introit   “He Arose” Men of the Choir  .  Liturgy for Easter  (pg. 90, Moravian Book of Worship) The Lord is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Sing this aloud, proclaim it to the ends of the earth: The Lord has set his people free.Continue reading “April 17, 2022”

Prelude  Welcome and Announcements  Introit  Call to Worship: “Turning His Face to Jerusalem”  Luke 22:39-43   Special Music.  “If it be your Will”  (Leonard Cohen)   Christian Rice, piano and vocals.   Liturgy for Palm Sunday  pg. 49.  (For the singing of “Hosanna”, the women will sing the first part, the men the second.  AsContinue reading “April 10, 2022”

April 3  Prelude  Welcome and Announcements  Introit  Liturgy for Lent 1.  Pg. 72  Offerings our Gifts/Remembering God’s Gifts Hymn 819. “For the Life that You Have Given” Prayers of the People  Pastoral Prayer/Lord’s Prayer  Special Music.  “If it be your Will”  (Leonard Cohen).   Christian Rice, piano and vocals.   Scripture.   Psalm 126. JohnContinue reading “April 3, 2022”

March 27  Prelude  Welcome and Announcements  Introit  Liturgy for Lent 2    pg. 78.  Offerings our Gifts/Remembering God’s Gifts Hymn 819. “For the Life that You Have Given” Prayers of the People  Pastoral Prayer/Lord’s Prayer  Scripture.  Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32     Sam Spagnola  Hymn 759.   “If I Today Have Grieved My Savior’s Heart” SermonContinue reading “March 27, 2022”

March 20, 2022  Prelude  Welcome and Announcements  Introit  A LITURGY FOR LENT  (by the Rev. Kay Ward, used with permission) We come to worship as we are Lord, full of those feelings which would keep us from loving ourselves and others. Receive us as we come and may our hearts be turned away from thoseContinue reading “March 20, 2022”