FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
August 24, 2008
9:15 a.m.
— GATHERING —
Introductions, Announcements Carrie Mast, Worship Leader
[Please sign and pass the friendship pads in the pews]
Invocation
— PRAISING —
*Opening Hymn “What is this place” HWB 1
*The Psalm Psalm 84
Leader: How lovely is your dwelling place, O God of the might of heaven!
Men: I pine and faint with longing for the courts of the temple of God .
Women: My whole being cries out with joy to God, the living God.
Men: Even the sparrow finds a home and the swallow a nest for her brood.
Women: She lays her young by your altars, O God of heaven, my God.
Men: Happy are they who live in your house, ever singing your praise.
Women: Happy are they whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
Men: Better to spend a day in your courts than a thousand days elsewhere;
Women: to stand at the threshold of God’s house than to live in the homes of the wicked.
Men: God is our sun and our shield, the giver of glory and grace.
Women: No good thing will God withhold from those who walk without blame.
All: Happy are they who trust in you, O God of the might of heaven!
Musical Offering “ 23rd Psalm” by Bobby McFerrin
One in a Number: The Bluffton Women's Choir
Beth Boehr, Bobbie Chappell, Wendy Chappell -Dick , Ariel Kennell Boehr,
Laurel and Erin Neufeld Weaver, Jan Wiebe
Time with Children
Hymn “The care the eagle gives her young” HWB 590
[Verse 1 as the children come forward]
Conversation Carol Welty
Hymn “ The care the eagle gives her young” HWB 590
[Verse 3 as the children return to their parents]
— PRAYING —
Prayer Response “The Lord’s Prayer” Back of Hymnal
Offertory “This Is My Father's World” arr. John Leavitt
* Dedication Hymn “Praise God from whom” HWB 119
Verse A
*Prayer of Dedication
— HEARING —
Scripture Ephesians 3:14-19
Sermon “The Journey is Our Home ”
Steven Yoder and Louise Wideman
Hymn of Response “Guide me, O thou great Jehovah” HWB 582
Service of Communion
Ushers will dismiss by row to move to a station to receive communion.
If you prefer to remain seated, a deacon will bring the elements to you.
— SENDING —
*Closing Hymn “Heart with loving heart united ” HWB 420
*Choral Benediction “Benediction”
* Please stand, remaining seated if that is more comfortable for you.
HWB – Hymnal: A Worship Book STJ – Sing the Journey
