FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
September 5, 2010
10:30 a.m.
— GATHERING —
The Chimes Call to Worship
Welcome, Announcements Laurel Neufeld Weaver, Worship Leader
[Please sign and pass the friendship pads in the pews]
Invocation
Prelude “ Come, Thou Almighty King” Richard Proulx
*Opening Hymn “ I sing the mighty power of God” HWB 46
L: O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
C: You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away.
L: You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
C: Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely.
L: You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
C: Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it.
L: For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
C: I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well.
L: My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
C: Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
L: In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed.
C: How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
All: I try to count them – they are more than the sand; I come to the end – I am still with you .
Musical Offering “He comes to us as one unknown” Timothy Dudley Smith
Jeff Boehr
Time with Children
Hymn “ If you believe and I believe ” STJ 32
[Sing as the children come forward]
Conversation Janie Blough
Presentation of Bibles to Third Graders
[Sing as the children return to their parents]
— PRAYING —
Sharing our joys and concerns
Pastoral Prayer Steven Yoder
— HEARING —
Scripture Genesis 12:1-3; Galatians 3:27-29; Rev. 5:6-10
Jackson Bush, Ana Neufeld Weaver, Carrie Mast
Sermon “Local Signs of God’s Global Project” Neal Blough
— RESPONDING —
Hymn of Response “ In Christ there is no East or West ” HWB 306
Presenting Our Tithes and Offerings
Offertory “ Dearest Jesus, at Your Word” arr. Paul Manz
*Dedication Hymn “ God, whose giving” HWB 383
Verse 1
*Prayer of Dedication
— SENDING —
*Closing Hymn “ Lord of our growing years ” HWB 479
*Benediction
*Postlude
* Please stand, remain seated if that is more comfortable for you
HWB – Hymnal: A Worship Book STS – Sing the Story STJ – Sing the Journey
