FIRST MENNONITE CHURCH

   


 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                                                                                             

*The Psalm                                                                                           Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18

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

Hymn                                   “ If you believe and I believe ”                              STJ 32                     

[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


 

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