Worship on Sunday, February 2nd
Chiming of the Bells– Children of Highland Park
Prelude– Pie Jesu
Welcome and Invocation– Rev. Masyn Evans-Clements
Call to Worship– Come Away From Rush and Hurry
Come away from rush and hurry to the stillness of God’s peace;
From our vain ambition’s worry, come to Christ and find re-lease.
Come away from noise and clamor, life’s de-mands and frenzied pace;
Come to join the people gathered here to seek and find God’s face.
Opening Hymn– God is Here
God is here, as we your people meet to offer praise and prayer.
May we find in fuller measure what is in Christ we share.
Here as in the world around us, all our varied skills and arts.
Wait the coming of the spirit into open minds and hearts.
Here are symbols to remind us of our lifelong need of grace;
Here are table, water, pulpit; here the cross has central place.
Here in honesty of preaching, here in silence, as in speech.
Here in newness and renewal, God the Spirit comes to each.
Here our children find a welcome in the Shepherd’s flock and fold.
Here as bread and wine are taken, Christ sustains us as of old.
Here the servants of the Servant seek in worship to explore,
What it means in daily living to believe and to adore.
Lord of all, of church and kingdom, in an age of change and doubt,
|Keep us faithful to the Gospel, help us work your purpose out.
Here in this day’s dedication, all we have to give, receive.
We, who cannot live without you, we adore you! We believe!
Passing of the Peace– Brandon Evans-Clements
Hymn of Peace– All Are Welcome Here
All are welcome here.
The Sinner and the Saint, the glad of heart, those torn apart, the sturdy and the faint.
All are welcome here, of like and different mind.
Great God above, through us be love to every group and kind.
All are welcome here.
We stretch our wide embrace to every soul who would be whole, to all the human race.
All are welcome here, yet there is much to do.
Your people care, Lord, hear our prayer:
May this be always true. That all are welcome here.
Children’s Sermon– Rev. Cheryl Kimble
Special Music
Offertory Prayer– Brandon Evans-Clements
Offertory– Number 10 from 12 Short Preludes
Doxology
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise God, all creatures here below;
Alleluia, alleluia!
Praise God, above ye heavenly host;
Creator, Christ, and Holy Ghost.
O Praise God, O Praise God
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Pastoral Prayer– Rev. Masyn Evans-Clements
Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the Power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Choral Anthem
Scripture Reading– First Corinthians 13:1-13
Rev. Cheryl Kimble’s Sermon entitled “Love Is An Action”
Communion
Hymn of Response– Though I May Speak With Bravest Fire
Though I may speak with bravest fire, and have the gift to all inspire,
and have not love, my words are vain, as sounding brass, and hopeless gain.
Though I may give all I possess, and striving so my love profess,
By not be given by love within, the profit soon turns strangely thin.
Come, Spirit, Come, our hearts control, our spirits long to be made whole.
Let inward love guide every deed by this we worship, and are freed.
Closing and Announcements– Rev. Cheryl Kimble
Benediction– Christians, Let Us Go and Serve Him
Christians, let us go and serve Him, serve the One who gives us life.
Let us serve in love and power in the name of Jesus Christ.
Serve in love and serve in wisdom, reaching all we know and see.
Christians, let us go and serve Him,
Postlude– Jesus, Be the Lord of All