Below you will find the liturgy for this Sunday's 9:00 service at Travis Park. The call to worship and prayer of confession this week were written by Alison Boone, who is a member of the church and a wonderful writer. Alison has written litrugy for several years and is very involved in the church and in the Academy for Spiritual Formation. The text for this week is John 4:39-42.
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, October 8th, 2006
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Camerata San Antonio
CALL TO WORSHIP*
God is here!
We are in God’s presence.
We come to sing and pray.
We come to praise and listen.
We come to worship!
--Alison Boone
Opening Prayer
Eternal God, we live surrounded by talk. Televisions blare, radios squawk, headphones send sound directly to our ears. We are addicted to a constant stream of babble. We are unable to hear the things that are true.
O God of sound and silence, open our hearts to be attentive to those around us. Open our mouths to speak your words of grace and love and hope. Open our ears to hear those words spoken to us. We pray in the name of the One who is still speaking. Amen.
--Alison Boone
OPENING HYMN* No. 577 God of Grace and God of Glory
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Coming from Alison Boone
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE “Speak to Me” Rev. John Flowers
A Witness to Transformation Carolyn James
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Jesus Calls Us
Text: Cecil Frances Alexander; Music: Joy Patterson
The Sanctuary Choir; conductor, Patty Riggle Bonner; accompanist, Mark Rubinstein
DiAnn Grimes, soloist; Rev. Joseph Stobaugh, soprano saxophonist
Jesus calls us o’er the tumult
of our life’s wild, restless sea;
day by day his voice is sounding,
saying “Christian, follow me.”
Jesus calls us from the worship
of the vain world’s golden store,
from each idol that would keep us,
saying “Christian, love me more.”
In our joys and sorrows, sorrows, Lord
days of toil and hours, and hours of ease,
still he calls in cares, in cares and pleasure,
“love me more, more than these.”
Jesus calls us! By your mercies,
savior may we hear your call,
give our hearts to your obedience.
Serve and love you best of all, best of all.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Camerata San Antonio
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2137 Would I Have Answered When You Called
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Camerata San Antonio
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