Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, October 15th, 2006
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Angela Caporale, violin
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Make a joyful noise to Yahweh.
Worship God with gladness and singing.
Know that Yahweh is God and we are God’s people.
Give thanks to God and bless God’s holy name.
For God’s steadfast love endures forever.
Adapted from Psalm 100 by Alison Boone
OPENING HYMN* No. 2236 Gather Us In All
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Look deep, Loving God, and see us as we really are – yearning to be close to you mixed with our fear of what you may ask, our desire to be faithful woven with our hesitancy to go the extra mile, our wanting to be loving and our resistance to caring in particular situations. Loving God, we are tangled vine. Prune us and train us to grow in your holy way. Amen.
Larry J. Peacock
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Rev. Karen Vannoy
A Witness to Transformation ????
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us
Text: Hymns for the Young, ca. 1830, alt.; Music: David Ashley White
Sanctuary Choir
Savior, like a shepherd lead us;
much we need thy tender care;
in thy pleasant pastures feed us;
for our use thy folds prepare.
Blessed Jesus! Blessed Jesus!
Thou has bought us, thine we are.
Early let us seek thy favor,
early let us learn thy will;
do thou, Lord, our only Savior,
with thy love our bosoms fill.
Blessed Jesus! Blessed Jesus!
Thou has bought us, thine we are.
Thou hast loved us;
Thou hast loved us;
love us still.
(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: Angela Caporale, violin
PRAYER AFTER RECEIVING
Generous God, we thank you for this meal in which we taste hope, hope for the time when all are fed and all are satisfied. Amen.
--Alison Boone
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 557 Blest Be the Tie that Binds
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Halle, Halle, Hallelujah Children’s Music Ministry
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