Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, November 5th, 2006
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Camerata San Antonio?
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Jesus says, “I am the Way for you.”
And so we come to follow Christ.
Jesus says, “I am the Truth for you.”
And so we come to dwell in the light.
Jesus says, “I am the Life for you.”
And so we come, leaving behind all else to which we cling.
--Iona Abbey Worship Book
OPENING HYMN* No. 408 The Gift of Love ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
O God, we have come here today because we follow Christ. We are here because we want to grow in love of you and our neighbors. We are here because we find rest and renewal, comfort and challenge. We find transformation.
We have so much to offer those who are tired or worn, afflicted or bored. We can offer the new life found in living our lives with you at the center.
Empowering God, we pray that you will so infuse our lives that we can only act as your ambassadors, that we can only speak as your emissaries, that we can only love as you would love. In the name of the One who shows us the way. Amen.
--Alison Boone
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Rev. Karen Vannoy
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: In Remembrance of Me Buryl Red & Ragan Courtney
Sanctuary Choir
Please join the choir when cued by singing the hymn found on page 2254 in The Faith We Sing
(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: Lana Cartlidge Potts
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 549 Where Charity and Love Prevail ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Camerata San Antonio?
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