Hello Everyone!
Here's the order for this week's 9:00 service, it is going to be wonderful! In addition to Camerata San Antonio, Dr. David Heller of Trinity University will be joining us! (We will miss you, Lana!)
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, November 26th, 2006
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Camerata San Antonio
CALL TO WORSHIP*
The reign of God is at hand
When prisoners are released
When the brokenhearted are healed
When the lowly are lifted up
When the hungry are filled with good things
The reign of God is among us
Let us rejoice and sing!
--Alison Boone
OPENING HYMN* No. 2190 Bring Forth the Kingdom ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
O God of power and might, the prophets tell us of a time when widows and orphans are cared for and when hospitality is extended to all. Jesus challenges us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, tend the sick and visit the prisoners. We know that these are all signs of your kingdom.
Yet, we look around us and we see people who are hungry and who are sick and who have no place to sleep. We see children who need clothes and books and love. We see systems that thwart the purposes for which they were created. And we are overwhelmed, and we do nothing.
Compassionate God, open our eyes so that we see the needs we can satisfy. Open our ears so that we listen to the ones we meet each day. Open our arms so that we embrace all your children. In the name of Jesus who shows us the way. Amen.
--Alison Boone
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE John 18:33-37 Rev. Taylor Boone
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence Dr. David Heller Setting by Albert Travis
(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: Sanctus in D minor J.S. Bach, arr. William Hunt
Sanctuary Choir; Dr. David Heller, harpsichord; Camerata San Antonio
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
Prayer After Receiving
God of glory, we thank you for this meal, a foretaste of the meal when all are fed and all are satisfied. As we leave this place, may we be nurtured to bring forth your Kingdom. We pray through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
--Alison Boone
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 626 Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Fugue in E-flat Major (St. Anne), BWV 552 Dr. David Heller
J.S. Bach
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