All Saints 9:00 Service

Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, October 29th 2006
9:00 a.m.

PRELUDE: Karen Stiles

CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: Come to the living God,
People: Come to stand alongside the poor.
Come to struggle with those who seek freedom.
Come to resist all that offends God’s justice.
Leader: Come to the living, disturbing God.
--Bread of Tomorrow, ed. Janet Morley

OPENING HYMN* No. 711 For All the Saints (v. 1,2,4,6) ALL
Come forward as you feel let to write on the index cards the name of a special person in your life still living who has been the face of Christ for you, walked part of your spiritual journey with you, or helped you know God better. Print the first name only on the card and place it on the altar during the singing of the hymn.

NAMING OF THE SAINTS AND TOLLING OF THE BELLS
Oh God, the first gatherer of all good memories, gathered together are we, with our own histories and mysteries, and private bundle of memories.

In our lives may each of us be a blessing from eternity passed on to those whose lives we touch.

When we are discouraged, remind us of the times you come to us in our friends, in our families, and in the stranger, that having received so great a legacy, we, too, might fashion our lives to pass it on. Amen.
--More Than Words

CHORAL REPSONSE: Hallelujah from Messiah G.F. Handel

MESSAGE Psalm 46 John Flowers

TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Lana Cartlidge Potts
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)

*DOXOLOGY

SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts.
People: We lift them up to God.
Leader: Let us give thanks to God.
People: It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyful thing always and everywhere to give thanks to you, Almighty God, Creator of heaven and earth. You have promised that you will always be with us and that you love us. You offer us forgiveness and new life through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We commend to you the lives of the saints: may they forever rest in you and may their lives encourage, inspire, and strengthen us to pursue your path. And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven, we praise your name and join their unending hymn:

SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL

WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Same as last week.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS

COMMUNION MUSIC: Angela Caporale & Lana Cartlidge Potts

PRAYER AFTER RECEVING ALL
Loving and gracious Creator, we thank you for the gift of life as well as your desire to embrace us into your arms not only as we live, but also when we die. May the lives of the saints ever be before us as we seek to live the life you have for us. Amen.

HYMN OF INVITATION* #2283 For All the Saints ALL

BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE: Angela Caporale & Lana Cartlidge Potts