The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is a huge hero of mine and I always look forward to Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday. This service is going to be amazing! If you haven't heard U2's MLK you are missing out! It's worth the download on iTunes. Also, if you're a choral nut, check out Imaginings by the UNT A Cappella Choir for the arrangment we are doing by Bob Chilcott: beautiful!
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, January 14th, 2007
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Angela Caporale, violin
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: Let us speak of mercy and justice.Congregation: For these are the things suitable for our God.Leader: Let us follow the ways of mercy and justice, for they are the ways of peace and community.Congregation: Let us lift up our hearts in conviction and our voices in commitment and praise to the Lord of peace and the God of justice; the hope and healing of humanity.
--Rev. Brett Strobel, pastor of the Newman United Methodist Church
OPENING HYMN* No. 519 Lift Every Voice and Sing ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Just as our brother in Christ, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., had a dream for God’s children, so you God have a dream for your creation. Forgive us, God, where we have stood in opposition to your dreams. Help us to search our souls, to examine our lives, to see where we have blocked your way, where we have trampled upon your Spirit, and where we have been neglectful of your will. Help us to bring our dreams and our stories inline with yours. In the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen.
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Amos 5:24 Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: MLK
Words & Music by U2, arr. Bob Chilcott
Sanctuary Choir; Jeff Aitken, soloist
Sleep, sleep tonight,
and may your dreams be realized.
If the thunder cloud passes rain
so let it rain, rain down on him.
So let it be. So let it be.
(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. 474 Precious Lord, Take My Hand ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Angela Caporale, violin
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