To anyone who might be reading this, I would appreciate your prayers tonight and tomorrow. In the morning I will be giving the opening prayer to the Texas House of Representatives.
I am very excited and humbled and I want the words from my mouth and the meditations of my heart to be those of God!
I would appreciate your prayer!
Joe
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Pentecost 9:00 Service
Whohoo! Pentecost is nearly upon us!
Here's what we're doing at 9:00...
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, May 27th, 2007
Seventh Sunday of Easter
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Caught by the Spirit
Tinged with fire
Drenched with water
Knocked over by a rush of wind.
It’s Pentecost again!
Empowering
Filling
Enlivening
Surprising
Propelling
Pentecost again!
The Spirit is loose
Look out!
--Larry J. Peacock
OPENING HYMN* No. 2118 Holy Spirit, Come to Us ALL
Prayer of Confession
O God of fire and wind, you sweep away the old and make all things new. But we want to protect our small treasures from the flames. We fear the disarray the gales will leave. We build fireproof, storm-proof structures in an effort to insure protection against the upheaval your Spirit brings. Help us to put our trust in you, who steadies us in the wind, who does not let the flames consume us. Amen.
--Alison Boone
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE “Instructions from Jesus” Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: HANDBELL SOLO
Sarah Stobaugh, handbells; Lana Cartlidge Potts, piano
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY (can be found printed on the back page of The Faith We Sing)
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: Karen Stiles, violin
PRAYER AFTER RECEVING
We thank you, O God, for this holy meal which you have prepared for us. We pray that it will nourish us as we go out, led by the Holy Spirit, to do your work in the world. Amen.
--Alison Boone
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2121 O Holy Spirit, Root of Life ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Karen Stiles, violin
Here's what we're doing at 9:00...
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, May 27th, 2007
Seventh Sunday of Easter
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Caught by the Spirit
Tinged with fire
Drenched with water
Knocked over by a rush of wind.
It’s Pentecost again!
Empowering
Filling
Enlivening
Surprising
Propelling
Pentecost again!
The Spirit is loose
Look out!
--Larry J. Peacock
OPENING HYMN* No. 2118 Holy Spirit, Come to Us ALL
Prayer of Confession
O God of fire and wind, you sweep away the old and make all things new. But we want to protect our small treasures from the flames. We fear the disarray the gales will leave. We build fireproof, storm-proof structures in an effort to insure protection against the upheaval your Spirit brings. Help us to put our trust in you, who steadies us in the wind, who does not let the flames consume us. Amen.
--Alison Boone
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE “Instructions from Jesus” Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: HANDBELL SOLO
Sarah Stobaugh, handbells; Lana Cartlidge Potts, piano
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY (can be found printed on the back page of The Faith We Sing)
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: Karen Stiles, violin
PRAYER AFTER RECEVING
We thank you, O God, for this holy meal which you have prepared for us. We pray that it will nourish us as we go out, led by the Holy Spirit, to do your work in the world. Amen.
--Alison Boone
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2121 O Holy Spirit, Root of Life ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Karen Stiles, violin
Sunday, May 20, 2007
5/20/07 9:00 Worship Service
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Seventh Sunday of Easter
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Emily Watkins, viola
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: God of all creation, you have called us forth to worship, to remember and to look
forward!
People: We remember through words, through story, through song! We declare
our trust in you and your goodness.
All: Let us worship in Spirit and Truth!
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
OPENING HYMN* No. 422 Jesus, Thine All-Victorious Love ALL
CALL TO CONFESSION
Gracious God, how often we have given up on you. Just when all seems to be lost, you continue to make a way out of no way. You alone, O God, are capable of saving us from ourselves. Help us to remember you when we forget, help us to keep focused on your Word to us and forgive us when we fail. We pray all of this in your Son’s name. Amen.
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE “God’s Not Through with Us Yet” Isaiah 2:1-4 Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: The Storm is Passing Over
Words: Traditional Spiritual; Music: Charles Albert Tindley, arr. Barbra Baker,
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY (can be found printed on the back page of The Faith We Sing)
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: Emily Watkins, viola
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 428 For the Healing of the Nations ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Seventh Sunday of Easter
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Emily Watkins, viola
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: God of all creation, you have called us forth to worship, to remember and to look
forward!
People: We remember through words, through story, through song! We declare
our trust in you and your goodness.
All: Let us worship in Spirit and Truth!
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
OPENING HYMN* No. 422 Jesus, Thine All-Victorious Love ALL
CALL TO CONFESSION
Gracious God, how often we have given up on you. Just when all seems to be lost, you continue to make a way out of no way. You alone, O God, are capable of saving us from ourselves. Help us to remember you when we forget, help us to keep focused on your Word to us and forgive us when we fail. We pray all of this in your Son’s name. Amen.
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE “God’s Not Through with Us Yet” Isaiah 2:1-4 Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: The Storm is Passing Over
Words: Traditional Spiritual; Music: Charles Albert Tindley, arr. Barbra Baker,
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY (can be found printed on the back page of The Faith We Sing)
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: Emily Watkins, viola
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 428 For the Healing of the Nations ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
5/6/07 Combined Worship Service
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Fifth Sunday of Easter
10:30 a.m.
Gathering
PRELUDE: God’s Got a Blessing Ralph Cortez, soloist
CALL TO WORSHIP* Rev. Joe Stobaugh
Leader: Eternal and loving God, you have called us to a rich spiritual life,
intentional community, risk taking mission, and to worship! You have a blessing with our names on it!
People: You have called us God, to a life in relationship with you,
grounded in community, in your Word, and in worship and mission!
Leader: God we have responded to your call!
People: Let us raise our voices in praise and thanksgiving for all that
God is doing in our lives!
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
SONGS OF CELEBRATION
God is Good (All the Time)
Amazing Grace
CALL TO CONFESSION Rev. Willie Glaster and Rev. Deana Kirby
Men led by the Rev. Willie Glaster: God, we come to you today
recognizing that we have fallen short.
Women led by the Rev. Deana Kirby: We have done and thought
things we shouldn’t have, and we have not done the things we should have.
Men: Forgive us, loving and graceful God, for where we have
fallen short.
Women: Empower and enliven our lives through your grace so that
we can live with new energy and expectation for what you will do.
All: Let us go to God to confess our sins in silence.
TIME OF SILENCE
WORDS OF ASSURANCE AND PARDON Rev. Taylor Boone
I Will Praise You Joyful Melodies
Proclamation and Response
MESSAGE “Risk-Taking Mission”
Elena Guajardo
ANTHEM Jesus Calls Us
Words: Traditional African-American Spiritual; Music: arr. Joy Patterson
Sanctuary Choir; Mark Rubinstein, accompanist; DiAnn Grimes, soprano soloist
“Risk-Taking Mission”
Mark Stoeltje
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
Words: Charles Wesley; Music arranged by: Mark A. Miller
Emmaus Youth Choir; Patty Riggle Bonner, accompanist
Please see No. 57 in The United Methodist Hymnal for text
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY (can be found printed on the back page of The Faith We Sing)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION Rev. Karen Vannoy
(11:00 Liturgy with sung Sanctus from The Faith We Sing)
COMMUNION MUSIC: No. 2260 Let Us Be Bread
No. 2267 Taste and See
(Serve musicians communion on the chancel)
SONG OF DEDICATION* I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me
BENEDICTION Rev. Karen Vannoy
POSTLUDE: Sent Out in Jesus Name
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Fifth Sunday of Easter
10:30 a.m.
Gathering
PRELUDE: God’s Got a Blessing Ralph Cortez, soloist
CALL TO WORSHIP* Rev. Joe Stobaugh
Leader: Eternal and loving God, you have called us to a rich spiritual life,
intentional community, risk taking mission, and to worship! You have a blessing with our names on it!
People: You have called us God, to a life in relationship with you,
grounded in community, in your Word, and in worship and mission!
Leader: God we have responded to your call!
People: Let us raise our voices in praise and thanksgiving for all that
God is doing in our lives!
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
SONGS OF CELEBRATION
God is Good (All the Time)
Amazing Grace
CALL TO CONFESSION Rev. Willie Glaster and Rev. Deana Kirby
Men led by the Rev. Willie Glaster: God, we come to you today
recognizing that we have fallen short.
Women led by the Rev. Deana Kirby: We have done and thought
things we shouldn’t have, and we have not done the things we should have.
Men: Forgive us, loving and graceful God, for where we have
fallen short.
Women: Empower and enliven our lives through your grace so that
we can live with new energy and expectation for what you will do.
All: Let us go to God to confess our sins in silence.
TIME OF SILENCE
WORDS OF ASSURANCE AND PARDON Rev. Taylor Boone
I Will Praise You Joyful Melodies
Proclamation and Response
MESSAGE “Risk-Taking Mission”
Elena Guajardo
ANTHEM Jesus Calls Us
Words: Traditional African-American Spiritual; Music: arr. Joy Patterson
Sanctuary Choir; Mark Rubinstein, accompanist; DiAnn Grimes, soprano soloist
“Risk-Taking Mission”
Mark Stoeltje
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
Words: Charles Wesley; Music arranged by: Mark A. Miller
Emmaus Youth Choir; Patty Riggle Bonner, accompanist
Please see No. 57 in The United Methodist Hymnal for text
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY (can be found printed on the back page of The Faith We Sing)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION Rev. Karen Vannoy
(11:00 Liturgy with sung Sanctus from The Faith We Sing)
COMMUNION MUSIC: No. 2260 Let Us Be Bread
No. 2267 Taste and See
(Serve musicians communion on the chancel)
SONG OF DEDICATION* I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me
BENEDICTION Rev. Karen Vannoy
POSTLUDE: Sent Out in Jesus Name
4/29/07 9:00 Worship Service
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Third Sunday of Easter
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Karen Stiles, violin
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: God of all creation, you have summoned us to worship!
People: Creator, Mother, Father, Sustainer, Redeemer, we have come to worship!
Leader: God, you have given us a model of community through the Creator, Jesus, and the Holy
Spirit.
People: Set us on the path to true community with each other. Inspire us to love
one another, as you have loved us!
All: Let us renew and strengthen our community by raising our voices together!
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
OPENING HYMN* No. 2236 Gather Us In ALL
CALL TO CONFESSION
Gracious God, you have issued the call for us to feed the hungry, give water to the thirsty, welcome the stranger, clothe the naked, take care of the sick and visit those in prison. You also commanded that we make disciples for you from the world. God, we have often failed at both. Forgive us, we pray.
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE “Intentional Community” Rev. Karen Vannoy
TURNING IN OF COMMITMENT CARDS
MUSIC DURING THE RITUAL: Lana Cartlidge Potts
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: In Unity We Lift Our Song
Words: Ken Medema; Music: Martin Luther,
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
Please see No. 2221 in The Faith We Sing for text.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY (can be found printed on the back page of The Faith We Sing)
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: Karen Stiles, violin
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 557 Blest Be The Tie that Binds ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Third Sunday of Easter
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Karen Stiles, violin
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: God of all creation, you have summoned us to worship!
People: Creator, Mother, Father, Sustainer, Redeemer, we have come to worship!
Leader: God, you have given us a model of community through the Creator, Jesus, and the Holy
Spirit.
People: Set us on the path to true community with each other. Inspire us to love
one another, as you have loved us!
All: Let us renew and strengthen our community by raising our voices together!
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
OPENING HYMN* No. 2236 Gather Us In ALL
CALL TO CONFESSION
Gracious God, you have issued the call for us to feed the hungry, give water to the thirsty, welcome the stranger, clothe the naked, take care of the sick and visit those in prison. You also commanded that we make disciples for you from the world. God, we have often failed at both. Forgive us, we pray.
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE “Intentional Community” Rev. Karen Vannoy
TURNING IN OF COMMITMENT CARDS
MUSIC DURING THE RITUAL: Lana Cartlidge Potts
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: In Unity We Lift Our Song
Words: Ken Medema; Music: Martin Luther,
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
Please see No. 2221 in The Faith We Sing for text.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY (can be found printed on the back page of The Faith We Sing)
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: Karen Stiles, violin
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 557 Blest Be The Tie that Binds ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
4/22/07 9:00 Worship Service
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Third Sunday of Easter
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Brethren, We Have Met for Worship Joyful Melodies
Jackie Shepherd, conductor; Lana Cartlidge Potts, piano
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: O God, in the midst of all that life throws at us, we remember your goodness and your
solidarity with us.
People: We worship you, O God of the hurt, of the lost, the abandoned, the well, the
found, the whole.
Leader: Yahweh, you are the I AM, mysterious, yet good.
People: We worship you, O God, we seek to follow you, to commit to you, and to
look for your light in the darkness.
All: Let us raise our voices to God.
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
OPENING HYMN* No. 381 Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us ALL
A PRAYER IN THE FACE OF A RAMPAGE SHOOTINGLeader: The bullets ripped their flesh, and tear our souls, Lord God. Flashing from nowhere, unseen, unforeseen, perhaps unforeseeable, lives of promise ended, others mangled by hot steel and the shrapnel lodged in hearts too stunned to cry.People: How long, O Lord? How long?Leader: And for the shooter, Lord,People: Forgive.Leader: What break in heart, or mind, or flesh moved, possessed, demanded himto stalk these down like prey? We cringe, paralyzed before the mystery of evil.We open our mouths, and join the silence of the disbelieving.
Hear us, Lord.(Silence)Heal us, Lord.(Silence)Leader: Grant them,People: and us, your peace. Amen.
By Taylor Burton-Edwards
MESSAGE “Extravegent Generosity” Acts 20:32-35 Rev. John Flowers
TURNING IN OF COMMITMENT CARDS
MUSIC DURING THE RITUAL: Emily Watkins, viola
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Here I Am, Lord
Words: Dan Schutte; Music: Trad. Shaker Hymn, arr. John Ferguson
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist; Jackie Shepherd, conductor
I the Lord of sea and sky, I have heard my people cry.
All who dwell in dark and sin my hand will save.
I, who made the stars of night, I will make their darkness bright.
Who will bear my light to them? Whom shall I send?
Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord? I have heard you calling in the night.
I will go, Lord, if you lead me. I will hold your people in my heart.
I, the Lord of snow and rain, I have born my people’s pain.
I have wept for love of them. They turn away.
I will break their hearts of stone, give them hearts for love alone.
I will speak my word to them. Whom shall I send?
I, the Lord of wind and flame, I will tend the poor and lame,
I will set a feast for them. My hand will save.
Finest bread I will provide till their hearts be satisfied.
I will give my life to them. Whom shall I send?
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY (can be found printed on the back page of The Faith We Sing)
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: Emily Watkins, viola
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2130 The Summons st. 1,4,5 ALL
BENEDICTION/POSTLUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Third Sunday of Easter
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Brethren, We Have Met for Worship Joyful Melodies
Jackie Shepherd, conductor; Lana Cartlidge Potts, piano
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: O God, in the midst of all that life throws at us, we remember your goodness and your
solidarity with us.
People: We worship you, O God of the hurt, of the lost, the abandoned, the well, the
found, the whole.
Leader: Yahweh, you are the I AM, mysterious, yet good.
People: We worship you, O God, we seek to follow you, to commit to you, and to
look for your light in the darkness.
All: Let us raise our voices to God.
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
OPENING HYMN* No. 381 Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us ALL
A PRAYER IN THE FACE OF A RAMPAGE SHOOTINGLeader: The bullets ripped their flesh, and tear our souls, Lord God. Flashing from nowhere, unseen, unforeseen, perhaps unforeseeable, lives of promise ended, others mangled by hot steel and the shrapnel lodged in hearts too stunned to cry.People: How long, O Lord? How long?Leader: And for the shooter, Lord,People: Forgive.Leader: What break in heart, or mind, or flesh moved, possessed, demanded himto stalk these down like prey? We cringe, paralyzed before the mystery of evil.We open our mouths, and join the silence of the disbelieving.
Hear us, Lord.(Silence)Heal us, Lord.(Silence)Leader: Grant them,People: and us, your peace. Amen.
By Taylor Burton-Edwards
MESSAGE “Extravegent Generosity” Acts 20:32-35 Rev. John Flowers
TURNING IN OF COMMITMENT CARDS
MUSIC DURING THE RITUAL: Emily Watkins, viola
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Here I Am, Lord
Words: Dan Schutte; Music: Trad. Shaker Hymn, arr. John Ferguson
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist; Jackie Shepherd, conductor
I the Lord of sea and sky, I have heard my people cry.
All who dwell in dark and sin my hand will save.
I, who made the stars of night, I will make their darkness bright.
Who will bear my light to them? Whom shall I send?
Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord? I have heard you calling in the night.
I will go, Lord, if you lead me. I will hold your people in my heart.
I, the Lord of snow and rain, I have born my people’s pain.
I have wept for love of them. They turn away.
I will break their hearts of stone, give them hearts for love alone.
I will speak my word to them. Whom shall I send?
I, the Lord of wind and flame, I will tend the poor and lame,
I will set a feast for them. My hand will save.
Finest bread I will provide till their hearts be satisfied.
I will give my life to them. Whom shall I send?
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY (can be found printed on the back page of The Faith We Sing)
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: Emily Watkins, viola
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2130 The Summons st. 1,4,5 ALL
BENEDICTION/POSTLUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
4/15/07 9:00 Worship Service
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Second Sunday of Easter
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Angela Caporale, violin
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: Our hearts are glad, and our souls rejoice; our bodies dwell secure.
People: You show us the path of life in your presence there is fullness of joy, in your right hand are pleasures evermore.
Leader: Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!
People: Alleluia! Praise the Lord!
--Blair Gilmore Meeks
OPENING HYMN* No. 408 The Gift of Love ALL
OPENING PRAYER
We pray, as a company of those who love you, that we may be given whatever it takes to run with patience the race that is set before us. Make us the kind of Christians that invite rather than hinder faith:
disciplined and informed;
generous and compassionate;
venturesome and joyful.
After the manner of our Savior, keep us at the side of those who need us. Thicken the ties that unite us with all who love you, by whatever name or sign.
Use us where and as you will.
until the fever of life is over,
and our work is done,
and we rest in you.
All of this we pray in faith and with thanksgiving, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
--Ernest T. Campbell
CALL TO CONFESSION
Let us confess our sins to God.
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE “A Radical Vision” Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Lord of the Dance
Words: Sydney Carter; Music: Trad. Shaker Hymn, arr. John Ferguson
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
I danced in the morning when the world was begun,
And I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun,
And I came down from heaven and I danced on the earth;
At Bethlehem I had my birth.
Dance then wherever you may be;
I am the Lord of the dance, said he,
And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be.
And I’ll lead you all in the dance said he.
I danced for the scribe and the Pharisee,
But they wouldn’t dance, and they wouldn’t follow me;
I danced for the fishermen, for James and John;
They came with me and the dance went on.
I danced on a Friday when the sky turned black,
It’s hard to dance with the devil on your back,
They buried my body and they thought I’d gone.
But! I am the dance and I still go on.
They cut me down and I lept up high:
I am the life that’ll never, never die;
I’ll live in you if you’ll live in me.
I am the Lord of the dance said he.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY (can be found printed on the back page of The Faith We Sing)
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. 451 Be Thou My Vision ALL
BENEDICTION/POSTLUDE: Angela Caporale, violin
Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Second Sunday of Easter
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Angela Caporale, violin
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: Our hearts are glad, and our souls rejoice; our bodies dwell secure.
People: You show us the path of life in your presence there is fullness of joy, in your right hand are pleasures evermore.
Leader: Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!
People: Alleluia! Praise the Lord!
--Blair Gilmore Meeks
OPENING HYMN* No. 408 The Gift of Love ALL
OPENING PRAYER
We pray, as a company of those who love you, that we may be given whatever it takes to run with patience the race that is set before us. Make us the kind of Christians that invite rather than hinder faith:
disciplined and informed;
generous and compassionate;
venturesome and joyful.
After the manner of our Savior, keep us at the side of those who need us. Thicken the ties that unite us with all who love you, by whatever name or sign.
Use us where and as you will.
until the fever of life is over,
and our work is done,
and we rest in you.
All of this we pray in faith and with thanksgiving, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
--Ernest T. Campbell
CALL TO CONFESSION
Let us confess our sins to God.
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE “A Radical Vision” Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Lord of the Dance
Words: Sydney Carter; Music: Trad. Shaker Hymn, arr. John Ferguson
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
I danced in the morning when the world was begun,
And I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun,
And I came down from heaven and I danced on the earth;
At Bethlehem I had my birth.
Dance then wherever you may be;
I am the Lord of the dance, said he,
And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be.
And I’ll lead you all in the dance said he.
I danced for the scribe and the Pharisee,
But they wouldn’t dance, and they wouldn’t follow me;
I danced for the fishermen, for James and John;
They came with me and the dance went on.
I danced on a Friday when the sky turned black,
It’s hard to dance with the devil on your back,
They buried my body and they thought I’d gone.
But! I am the dance and I still go on.
They cut me down and I lept up high:
I am the life that’ll never, never die;
I’ll live in you if you’ll live in me.
I am the Lord of the dance said he.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY (can be found printed on the back page of The Faith We Sing)
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. 451 Be Thou My Vision ALL
BENEDICTION/POSTLUDE: Angela Caporale, violin
5/20/07 11:00 Worship Service
Celebration Worship Service
May 20th, 2007
Seventh Sunday in Easter
OPENING MUSIC:
Trading My Sorrows
I Worship You Medley
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
I Love You, Lord
PRAYERS OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
As the Deer (CMI soloists w/Mark on piano)
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: Faith to Believe
MESSAGE “God’s Not Through with Us Yet” Isaiah 2:1-4 Rev. John Flowers
INVITATION
INVITATION TO DISCIPLESHIP: Soon and Very Soon
A MOMENT WITH ROGER BARNES
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Trading My Sorrows (reprise)
May 20th, 2007
Seventh Sunday in Easter
OPENING MUSIC:
Trading My Sorrows
I Worship You Medley
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
I Love You, Lord
PRAYERS OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
As the Deer (CMI soloists w/Mark on piano)
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: Faith to Believe
MESSAGE “God’s Not Through with Us Yet” Isaiah 2:1-4 Rev. John Flowers
INVITATION
INVITATION TO DISCIPLESHIP: Soon and Very Soon
A MOMENT WITH ROGER BARNES
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Trading My Sorrows (reprise)
5/13/07 11:00 Worship Service
Celebration Worship Service
May 13th, 2007
Sixth Sunday in Easter
OPENING MUSIC:
The Presence of the Lord is Here
Your Name is Great
Holy Ground
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
More Like You
PRAYERS OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
A MOMENT FROM OUR LAY LEADER, ROGER BARNES
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: Resting Place
MESSAGE “Passionate Spirituality” John 4:19-24 Rev. Karen Vannoy
INVITATION
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: I Want Jesus to Walk with Me
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: I Want Jesus to Walk with Me (solo’s)
May 13th, 2007
Sixth Sunday in Easter
OPENING MUSIC:
The Presence of the Lord is Here
Your Name is Great
Holy Ground
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
More Like You
PRAYERS OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
A MOMENT FROM OUR LAY LEADER, ROGER BARNES
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: Resting Place
MESSAGE “Passionate Spirituality” John 4:19-24 Rev. Karen Vannoy
INVITATION
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: I Want Jesus to Walk with Me
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: I Want Jesus to Walk with Me (solo’s)
5/6/07 Combined Worship Service
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Fifth Sunday of Easter
10:30 a.m.
Gathering
PRELUDE: God’s Got a Blessing Ralph Cortez, soloist
CALL TO WORSHIP* Rev. Joe Stobaugh
Leader: Eternal and loving God, you have called us to a rich spiritual life,
intentional community, risk taking mission, and to worship! You have a blessing with our names on it!
People: You have called us God, to a life in relationship with you,
grounded in community, in your Word, and in worship and mission!
Leader: God we have responded to your call!
People: Let us raise our voices in praise and thanksgiving for all that
God is doing in our lives!
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
SONGS OF CELEBRATION
God is Good (All the Time)
Amazing Grace
CALL TO CONFESSION Rev. Willie Glaster and Rev. Deana Kirby
Men led by the Rev. Willie Glaster: God, we come to you today
recognizing that we have fallen short.
Women led by the Rev. Deana Kirby: We have done and thought
things we shouldn’t have, and we have not done the things we should have.
Men: Forgive us, loving and graceful God, for where we have
fallen short.
Women: Empower and enliven our lives through your grace so that
we can live with new energy and expectation for what you will do.
All: Let us go to God to confess our sins in silence.
TIME OF SILENCE
WORDS OF ASSURANCE AND PARDON Rev. Taylor Boone
I Will Praise You Joyful Melodies
Proclamation and Response
MESSAGE “Risk-Taking Mission”
Elena Guajardo
ANTHEM Jesus Calls Us
Words: Traditional African-American Spiritual; Music: arr. Joy Patterson
Sanctuary Choir; Mark Rubinstein, accompanist; DiAnn Grimes, soprano soloist
“Risk-Taking Mission”
Mark Stoeltje
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
Words: Charles Wesley; Music arranged by: Mark A. Miller
Emmaus Youth Choir; Patty Riggle Bonner, accompanist
Please see No. 57 in The United Methodist Hymnal for text
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY (can be found printed on the back page of The Faith We Sing)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION Rev. Karen Vannoy
(11:00 Liturgy with sung Sanctus from The Faith We Sing)
COMMUNION MUSIC: No. 2260 Let Us Be Bread
No. 2267 Taste and See
(Serve musicians communion on the chancel)
SONG OF DEDICATION* I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me
BENEDICTION Rev. Karen Vannoy
POSTLUDE: Sent Out in Jesus Name
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Fifth Sunday of Easter
10:30 a.m.
Gathering
PRELUDE: God’s Got a Blessing Ralph Cortez, soloist
CALL TO WORSHIP* Rev. Joe Stobaugh
Leader: Eternal and loving God, you have called us to a rich spiritual life,
intentional community, risk taking mission, and to worship! You have a blessing with our names on it!
People: You have called us God, to a life in relationship with you,
grounded in community, in your Word, and in worship and mission!
Leader: God we have responded to your call!
People: Let us raise our voices in praise and thanksgiving for all that
God is doing in our lives!
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
SONGS OF CELEBRATION
God is Good (All the Time)
Amazing Grace
CALL TO CONFESSION Rev. Willie Glaster and Rev. Deana Kirby
Men led by the Rev. Willie Glaster: God, we come to you today
recognizing that we have fallen short.
Women led by the Rev. Deana Kirby: We have done and thought
things we shouldn’t have, and we have not done the things we should have.
Men: Forgive us, loving and graceful God, for where we have
fallen short.
Women: Empower and enliven our lives through your grace so that
we can live with new energy and expectation for what you will do.
All: Let us go to God to confess our sins in silence.
TIME OF SILENCE
WORDS OF ASSURANCE AND PARDON Rev. Taylor Boone
I Will Praise You Joyful Melodies
Proclamation and Response
MESSAGE “Risk-Taking Mission”
Elena Guajardo
ANTHEM Jesus Calls Us
Words: Traditional African-American Spiritual; Music: arr. Joy Patterson
Sanctuary Choir; Mark Rubinstein, accompanist; DiAnn Grimes, soprano soloist
“Risk-Taking Mission”
Mark Stoeltje
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
Words: Charles Wesley; Music arranged by: Mark A. Miller
Emmaus Youth Choir; Patty Riggle Bonner, accompanist
Please see No. 57 in The United Methodist Hymnal for text
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY (can be found printed on the back page of The Faith We Sing)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION Rev. Karen Vannoy
(11:00 Liturgy with sung Sanctus from The Faith We Sing)
COMMUNION MUSIC: No. 2260 Let Us Be Bread
No. 2267 Taste and See
(Serve musicians communion on the chancel)
SONG OF DEDICATION* I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me
BENEDICTION Rev. Karen Vannoy
POSTLUDE: Sent Out in Jesus Name
4/28/07 11:00 Service
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
April 29th, 2007
Fourth Sunday in Easter
OPENING MUSIC:
C-Band Old-Time Gospel Medley
You Are Good
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
Because of Who You Are
PRAYERS OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: Of My Heart I Give to You
MESSAGE “Intentional Community” Rev. Karen Vannoy
TURING IN THE COMMITMENT CARDS
INVITATION
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Can You Believe
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Can You Believe
Celebration Worship Service
April 29th, 2007
Fourth Sunday in Easter
OPENING MUSIC:
C-Band Old-Time Gospel Medley
You Are Good
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
Because of Who You Are
PRAYERS OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: Of My Heart I Give to You
MESSAGE “Intentional Community” Rev. Karen Vannoy
TURING IN THE COMMITMENT CARDS
INVITATION
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Can You Believe
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Can You Believe
4/22/07 11:00 Service
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
April 22nd, 2007
Third Sunday in Easter
OPENING MUSIC:
Woke Up This Morning with My Mind
In the Sanctuary
Amazing Grace
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
A Lamentation: I Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray
by The Rev. Maxine Allen
(Willie Glaster)
I couldn't hear nobody pray, Lord!I heard the sounds of bullets…I heard the sounds of sirens…I hard the click and flash of cameras and cell phones…I heard the pounding of boots on the pavement…
(Deana Kirby)I couldn't hear nobody pray, Lord!I heard the sound of moaning…I heard the beating of fists…I heard the whir of the helicopter…But, I couldn't hear nobody pray.
(Taylor Boone)
I hear the peck, peck, peck of computer keys…I hear the television in the background…I hear the announcer give the body count…I hear the young man crying…But, I couldn't hear nobody pray.
(John Flowers)I couldn't hear nobody pray, Lord!I couldn't hear nobody pray.Way down yonder by myself,And I couldn't hear nobody pray!
Surely God is Able
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: I Need You To Survive
MESSAGE “Extravagant Generosity” Acts 20:32-35 Rev. John Flowers
TURNING IN OF COMMITMENT CARDS
INVITATION
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: I Have Decided to Follow Jesus
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: God’s Got a Blessing (reprise)
Celebration Worship Service
April 22nd, 2007
Third Sunday in Easter
OPENING MUSIC:
Woke Up This Morning with My Mind
In the Sanctuary
Amazing Grace
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
A Lamentation: I Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray
by The Rev. Maxine Allen
(Willie Glaster)
I couldn't hear nobody pray, Lord!I heard the sounds of bullets…I heard the sounds of sirens…I hard the click and flash of cameras and cell phones…I heard the pounding of boots on the pavement…
(Deana Kirby)I couldn't hear nobody pray, Lord!I heard the sound of moaning…I heard the beating of fists…I heard the whir of the helicopter…But, I couldn't hear nobody pray.
(Taylor Boone)
I hear the peck, peck, peck of computer keys…I hear the television in the background…I hear the announcer give the body count…I hear the young man crying…But, I couldn't hear nobody pray.
(John Flowers)I couldn't hear nobody pray, Lord!I couldn't hear nobody pray.Way down yonder by myself,And I couldn't hear nobody pray!
Surely God is Able
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: I Need You To Survive
MESSAGE “Extravagant Generosity” Acts 20:32-35 Rev. John Flowers
TURNING IN OF COMMITMENT CARDS
INVITATION
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: I Have Decided to Follow Jesus
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: God’s Got a Blessing (reprise)
4/15/07 11:00 Service
Going to try to quickly update the blog with recent liturgies!
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
April 15th, 2007
Second Sunday in Easter
OPENING MUSIC:
You are Good
God is Good
Lord, You Are Welcome
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
Be Thou My Vision
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Lord, Listen to Your Children
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: My Desire
MESSAGE “A Radical Vision” Rev. John Flowers
INVITATION
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Sent Out In Jesus Name
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: My Desire (reprise)
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
April 15th, 2007
Second Sunday in Easter
OPENING MUSIC:
You are Good
God is Good
Lord, You Are Welcome
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
Be Thou My Vision
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Lord, Listen to Your Children
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
(ushers, please come forward after the call for the offering)
OFFERTORY: My Desire
MESSAGE “A Radical Vision” Rev. John Flowers
INVITATION
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Sent Out In Jesus Name
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: My Desire (reprise)
Physical Fitness in Church
So, I got this amazing new podometer from my mohter-in-law several days ago and it's been quite revealing. This morning at church I walked 4,285 steps, or rougly a little over two miles, just between 7:30 and 12:30, good times! I didn't think I walked quite that much but, as it turns, out, I do! Good stuff!
Friday, May 18, 2007
Summer schedule
This summer is going to be incredible! The madness began in earnest last weekend when we had an overnight youth choir retreat. Our youth at Travis Park are really incredible! Chasing a rabbit trail, it turns out that our pastors (we have a married co-pastor team) and that leaves me as the only appointed pastor to Traivs Park until at least September. (We will have a contracted interim but a great deal of the committee work will fall to me and not the interim.) The reality of new leadership responsibilities for me has been stressful and invigorating all at once! So the point of this rabbit trail is that about half-way through our opening rehearsal for the retreat I had a great sense of peace fall over me as I was reminded: "this is why I do what I do!"
What a blessing!
So I am currently in Dallas, enjoying the only free weekend I will have until July 31st! Yesterday was my 29th birthday and Sarah, Ellie, and I drove up from Dallas, stopped at the new House of Blues in Dallas (which was cool!) and partied with my parents, the in-laws, and the sister and brother-in-laws: it was great!
This morning I went to the new PGA Superstore in Dallas which was incredible! I got to try Phil Mickelson's new putter, the XG #9 and it will be mine one day, oh yes, it will be mine.
On Wednesday of this up-coming week I have the honor of delivering the opening prayer and devotional to the Texas House of Representatives at the Capitol in Austin. I am very, very honored and excited about this!
Following that event will be three weddings in a row (on three weekends in a row), two annual conferences (one of which I will be ordained at, the great North Texas Conference, the other I will be leading the music at the ordination service in the Southwest Texas Conference), a choir tour to New Orleans, Atlanta, Savannah, and the Georgia Coast (and back) a dixieland gig with the National Convocation of The Fellowship of Music and Worship Arts in St. Louis, a teaching gig (youth choir clinician) at TCU for the Association of Disciples of Christ Musicians www.adm.org the Cactus Pear Music Festival at Travis Park, various concerts and services, and finally, three days of vacation before VBS and Choir Camp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Of which I have very minimal responsibilities: go Jackie Shepherd, our amazing children's music ministries director!)
There's lots more past that but it's wearing me out already! :)
As my colleague and friend the Rev. Taylor Boone is prone to saying: I am overwhelmed with opportunity. What a blessing!
What a blessing!
So I am currently in Dallas, enjoying the only free weekend I will have until July 31st! Yesterday was my 29th birthday and Sarah, Ellie, and I drove up from Dallas, stopped at the new House of Blues in Dallas (which was cool!) and partied with my parents, the in-laws, and the sister and brother-in-laws: it was great!
This morning I went to the new PGA Superstore in Dallas which was incredible! I got to try Phil Mickelson's new putter, the XG #9 and it will be mine one day, oh yes, it will be mine.
On Wednesday of this up-coming week I have the honor of delivering the opening prayer and devotional to the Texas House of Representatives at the Capitol in Austin. I am very, very honored and excited about this!
Following that event will be three weddings in a row (on three weekends in a row), two annual conferences (one of which I will be ordained at, the great North Texas Conference, the other I will be leading the music at the ordination service in the Southwest Texas Conference), a choir tour to New Orleans, Atlanta, Savannah, and the Georgia Coast (and back) a dixieland gig with the National Convocation of The Fellowship of Music and Worship Arts in St. Louis, a teaching gig (youth choir clinician) at TCU for the Association of Disciples of Christ Musicians www.adm.org the Cactus Pear Music Festival at Travis Park, various concerts and services, and finally, three days of vacation before VBS and Choir Camp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Of which I have very minimal responsibilities: go Jackie Shepherd, our amazing children's music ministries director!)
There's lots more past that but it's wearing me out already! :)
As my colleague and friend the Rev. Taylor Boone is prone to saying: I am overwhelmed with opportunity. What a blessing!
May 18th Update
Wow, my first full day entering the last year of my twenties...
It has started off strangely, I was up, wide-awake at 6:15 a.m. this morning: hardly musicians hours! I suppose this is probably the beginning of the end of the end, I suspect my back will fall out of alignment next week, I should experience kidney failure the week after that (though if there's any justice in the world it would be the liver that would go first!) and then various limbs will start to fall off as I begin to experience the full force of dementia.
Not that I'm a pessimist...:)
Actually, I am really excited to have made it another year! I feel like I'm in better shape than I've been in some time, I've lost 5.5 lbs. in the last two weeks, I'm eating better than I ever have in my adult life and I'm feeling stronger. Crazy, huh?
It's quite nice, actually!
Once I mix in some exercise I'll really be on the right track!
Life is looking up! God is good and faithful, this much I know!
Have a great week!
It has started off strangely, I was up, wide-awake at 6:15 a.m. this morning: hardly musicians hours! I suppose this is probably the beginning of the end of the end, I suspect my back will fall out of alignment next week, I should experience kidney failure the week after that (though if there's any justice in the world it would be the liver that would go first!) and then various limbs will start to fall off as I begin to experience the full force of dementia.
Not that I'm a pessimist...:)
Actually, I am really excited to have made it another year! I feel like I'm in better shape than I've been in some time, I've lost 5.5 lbs. in the last two weeks, I'm eating better than I ever have in my adult life and I'm feeling stronger. Crazy, huh?
It's quite nice, actually!
Once I mix in some exercise I'll really be on the right track!
Life is looking up! God is good and faithful, this much I know!
Have a great week!
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