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
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