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
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