Pentecost 9:00 Service

Whohoo! Pentecost is nearly upon us!
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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