Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, February 4th, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Ken Freudigman, cello
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: I will sing of mercy and justice.People: For mercy and justice are praises befitting God.
Leader: I will follow the way of mercy and justice, for it is the way to peace.
Congregation: And on the seventh day peace was created; this is our Sabbath, the
day of peace, the aim of creation.
All: Thanks be to God!
--Keith A. Schuette
OPENING HYMN* No. 557 God of Grace and God of Glory ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
O God, whose heart weeps at the disobedience and the suffering of any of your creatures, look with justice and mercy on the prominent trouble spots of your globe. You be the champion of those who suffer poverty, dislocation, hunger, and disease. You be the chastisement of those who abuse innocent victims. Unerring judge of us all, forgive us our involvement in the sins of your people, whether it be by action direct or indirect. Renew in us the will to make peace and do justice that we may bring you delight, not tears. Amen
--Ruth C. Duck
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Rev. Karen Vannoy
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Blest Are They
Text: Matthew 5:3-16; Music: David Haas
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
For the text please see No. 2155 in The Faith We Sing
(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. 2241 The Spirit Sends Us Forth to Serve ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Ken Freudigman, cello
Monday, January 22, 2007
1/28/07 11:00 Service
This service will be fun. Our youth choir is going to serve as one of the choirs and will sing with the band, which is going to be really cool!
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
OPENING MUSIC:
You are Good
C-Band Medley
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
Sanctuary
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
OFFERTORY: Clarence or Ernie
MESSAGE Rev. John Flowers
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Soon and Very Soon
POSTLUDE: Sent Out In Jesus Name
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
OPENING MUSIC:
You are Good
C-Band Medley
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
Sanctuary
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
OFFERTORY: Clarence or Ernie
MESSAGE Rev. John Flowers
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Soon and Very Soon
POSTLUDE: Sent Out In Jesus Name
1/28/07 9:00 Liturgy
Whew! I can't believe...the Monday before the service!
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Allemande BWV 1007 J.S. Bach
Rebekah Ward, viola
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: The God of New Beginnings has called us to this place.People: We come celebrating the new life that is ours as God’s faithful people.Leader: Let your joy ring through the universe, and let your vision see to the depths of every soul.
Congregation: We will be shouters of joy and seekers of God’s light wherever we go. Praise God for this day!
--Sandra E. Graham
OPENING HYMN* No. 2236 Gather Us In ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Eternal God,. You love us steadfastly, but we have trouble loving in return’ you call us, but we have wax-filled ears; you reveal yourself, but our eyelids are heavy; you lead us toward our neighbor, but we build walls around ourselves; you hate evil, injustice, and alienation, but we get used to it. O God, we pray, help us to see ourselves both as we are and as we might be before you, and draw us by your Spirit’s tether into your forgiving, renewing, and serviceable grace, through the mercies of Christ. Amen.
--David D. Bowman
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Jeremiah 1:4-10 & I Corinthians 13:1-13 Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: The Gift of Love
Text I Corinthians 13, Music Hal H. Hopson
Sanctuary Choir; Mark Rubinstein, accompanist
Though I mad speak with bravest fire,
And have the gift to all inspire,
and have not love;
My words are vain, as sounding brass, and hopeless gain.
Though I may give all I possess,
And striving so my love profess,
But not be giv’n by love within,
The profit soon turns strangely thin.
Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control,
Our spirits long to be made whole.
Let inward love guide ev’ry deed.
By this we worship and are freed.
Amen.
(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: Emily Watkins, viola
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2228 Sacred the Body ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Courante BWV 1007 J.S. Bach
Rebekah Ward, viola
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Allemande BWV 1007 J.S. Bach
Rebekah Ward, viola
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: The God of New Beginnings has called us to this place.People: We come celebrating the new life that is ours as God’s faithful people.Leader: Let your joy ring through the universe, and let your vision see to the depths of every soul.
Congregation: We will be shouters of joy and seekers of God’s light wherever we go. Praise God for this day!
--Sandra E. Graham
OPENING HYMN* No. 2236 Gather Us In ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Eternal God,. You love us steadfastly, but we have trouble loving in return’ you call us, but we have wax-filled ears; you reveal yourself, but our eyelids are heavy; you lead us toward our neighbor, but we build walls around ourselves; you hate evil, injustice, and alienation, but we get used to it. O God, we pray, help us to see ourselves both as we are and as we might be before you, and draw us by your Spirit’s tether into your forgiving, renewing, and serviceable grace, through the mercies of Christ. Amen.
--David D. Bowman
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Jeremiah 1:4-10 & I Corinthians 13:1-13 Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: The Gift of Love
Text I Corinthians 13, Music Hal H. Hopson
Sanctuary Choir; Mark Rubinstein, accompanist
Though I mad speak with bravest fire,
And have the gift to all inspire,
and have not love;
My words are vain, as sounding brass, and hopeless gain.
Though I may give all I possess,
And striving so my love profess,
But not be giv’n by love within,
The profit soon turns strangely thin.
Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control,
Our spirits long to be made whole.
Let inward love guide ev’ry deed.
By this we worship and are freed.
Amen.
(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: Emily Watkins, viola
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2228 Sacred the Body ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Courante BWV 1007 J.S. Bach
Rebekah Ward, viola
Thursday, January 18, 2007
1/21/07 11:00 Liturgy
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
OPENING MUSIC:
Woke Up This Morning
Victory Chant
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
More Like You
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
OFFERTORY: Thy Word Emmaus Youth Choir
MESSAGE Luke 4:14-21 Rev. Karen Vannoy
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Can You Believe?
POSTLUDE: Can You Believe? (reprise)
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
OPENING MUSIC:
Woke Up This Morning
Victory Chant
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
More Like You
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
OFFERTORY: Thy Word Emmaus Youth Choir
MESSAGE Luke 4:14-21 Rev. Karen Vannoy
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Can You Believe?
POSTLUDE: Can You Believe? (reprise)
1/21/07 9:00 Worship
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Camerata San Antonio
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: God said: let there be light; and there was light. Congregation: And God saw that the light was good.Leader: This very day our God has acted! Let us rejoice!
Congregation: Alleluia! God’s name be praised!
--from The Worship Book: Services and Hymns
OPENING HYMN* No. 89 Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Jesus, revealer of all that we can know of the Divine, your words in the Scripture we are about to hear so plainly reveal your life’s work and thereby our own work as well. We are to follow your example and by God’s grace and sustaining power, we are to bring good news to the poor. We are to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. Help us God! In our brokenness we have often not done what you have asked of us. Forgive us, Creator, and transform us into all that you would have us to be. We ask this in your worthy Son’s name, Jesus. Amen.
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
ANTHEM Thy Word Emmaus Youth Choir
Words: Amy Grant (Ps. 119:105) Music by Michael W. Smith, arr. Jack Schrader
Patty Riggle Bonner, accompanist
MESSAGE Luke 4:14-21 Rev. Karen Vannoy
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: The Journey is Our Home
Sanctuary Choir; Mark Rubinstein, accompanist
(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: Camerata San Antonio
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2182 When God Restored Our Common Life ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Camerata San Antonio
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Camerata San Antonio
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: God said: let there be light; and there was light. Congregation: And God saw that the light was good.Leader: This very day our God has acted! Let us rejoice!
Congregation: Alleluia! God’s name be praised!
--from The Worship Book: Services and Hymns
OPENING HYMN* No. 89 Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Jesus, revealer of all that we can know of the Divine, your words in the Scripture we are about to hear so plainly reveal your life’s work and thereby our own work as well. We are to follow your example and by God’s grace and sustaining power, we are to bring good news to the poor. We are to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. Help us God! In our brokenness we have often not done what you have asked of us. Forgive us, Creator, and transform us into all that you would have us to be. We ask this in your worthy Son’s name, Jesus. Amen.
--Rev. Joe Stobaugh
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
ANTHEM Thy Word Emmaus Youth Choir
Words: Amy Grant (Ps. 119:105) Music by Michael W. Smith, arr. Jack Schrader
Patty Riggle Bonner, accompanist
MESSAGE Luke 4:14-21 Rev. Karen Vannoy
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: The Journey is Our Home
Sanctuary Choir; Mark Rubinstein, accompanist
(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: Camerata San Antonio
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2182 When God Restored Our Common Life ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Camerata San Antonio
Monday, January 15, 2007
Books!
I'm reading some good books at the moment! (Life's too short to read bad ones, I suppose.)
I'm finally nearing the end of The Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg, which has been very informative.
I have also begun Borg's Jesus and am finishing Diana Butler Bass' Christianity for the Rest of Us. I'm re-reading Walter Wink's The Powers that Be and am about to start Parker Palmer's Let Your Life Speak.
My first encounter with Palmer came from the wonderful, life change, absolutly amazing The Musician's Soul by James Jordan. If you are a musician or a teacher, you must read this book! I cannot begin to tell you how much it has changed my life and work. Check it out, today!!!! It should be required reading for all musicians!
I'm finally nearing the end of The Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg, which has been very informative.
I have also begun Borg's Jesus and am finishing Diana Butler Bass' Christianity for the Rest of Us. I'm re-reading Walter Wink's The Powers that Be and am about to start Parker Palmer's Let Your Life Speak.
My first encounter with Palmer came from the wonderful, life change, absolutly amazing The Musician's Soul by James Jordan. If you are a musician or a teacher, you must read this book! I cannot begin to tell you how much it has changed my life and work. Check it out, today!!!! It should be required reading for all musicians!
A cold, cold night in SA
Finally, it's gotten cold in San Antonio. (At least by San Antonio standards.) In our neck of the woods it's 29 degrees and the wind is blowing hard and constantly! They are expecting 1/4 inch of ice by the morning. We'll see...should be interesting.
I marched this morning along with 70 of my closest friends from Traivs Park UMC in the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. March this morning. Normally, San Antonio's march is the largest march of its kind in the country. Last year there were over 100,000 participants. This year, it was more like 4,000. The weather drove many people away, which, while understandable, is also sad to me. Certainly King would have marched for us!
I marched this morning along with 70 of my closest friends from Traivs Park UMC in the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. March this morning. Normally, San Antonio's march is the largest march of its kind in the country. Last year there were over 100,000 participants. This year, it was more like 4,000. The weather drove many people away, which, while understandable, is also sad to me. Certainly King would have marched for us!
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
9:00 12/31/06
Wow...I've totally lost the liturgy to our 9:00 12/31/06 service, where we did a full liturgy of the Wesley Covenant Renewal Service...the saddest part is, I preached it! And I can't find my text either! Unbelievable! I'll look for it at home.
Catching up! 12/31/06 11:00 Liturgy
We did a contemporary "Wesley Covenant Renewal Service" on this Sunday.
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
OPENING MUSIC:
C-Band Medley
Can You Believe
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions) Rev. Joe Stobaugh
More Like You
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS Rev. Willie Glaster
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
MESSAGE Rev. Taylor Boone
COVENANT SERVICE (Covenant Prayer on Screen—Use Last Years)
CALL FOR THE OFFERING Rev. Dena Kirby
OFFERTORY God’s Got a Blessing
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Guide My Feet
POSTLUDE: God’s Got a Blessing (Reprise)
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
OPENING MUSIC:
C-Band Medley
Can You Believe
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions) Rev. Joe Stobaugh
More Like You
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS Rev. Willie Glaster
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
MESSAGE Rev. Taylor Boone
COVENANT SERVICE (Covenant Prayer on Screen—Use Last Years)
CALL FOR THE OFFERING Rev. Dena Kirby
OFFERTORY God’s Got a Blessing
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: Guide My Feet
POSTLUDE: God’s Got a Blessing (Reprise)
11:00 MLK Service
This one is going to be sweet too! U2, James Taylor, and a host of other excellent pieces. During MLK we are going to have the video of Dr. King's I Have a Dream speech playing on two screens in the church. Powerful!
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, January 14th, 2007
OPENING MUSIC:
In the Sanctuary
Shed a Little Light
Lift Every Voice and Sing
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
OFFERTORY: MLK
MESSAGE Amos 5:24 Rev. John Flowers
BAPTISM
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: We Shall Overcome
POSTLUDE: Victory Chant
Travis Park UMC
Celebration Worship Service
Sunday, January 14th, 2007
OPENING MUSIC:
In the Sanctuary
Shed a Little Light
Lift Every Voice and Sing
WELCOME (Registration Pads, Questions)
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
PRAYER OVER THE PRAYER CARDS
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
CALL FOR THE OFFERING
OFFERTORY: MLK
MESSAGE Amos 5:24 Rev. John Flowers
BAPTISM
INVITATION TO DISCPLESHIP: We Shall Overcome
POSTLUDE: Victory Chant
Martin Luther King Sunday 9:00 Liturgy
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
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
Happy New Year!
2007!!!! Amazing! What a blessing it is to start over with a new year, a fresh start! (It should be this easy to feel a fresh start everyday, shouldn't it?)
Christmas Eve went well, though I had contaced a terrible virus that caused me to lose 6 pounds in twelve hours! Not much fun. The virus has been running through San Antonio like wildfire. I got it from my amazing daughter (who is now 1!!!!!!) and then my poor wife got if from me on Christmas Day! What a beating!
In spite of all that, 2006 finished well and I'm really stoked about 2007!
Christmas Eve went well, though I had contaced a terrible virus that caused me to lose 6 pounds in twelve hours! Not much fun. The virus has been running through San Antonio like wildfire. I got it from my amazing daughter (who is now 1!!!!!!) and then my poor wife got if from me on Christmas Day! What a beating!
In spite of all that, 2006 finished well and I'm really stoked about 2007!
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