GATHERING
PRELUDE/ENTRANCE/LIFE OF THE CHURCH
*OPENING SONG
"Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" UMH 384
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Liturgist: As we gather and as we disperse, as we rise and as we sleep, as we eat and play and work. People: We offer God praise.
Liturgist: As we wash our car, scrub the dishes, rinse the grime of the day from our hands. People: We offer God praise.
Liturgist: As we feel the tips of the grass on our feet, the wind against our face, the sun on our backs. People: We offer God praise.
Liturgist: Come, let us worship God who creates, redeems, and sustains us to live out our praise in all we do! ALL: We come as people formed by grace to offer God praise with our whole selves now and in all the ordinary moments of our lives! Amen.
Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries, May 2026.
Opening Prayer
Awesome and majestic God, your creative power, your glory and holiness were experienced by your people of old as clouds and fire guiding them to freedom. They believed that no one could see your face and live. How blessed, therefore, are we, for you have revealed your face to us in Jesus the human face of your love. You also equip us for our journey through life and beyond, by breathing new and everlasting life into our very beings, through the gift of the Holy Spirit. These people of old believed that it was your presence with them which made them a chosen and special people. We praise and adore you, O God, for making our lives so special, by choosing to share your life with us in and through Jesus. May this time of worship and the service of our lives reveal our thanksgiving and our wonder that you should so care for us. This we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen. Written by Moira Laidlaw and posted on her Liturgies Online website. Re-posted on the re: Worship blog at https://re-worship.blogspot.com/2011/10/call-to-worship-prayer-october-16.html.
PROCLAMATION AND RESPONSE
A TIME FOR CHILDREN
BISHOP’S EPISCOPAL ADDRESS
RESPONSE TO THE WORD
*OFFERING OF OURSELVES
*DOXOLOGY UMH 95
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
HOLY COMMUNION
GREAT THANKSGIVING UMH 15 THE LORD’S PRAYER
SHARING THE BREAD AND CUP
SENDING FORTH
*SONG OF DISMISSAL
“Here I Am, Lord” UMH 593
*BENEDICTION
*PEACE
“God Be with You till We Meet Again UMH 672
Verse 1
*Please stand as you are able