PRELUDE/ENTRANCE
GREETING/ANNOUNCEMENTS
*OPENING SONG
“This Is a Day of New Beginnings” UMH 383
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Liturgist: We praise you, Lord! We give thanks to you with our whole heart!
People: Great are your works, full of honor and majesty
and studied by all who delight in them.
Liturgist: The works of your hands are faithful and just.
People: Your precepts are trustworthy.
Liturgist: Our reverence for you is the beginning of wisdom.
ALL: You are to be praised forever.
OPENING PRAYER
Liturgist: All-knowing Creator, from whom comes every good and perfect gift, we praise you for the wisdom, power, and love displayed in the natural universe and in humanity, whom you have placed within it to care for it and nurture it.
People: All glory to you, omniscient God!
Liturgist: Light of the world, we praise you for being the eternal truth.
People: All glory to you, Christ our teacher!
Liturgist: Revealer of the deep things of God, we praise you for your gifts of awe and wonder which lead us on the path of true wisdom.
ALL: All glory to you, Holy Spirit!
~ from the Sturgeon Bay Moravian Church in Sturgeon Bay, WI. Posted on http://synodresourcecenter.org/wma/worship/occasional/other/0032/graduation.html
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
SHARING GOD’S PEACE
JOYS AND CONCERNS
THE LORD’S PRAYER
PROCLAMATION AND RESPONSE
A TIME FOR CHILDREN
RECOGNITION OF GRADUATES
SPECIAL MUSIC
FIRST SCRIPTURE Acts 11:1-18
SECOND SCRIPTURE John 13:31-35
MESSAGE “Words to Live By”
RESPONSE TO THE WORD
*SONG OF RESPONSE
“He Who Began a Good Work in You” TFWS 2163
*OFFERING OF OURSELVES
*”The Apostles’ Creed” UMH 881
*DOXOLOGY UMH 95
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
SENDING FORTH
*SONG OF DISMISSAL
"Here I Am, Lord" UMH 593
*BENEDICTION
*PEACE
“Shalom to You” UMH 666
*Please stand as you are able