PRELUDE/ENTRANCE/LIFE OF THE CHURCH
*OPENING SONG
"America the Beautiful" UMH 696
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Liturgist: Beloved, the Spirit of Truth gathers us here to receive and discern God’s good news working among us. People: Come, Holy Spirit, come!
Liturgist: The Spirit of Love draws us together to receive and restore life-giving relationships with God and one another. People: Come, Holy Spirit, come!
Liturgist: The Spirit of Freedom knits us together to receive and renew the bonds of empathy, justice, and peace that bind us together in the work for liberation and wholeness. People: Come, Holy Spirit, come!
Liturgist: Beloved, the Holy Spirit is here, moving and working among us. Will you come and receive all the Spirit has to give? ALL: We come to receive the Spirit’s abundant and gracious gifts that we may be a people who live out God’s truth, love, and freedom in our neighborhood, community, and throughout all creation. Amen.
Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries, December 2025.
*Opening Prayer
Almighty God, from whom all thoughts of truth and peace proceed; kindle, we pray thee, in the hearts of all men the true love of peace, and guide with thy pure and peaceable wisdom those who take counsel for the nations of the earth, that in
tranquility thy Kingdom may go forward, till the earth be filled with the knowledge of thy love; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
SHARING GOD’S PEACE
GOD SIGHTINGS AND INTERCESSIONS
THE LORD’S PRAYER
PROCLAMATION AND RESPONSE
A TIME FOR CHILDREN
SPECIAL MUSIC
EPISTLE LESSON 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13
*SECOND LESSON Acts 2:1-21
MESSAGE
RESPONSE TO THE WORD
SONG OF RESPONSE
“Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty" UMH 64
*OFFERING OF OURSELVES
*THE NICENE CREED UMH 880
*DOXOLOGY UMH 95
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
SENDING FORTH
*SONG OF DISMISSAL
” We Are the Church” UMH 558
*BENEDICTION
*PEACE
“God Be with You till We Meet Again” UMH 672
Verse 1
*Please stand as you are able