PRELUDE/ENTRANCE/LIFE OF THE CHURCH
*OPENING SONG
"For All the Saints" UMH 711
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Liturgist: On this All Saints Day, we gather to join the multitude of saints across the generations from all tribes, peoples, and languages, to proclaim. People: Salvation belongs to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!
Liturgist: We come to remember, to grieve, and to celebrate those saints who have come before, yet whose life and witness continues to teach us. People: Salvation belongs to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!
Liturgist: We gather today as the family of Christ, siblings and saints, diverse yet united by grace to live lives that declare. People: Salvation belongs to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!
Liturgist: May we be guided today by the Lamb who is our Shepherd, the one who gathers us, comforts us and tends us. ALL: May we join in the work of the Shepherd to bring about a world with no more hunger, no more thirst, no more suffering, and no more pain that all the saints of the past, the present, and the future may share in God’s abundant life. Amen.
Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries, April 2023.
*Opening Prayer
Almighty and everlasting God, we give you thanks for the saints of every age who have faithfully followed Jesus Christ and borne witness to your love. We praise you for those who have gone before us in faith, whose lives continue to inspire and encourage us in our own discipleship. Today we remember with gratitude those whom we have loved and lost, trusting that they now rest in your eternal care. As we gather with the whole communion of saints, unite our hearts with the church on earth and the church in heaven in joyful worship and praise. Fill us with your Holy Spirit that we may run with perseverance the race set before us, keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. Strengthen us to live as faithful witnesses of your grace until that day when we join the great multitude around your heavenly throne. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. Compiled by CoPilot October 25, 2026
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
SHARING GOD’S PEACE
JOYS AND CONCERNS
PROCLAMATION AND RESPONSE
A TIME FOR CHILDREN
SPECIAL MUSIC
*GOSPEL LESSON Luke 19:1-10
SECOND LESSON Revelation 7:9-17
MESSAGE
RESPONSE TO THE WORD
*SONG OF RESPONSE
"The Church’s One Foundation" UMH 545
*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
“When We All Get to Heaven” UMH 701
*BENEDICTION
*PEACE
“God Be with You till We Meet Again” UMH 672
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