PRELUDE/ENTRANCE
GREETING/ANNOUNCEMENTS
*OPENING SONG
“Marching to Zion” UMH 733
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Liturgist: We come seeking refuge in a world where goodness and good news can feel far away.
People: God is our hope and our refuge.
Liturgist: We come searching for safety in a world that often calls foolishness wisdom and wisdom foolishness.
People: God is our hope and our refuge.
Liturgist: We come longing for rest in a world that bombards us with all the ways people work against the abundant life and flourishing of their neighbors.
People: God is our hope and our refuge.
Liturgist: Come, children of God, to find refuge and hope in God who delivers and restores us.
People: May God teach us and guide us to find refuge and be refuge with and for our neighbors today and every day.
Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries, April 2025.
OPENING PRAYER
This world would deny you, Lord, and rely on human wisdom in their search for answers to questions they have yet to ask, but we will praise you, and exalt your name, for we know that you are Alpha, the beginning of all things, and Omega, the end, and all that is between. We have known your healing. We have known your provision. We have known your victory. Our sorrow has turned into dancing and our tears to songs of joy. We shall praise you ever more. Amen
Written by John Birch and posted on Faith and Worship, http://www.faithandworship.com/.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
SHARING GOD’S PEACE
GOD SIGHTINGS
PRAYER FOR COMFORT AND HEALING
THE LORD’S PRAYER
PROCLAMATION AND RESPONSE
A TIME FOR CHILDREN
SPECIAL MUSIC
FIRST SCRIPTURE 1 Timothy 1:12=17
*SECOND SCRIPTURE Luke 15:1-10
MESSAGE “Search Party”
RESPONSE TO THE WORD
*SONG OF RESPONSE
“Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling” UMH 348
*OFFERING OF OURSELVES
*”The Apostles’ Creed” UMH 881
*DOXOLOGY UMH 95
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
SENDING FORTH
*SONG OF DISMISSAL
“I Stand Amazed in the Presence” UMH 371
*BENEDICTION
*PEACE
“God Be with You till We Meet Again” UMH 672
Verse 1
*Please stand as you are able