Estes Park United Methodist Church
May 9, 2021
The Sixth Sunday of Easter
Mother’s Day
Order of Worship
Prelude – Make Us One – arr. Jim Hammerly
Greeting/Welcome
Call to Worship
Leader: We would be perfectly happy if our path were faultless, if we were always in step with God.
People: This is my commandment: that you love one another.
Leader: God has given us commandments that we may live as effectively as possible. With our eyes fixed on doing the right thing, we shall never be put to shame.
People: You are to love one another in the same way as I have loved you.
Leader: O Lord, touch our lips with your saving grace,
People: that our lives may declare your praise!
Opening Prayer (Unison)
Holy God, may we hear your voice in the stillness of night, in the clatter of day you call us, and we respond, Here I am! May we follow you and may we love as you love. Amen.
Opening Hymn – Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing – #400 UMH
Affirmation of Faith
Leader: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution or famine, or nakedness or peril or sword?
People: No! In all things we are more than conquerors through the One who loved us. We are sure that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Thanks be to God! Amen.
Offering
Prayer of Blessing
Pastoral Prayer
Scripture Lesson – John 15:9-17
Special Music – Jesus Loves Me – arr. Joel Raney
Sermon – Our Greatest Calling
Closing Hymn - Help Us Accept Each Other – #560 UMH
Benediction
Postlude – My Savior’s Love – arr. Steve Martin
Service Participants:
Pastor: Rev. Ann Steiner Lantz
Recorded Worship Liturgist: Cay Lacey
Zoom Worship Liturgist: Barbara Bailey
Flutist: Heather Stone
Director of Music: Jim Flanigan
Pianist: Nancy Gunter
Videographer: Jim Ecklund