Calendar
Sunday, October 17
9:45 AM Service of Worship
3:00 PM Easy Hiking Group
Monday, October 18
8:00 – 10:30 AM Office Open
1:00 PM Bridge Group
Tuesday, October 19
9:00 AM Easy Hiking Group
4:00 PM Women’s Devotional Group
Wednesday, October 20
8:00 – 10:30 AM Office Open
1:00 PM Zoom UMW
4:00 PM Zoom Storytelling
Thursday, October 21
3:00 PM Easy Hiking Group
4:00 PM Zoom Ad Council
Friday, October 22
8:00 – 10:30 AM Office Open
Order of Worship
Prelude – Nancy Gunter
Blest Are the Contrite Hearts
Greeting/Welcome
Call to Worship
Leader: We come before God as equals in God’s sight.
People: God knows us thoroughly and loves us completely.
Leader: None of us is perfect and without blemish.
People: Yet God has called us God’s children and asked us to be compassionate and responsible in our caring and witness.
Leader: We are called to joyful obedience in God’s realm.
People: Thanks be to God who trusts us and pours God’s abundant love on us. Amen.
Opening Prayer (Unison)
Lord, everywhere we look we see the imprint of your creative love. The wondrous works of nature show your majesty. As we gather today to celebrate your love and creation, keep us mindful that we are part of that created order, meant to be stewards and not destroyers. Prepare us to work for you in ministries of peace and justice. Amen.
Opening Hymn
To God Be the Glory
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
Mark 10:35-45
Sermon – Rev. Ann Lantz
Becoming a Servant to All
Closing Hymn
I Love to Tell the Story
Benediction
Postlude – Nancy Gunter
There Is Power in the Blood
Service Participants:
Pastor: Rev. Ann Steiner Lantz
Recorded Worship Liturgist: Cay Lacey
Zoom Worship Liturgist: Wendy Rigby
Director of Music: Jim Flanigan
Pianist: Nancy Gunter
Videographer: Jim Ecklund