Order of Worship

Third Sunday of Easter

Native Indian Sunday

BOLD indicates congregational SPEAKING participation

GATHERING AS THE BODY OF CHRIST

Prelude

   Daw-Kee, Aim Daw-Tsi-Taw (Great Spirit, Now I Pray)

  Native American melody

Welcome and Sharing of Announcements

A Time to Make Connections

Call to Worship

Liturgist: Leader: We have entered into the new day, You O God, have given us the breath of life.

People: We rejoice!

Liturgist: We breathe in the morning air, we hear the sounds of creation, we rise up to take our place in the circle of life.

People: We rejoice!

Liturgist: Today as we move in the world as a part of creation, may we be in balance with all life, using only what we need, respecting the presence of others, maintaining peace.

People: We rejoice!

Liturgist: You have given us the energy of the four winds as strength to overcome obstacles in our path, you have provided family and friends to encourage us, you have given us your powerful grace and mercy to sustain us.

People: We rejoice!

Liturgist: Our journey in the circle of life is one of a people, handed from generation to generation, tradition to tradition. Grant us the courage to take our place in the circle, to enter harmony with creation, to continue our journey. We ask your blessing upon our lives.

People: We rejoice! Amen

Opening Prayer

Lord of Light and Mercy, be with us this day as we again hear the stories of faith and sight. Help us to believe in your abiding presence with us, both in our darkness and in the light which you bring. Give us courage and strength to witness to your resurrection. For we offer this in Jesus’ Name, AMEN.

Opening Hymn

       “Many and Great, O God” 

     UMH #148    

Native American melody

Message in Music

          “Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist”  

 Dieterich Buxtehude

English translation: “We now implore the Holy Ghost”

(online service only)

“God Father, Praise and Glory”      

       Flor Peeters

Lydia Solodiuk, organist

(in-person service only)

Children's Time

Courtney Till

Pastoral Prayer and Lord's Prayer

Prayer Response

   “Heleluyan (Alleluia)”          

 UMH #78 (2 times)

Traditional Muscogee Indian

ATTENTION TO THE WORD OF GOD

Scripture Readings: Luke 24:36-48

36 While they were talking about this, Jesus[l] himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”[m] 37 They were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see, for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” 40 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.[n] 41 Yet for all their joy they were still disbelieving and wondering, and he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish,[o] 43 and he took it and ate in their presence. 44 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46 and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah[p] is[q] to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day 47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses[r] of these things.

Liturgist: The word of God for the people of God.

People: Thanks be to God.  

Message

 “ The Holy Heartburning Moments”  

  Pastor Seok-Hwan

We Respond

Offertory

       “Thine Be the Glory”  

UMH #308

Doxology

 UMH #94

*Offertory Prayer

Generous God, you put love into human form in Jesus, who lived, died, and was raised to eternal life. Receive now these offerings, that your grace may live today through the work of your church. We offer these gifts with our time, our commitment, and our love, that the world may witness, without doubt, that Christ is alive today. In your holy name, we pray. Amen. 

Closing Hymn

    “Crown Him with Many Crowns”     

UMH#327

The Blessing and Sending Forth 

You have come from afar and waited, long and are wearied.

Let us sit side by side, sharing the same bread drawn from the same source;

to quiet the same hunger that makes us weak,

Then standing together let us share the same spirit, the same thoughts,

That once again draws us together in spirit and unity and peace.

AMEN!

Postlude

   "Lord of the Dance"

   arr. Douglas Wagner