Service for the Lord's Day

The Fifth Sunday of Easter

Sunday, April 28, 2024 | 11 a.m.

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ORDER OF WORSHIP

Gathering and Centering Ourselves for Worship

Prelude

Prelude on "Hyfrydol" - Theodore W. Ripper

Welcome

Call to Worship

One:

We have gathered here from the wandering of our lives.

Many:

We bring the experiences of our lives with us.

One:

We come here to hear God’s call upon our lives.

Many:

We expect God to lead us on new paths.

One:

May the presence of God go with us in our work, in our resting, and in our service.

Many:

We have come to worship our God.

Hymn

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

HYFRYDOL

Prayer of the Day

(in unison)

Living God, come, be known to us. Help us to perceive your presence, as near as breath, yet hidden. Help us to seek you as you are seeking us. Speak your word of power. Transform us through your Spirit, and make us true disciples of Christ. All glory to you, O God, in Christ and the Spirit of life. Amen.

Assurance Response

Day of Delight

IN DIR IST FREUDE

Passing of the Peace & Announcements

Proclaiming the Word

A Reading from the Hebrew Scriptures

Jeremiah 1:4-10

The Word of the Lord | Thanks be to God

Anthem

Enter Now This Place - Jane Marshall

The Southminster Choir

Enter now this place to stand in awe, to praise the God who gives you life, and grants you strength to live it. Enter now to pray, to bring your doubt, your sin, your cares to One who suffered much, and waits to ease your load. Receive in word, in bread and wine love, grace, and peace. Accept the gift. Worship here and know that all who trust in Christ are one, a church renewed to celebrate and serve. Rejoice to gather here, then go in peace.

A Reading from the Acts of the Apostles

Acts 9:1-19

The Word of the Lord | Thanks be to God

Sermon

On the Road to Damascus and the Horizons Beyond

Rev. Kent Winters-Hazelton

Our Response to the Word

Affirmation of Faith

from The Confession of 1967

(in unison)

To be reconciled to God is to be sent into the world as God’s reconciling community. This community, the church universal, is entrusted with God’s message of reconciliation and shares God’s labor of healing the enmities which separate woman and men from God and from each other. Christ has called the church to this mission and given it the gift of the Holy Spirit. The church maintains continuity with the apostles and with Israel by faithful obedience to God’s call.

Hymn

Will You Come and Follow Me

KELVINGROVE

The Church at Prayer

The Lord be with you | And also with you.

The Lord's Prayer

(in unison)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth and it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil For Thine is the kingdom and power and the glory forever. Amen.

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The Presentation & Dedication of Our Gifts

Offertory

Offetory in C major - Frescobaldi

Offertory Response

Doxology

LASST UNS ERFREUEN

Prayer of Thanksgiving

(in unison)

Thank you, God, for the ministries of the people of your church, and for the many blessings you have poured out upon us. Receive our gifts of thanksgiving. May they help carry out the ministries of this church to world you have brought into being through your love. Amen.

Going Forth into the World to Live the Gospel

Hymn

Go to the World!

SINE NOMINE

Benediction & Response

Alleluia

ALLELUIA No. 7 (TAIZÉ)

Postlude

Postlude on "Hyfrydol" - June Nixon

The flowers for today’s worship service are given by Rev. Kent Winters-Hazelton to the glory of God in memory of Gene Newton, Kent's father, on the 71st commemoration of his death.

Craig Buller, liturgist

Rick Blinn & Chark Lyon, audio/visual

SOUTHMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH STAFF

Rev. Kent Winters-Hazelton, Pastor (Transitional)

Joshua G. Hearn, Director of Music Ministry

Paula Kane, Church Administrator