Last

Outside

Sunday

Worship

at

10:00 am

June 27, 2021

Many ways to worship!

10:00 am - In-person outside worship - no reservation needed

A craft project for children will take place on the patio. Please be sure your child over 3 is wearing a mask.

10:00 am Park near the church and listen to the service on radio at 88.1 FM

10:30 am - Live Streaming Sermon on Pastor Pete's facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/peter.allen.5070276

11:00 am - Full Worship Service on HCC's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwvLqzvjbXllo7SErFpyLdg

You can also view the bulletin by going to hccucc.com - Worship and Music,

Bulletins and Announcements.

The service will remain on Facebook and YouTube if you would like to watch later.

Hingham Congregational Church,

United Church of Christ

An Open and Affirming Congregation

Last Outside Service

June 27, 2021

10 a.m.

Welcoming Covenant

In the name of God and Jesus Christ, the Hingham Congregational Church

welcomes all who seek to know and worship God, and invites everyone to join

in our mission through participation and leadership of the congregation.

As a community of faith, we take seriously the biblical call to love God and our

neighbors as ourselves, and recognize that, although we are many members,

we are one.

❖ We celebrate the uniqueness of everyone.

❖ We rejoice in our diversity of views and understandings of our shared faith.

❖ We affirm relationships based on love, commitment, and mutual respect.

❖ As is stated in our by-laws, we strive for righteousness, justice and peace.

It is with this spirit and the love of God that we openly welcome all persons,

inclusive of every race, ethnicity, class, age, gender, physical or mental ability,

sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and inclusive of any

others, to journey with us as we move forward with the work of this church in the

world.

A craft project for children will take place on the patio.

Please be sure your child over 3 is wearing a mask.

Order of Worship

Prelude

Wiegenlied fur Puppe Dora

Dr. Eileen Hutchins, piano

Walter Niemann

We encourage you to take this opportunity to be in quiet prayer and reflection.

Welcome and Announcements

Rev. Dr. Peter W. Allen

Introit

O How I Love Jesus Senior Choir

Frederick Whitfield

Call to Worship

Leader: Loving God, come into our hearts today.

All: Heal our loneliness and pain.

Leader: Restore our lives and relationships, we pray.

All: We are reaching out to you in hope and in faith.

Leader: Teach us how to live full lives again.

All: Empower us!

Hymn

When Morning Guilds the Skies

NCH #86

When morning glide the skies, my heart a walking cries,

may Jesus Christ be praised! Alike at work and prayer,

one purpose I declare: may Jesus Christ be praised!

New strength comes night or day when from the heart we say,

may Jesus Christ be praised! Let sin and evil fear,

when this sweet chant they hear; may Jesus Christ be praised!

Discordant human kind, in this your concord find,

may Jesus Christ be praised! Let all the earth around

ring joyous with the sound: may Jesus Christ be praised!

Be this, while life is mine, my canticle divine,

may Jesus Christ be praised! Be this the eternal,

through all the ages long: may Jesus Christ be praised!

*Opening Prayer (in unison)

God of mercy, remind us again, we pray, of your power to heal our lives from pain, isolation, fear, and mistrust. Open our hearts to have faith in your restorative power and your great compassion for us. Empower us to become whole again and make us agents of healing in this, your beloved world.

(Silence)

Lord’s Prayer

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

*Please feel free to pray as you wish. We respect tradition — and we welcome images of the Divine that are diverse and inclusive.

Children's Message

Jen DiMarzio, Teacher

Special Music

He Touched Me Rosemary Arthur and Carolyn Antoine, soloists

William Gaither

Ministry of the Word

Scripture Reading: Mark 5:21-43

Deacon Ellen Rhatke

A Girl Restored to Life and a Woman Healed

When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered round him; and he was by the lake. Then one of the leaders of the synagogue named Jairus came and, when he saw him, fell at his feet and begged him repeatedly, ‘My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live.’ So he went with him.

And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him. Now there was a woman who had been suffering from haemorrhages for twelve years. She had endured much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had; and she was no better, but rather grew worse. She had heard about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, for she said, ‘If I but touch his clothes, I will be made well.’ Immediately her haemorrhage stopped; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. Immediately aware that power had gone forth from him, Jesus turned about in the crowd and said, ‘Who touched my clothes?’ And his disciples said to him, ‘You see the crowd pressing in on you; how can you say, “Who touched me?” ’ He looked all round to see who had done it. But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling, fell down before him, and told him the whole truth. He said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.’

While he was still speaking, some people came from the leader’s house to say, ‘Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher any further?’ But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the leader of the synagogue, ‘Do not fear, only believe.’ He allowed no one to follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James. When they came to the house of the leader of the synagogue, he saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. When he had entered, he said to them, ‘Why do you make a commotion and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping.’ And they laughed at him. Then he put them all outside, and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was. He took her by the hand and said to her, ‘Talitha cum’, which means, ‘Little girl, get up!’ And immediately the girl got up and began to walk about (she was twelve years of age). At this they were overcome with amazement. He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.

Sermon

The Empowering Christ

Rev. Dr. Peter W. Allen

Pastoral Prayer and Silent Prayer

Daryl Denelle, Ministry Intern

Hymn

Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior

NCH #551

Pass me not, O gentle Savior, hear my humble cry;