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A Service of Song, Word, & Table
SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER
April 7, 2024
* Please rise in body or spirit.
(11:00) “Just Jazz” Preservice Music Jazz to Go
Straight No Chaser Monk
Medusa Lah
A Walk In The Black Forest Jankowski/Arr. Lah
WELCOME
PRELUDE
8:30 Stephen Montoya, piano
11:00 We Gather Together 16 th Cent./Arr. Ahrend Jazz to Go
* CALL TO WORSHIP
How shall we live when shadows gather?
Drawn to God’s unquenchable light, we are also drawn into one another’s presence.
What was hidden has been revealed; we are woven together with all Creation.
When we live in the light, as God is in the light, we are one with each other.
Let us worship God, who is our Light and Salvation.
* HYMN Easter People, Raise Your Voices 304 UMH
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
* A READING FROM THE GOSPELS John 20:19-31
This is the Word of God for the People of God.
Thanks be to God.
ANTHEM We Walk By Faith Karen Marrolli Dr. Karen Marrolli, mezzo-soprano
HOMILY “Do You See My Hands?”
MUSICAL RESPONSE Fairest Lord Jesus 189 UMH
PRAYER OF CONFESSION based on Psalm 133
Creator God, maker and sustainer of all life, Dew-bringer, you draw water from the highest limestone crest to fill the deepest mountain springs of Mt Hermon. You have made these highest waters flow down deep yet rise again as they pour cascading into waterfall after waterfall; such glory! Forgive us, Lord! As we gather around your mountain-fed waters to drink all you have given, we have not been one people. We have jostled and shoved; we have taken too much; we have made suffering where you have offered Life overspilling! This is not your way.
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
Mountaintop, Almighty God: You do not just offer the blessing of everlasting Life; you command it. We kneel at the foot of the waterfall. We are in the midst of your oasis. We drink at the pool of the Hermon Stream, breathing in your Spirit mist. We share this Life with our neighbors and your whole Creation of animals, birds, and fish. One world. One Word. One community. One everlasting Life. Amen.
PASSING OF THE PEACE
REGATHERING HYMN Halle, Halle, Hallelujah 2026-a TFWS
INVITATION TO OFFERING
OFFERTORY PRAYER
God of the ages, we share our tithes and offerings this day with, but we acknowledge that most of the time, we are clinging tightly to what we have, afraid we might lose something we need and afraid somehow there won’t be enough to live our lives. The scarcity mindset overtakes us, and it robs us of the joy of our days. Remind us that Jesus has called us to be ready to let go of this life so that we might claim the abundance of life eternal. In our redeemer’s name, we pray. Amen.
OFFERTORY
8:30 Stephen Montoya, piano
11:00 Go Down Moses Spiritual/Arr. Lah Jazz to Go
*DOXOLOGY Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow 94 UMH
THE GREAT THANKSGIVING TFWS 2257 b,c,d
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them up to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Creator God, you revealed to us your Creation on earth.
The waters flowed, and the winds blew.
You set the cosmos into motion and created living beings.
You gave life to the plants and the sea creatures and the land animals.
You put into flight the birds and insects, and you made people to walk on the ground.
You blessed us all and called us good.
But when our love failed and we turned away,
You revealed a love for your people and all of Creation that never ends.
And so we praise you, with all the company of saints and sinners, singing your unending hymn:
Holy, holy, holy God of power and might,
Heaven and earth are full of your glory
Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest.
You continued to reveal your love for us in your son, Jesus,
who came to live among us and move as a human on this Earth.
When he dined with his friends, just before he was to be executed,
he reminded them of your love revealed in the gifts of bread and juice before them on the table.
He took the bread in his hands, gave thanks to you, broke it, and shared it with his friends, saying the familiar words,
“Take, eat. This is my body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
And when the supper was over, he took the cup, again gave thanks for it, and shared it with all who gathered, reminding them,
“Drink this all of you. This is the cup of my covenant with you, for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
Together we proclaim the mystery of faith.
Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.
Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest.
Still-creating Spirit,
Be poured out on those gathered here and on these gifts from the field in bread and juice. As we receive them into our bodies, make us your body. Unite us with those who have come before us in your kin-dom and with those who will come after us, now and always.
Amen. Amen. Amen.
Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest.
LORD’S PRAYER
SHARING THE BREAD AND THE CUP
MUSIC AT COMMUNION
8:30 Stephen Montoya, piano
11:00 What Wondrous Love American Folk/Arr. Ahrend Jazz to Go
PRAYER AFTER RECEIVING
Creative God, we thank you for revealing your love to us in bread and juice. We recognize your presence in us and all around us, and we ask that you continue to reveal your love for all Creation to the ends of the Earth through our lives. Make us your people and use us to reveal the inbreaking of your kin-dom here and now: a world of justice and peace. Amen.
INVITATION TO CHRISTIAN DISCIPLESHIP
* SENDING HYMN He Lives 310 UMH
POSTLUDE
8:30 Stephen Montoya, piano
11:00 Groovin’ High Gillespie Jazz to Go
Jazz to Go is:
Linda Davidson, Flute; Robert Lah , Piano; Colin Deuble, Bass; Cal Haines, Drums
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