Gathering Music Unfamiliar Hymn Sing
#511 – Verses 1, 3 and 5 #157 – Verses 1, 4 and 6 #67 – All Verses
Sharing Time
. . . a time of greeting and sharing those things which inform who we are as a community of faith and how God is moving among us. You are invited to welcome visitors, share joys, prayer requests, and announcements.
Guest and visitors, please fill out one of the “Welcome” Cards found in the pew Bibles and place it in the offering plate.
Focusing Music “Jubilate Deo omnis terra” – Jacquet Berthier
*Call to Worship
Leader: We gather for worship. We gather to be present with God.
All: We are glad for God to be with us. We have things to say to God. We have a lot of things that need to be done. We have a lot of things to tell God.
Leader: But this is more than a time to talk to God. It’s a time for God to talk to us! Maybe we talk too much. Be quiet a moment. Maybe God wants to talk to you and me.
All: Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.
A moment of stillness
UNISON PRAYER
Lord, forgive us for our clamoring and busy-ness. Fill us with your heart of love that we might hear your voice. And give us the courage to really listen and respond to your voice today. Amen.
*Opening Song “Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty” #19
Children’s Story
Invitation to Give
Offering Music Meditation from “Thais” – Jules Massenet
Offering Prayer
Prayer Song “Lord, You Sometimes Speak” #594
Prayers of the Community
Message in Music “In Everything I Do” – Cindy Berry
Scripture Reading I Samuel 3: 1-10, 19-20 (p.247) John 1: 43-51 (p.92)
Message Speak Lord, Your Servant Is Listening Ken Holderread
*Sending Song “Here I Am, Lord” #395
*Sending Words
*Sending Music