Gathering Music “All Creatures of Our God and King” – arr. Mark Hayes
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.
Choral Introit “Praise, Praise, Praise the Lord!” – Elaine Hanson/Ralph Johnson
Invitation to Worship
*Opening Song “Great Is the Lord” #87
*Unison Confession of Faith
God is MYSTERY – the great I AM. Religion is our attempt to understand, express, and worship the MYSTERY that is God. Jesus the Christ is the incarnation of God. His teachings, his life, his death, his resurrection all speak to us in the most compelling manner about God’s ways and God’s wishes for us as human beings. “Now we know only in part, but someday we shall know even as we are known, and shall come face-to-face with the MYSTERY that is God.” We come into the presence of God, seeking, praising, praying and worshiping the great I AM.
Invitation to Give, Song “Grant Us, Lord, the Grace” #388
Offering Music
Prayers of Thanksgiving
Song of Praise “O Lord, Our Lord, How Majestic” #112
Children’s Story
Scripture Reading II Kings 2: 1-12 (p.333)
Message in Music “O For a Heart to Praise My God” – Richard DeLong
Message “Trans – figured” Kathryn Whitacre
*Sending Song “Praise God from Whom” #118
*Sending Words
*Sending Music “Praise God from Whom”