29 Sep Worship Bulletin – 9/29/19
McPherson First Church of the Brethren
We invite your active participation in the life of this congregation, as together we continue to grow in grace and seek justice for God’s creation.
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Gathering Music
“Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us” #355
“Take Thou My Hand, O Father” #581
“I Know Not Why God’s Wondrous” #338
Sharing Time
Creation Care – Allan van Asselt
…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.
Centering Music
“Minuet” (J. Krieger)
“English March” (J. Clarke)
*Call to Worship
ONE: Planet Earth, spinning silently through space:
ALL: We celebrate your beauty and your grace, your special place in our solar system.
ONE: Planet Earth, gleaming green and blue:
ALL: We rejoice in your ocean currents as they dance and swirl with hope.
ONE: Planet Earth, pulsing with life:
ALL: We join in praise with all your fauna and flora as they sing their songs to the Creator.
ONE: Planet Earth, enveloped in the breath of God:
ALL: May all your creatures be blessed this day with the life-giving breath of God.
ONE: Planet Earth, our precious, fragile home:
ALL: We celebrate, with all your children, God’s presence in our planet home.
ONE: Spin, Planet Earth, spin!
ALL: Sing, Planet Earth, sing!
ONE: We celebrate the song of our planet!
ALL: Sing, Planet Earth, sing!
webofcreation.org
*Opening Song – “God, Who Stretched” #414
Invitation to Give
Giving Music
Responsive Prayer of Great Thanksgiving
webofcreation.org
ONE: The Creator is with you and all creation.
ALL: And also with you.
ONE: Open your hearts.
ALL: We open them to our Creator.
ONE: Let us give thanks to our Creator.
ALL: It is right to join creation in thanking God.
ONE: It is right to give you thanks, loving Creator.
ALL: Your Word is the impulse for all things to be, for space, stars and stardust to appear, for Earth to emerge from the deep, for life to be born of Earth and for humans to be born of Earth and the Spirit.
ONE: You chose to be born a human being, to become a part of Earth, to renew creation, and affirm all born of Earth and the Spirit.
ALL: Your presence is the living impulse in all things, the God deep among us, filling Earth—land, sea and air; filling every element and place.
ONE: Therefore with angels and archangels, ancient voices in the forest, high voices from the sky, deep voices from the sea and the whole company of creation, we proclaim your presence among us and give Great Thanks. AMEN
“The Butterfly Song” (words and music by Brian M. Howard)
Verse 1
If I were a butterfly, I’d thank you Lord for giving me wings.
If I were a robin in a tree, I’d thank you Lord that I could sing.
If I were a fish in the sea, I’d wiggle my tail and I’d giggle with glee.
But I just thank you Father for making me, me.
Chorus:
For you gave me a heart and you gave me a smile. You gave me Jesus and you made me your child. And I just thank you Father for making me, me.
Verse 2
If I were an elephant, I’d thank you Lord by raising my trunk.
If I were a kangaroo, you know I’d hop right up to you.
If I were an octopus, I’d thank you Lord for my fine looks.
But I just thank you Father for making me, me. Chorus
Verse 3
If I were a wiggly worm, I’d thank you Lord that I could squirm.
If I were a fuzzy, wuzzy bear, I’d thank you Lord for my fuzzy, wuzzy hair.
If I were a crocodile I’d thank you Lord for my great smile.
But I just thank you Father for making me a me. Chorus x 2
Children’s Time
Following story: Childcare provided for infant thru K-garten in Education Building
Scripture Song – “Praise the Lord, Sing Hallelujah” #50
Scripture – Psalm 148
Message – “Creation Pollination” (Ann Zerger – Artist and Co-Owner of Prairie Works Designs)
*Sending Song – “All Things Bright and Beautiful” #156
*Sending Words
*Sending Music
*Indicates please rise in Body and/or Spirit
WORSHIP PARTICIPANTS
Pastoral Staff – Jerry Bowen, Chris and Kathryn Whitacre
Chancel Decor – Colleen Gustafson & Lara Schoming
Acolytes – Laila Samland & Hannah Wilgers
Sharing Time – To Be Determined
Worship Leader – Kathryn Whitacre
Pianists – Jean Hendricks, Dan Masterson, Adin Replogle, Tessa Replogle & Karlene Tyler
Children’s Time – Jen Pollard
Screens – Ira Whitacre
Director/Camera – To Be Determined
Sound – Shane Kirchner
Greeters – Bruce & Janell Clary
Ushers – Jim & Lisa Hoffman; Brian & Jodi Holloway
Head Usher – Glenn Gayer
Balcony Usher – Mike Goering
Childcare Attendant – To Be Determined
Reminder: The bulletin announcements/weekly newsletter are sent to your email address every Friday with “COB Communications” caption in the address line. You may pick up a paper copy from the stand on the sanctuary level or from the literature rack immediately inside the Education Building front door.