Worship Bulletin: 1/19/25

Worship Bulletin: 1/19/25

Welcome to Worship at the McPherson 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, January 19, 2025 @ 10:15 a.m.

♫Gathering Music                                        

Video Welcome

Sharing Time – Joys and Concerns | Ann Stover                                                                                                                                                            

♫Centering Music | “Your Grace is Enough” | Matt Maher
Worship Band

Great is Your faithfulness, oh God of Jacob, You wrestle with the sinner’s restless heart.
You lead us by still waters into mercy and nothing can keep us apart.
REFRAIN
So, remember Your people. Remember Your children. Remember Your promise, oh God
For Your grace is enough. Your grace is enough. Your grace is enough for me.
Great is Your love and justice, God of Jacob. You use the weak to lead the strong.
You lead us in the song of Your salvation and all Your people sing along. REFRAIN 2X
Yeah, Your grace is enough. Heaven reaching down to us. Your grace is enough for me, for me, for me.

Responsive Opening Words | “The Hill We Climb” (excerpt) | Amanda Gorman

“… we lift our gazes not to what stands between us, but what stands before us.

We close the divide because we know to put our future first,
we must first put our differences aside.
We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another,
we seek harm to none and harmony for all.         

We will not march back to what was but move to what shall be …                                      
bruised but whole, benevolent but bold, fierce and free, we will not be turned around or
interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be
the inheritance of the next generation, our blunders become their burden.

But one thing is certain: if we merge mercy with might and might with right, then
love becomes our legacy and change our children’s birthright.”

♫Opening Song | “O Young and Fearless Prophet” | #373                           

Story for the Children | Barbara Wagoner                                                                                                                                                                                    

Video Invitation to Give
Give online or send a check made payable to “McPherson Church of the Brethren,” 200 N. Carrie, McPherson, KS 67460

♫Musical Offering | “The Prayer” | arr. Jan Sanborn
Karlene Tyler, piano

Scripture Focus | John 2:1-11

On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3
When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him,
“They have no more wine.”
4Jesus replied,
“Woman, why do you involve me? My hour has not yet come.”
5His mother said to the servants,
“Do whatever he tells you.”
6Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, 
each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.7Jesus said to the servants, 
“Fill the jars with water”;
so they filled them to the brim. 8Then he told them, 
“Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”
They did so, 9and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. 
He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew.
Then he called the bridegroom aside 10and said,
“Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
11What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

♫Scripture Song | “What does the Lord Require” | #409

Message | “Do whatever he tells you” | Kathryn Whitacre


♫Sending Song                                             “We Shall Overcome”



Sending Words

♫Sending Music | “We Are Called” | David Haas
Worship Band with Bryan Hess, violin

Come, live in the light, shine with the joy and the love of the Lord
We are called to be light for the kingdom, to live in the freedom of the city of God.
REFRAIN
We are called to act with justice, we are called to love tenderly,
we are called to serve one another, to walk humbly with God.
Come, open your heart, show your mercy to all those in fear
We are called to be hope for the hopeless, so all hatred and blindness will be no more. REFRAIN
Sing, sing a new song, sing of that great day when all will be one.
God will reign and we’ll walk with each other as sisters and brothers united in love. REFRAIN X2


            

                           



Videography and Editing: Eric Goering
Music Coordinator: Ellen Gilbert

Choir Director: Becky Snell
Technical Crew: Eric Goering, Ryan Goering, Shane Kirchner, Steve Lolling & Chris Whitacre
Chancel Decoration Team: Jill Brax, Colleen Gustafson, Michele Johnson, Shane Kirchner & Lara Schoming