Worship Bulletin: 2/2/25

Worship Bulletin: 2/2/25

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, February 2, 2025 @ 10:15 a.m.

♫Gathering Music | “Bless the Lord” with “Take the Name of Jesus with You” | arr. Cindy Berry
Ellen Gilbert, piano    

Video Welcome

Sharing Time – Joys and Concerns | Jean Hendricks                                                                                                                                                            

♫Centering Music | “Over My Head, I Hear Music in the Air” | African-American Spiritual
Ellen Gilbert, Melia Jones, Becky Snell, Carol Ward, Eric Johnson, Dan Lichty, Allan van Asselt

 Responsive Opening Words | Psalm 139:13-18

13 For you, O God, created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be.

17 How precious to me are Your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand – when I awake, I am still with You.   


♫Opening Song | “Lord, Thou Hast Searched Me”

Story for the Children | Malia Pfeiff 

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 | “As the Deer” | arr. Martin Nystrom
Luke Loganbill, piano

Scripture Focus | Jeremiah 1:4-10                                          
The Call of Jeremiah
4The word of God came to me, saying,
5“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
6I said,
“Alas, Sovereign God, I do not know how to speak; I am too young.”
7But God said to me,
“Do not say, ‘I am too young.’
God declares,
“You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. 
8Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,”
9Then God reached out a hand and touched my mouth and said to me,
“I have put my words in your mouth. 10See, today I appoint you over nations and kin-doms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”


♫Scripture Song | “I Will Come to You in the Silence” (You are Mine)

Message | “Because God Knows Us” | Jerry Bowen

♫Sending Song | “When we Walk with the Lord” | #544

Sending Words

♫Sending Music | “Sinfonia” | Henry Purcell
Ellen Gilbert, organ

                          
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