Worship Service January 26, 2025

If you are unable to join us in person, our livestream connection via Zoom in the worship service post begins around 10:45am. You will have time to greet worship participants online and in the church … think of it as a closed circuit connection. If you cannot attend live or you would like to experience it again, our service is recorded and is typically available around 3pm on Sundays via the YouTube link in the worship service post.

Livestream via Zoom connection information (opens in a new tab):

https://zoom.us/j/94909367127?pwd=Kml3L9xIfQFJxzW0IGcIiWTg6Nf1vJ.1

Or On PC, or other devices open the app zoom.us:

Meeting ID is  949 0936 7127, Passcode is 394347

For in person participants: If you have a fever or are not feeling well, please participate via the virtual options

Order of Service

Welcome, Greeting, Service Introduction                       Rev. Warren Lunsford /All

*Call to Worship                                                                 Rev. Warren Lunsford/All

God of unfailing love and faithfulness, we gather together to praise you!
 

We acknowledge that we are needy people!

   How precious is God’s love to us!

God of light within our dark world, we gather to honor and revere you!
  

   We acknowledge that we are often lost!

   How reassuring is God’s light to us!

God of the fountain of grace, we gather to be nourished and blessed by you!
 

   We acknowledge that we need cleansing!

     Flow through us, God of steadfast love, to cleanse and restore us;

        so that together, we may celebrate your love. Amen.

~ (written by Joan Stott, thetimelesspsalms.net)

Response to the Call                 Great is Thy Faithfulness                            UMH 140

 Opening Prayer                                                       Rev. Warren Lunsford/All                                                           

O God, you have prepared for those who love you
    such good things as surpass our understanding:
Pour into our hearts such love towards you,
    that we, loving you in all things and above all things,
        may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire;
through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you
    and the Holy Spirit,  one God, for ever and ever. Amen.  

~(Bosco Peters, https://www.liturgy.co.nz/reflection/627c.html)

Life of the Church                                                 Rev. Cindy Lunsford (see bulletin)

Mission Moment –

Affirmation of Faith                                                                              Sheri King/All

From I Corinthians 15:1-6 and Colossians 1:15-20   UMH 888 

Gloria Patri                                                                                                    UMH 071

Psalm                                      Psalm 36:5-10  (UMH 771)                       Gina Elrod

Hymn                            The Church’s One Foundation vss. 1, 2, 5              UMH 545    

OFFERING OF OURSELVES

Pastoral Prayer                                                                     Rev. Cindy Lunsford/All    

Worship with Our Tithes & Offerings                           Steve Hawkins instrumental

              Dedication & Offertory                                              Rev. Warren Lunsford

             Doxology                                                                             UMH 095 

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;

praise him, all creatures here below;

praise him above, ye heavenly host;

praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.  Amen

Centering Song   Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)    Steve Hawkins

PROCLAMATION

Prayer of Illumination                                                                                Gary Seiler

God, we call ourselves Christians,

    thinking we know and understand what that means.

We confess to being sometimes baffled.

     Help us, we pray, to be open to the learnings you bring our way.

     Help us, we pray, to be bigger and brighter

          than we thought we could be.  Amen

Scripture                                    Isaiah 62:1-5                              Rev. Cindy Lunsford

Message                                     Bright Jewels                              Rev. Cindy Lunsford

GOING FORTH WITH CHRIST

Closing Hymn                   Ask Ye What Great Thing I Know                         UMH 163

Commissioning & Benediction                                                    Rev. Cindy Lunsford

Depart to Serve, caring for others, as we truly serve God