may 19, 2019 - amazon s3 · 1:30pm– earthen vessels in the lounge 5:30pm– children’s choirs...
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ORDER OF WORSHIP
NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES SUNDAY
MEDITATION - Hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has
been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that
has been given to us. -Romans 5:5
*please stand if you are able
Hymns indicated with “W&S” can be found in the small green hymnal at
the end of the pews.
GATHERING
PASTORAL GREETING
PRELUDE Alleluia Ringers
“El Shaddai”+ arr. S.E. Geschke
(Please use this time to prepare your heart for worship.)
ENTRANCE
*CALL TO WORSHIP++
Pastor: We have come to this holy place to worship our God; yet
sanctuary is not always built by human hands.
People: Everywhere I go is a sanctuary, every place a time to
worship God!
Pastor: When we live as if this planet and all creation, even
ourselves, is a sanctuary -- a holy place full of the Creator’s
presence -- we walk differently upon this earth.
People: I am always on sacred ground. I must move with reverence
through all creation, and I enter this holy place now to worship the
Creator!
*OPENING HYMN “Many and Great, O God” No. 148
OPENING PRAYER++
Liturgist: The Lord be with you.
People: And also with you.
Liturgist: Let us pray together.
People: Creator, you made all that is, and proclaimed that ‘it is
good.’ Help us to discover, in all you have made in nature, the
good wisdom about the interconnectedness of all things, about
balance and about living in harmony. We are not above nature, we
are part of creation; we live by the same laws as all of nature and
need to learn from what you have made. Creator, help us discover
the power that lies in honoring every living thing as a teacher.
Creator God, may our spirits be in harmony with yours as we gather
in your worship! Amen.
PROCLAMATION & RESPONSE
SCRIPTURE LESSON: Matthew 25:31-46 pg. 29 NT
Reader: This is the Word of God for us.
People: Thanks be to God.
SERMON “Native American History 101” Sherry Wack
Co-chair of the Committee on Native American
Ministries of the EPA Conference UMC
*HYMN “Touch the Earth Lightly” W&S No. 3129
THE CONGREGATION’S PRAYER OF CONFESSION++
Come, let us worship the Creator with hearts open to all peoples,
where pride and prejudice once dwelt; Let us worship the Creator
with minds open to the wisdom of Native peoples, where listening
and respect once had no place. Let us honor the One who freely
gives by showing honor to those who were once, and still remain,
oppressed. Let us worship the God of diversity, who made the world
in colors, in seasons, in endless variety; who created the diversity of
the earth’s peoples in his image. We were created to honor one
another and in so doing we honor the Creator. Let us honor him
today by reflecting in our worship and in life his image -- love.
Amen.
PERSONAL CONFESSION in silence with organ/piano meditation
WORDS OF ASSURANCE I John 4:16
So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is
love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in
them.
*THE PEACE
BRINGING OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS TO GOD
(You may complete a prayer card in the pew rack in front of you
and place it in the offering plate or hand it to one of our pastors.)
OFFERTORY “Chorale” S. Walters
*DOXOLOGY No. 94
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise God, all creatures here below: Alleluia! Alleluia!
Praise God, the source of all our gifts!
Praise Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts!
Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
THANKSGIVING AND COMMUNION
THE GREAT THANKSGIVING pg. 15
THE LORD’S PRAYER – use “trespasses” pg. 895
GIVING THE BREAD AND CUP
(Communion will be served in the pews. The ushers will give the
elements to the person on each end of the pews. You may then
pass it to the other end. Take the bread and cup, holding each until
the pastor instructs you to consume it. In the tradition of Wesley’s
“singing communion,” we invite you to sing the following hymns…
144, 147)
PRAYERS OF JOY AND CONCERN
SENDING FORTH
*HYMN “God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens” No. 150
*DISMISSAL WITH BLESSING
*POSTLUDE “Christ for the World We Sing!” arr. L. Smith
(If you are able, please remain in the pews briefly for the postlude.)
+El Shaddai is Hebrew for “God Almighty”. The lyrics include English and Hebrew
mixed together. You can find the words to this piece in the Hymnal #123
++By the Rev. Jeff Ramsland, pastor of the Cherokee United Methodist Church in
Cherokee, NC
May 19, 2019
8:30 a.m.
Welcome to Worship at
Transforming Lives in the Love of Jesus Christ
Please Be In Prayer For…
Bert Holly Esther Lowes
*indicates newly added
Financial Information: Special Offerings...
Mission of the Month:
May—Shores of Grace $804.50
April—UMCOR $3585.00
Attendance - May 12, 2019 8:30: 92 11:00: 155
Special Happenings This Week at Christ United Methodist Church…
Monday, May 20:
1:30pm– Matter of Balance in Rose Garden Rooms 107&108
7pm– Books Between Friends in Reichley Room
Tuesday, May 21:
7am-7pm– Primary Elections in Fellowship Hall
6:30pm– Evening Fellowship in Fellowship Hall 102-106
7pm– Softball on CUMC Field (warm-ups @ 6:30)
7:30pm– Finance Committee in Reichley Room
Wednesday, May 22:
Preschool Moving On Ceremonies
10:30am– Abington Adult Day Worship Service
1:30pm– Earthen Vessels in the Lounge
5:30pm– Children’s Choirs Pizza Party in Fellowship Hall 102-106 Thursday, May 23:
10am– Stitching Sisters in the Lounge Friday, May 24:
Caregivers’ Coffee has been moved to May 31st Monday, May 27:
Memorial Day: Church Office Closed
Members, Regular Attendees,
and Visitors, please fill out the
attendance sheet in the teal
folder at the end of your pew. Pass the folder to your fellow
worshipers then return it to the center aisle. First Time Visitors: please
complete a blue “CONNECT” card in the pew rack in front of you; it
may be placed in the offering plate. Also, pick up a Welcome Packet
at the Welcome Table before you leave. If you have special needs,
please see one of our ushers.
Christ UMC offers a staffed nursery from 8:30am until after the 11am
service, in room 21, in the preschool hallway. Children, birth through 4
years old, can be dropped off and picked up as needed throughout
the morning. If you would rather keep your child with you, an
unstaffed space, in rooms 15-17, is available in case you need a
diaper change, a quiet place to rock, or some space to move
around. The worship service is broadcast through a speaker.
Register for VBS! July 15-19th, 9am-12pm and 6pm-8:30pm. VBS is
open to children from age 4 (by September 1, 2019) through 6th
grade. Sign up online via our website. Volunteers can also register
online or email Pastor Tawny to get more information.
The golf outing has had a record 48 people sign-up this year. We have
started a Wait List because, inevitably, one or two people have
something that changes their mind about playing. First come, first
served, please call Don Albacker at (215)692-2958 to be added to the
Wait List.
There is a need for a Summer Session Sunday School teacher’s
assistant for our older elementary aged children. Please contact
Pastor Tawny for more information.
Scholarships* are available for children and youth to attend summer
church camp at Gretna Glen, Innabah and Pocono Plateau. Flyers
about each camp are on a table in the lobby. Some will fill up early;
register now. *Scholarships will cover one half of the cost of camp.
Please contact the office for more information.
We’re going to see the Iron Pigs on August 24! To ensure that we have
enough tickets to sit together, we are going ahead with sign-ups now.
Tickets are $11 each and include a $2 ballpark credit. The sign-up
sheet is on the kiosk in the lobby. Please see the May Evangel for more
details.
Are you or your child graduating this year? (High school, college,
grad school, technical school.) If so, please pick up a form, from the
sign-up kiosk, fill it out and return it to the office by June 2.
Are you considering joining Christ UMC? A New Members Class will be
held on Wednesday, June 5th and Wednesday, June 19th, from 6:30-
8pm in the Reichley Room. Grow your faith, meet new people, and
learn more about Christ UMC and its ministries and missions. Contact
one of the pastors or the office by May 29 to register.
VBS Supply Collection: The following items are needed: Bottle caps,
paper towel rolls, duct tape (skinny and regular, colors and designs
welcomed), and empty cereal boxes. If you can collect and bring
these items by June 15, 2019, you can place them in the box in the
lobby. We are also looking for old keyboards (they don't have to
work), 1 old desktop monitor (the large kind)...again don't need to
work and we don't need the tower part, and White Christmas lights.
Please label items with your name if you want them returned to you.
Special Church Conference for the Election of 2019-2020 Leaders: All
members are invited to a church conference, Tuesday, June 4 at
7pm, in the rear of the Sanctuary, to vote on the report of the
Committee on Nominations.
Liturgists: 8:30— Pastor Bernhardt 11:00— Joey Hayes
Acolytes: 8:30— Anna Weatherwax 11:00—
Greeters: 8:30— Suzanne Williams and Marge Kramer
11:00— Flo Kalin and Virginia Hare
Lay Readers: 8:30— Suzanne Williams 11:00— Pam Nicholson
Sound Technicians: 8:30— Ryan Fealy 11:00— Andrew Guenther
Nursery Volunteers: 8:30— Kristi Weatherwax
9:45— Alicia Sehn
11:00— Anne Marie Legates and Pat Solomito
Circuit Kids: Tina Hooper and Janellen Reid
Communion Steward: Ron & Priscilla DeWitt
Ushers: 8:30—Jim Hare, Tony Trifiletti, Jeff Baer, Mark Stauffer, John Sullivan,
and Sharon Moran.
11:00—Al Scott, Gina Shorts, Scott Shorts, Judi Plummer, Jack Ripley,
Dana Ripley, and Ron White.
Phil Woodruff is this month’s captain.
Contact Us!
Church Website www.cumclansdale.org
Church Phone 215-855-1643
Preschool Phone 215-412-7836
Church E-mail [email protected]
Trustees E-mail [email protected]
Prayer Concerns [email protected]
CUMC STAFF
Rev. Gary Nicholson, Pastor [email protected]
Rev. Tawny Bernhardt, Pastor, Children’s Ministries
Pastor Eric Chelton, Assistant Pastor & Director of Student Ministries
Marge Kramer, Director of Congregational Care
Miki Chelton, Director of Music [email protected]
Katie Campbell, Organist/Dir. Youth Choir
Elysa Dalbow, Praise Band [email protected]
Mary Conroy, Preschool Director [email protected]
Nikki Young, Church Office Manager [email protected]
Kara Johnson, Church Secretary 215-855-1643
Rev. Tracy Bass, District Superintendent
Bishop Peggy A. Johnson, Resident Bishop
See our full staff list on our website
www.cumclansdale.org —and click on Meet Our Staff!
Today’s sanctuary flowers are presented by
Krystyna Supplee in loving memory of her parents, Zofia &
Edward Bak.
ORDER OF WORSHIP
MEDITATION - Hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been
poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been
given to us. -Romans 5:5
*please stand if you are able
Hymns indicated with “W&S” can be found in the small green hymnal at
the end of the pews.
GATHERING
WORSHIP BEFORE WORSHIP (10:40) Fish Food
PASTORAL GREETING
PRELUDE Alleluia Ringers
“El Shaddai”+ arr. S.E. Geschke
(Please use this time to prepare your heart for worship.)
ENTRANCE
*CALL TO WORSHIP++
Pastor: We have come to this holy place to worship our God; yet
sanctuary is not always built by human hands.
People: Everywhere I go is a sanctuary, every place a time to worship
God!
Pastor: When we live as if this planet and all creation, even ourselves, is
a sanctuary -- a holy place full of the Creator’s presence -- we walk
differently upon this earth.
People: I am always on sacred ground. I must move with reverence
through all creation, and I enter this holy place now to worship the
Creator!
*OPENING HYMN “Many and Great, O God” No. 148
OPENING PRAYER++
Liturgist: The Lord be with you.
People: And also with you.
Liturgist: Let us pray together.
People: Creator, you made all that is, and proclaimed that ‘it is good.’
Help us to discover, in all you have made in nature, the good wisdom
about the interconnectedness of all things, about balance and about
living in harmony. We are not above nature, we are part of creation; we
live by the same laws as all of nature and need to learn from what you
have made. Creator, help us discover the power that lies in honoring
every living thing as a teacher. Creator God, may our spirits be in
harmony with yours as we gather in your worship! Amen.
PROCLAMATION & RESPONSE
BAPTISMAL COVENANT II Hymnal page 39
Receiving the Sacrament of Christian Baptism today are
Jameson John McCarney child of Robert and Laura McCarney
Madalyn DiDominick Moore child of Dustin Moore & Kristyn DiDominick
SCRIPTURE LESSON: Matthew 25:31-46 pg. 29 NT
Reader: This is the Word of God for us.
People: Thanks be to God.
ANTHEM Chancel Choir
“Dakota Hymn”+++ arr. H. Sorenson
Vocal Soloist- Belle Chelton
Instrumentalists - Steph Shuey, Chuck Mohnacky,
Vickie Mohnacky, Elysa Dalbow, Katie Campbell, Nick Hill
CHILDREN’S SERMON Sherry Wack
(After the Children’s Sermon, children, 4 years through 5th grade,
may leave the Sanctuary and go to Circuit Kids in rooms 25-26.)
SERMON “Native American History 101” Sherry Wack
Co-chair of the Committee on Native American
Ministries of the EPA Conference UMC
*HYMN “Touch the Earth Lightly” W&S No. 3129
THE CONGREGATION’S PRAYER OF CONFESSION++
Come, let us worship the Creator with hearts open to all peoples,
where pride and prejudice once dwelt; Let us worship the Creator
with minds open to the wisdom of Native peoples, where listening
and respect once had no place. Let us honor the One who freely
gives by showing honor to those who were once, and still remain,
oppressed. Let us worship the God of diversity, who made the world
in colors, in seasons, in endless variety; who created the diversity of
the earth’s peoples in his image. We were created to honor one
another and in so doing we honor the Creator. Let us honor him
today by reflecting in our worship and in life his image -- love.
Amen.
PERSONAL CONFESSION in silence with organ/piano meditation
WORDS OF ASSURANCE I John 4:16
So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is
love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in
them.
*THE PEACE
BRINGING OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS TO GOD
(You may complete a prayer card in the pew rack in front of you
and place it in the offering plate or hand it to one of our pastors.)
OFFERTORY “Chorale” S. Walters
*DOXOLOGY No. 94
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise God, all creatures here below: Alleluia! Alleluia!
Praise God, the source of all our gifts!
Praise Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts!
Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
THANKSGIVING
PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING AND CONCERN
THE LORD’S PRAYER – use “trespasses” pg. 895
SENDING FORTH
*HYMN “Wash, O God, Our Sons and Daughters” No. 605
*DISMISSAL WITH BLESSING
*POSTLUDE “Christ for the World We Sing!” arr. L. Smith
(If you are able, please remain in the pews briefly for the postlude.)
+El Shaddai is Hebrew for “God Almighty”. The lyrics include English and Hebrew
mixed together. You can find the words to this piece in the Hymnal #123
++By the Rev. Jeff Ramsland, pastor of the Cherokee United Methodist Church in
Cherokee, NC
+++Dakota Hymn was originally written in 1842 in the Dakota Native American
language by Joseph R. Renville. Its Dakota title is "Wakantanka taku nita
wa". The original text is based on Jeremiah 10:12-13. It was first published in 1879
in the Dakota Odowan, a significant hymnal in the Dakota language.
(www.godsongs.net)
May 19, 2019
11:00 a.m.
Welcome to Worship at
Transforming Lives in the Love of Jesus Christ