Worship Leader––Chad Martin Prelude/Offertory—Rhea Miller, Anne Sensenig, Karen Shenk Zeager

Song Leader—Marty Kelley Sermon—Susan Gascho-Cooke

Sound Technicians—Anne Sensenig, Monte Garber Greeter––(1st Service)—Diane Umble

Ushers––(1st Service)—Beth Ann Good, Beth Crosby Greeter—(2nd Service)—Mary Jane Fox

Ushers—(2nd Service)—Linda Berger, Esther Becker

Today: Two Services—8:30 and 11 a.m. Adult Christian Ed—between services, at 10 a.m.

This week at CMCL: 17 8th Grade Bible Presentation 17 Venture Club—Hike at Shenk’s Ferry 20 Mennonite Men 24 Junior Youth

CHURCH INFORMATION Contact the church office staff at (717) 392-7567 or cmcl@communitymennonite.org. Worship services: 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Christian Education: 10 a.m. (between services) Bulletin Announcements: bulletin@communitymennonite.org by 4 p.m., Tuesday Midweek Announcements: bulletin@communitymennonite.org by 4 p.m., Tuesday Lead Pastor: Susan Gascho-Cooke––(susan@communitymennonite.org), 717-224-6863,

(Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesdays off) Associate Pastor: Chad Martin (Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–3 p.m.) Director of Children & Youth Programs: Chris Hoover Seidel

(chris@communitymennonite.org), 717-602-0871, (Monday 9 a.m.–12 noon; Tuesday 9 a.m.–3 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.–1 p.m.)

Pastoral Team: Levina Huber, Verna Miller, Carol Spicher, Deb Napolitan and Luke Good

Office staff: Rod Houser (Tues, Thurs), Rachel Kraybill Stahl (Mon, Wed, Fri) Small groups: Church office. Childcare Coordinators: Magdalen Hess (magdaleneve@gmail.com), Justina Hertzler (jbohar@gmail.com), Britany Hoover (behoove12@gmail.com)

Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster 328 West Orange Street, Lancaster, PA 17603

April 17, 2016

TheNewTestamenttextsfortheEasterseasonareamixofstoriesfromRevelation,andstoriesfromActsofordinaryfolkscontinuingthestoryofJesus.Visionscarrythoughbothsetsofscriptures.ThisEasterweask,howisGod

callingustodreamandtoliveoutpeace,justiceandloving-kindnessintheworld?

Prelude Anne Sensenig, Jean Sensenig and Rhea Miller

Call to Worship

Passing of the Peace

Opening Prayer “When We Breathe Together” Jan Richardson, Circle of Grace

Singing Calm me Lord STS #45 Where charity and love prevail HWB #305

Children’s Time 8th Grade Bible Presentations Anika Longacre Hurst, Amani Kaufman, Anabelle Lapp, Ana Martin, Gabrielle Martin, Lauren Weaver

We value children’s participation in worship. This is a sacred time, and children’s ideas and questions come from earnest seeking.

During this time we ask you not to laugh, but to listen and see with the ears and eyes of a child.

(Children 4 and under are dismissed for child care)

Offertory Prayer “Prayer for the Great Family” Gary Snyder, The Gary Snyder Reader

Gratitude to Mother Earth, sailing through night and day— and to her soil: rich, rare, and sweet in our minds so be it. Gratitude to Plants, the sun-facing light-changing leaf and fine root-hairs; standing still through wind and rain; their dance is in the flowing spiral grain in our minds so be it. Gratitude to Air, bearing the soaring Swift and the silent Owl at dawn. Breath of our song clear spirit breeze

in our minds so be it. Gratitude to Wild Beings, our brothers, teaching secrets, freedoms, and ways; who share with us their milk; self-complete, brave, and aware in our minds so be it. Gratitude to Water: clouds, lakes, rivers, glaciers; holding or releasing; streaming through all our bodies salty seas in our minds so be it. Gratitude to the Sun: blinding pulsing light through trunks of trees, through mists, warming caves where bears and snakes sleep—he who wakes us— in our minds so be it. Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars—and goes yet beyond that— beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet is within us— Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife.

Offering/Offertory Anne Sensenig, Jean Sensenig and Rhea Miller

Scripture Reading Acts 9:36–43

Hymn O healing river HWB #372

Sermon This blessing isn’t done with us yet Susan Gascho-Cooke

Sharing and Sung Prayer O Lord, hear my prayer HWB #348 Where do you sense God moving among us? This is a time to respond to the

scripture, music and message of the morning, and to share joys and concerns from your lives and the greater world.

Announcements and Introduction of Visitors

Benediction “In the Leaving” Jan Richardson, Circle of Grace

In the leaving, in the letting go, let there be this to hold onto at the last:

the enduring of love, the persisting of hope, the remembering of joy,

the offering of gratitude, the receiving of grace, the blessing of peace.

This is the blessing we cannot speak by ourselves.

This is the blessing we cannot summon by our own devices, cannot shape to our own purposes, cannot bend to our own will.

This is the blessing that comes when we leave behind our aloneness,

when we gather together, when we turn toward one another.

This is the blessing that blazes among us when we speak the words strange to our ears,

when we finally listen into the chaos,

when we breathe together at last.