Order of Worship

(on a phone, best viewed horizontally) 

 

May 18, 2025            10:45am

 

The Command to Care:

Caring for Health

 

GATHERING

Pre-service Music

Welcome

Prelude                              All Things Bright and Beautiful

Invocation                                                                                              (VT 854, adapted)

Leader: Some of us are exhausted.

People: We come to rest.

Leader: Some of us are curious about Jesus.

People: We come to learn.

Leader: Some of us are hungry.

People: We come to be fed.

Leader: Some of us are disoriented.

People: We come to pray.

Leader: Some of us are wounded.

People: We come to be healed.

Leader: We gather around you today, O Christ.

People: Teach us, feed us, hear us, heal us.

All: Grant us your peace. Amen. 

Hymn                                  Come Away from Rush and Hurry                               VT 9

Call to Worship

Leader: God has set this day before us,

People: A day set apart, a day of rest and praise.

Leader: God has set our lives before us,

People: A span of years in which we love, and learn, and serve.

Leader: God has set God’s seal upon our hearts,

People: So that we might live fully in deep love.

Leader: Let us worship God.

Hymn                                  Morning Has Broken                                                   VT 495

HEARING GOD’S WORD

Scripture                            Exodus 20:8-11

Children’s Time

Hymn                                  God Who Touches Earth with Beauty                    VT550

Scripture                            Luke 6:1-5

Sermon

Hymn                                  Be at Rest                                                                         VT 532

Prayer

Hymn                                  Be at Rest                                                                         VT 532

TIME OF SHARING

Sharing Time

Offering Prayer

Musical Offering       Amazing Grace                                                                          

Joys and Concerns

      After each time of sharing we respond “Lord, hear our prayers.”

Announcements

Hymn                                  Take My Life, and Let It Be                                        VT 759

Benediction

Postlude                           

 

Worship Leader: Elizabeth Wall                                       Preacher: Rachel Siemens

Children’s Time: Lynette Toews-Neufeldt                                                               

Pianist: Andrew Reid                                              Musical Offering: Miles Kirkaldy

Joys and Concerns: Rachel Siemens                       Ushers: Colin Neufeldt, Len Franz