Order of Service for May 12, 2013

Date of Service: 
May 12, 2013

Gathering Hymn

 

Come, come whoever you are,

Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.

Ours is no caravan of despair,

Come, yet again come.

 

Ven, ven, cual eres, ven,

Nómada_en búsqueda, si_amas la vida.

La nuestra­_es la caravana de_amor,

Ven, otra vez ven.

 

Call To Worship

Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

 

Prelude (9:00)

Choral Prelude (11:00)

Prelude in F-sharp Major                                                   J.S. Bach                                                           

Make Channels for the Streams of Love               Lowell Mason                      

 

Chalice Lighting

Rob Briner (9:00)

Karl Lisovsky (11:00)

 

Opening Hymn #299

                                  #23

Make Channels for the Streams of Love (9:00)

Bring Many Names (11:00)              

 

Covenant

 

Love is the doctrine of this church.     

The quest of truth is its sacrament,

And service is its prayer.

To dwell together in peace;

To seek knowledge in freedom;

To serve humankind in fellowship;

Thus do we covenant with each other.

 

Hymn of Praise

 

From all that dwell below the skies

Let songs of hope and faith arise

Let peace, good will on earth be sung

Through every land, by every tongue.                  ~ based on Isaac Watts

 

Offering for the Westside Food Bank

 

Time For All Ages

 

 

Song of Blessing #1053

How Could Anyone

 

 A Time for Community

 

Pulpit Message

Lifespan Religious Exploration

 

Offertory (9:00)

                 (11:00)

Child Falling Asleep                                         Robert Schumann

Dona Nobis Pacem                                                    Michael Scott

 

Devotional Time

    Pastoral Prayer

    Silence

    Hymn 

 

 

 

When I breathe in, I breathe in peace.

When I breathe out, I breathe out love.

 

 

Reading

Mother's Day Proclamation                              Julia Ward Howe

 

Music for the Morning (9:00)

Choral Anthem (11:00)

As the Deer                                                            Martin Nystrom

Turn Back                                                                    Gustav Holst

 

Sermon

"Are the Children Well?"                  Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

 

Closing Hymn

Keep On Moving Forward

 

Benediction

 

Postlude (9:00)

Choral Postlude (11:00)

Satin Doll                                                                 Duke Ellington

What is it like when you die?

(Song # 4 from Children's Letters to God)             C.M. Shearer

 

Extinguishing the Chalice