Order of Service for Sunday, September 15, 2013

Date of Service: 
September 15, 2013

 Gathering Hymn

 

Come, come, whoever you are.

Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.

Ours is no caravan of despair.

Come, yet again come.

Welcome

Sue Bickford, Pulpit Host

Prelude (9:00)

Choral Prelude (11:00)

Sonatina, second movement                                 Robert Fleming

Deep Peace                                                                    Bill Douglas

Chalice Lighting

Bronwen Jones (9:00)

Opening Hymn #298

Wake Now My Senses

 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

Story for All Ages

 

Song of Blessing

Go now in peace,

Go now in peace,

May the spirit of love surround you

As you go, as you go

On your way.                                                                   ~ Natalie Sleeth

 A Time for Community

Offertory                        

                                      

We’re In This Love Together                                         Al Jarreau

                                                          Gabriel Paredes, tenor soloist                                      

Devotional Time

    Pastoral Prayer

    Silence

    Sung Meditation #34

 

                                                                                     Christina Shu

 

Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire

Reading 

Excerpt from Prayers for a Thousand Years

                                                                                   Pema Chödrön                                                                                      

Music for the Morning (9:00)

Choral Anthem (11:00)

Breathe On Me                                                         Robert Jackson

Who Will Remember?                                    David Stanley York

Sermon

“The Journey Down the Mountain”                       Christina Shu

Closing Hymn #168

One More Step                                                                                         

Benediction

 

Postlude (9:00)

Choral Postlude (11:00)

Hommage                                                                 Maurice Dela  

Lebenslust (Love of Life)                                     Franz Schubert

Extinguishing the Chalice