Order of Service for Sunday, September 29, 2013

Date of Service: 
September 29, 2013

Gathering Hymn

 

Gathered here in the mystery of the hour,

Gathered here in one strong body.

Gathered here, in the struggle and the power,

Spirit, draw near.

Call To Worship #441

                                                                                         Jacob Trapp

Prelude

Kiss Lonely Goodbye                                              Stevie Wonder

Jyvonne Haskin, alto soloist

Chalice Lighting

Nalani Santiago-Kalmanson (11:00)

Opening Hymn #1

May Nothing Evil Cross This Door

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

John 6:5 -15                        retold by Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

Song of Blessing

This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine…

Everywhere I go, I’m gonna let it shine...

A Time for Community

Pulpit Message

                      Patricia Wright, Long Range Planning Committee

Community Speakers

                         Martine Singer and Nieves Rico, Para los Niños

Offertory                        (9:00)  

                                       (11:00)   

Come Just as You Are                                           Joseph Sabolick

Would You Harbor Me?                            Ysaye Maria Barnwell

Devotional Time

    Pastoral Prayer

    Silence

    Sung Response #17

 

                                                                      Janet Morley, adapted                                                                                

 

Every Night and Every Morn

Reading

from Sleeping with Bread: Holding What Gives You Life

           by Dennis Linn, Sheila Fabricant Linn, & Matthew Linn

Music for the Morning (9:00)

Choral Anthem (11:00)

Prelude, Op. 23 #4                                        Sergei Rachmaninoff                                                                           

Festival Introit                                                               Greg Knauf                                                 

Sermon

“Loaves and Fishes"                          Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

Closing Hymn  

There Is More Love Somewhere

 Benediction

 

Postlude (9:00)

Choral Postlude (11:00)

True Colors                                       Billy Steinberg & Tom Kelly

Lebenslust (Love of Life)                                       Franz Schubert

Extinguishing the Chalice