Order of Service

September 16, 2012

 Gathering Hymn

Come, come, whoever you are

Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving

Ours is no caravan of despair

Come, yet again come.

Welcome

Prelude (9:00)

Choral Prelude (11:00)

Meditation                                                                    Tchaikovsky

Come Into the Circle                                   Betsy Jo Angebranndt

Chalice Lighting

Natalie Kahn (11:00)

Opening Hymn #126

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

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

Commissioning Our Religious Education Volunteers

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

Appreciation and Invitation to Ushers                                                    Ned Wright, Head Usher

Offertory 

Interlude (9:00)                                                             Mark Hayes

Oh, Freedom!  (11:00)             traditional, arr. DeReau K. Farrar

Devotional Time

  Pastoral Prayer

  Sung Meditation #6

  Silence

Just As Long As I Have Breath

Responsive Reading #637

We Begin Again in Love                                 Robert Eller-Isaacs

Music for the Morning (9:00)

Choral Anthem (11:00)

He Hideth my Soul                                        William Kirkpatrick

Hold Not Our Sins Up Against Us                        Samuel Barber

Sermon

“On Apology”                                    Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

Closing Hymn #1017

Building A New Way

Benediction

Postlude (9:00)

Choral Postlude (11:00)

Etude in G-flat major, Op. 10 #5                                        Chopin

Shalom                                                                              traditional

Extinguishing the Chalice

Greeters:

Dwight Flowers & Kris Langabeer (9:00)

David Olson & Wendi Gladstone (11:00)

Ushers:

Barbara Kernochan & Ned Wright (9:00)

Michael Young & Ned Wright (11:00)

Coffee: 

Bethany Garbowski, Alice Hall,

Karen Canady & Alicia Van Ooyen (9:00)

Amy Lacombe & Sheila Cummins (11:00)

Office:

Sheila Cummins (9:00)

Peggy Rhoads (11:00)

Book Table:

Nancy Babbitt