Sunday, May 14
The Sixth Sunday of Easter
8:30am- Worship: in the sanctuary (Livestreamed)
10:30am- Worship: in the sanctuary
The Sixth Sunday of Easter
8:30am- Worship: in the sanctuary (Livestreamed)
10:30am- Worship: in the sanctuary
Welcome
Prelude Combined St. Mark’s Handbell groups How Great Thou Art arr. K. McChesney
Pages 94-96 Confession and Forgiveness
Hymn 840 Now Thank We All Our God
A Mothers’ Day Litany
Loving God, You are everywhere the Lord and Giver of life. We praise You for the gift of mothers through whom You give us life.
We thank You for their willingness to nurture life, for their trust in You to guide them through the labor of childbirth, the uncertainties of youth, the letting go of young adulthood.
We thank You for all those women, who did not give us birth, but through whom You give us abundant life.
Thank you God for adoptive mothers, aunts, grandmothers, sisters, teachers, pastors, elders, mentors, co-workers, neighbors and friends who share and have shared gifts of life, love and faith with us.
We ask Your tender mercies on all those whose mothers now sing with the heavenly chorus, especially for those whose tears are not yet dry.
Grant them Your peace, which passes all our understanding.
We ask Your comforting presence on those mothers who have buried sons and daughters.
Comfort them with the knowledge of their children in Your eternal care.
We pray in Jesus’ name for all who are alienated from their mothers by harsh words, distance, and misunderstanding.
Dear God, grant both mothers and children the grace to forgive and to love again.
We pray for mothers who are guardians for grandchildren whose parents are unable or unwilling to care.
Holy Spirit sustain them with the courage and strength and patience for the living of each day.
We pray for mothers whose children face limitations of intelligence, emotional, or physical ability.
Deliver them from frustration and hopelessness. Grant them wisdom to encourage each child’s full potential with You.
We pray for mothers serve our nation and community as politicians, officers of the law, first responders, guardians ad litem, and members of the military.
Grant them confidence in Your presence with their children in life, in death, and in life beyond death.
Compassionate God, be with all women and their children on this day. Let Your light shine on them and be gracious to them. Bless them with peace and joy now and forever. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Children’s Message
Psalm 66 verses led by Lisa & choir
Acts 17:22-31
22Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. 23For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, 25nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. 26From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, 27so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. 28For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said,
‘For we too are his offspring.’
29Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. 30While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
Word of God for the People of God.
Thanks be to God!
Gospel Acclamation Hymn 392 Alleluia! Sing to Jesus. Vs. 1
The Holy Gospel according to John 14:15-21 Pew Bible page 877
The Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, O Christ!
Sermon
Hymn 705 God of Grace with organ and handbell accompaniment
Page 105 Apostles’ Creed
Prayers
Choir Anthem Blessed is He by Kenny Potter
Page 152-153 Great Thanksgiving
Page 154 The Lord’s Prayer
Communion
Blessing, Prayer, Benediction
Hymn 631 Love Divine
Go in peace.
Thanks be to God!
Prelude Fanfare Lemmens
Prelude Combined St. Mark’s Handbell groups How Great Thou Art arr. K. McChesney
Pages 94-96 Confession and Forgiveness
Hymn 840 Now Thank We All Our God
A Mothers’ Day Litany
Loving God, You are everywhere the Lord and Giver of life. We praise You for the gift of mothers through whom You give us life.
We thank You for their willingness to nurture life, for their trust in You to guide them through the labor of childbirth, the uncertainties of youth, the letting go of young adulthood.
We thank You for all those women, who did not give us birth, but through whom You give us abundant life.
Thank you God for adoptive mothers, aunts, grandmothers, sisters, teachers, pastors, elders, mentors, co-workers, neighbors and friends who share and have shared gifts of life, love and faith with us.
We ask Your tender mercies on all those whose mothers now sing with the heavenly chorus, especially for those whose tears are not yet dry.
Grant them Your peace, which passes all our understanding.
We ask Your comforting presence on those mothers who have buried sons and daughters.
Comfort them with the knowledge of their children in Your eternal care.
We pray in Jesus’ name for all who are alienated from their mothers by harsh words, distance, and misunderstanding.
Dear God, grant both mothers and children the grace to forgive and to love again.
We pray for mothers who are guardians for grandchildren whose parents are unable or unwilling to care.
Holy Spirit sustain them with the courage and strength and patience for the living of each day.
We pray for mothers whose children face limitations of intelligence, emotional, or physical ability.
Deliver them from frustration and hopelessness. Grant them wisdom to encourage each child’s full potential with You.
We pray for mothers serve our nation and community as politicians, officers of the law, first responders, guardians ad litem, and members of the military.
Grant them confidence in Your presence with their children in life, in death, and in life beyond death.
Compassionate God, be with all women and their children on this day. Let Your light shine on them and be gracious to them. Bless them with peace and joy now and forever. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Children’s Message
Psalm 66 verses led by Lisa & choir
Acts 17:22-31
22Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. 23For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, 25nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. 26From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, 27so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. 28For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said,
‘For we too are his offspring.’
29Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. 30While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
Word of God for the People of God.
Thanks be to God!
Gospel Acclamation Hymn 392 Alleluia! Sing to Jesus. Vs. 1
The Holy Gospel according to John 14:15-21 Pew Bible page 877
The Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, O Christ!
Sermon
Hymn 705 God of Grace with organ and handbell accompaniment
Page 105 Apostles’ Creed
Prayers
Choir Anthem Blessed is He by Kenny Potter
Page 152-153 Great Thanksgiving
Page 154 The Lord’s Prayer
Communion
Blessing, Prayer, Benediction
Hymn 631 Love Divine
Go in peace.
Thanks be to God!
Prelude Fanfare Lemmens
