Prelude
Welcome
Sharing the Peace of Christ
Gloria Patri (UMH 71)
Hymn Behold a Broken World (UMH 426)
Call to Worship
Leader: We come today, searching for your peace.
People: We come to this place where we feel Your love!
Leader: We come today, searching for grace.
People: We come to this place where we feel Your love!
Leader: We come today with faith knowing that You will guide us.
People: We come to this place where we feel Your love!
Leader: We come today ready to feel and express Your forgiveness.
People: We come to this place where we feel Your love!
Leader: We come today with gratitude for all that we have gotten from You.
People: We come to this place where we feel Your love! Amen.
Hymn What Wondrous Love (UMH 292)
Pastor’s Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer (UMH 895)
Children’s Message
Hymn Be Thou My Vision (UMH 451)
Message & Scripture Finding Peace
New Testament Readings
Matthew 6:25-30; Colossians 1:3-8, 3:15-17; Philippians 4:4-9
Leader: The word of God for the people of God.
People: Thanks be to God.
Hymn This Is My Song (UMH 437)
Giving Our Tithes and Offerings
Offertory
Doxology (UMH 94)
Prayer of Thanksgiving
God, thank you for being with us today and always. Through the life of your son Jesus, You have given us hope and incentive to spread Your light. Through our many gifts, help us bring Your light to the world at a time when there is so much temptation to live in darkness. Enlighten us to choose love, truth, and hope so that we may reflect Your Light. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Prayers of the People
Affirmation of Faith (UMH 884)
We believe in God the Father, infinite in wisdom, power and love, whose mercy is over all his works, and whose will is ever directed to his children’s good. We believe in Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of man, the gift of the Father’s unfailing grace, the ground of our hope, and the promise of our deliverance from sin and death. We believe in the Holy Spirit as the divine presence in our lives, whereby we are kept in perpetual remembrance of the truth of Christ, and find strength and help in time of need. We believe that this faith should manifest itself in the service of love as set forth in the example of our blessed Lord, to the end that the kingdom of God may come upon the earth. Amen.
Sending Forth They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love (FWS 2223)
Benediction
Postlude
