June 14, 2009

Pre-service music
Call to Worship (Psalm 20)
Right Side of Congregation:
May the One who created you in wholeness
meet your needs when you call!
May the Name of Love be your protection
and rise up in your heart as a tower of strength!
Left Side of Congregation: May all you have given in gratitude and with open hands be returned to you a hundredfold!
May your heart's desires and all your plans be fulfilled in due season!
All:Let us shout for joy as Love triumphs over fear;
Let our thankful hearts sing in loud acclamation to the Beloved, who answers our heartfelt prayers!
Leader:Now I know that Love comes to all who open their hearts, and dwells therein offering gifts of peace and harmony.
Right:Some may boast of wealth and personal power;
they will stumble and fall.

Left: Let us boast of the One who comes in the Name of Love;
we shall rise up strong and sure.
All: O Beloved, You who have created us,
hear our call, make your home in our hearts!
Prayer of Invocation
Together:
We arise, facing East
We are asking toward the light,
We are asking that our day
Shall be beautiful with light.
We are asking that the place
Where our feet are shall be light,
That as far as we can see
We shall follow it aright.
We are asking for the courage
To go forward through the shadow,
We are asking toward the light.
Hymns
Children's Story

Hearing

Scripture 1 Samuel 15: 34- 16:13
Sermon
Hymn

Responding

Sharing of Praises and Concerns
Pastoral Prayer
Offering/Hymn Praise God from Whom HWB 119
Announcements
Hymn
Benediction

Today

Announcements

Please email all bulletin announcements by Wednesday 8:00 pm to Becky.

Helpers are needed for the June 17 move of the Jen and Matt Sauder family. I will confirm their arrival time by phone that day but they anticipate arriving around 4 PM at Westfield Road (just north of the Hanges, off of 29). Movers are needed, perhaps a person who could help with 2 small children, and food will be needed for a meal. Contact Jan Parks at 589-2000 or jpparks@earthlink.net.

Are you curious about what's happening at Mennonite Church USA Convention 2009 in Columbus, Ohio, June 30 to July 5? Check out the convention Web site for a list of seminars, worship speakers, late night events, the delegate agenda, or how to register for this event. All of this information and more is available at www.MennoniteUSA.org/convention.

Prayers and Praises

MMN: A new Mennonite Voluntary Service unit begins in Madison, Wis. Pray for MVS staff and the leadership at Madison Mennonite Church as they establish partnerships with helping agencies in the community.

VMM:Pray for Paul & Evelyn Kratz as they related to all six congregations in the Mennonite Church of Trinidad & Tobago. They minister as Christ's beacon of light there.

Pray for the local services for people in need: Love Inc., Shelter for Help in Emergency, Food Bank, Salvation Army, IMPACT--a justice ministry and PACEM-- the initiative for the homeless.

Gathering in Christ's name

Hearing

Responding

Today

Announcements

Prayers and Praises