Rev Ed Sunday-Winters – Service
Hal Parker – Musical Director
Priscilla Bonney-Smith – Flowers
Sunday Service
November 3, 2024
“Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost”
10:00am
Scripture: Isaiah 25:6-9, Revelation 21:1-6
Sermon: “Let us be Glad” by Rev. Ed Sunday-Winters
*Hymn: #486 (Songs of Spirit) “For All the Saints”
*Hymn: #10 (Songs of Spirit) Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty!
*Hymn: #53 (Songs of Spirit) Let Us with a Gladsome Mind
Prelude: solo piano
Welcome & Announcements
Call to worship:
One: Praise the Holy One as long as we live.
Many: Praise the Creator, who makes our days, who trails our paths,and who gives us breath.
One: Praise the Holy One with our whole selves–mind, body, and soul.
Many: Trust in wisdom and honor, truth and love, grace and mercy.
One: Praise the Holy One for God is just, generous, compassionate, liberating, and near.
Many: The Holy One reigns, lifting up the lowly, humbling, the proud, and sustaining the righteous from generation to generation. Praise God.
Opening Prayer
*Gloria Patri #36
Glory be to the Creator, and to the Christ and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.
*Hymn: #486 (Songs of Spirit) “For All the Saints”
Unison Prayer of Confession
Righteous One, write your commandments on our hearts…not as a list of do’s and don’ts but as a vision of the people who can be, the lives we may live, and the world we may create. Write liberation of the oppressed, care and wholeness of those with unmet needs, and revelation and understanding to those oblivious to the truth. Emblazon your law of love in our hearts, on our lips, and in our journey. Transform us with your love so that we may reflect your love toward our neighbor and toward ourselves. Amen.
Assurance of pardon
Scripture: Isaiah 25:6-9, Revelation 21:1-6
Anthem: “In Remembrance of Me” by Ragan Courtney and Buryl Reed
Sermon: “Let us be Glad” by Rev. Ed Sunday-Winters
A Time of Silence
Offertory:
*Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below; Praise God for all that love has done; Creator, Christ, and Spirit, One. Amen.
*Unison Prayer of Dedication
Great God, receive these gifts of love with blessing for those who give and those who receive. Magnify our ministries, enlarge our circles of care, and amplify our love in the world. Amen.
Communion, See Insert
*Hymn: #10 (Songs of Spirit) Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty!
Prayers of the People and The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name,
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
forever.
*Hymn: #53 (Songs of Spirit) Let Us with a Gladsome Mind
*Benediction
*Musical Benediction: “Go Now in Peace”
Go now in Peace. Never be afraid.
God will go with you each hour of every day.
Go now in faith, steadfast strong and true.
Know He will guide you in all you do.
Go now in love, and show you believe.
Reach out to others so all the world can see,
God will be there watching from above.
Go now in peace, in faith, and in Love. Amen
Postlude: solo organ