Rev Ed Sunday-Winters – Service
Hal Parker – Musical Director
Priscilla Bonney-Smith – Flowers
Sunday Service
March 15, 2026
“Fourth Sunday in Lent”
9:55am
SCRIPTURE: John 9:1-41
SERMON: “One Thing I do Know” by Rev Ed Sunday-Winters
*HYMN 167 (Songs of Spirit) Arise, Your Light Is Come!
*HYMN 401 (Songs of Spirit) Amazing Grace! How Sweet the Sound
*HYMN 445 (Songs of Spirit) Be Thou My Vision
PRELUDE: Solo organ by Hal Parker
WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
CALL TO WORSHIP
One: Some days, it’s hard to recognize the signs, when what we have come to know and rely on is ablaze and everything looks like ashes.
Two: Do you not know what the Holy One can do with ashes?
Many: Then the Earth-maker knelt down and formed humanity from the dust of the ground, and breath breathed new life.
One: Some days, it’s difficult to believe the signs, when truths are erased and buried and there is nothing left to witness but the bare dirt.
Two: Do you not know what the Holy One can do with dirt?
Many: Then the Pain-bearer spat in the dirt and made mud spreading it on the man’s eyes and visions appeared of a new day rising.
One: Some days, it feels impossible to embrace the signs, so we come together to pay attention, and seek, and be changed
Two: finding our grounding in the ashes that were once stars, in the dirt that holds galaxies, in the mud that birthed our bones and breath.
Many: Then the Life-giver who made safe ground in the middle of the sea said: See, I am doing
a new thing. Do you not perceive it? And a way was made out of no way toward hope.
OPENING PRAYER
*GLORIA PATRI
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 167 (Songs of Spirit) Arise, Your Light Is Come!
CHILDREN’S TIME with Rev. Ed Sunday-Winters
Children may go upstairs after Children’s Time. Parents can join them or remain in the sanctuary.
SCRIPTURE: John 9:1-41
ANTHEM: “I Lift Up My Eyes” text Psalm 121, music by David von Kampen 2020
Hal, voice and organ
SERMON: “One Thing I do Know” by Rev Ed Sunday-Winters
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.
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
Holy God, into a world desperate for signs of hope, let these gifts arrive as beacons. Into hearts searching for signs of compassion, let these gifts offer tenderness. Into each breath yearning for signs of new life, let these gifts come as possibility and promise. Amen.
*HYMN 401 (Songs of Spirit) Amazing Grace! How Sweet the Sound
JOYS & CONCERNS
MORNING PRAYER & THE LORDS PRAYER
Our God, 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 445 (Songs of Spirit) Be Thou My Vision
*BENEDICTION
SONG OF SENDING 349 (Songs of Spirit)
Go in peace and the peace of God be with you this day.
Go in peace and the peace of God be with you al-ways.
Cel-e-brate and share the joy! Cel-e-brate new life!
Go in peace and the peace of God be with you al-ways.
POSTLUDE: Solo organ Hal Parker