Rev Ed Sunday-Winters – Service
Hal Parker – Musical Director
Priscilla Bonney-Smith – Flowers
Sunday Service
“4th Sunday in Lent”
March 10, 2024
10:00am
Scripture: John 3:14-21 Gina Jenkins
Sermon: “Come to the Light” Rev. Ed Sunday-Winters
*Hymn: #445 (Songs of Spirit) Be Thou My Vision
*Hymn: #183 (Songs of Spirit) What Wondrous Love Is This
*Hymn: #364 (Songs of Spirit) This Little Light of Mine
Prelude solo piano, Hal
Welcome & Announcements
Call to Worship
One: God’s love is for all of creation.
Many: The vastness of God is for human, animal, soil, and sun, all together as God’s beloved.
One: God has not come into the world in Jesus to condemn us.
Many: Jesus has come to live God’s love in the flesh.
One: While the world is dim with injustice and the feeling of loneliness,
Many: it is in Jesus that the light of love illumines our path of friendship. Come, let us join our lives with the Friend, whose love is for the whole world. Let us worship 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: #445 (Songs of Spirit) Be Thou My Vision
Scripture: John 3:14-21 Gina Jenkins
Anthem: “We Are Walking in the Light of God”, S African freedom song, 1984
Sermon: Come to the Light 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
Thank you, God, for loving us to the very ends of the earth and back. Your
willingness to say yes to coming in the flesh to redeem our world through love and no
to the powers of oppression has led us to give of ourselves generously this day. Take
these gifts and multiply them across this world that you love so extravagantly. Amen.
*Hymn: #183 (Songs of Spirit) What Wondrous Love Is This
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: #364 (Songs of Spirit) This Little Light of Mine
*Benediction
*Musical Benediction #334 (Songs of Spirit), Savior, Again to Thy Dear Name, verse 2
Grant us thy peace upon our homeward way;
With thee began, with thee shall end the day;
Guard thou the lips from sin, the hearts from shame,
that in this house have called upon thy name.
Postlude: solo organ, Hal