Reverend Ed Sunday-Winters – Service
Hal Parker – Musical Director, Piano, Voice
Priscilla Bonney-Smith – Flowers


Sunday Service
(Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost)

October 24, 2021
10:00am

Scripture – “Mark 10:46-52” read by Clive Gray
Sermon – “Blind Bartimaeus” by Rev Ed Sunday-Winters

*Hymn: #445 “Be Thou My Vision”
*Hymn: #303 “Softly And Tenderly”
*Hymn: #406 “Blest Are They”

Prelude

Welcome & Announcements

*Call To Worship
One: Sing aloud with gladness:
Many: God is gathering the people!
One: From the farthest parts of the earth we come:
Many: All who struggle; all who labor with new life!
One: Those who are weeping, God will console;
Many: Those who get lost find a clear path home.
One: Let us worship the God who gathers us!

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 “Be Thou My Vision”

Scripture: Mark 10:46-52, read by  Clive Gray

Anthem:  “On Eagle’s Wings” by Michael Joncas

Sermon: “Blind Bartimaeus” by Rev. Ed Sunday-Winters

A Time of Silence
*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.
(If you want to give today, please find the offering plate at either entrance.)

*Prayer of Dedication
ALL: Transform our lives, O God, and let these gifts change the world into which
we send them. Take them and multiply them to be a blessing of justice and peace in
the world you love! Amen.

*Hymn: #303 “Softly And Tenderly”

Prayers of the People

The Lord’s Prayer (using “debts:” turn to the bottom of page #271 in your hymnal)

*Hymn: #406 “Blest Are They”

*Benediction Ed Sunday-Winters

*Musical Benediction
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, amen, amen.

Postlude