THE CHURCH GATHERS Pre-Service Music
The Lord’s My Shepherd
Call to Worship
arr. Larry Shackley
Adapted from Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Creating God, you have made us in your image. You have fed us with your blessing. You have led us through our challenges. You have granted us grace when we least expected it. You are the fountain of blessing, the source of unending goodness. Alleluia! We turn to you. We thank you. We worship you. Come, Generous Spirit, and transform us by your grace. Alleluia!
Hymn
There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy
Prayer of Confession
UMH #121
Adapted from Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Trusting in God’s loving kindness, we turn to God and one another, speaking of our need for healing, grace, and mercy. Let us pray together. God of mercy, we confess that we have sinned against you. We have distrusted your providence and sought life elsewhere when we should have turned to you. We have feared for ourselves and held onto things when we should have shared. Forgive our sin, heal our fear, and wash us clean, start us anew: remade by your grace, hungry for you alone, and ready to receive and to share your love in the name of Christ and the power of your Holy Spirit. silence for prayer
Words of Assurance
God’s mercy and love are here. And God’s mercy and love are more than we can take in. In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven! In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven! Thanks be to God! Alleluia! Amen.
TO HEAR THE WORD AND REFLECT Music Ministry
I Need Thee Every Hour
SHARING IN WORSHIP TODAY Acolytes - Everett Menard, Elijah Menard Liturgists - Ethan Burkhart, Anatalia Francisco-Cabus Reader - Emani Burkhart Musicians - Chancel Choir Ushers - Thomas Sandford, Bright Rajartnam, Bhanu Prakash
arr. John Ness Beck
TODAY'S FLOWERS ARE GIVEN IN CELEBRATION OF OUR PARENTS’ 50TH ANNIVERSARY
Children's Time
Where Children Belong
Scripture Reading
TFWS #2233
Matthew 20:1-6 This is the Word of Life. Thanks be to God.
Sermon
Rev. Jenny Smith Walz
TO RESPOND IN FAITH Hymn
Bless the Lord
Prayers of the People The Lord's Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come; your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Offertory
Living Waters
Hymn
Doxology
Michael Shea
UMH #94
Prayer of Thanksgiving
AND SCATTERS TO BE IN THE WORLD Hymn
Great is Thy Faithfulness
UMH #140
Praise Him with Pipes
Ben Logan
Benediction Postlude
PRAYER CONCERNS
Prayers for all Graduates and for their plans for the future. Prayers for the sick, hospitalized, lonely, homeless, and depressed and for all who care for them and for Apperson -DiStase family on the death of Larry. Prayers for people of Israel, Palestine, Ukraine, and Russia and all other places of war. Pray for their leaders to come to peaceful resolutions.
HAVE PRAYER CONCERNS?
BY FRANCISCO DAUGHTERS
FWS #2013
For our Prayer Chain, call Yvonne Macdonald at 609-577-8369 or email her at yvonnee.mac@verizon.net. Email Pastor Tayler Necoechea at tayler@princetonumc.org when you or a family member is in the hospital or in need of a pastoral call.