PENTICOST SUNDAY
MORNING WORSHIP AND
COMMUNION
The
Eleven O’clock June
04, 2006
Frederick K. Weimert, Pastor
Glenn L. Wittstadt, Jr., Organist‑Director
10:45
SERVICE OF ANOINTING
(for those
requesting prayer for healing and special needs)
PRELUDE: “Communion Meditation”
by Garrett Parker
INTROIT
*CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 104: 24-34, 35b
O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable are there, living things both small and great. There go the ships, and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.
These
all look to you to give them their food in due
season;
when you give to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are filled with good things. When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. When you send forth your spirit, they are created; and you renew the face of the ground.
May
the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the
LORD
rejoice in his works--
who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke. I will sing to the LORD as long as I live;
I
will sing praise to my God while I have being.
May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the LORD.
Bless
the LORD, O my soul. Praise the LORD!
*HYMN 38:
“O Sing a Song to God”
INVOCATION FOLLOWED BY THE LORD’S PRAYER
WELCOME & REGISTRATION
EXTENDED
LIFE OF THE CHURCH
ANTHEM: “Agnus Dei” by
Franz Schubert
CHILDREN’S TIME
OFFERING: “Doxology”
OFFERTORY: Variations on
“Speak to Me”
Ed Broughton/Robert Schumann
SCRIPTURE: Acts 2: 1-21 pg. 948 - read by: Rev. Dr. Paul
Gillespie
UNISON
PRAYER OF CONFESSION:
God,
whose Spirit moved in and above the heads of your disciples as divided tongues
of fire, we thank you for the harmony of hearing brought by those flames. We are thankful for moments when your Spirit
has brought common understanding among peoples of divided tongues. However, we must confess that there have been
times when we haven’t tried to listen in or for Your Spirit. We have dismissed those who spoke in strange
tongues as “sounding drunk” or ignorant.
Forgive us for in failing to listen we have failed to recognize our
sisters and brothers in You. Amen.
*HYMN
2120: “Spirit, Spirit of
Gentleness”
THE LETTERS: Romans 8: 22-27 pg. 983
SERMON: “Groaning with Creation”
*INVITATION HYMN 241: “Breathe on Me, Breath of God”
THE LORD’S SUPPER
SHARING
THE BREAD (#371)
I come with joy to meet my Lord,
Forgiven, loved, and free,
In awe and wonder to recall
His life laid down for me.
As Christ breaks bread and bids us share,
Each proud division ends,
The love that made us, makes us one,
And strangers now are friends.
SHARING THE CUP (#330)
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am
found,
Was blind but now I see.
‘Twas grace that taught my
heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace
appear
The hour I first believed.
*HYMN 387: “Blest Be the Tie” (verse 1)
*BENEDICTION CHORAL RESPONSE
POSTLUDE: “Trumpets
in Praise” Franklin
Ritter
*Congregation Standing
T H I S W E
E K
If
you have a special prayer request please fill out a pink card, found in the
pews, bring it forward and place it on the communion table either before the
service or during the first hymn.
WEDNESDAY
6:15 p.m. Dinner
7:00 p.m. Congregational
Business Meeting
THURSDAY: 4:00-7:00p.m. Shelter Meal
June 12th, MONDAY: 12 Noon,
7:30 p.m. Needles and News at the home of Wendy
Wallace.
We
will meet at the church and go in one or two cars.
Make
plans to come to the Church Picnic on Saturday June 10th at
