ORDER OF SERVICE
June 27, 2010
“Ultimately our trust is in the spirit that will not be quelled forever, that rises up in people from some mysterious source, energy that comes again to affirm that people matter, their needs and aspirations matter, and that the conditions of people’s flourishing is the cultivation of truth and love.” - Greta Crosby
PRELUDE From Puritan Days – Edward MacDowell
INTROIT Spirit of Love - Herbert Colvin
OPENING WORDS & CHALICE LIGHTING Number 459 - William F. Schulz
*HYMN Number 296 (standing) O Ye Who Taste That Love Is Sweet
RESPONSIVE READING Number 576 (standing)
A Litany of Restoration *SONG OF EXALTATION
(standing) Genevan Psalter, 1551
All people that on earth do dwell,
Sing ye to God with cheerful voice;
Come serve with mirth, God’s praise forth tell.
Join ye together and rejoice.
Amen.
READING
Matthew 25:31-46 (Where the kingdom of God dwells.)
*INTERLUDE Nouvelle Etude #2 - Frederic Chopin
READING from A House for Hope by John Buehrens and Rebecca Parker
THOUGHTS FOR MEDITATION
MOMENTS OF SILENCE (A time for contemplation and prayer.)
ANTHEM Down by the Riverside - arr. Jay Althouse
OFFERTORY Assurance March - arr. R. Atcheson
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*HYMN Number 140 (standing) Hail the Glorious Golden City
SERMON Softball and the Nature of Prejudice
The Reverend Burton D. Carley
*CHORAL RESPONSE Benediction - Jason Shelton
BENEDICTION
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