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Chilmark Community Church
Prelude: A Ground in G Henry Purcell
Gathering and Announcements
Introit: Lauda Anima

Call to Worship
Jeremiah 33:14-16

Candle Lighting Liturgy
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will fulfill the promises I have made.
To you, O Lord, we lift up our souls: In you, O God, we trust.
The one who is coming will show us the path of steadfast love and faithfulness.
Teach us your ways, O God of our salvation. We light this candle in the sure hope that God’s promises endure.
[Here light the first Advent candle]
We will live in the light of hope as we await the coming of the Lord.

*Hymn  473 “Lead Me , Lord”

Peace

Confession  (unison)
God of grace and glory, we thank you that you judge us not by the perfection of our actions, but by out readiness to live boldly by faith.  Help us, as individuals and as a congregation, to trust you and follow where you lead, that your name may be glorified in all the earth.  Amen
Silent prayer

Psalm 25:1-10  p.757
Anthem

Scripture Reading and Discussion
May the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable to Thee, Our Rock and Redeemer.

1Thessalonians 3:9-13;  Luke 21:25-36

*Hymn # 719 “My Lord, What a Morning”

Concerns and Celebration
Unison Prayer:  Let us pray for those who suffer.
Almighty God, shield of the oppressed, hear us as we pray for the friendless and the lonely, the tempted and the unbelieving.  Be merciful to those who suffer, in body or in mind, to those who are in danger or distress, and who have suffered loss.  Let your love surround the infirm and the aged.  Be especially near to those who are passing through the valley of death.  May they find eternal rest, and light at the evening time.  AMEN
Silent prayer
The Lord’s Prayer

Offering
*We Give Thee But Thine Own (back cover)
Prayer of Dedication (unison)
Bless these gifts, O Lord, that those who give them and those who receive them  may grow in your knowledge and love. Amen

*Hymn 730 “O Day of God, Draw Nigh”

Benediction  (unison)     St. Paul
“May the God of hope fill us all with joy and peace in believing, so that we may abound in hope by the power of the Holy spirit.” AMEN
Postlude : Courante Handel
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Organist:  Carol Loud
Next Week’s Lessons: MalachI 3:1-4; Luke 1:68-79; Philippians 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6
*Stand if you are able

Chilmark Community Church
November  15,2009

Prelude:  “Prelude in C major”  JS Bach

Gathering and Announcements

Introit :  “O For the Wings of a Dove” Felix Mendelssohn

Call to Worship   Psalm 106:1-5 p.829 (no musical response)

*Hymn  92 “For the Beauty of the Earth” vs. 1,4,6

Peace

Confession  (unison)       by James T. Fatzinger
God, we have filled our lives with so many things that there is scarcely room left for each other and for you.  “There is no time!” we protest. “I know you’re busy,” we assume. Slow us down, God; forgive us our busi-ness which destroys our openness, our preoccupation which leaves us unaware of the gentle breeze of your Spirit, our self-absorption which makes us ignore the cries of our brothers and sisters.  And if we have not yet been possessed by your word of grace and acceptance, we pray that our ears may be opened to hear it now.   AMEN

Silent prayer

Word of Assurance

Proclamation and Praise
2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Anthem

John 2:1-11; John 6:11; Acts 27:35

Sermon“Jesus Comes to Thanksgiving Dinner” Rev.Woody Bowman

*Hymn  694 “Come, Ye Thankful People Come”

Concerns and Celebrations
Let us hold these people in the presence of God in the silent prayer.

Pastoral Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer

Offering
* “We Give Thee But Thine Own” (inside back cover )

Prayer of Dedication (unison)
Holy One, whose heart abounds with gifts, receive this offering as a sign of our intention to live surrounded by your mercy, inspired by your Spirit, open to the joy of your presence, hospitable to one another, and generous toward your world. AMEN                          Edwin E. Beers

*Hymn  87 “What Gift Can We Bring”

Benediction  (unison)
Grant, O Lord, that what has been said with our lips we may believe in our hearts, and that what we believe in  our hearts we may practice in our lives; in the Spirit of Jesus.  AMEN

Postlude:  “Deus Tuorum Militant”  Grenoble Antiphoner

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Organist:  Carol Loud
Guest Preacher:  Rev. Woody Bowman
Next Week’s Lessons: (interfaith Thanksgiving Service)  Food Pantry Offering
*Stand if you are able

Chilmark Community Church
November 1,2009  All Saints Day

Prelude:  Invention #7 J.S. Bach
Gathering and Announcements
Introit :Remembrance Stephen Heller

Call to Worship and Ceremony of Remembrance
Everliving God, this day revives in us memories of loved ones who are no more. What joy, when, loving and being loved, we lived our lives together.  Their memory is a blessing for ever.
Months or years may have passed, and still we feel near to them.  The links of life are broken, but the links of love cannot break. Their souls are bound up in ours for ever.
We see them now with the eye of memory, their faults forgiven, their virtues grown larger.  So does goodness live, and weakness fade from sight.
We praise and thank you that they now live with you.
Now , let us name those who we especially remember today.
( Speak names.  Take time to bring a flower forward.)

*Hymn  707 “ Hymn of Promise”

Peace ( children go to Sunday School)

Confession  (unison)
Let us draw near to God in the silence of our hearts.
O Great Spirit whose voice we hear in the winds, and whose breath gives life to all the world,  hear us.  We come before you as your children. We are small and weak; we need your strength and wisdom.  Make us wise, so that we may know the things you have taught your people, the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock. Help us to be ever ready to come to you, so when life fades as a fading sunset, our spirits may come to you without shame.    adapted from Traditional Native American Prayer.

Silent prayer
Word of Assurance

Psalm 24 p. 755  responsively

Lessons
Isaiah 25:6-9
Revelation 21:1-6a

Sermon   by Janet Holladay

*Hymn  89 “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee”

Concerns and Celebrations
Silent prayer
Pastoral Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer

Offering
*Hymn 95 “Praise God From Whom All Blessing Flow”

Prayer of Dedication (unison)
Almighty God, giver of every good and perfect gift, teach us to render to you all that we have and all that we are, that we may praise you, not with our lips only, but with our whole lives, turning the duties, the sorrows, and the joys of all our days into a living sacrifice to you.  AMEN

*Hymn 673 “ God Be with You till We Meet Again”
Benediction

Postlude: Gavotte J.S. Bach
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Organist: Carol Loud
Guest Preacher: Janet Holladay
Next Week’s Lessons:  Ruth 3: 1-5; Psalm 127; Hebrews 9:24-28;  Mark 12:38-44
*Stand if you are able

Chilmark Community Church
October 25, 2009
Prelude: “Autumn Leaves” by Johnny Mercer
Gathering and Announcements
Introit:  2-Part Invention #7 by J.S.Bach
Call to Worship   psalm 34: 1-8, p. 769 (no musical response)

*Hymn : #101“ From All That Dwell Below the Skies” vs. 1,2,4.

Peace  Let us greet each other with word of  Peace .

Confession  (unison)   by Sandra E. Graham
Powerful, gentle God, you can take desert waste and make it grow into fruitful land.  We need your power to change life.  Our lives are so often full of drudgery.  Often we forget to live thankful lives, and we get bogged down in self-pity and blame.  Empower us, God.  Help us to feel your Spirit changing us, each day, that our lives may be full and glowing in your love.  Through the Spirit, whose breath sustains us, we pray.  AMEN

Silent prayer

Word of Assurance   by Ruth C. Duck
The good news in Christ is that God offers us life at every moment, forgiving us, and inviting us to the freshness of new beginnings.  Let us praise this God of Grace!

Proclamation and Praise   Let us ask for God’s blessing on our reading and understanding of the scriptures.
May the Words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be always acceptable to thee, O Lord.  AMEN
Job 34:1-6, 10-17; Mark 10:46-52
Discussion

*Hymn  2212 “How Can I Keep From Singing”
Concerns and Celebrations
Silent Prayer

Unison Prayer
O God, in mystery and silence you are present in our lives, bringing new life out of destruction, hope out of despair, growth out of difficulty.  We thank you that you do not leave us alone but labor to make us whole.  Help us to perceive your unseen hand in the unfolding of our lives, and to attend to the gentle guidance of your Spirit, that we may know the joy you give your people.  AMEN Ruth Duck
The Lord’s Prayer

Offering
*Hymn 95 “Praise God From Whom All Blessing Flow”
Prayer of Dedication (unison)
We offer ourselves with our gifts, confident that you have a purpose for them and for us. May our offerings reach beyond our former thinking and doing. In the Spirit of Christ , we would pray and live.  AMEN adapted from Lavon Baylor

*Hymn   “ O God you sent us out to Walk”(back cover)

Postlude     “The Oneness of Everything” by Jim Scott.

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Organist: Carol Loud

Next Week’s Lessons: Isaiah 25:6-9;  Psalm 24’  Revelation 21:1-6a; John 11: 32-44
*Stand if you are able

Chilmark Community Church
October 18,2009
Prelude:  Prelude #6  JS Bach

Gathering and Announcements
Introit;  The Moon and the Year by Richard Emery

Call to Worship  Psalm 104:1-9  p.826 (no musical response)

*Hymn  152 “ I Sing the Almighty Power of God”

Peace

Confession  Let us confess our short comings to God in the silence of our hearts.

(unison)
God of Grace and glory, we thank you that you judge us not by the perfection of our actions, but by our readiness to live boldly by faith.  Help us, as individuals and as a congregation, to trust you and follow where you lead, that your name may be glorified in all the earth.  AMEN

Anthem    Lia Kahler and Emily Broderick

Scripture readings and Discussion
May the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable to thee, O Lord, our strength and our redeemer.

Job 38:1-7 (34-41); Mark 10:35-45

*Hymn  # 525  “ We’ll Understand Better By and By”

Concerns and Celebrations

Unison Prayer:  Strong covenant God, save us from being self-centered in our prayers, and teach us to remember to pray for others.  May we be so bound up in love with those for whom we pray that we may feel their needs as acutely as our own, and intercede for them with sensitiveness, with understanding and with imagination.  In the Spirit of Jesus, AMEN
Silent prayer

The Lord’s Prayer

Offering
*Hymn 95 “Praise God From Whom All Blessing Flow”

Prayer of Dedication (unison)
We offer ourselves with our gifts, confident that you have a purpose for them and for us.  AMEN

*Hymn “ O God You Send us Out to Walk”   back cover

Benediction  (unison)
The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.  AMEN

Postlude:  Adagio by John Bennett
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Organist: Carol Loud

Next Week’s Lessons:  Job 42:1-6,10-17; Psalm 34:1-8; Hebrews 7:23-28; Mark 10:46-52

*Stand if you are able

Chilmark Community Church, United Methodist
February 22, 2009

Gathering and Announcements
Prelude :  From the First Partita, JS Bach
Call to Worship
God is our strength and our song.  God has become our salvation.
Hear the glad songs of God’s victory! We shall proclaim the deeds of our God!
God has not given us over to death.  Open are the gates of life.
We shall enter the gates of life and give thanks to God!
all: God has answered us and has become our salvation. We have been given light and love.  Hear the glad songs of God’s victory!  ( from psalm 118:14-15,17-19, 21,27. ) Jan Cather Weaver

*Hymn: # 454 “Open My Eyes”

Psalm: 50:1-6    p.783
Peace

Confession
Holy Happiness, Forgive our forgetting!  How often we’ve left shore in a boat, leaving the oars of your direction in the sand, or kept our sails furled to the wind of your love.  How often we’ve been stranded in a sea that was you and still not seen you!   AMEN   Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
(silent reflection)
Words of Assurance
Gof of compassion, we thank you that you forgive our sins, and blot out our transgressions.  Renew our hearts, O God, and teach us wisdom.  Grant us the joy of your salvation, and keep us steadfast in your service.  AMEN psalm 51:1, 10, 12-13. Ruth C. Duck

Proclamation and Praise

Hebrew Scriptures: 2Kings 2:1-12
New Testament: 2 Corinthians 4:3-6; Mark 9:2-9

Response to the Word:
May the words from our lips and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord.  AMEN
( background of passages and open discussion.)

*Hymn: 258 O Wondrous Sight! O Vision Fair

Concerns and Prayers
Let us bring those for whom we pray into God’s presence in our hearts.
Silent prayer
Pastoral prayer
O thou Fount of Life, from whom flows springs of vitality and health: As we celebrate our worship, may our sorrows be lifted, our joys engaged, our hopes energized; that our living may reflect the beauties of freshness, wholeness and love divine.  AMEN Terence Elwyn Johnson

Lord’s Prayer

Offering *Hymn 94

Prayer of Dedication:
O God, yesterday is memory. Tomorrow is the unknown.  We have only today to open our hearts to others.  May they find with us what we’ve found with you. AMEN  Anton K. Jacobs

*Hymn: 451 Be Thou My Vision

Benediction:
Love all beings:  every flower, every cloud, every pebbled in the road.  Love each other and the world, and one day the light in your hearts will join the Divine Radiance of things, and each will be without beginning, without end.  AMEN Ingrid Goff-Maidoff

Postlude:  Trumpet Tune Vivaldi

Next Week’s Scripture: Genesis 9:8-17; Psalm 25: 1-10; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:9-15
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Organist: Carol Loud
Lay Leader: Ann Deitrich

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Chilmark Community Church

February 15, 2009

Gathering and Announcements

Prelude

Call to Worship

Sing Praises to God, O you saints, and give thanks to God’s holy name!

We exalt you , O God, for you have restored us to life!

We may cry through the night, but your joy comes with the morning.

You hear us, O God, and you are gracious in our distress.

You turn our mourning into dancing!

Our souls cannot be silent! O God, our Savior, we give thanks to you for ever!

*Hymn: # 140 “ Great is Thy Faithfulness”

Peace

Confession
p.890 in Hymnal(silent reflection)

Words of Assurance

God is even now giving us the gift of repentance.  God is at work in the world.  It is not we who hope, but God who hopes in us. (WUMC)

Proclamation and Praise

Psalm: 30 p.762

Hebrew Scriptures

2 Kings 5:1-14

New Testament:

1 Corinthians 9:24-27; Mark 1:40-45

Response to the Word:

May the words from our lips and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, our rock and our redeemer.   AMEN

( background of passages and open discussion.)

*Hymn: # 66 Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven (2Kings, Mark)

Concerns and Prayers    

Unison prayer

Eternal Light, shine into our hearts.

Eternal Goodness, deliver us from evil.

Eternal Power, be our support.

Eternal Wisdom, scatter the darkness of our ignorance.

Eternal Pity, have mercy upon us.

That with all our heart and mind and soul and strength we may seek your face and be brought by your infinite mercy to your holy presence; in the spirit of Jesus.  AMEN

Silent prayer

Lord’s Prayer

Offering *Hymn 95

Prayer of Dedication:

Almighty God, giver of every good and perfect gift, teach us to render to you all that we have and all that we are, that we may praise you, not with our lips only, but with our whole lives.   AMEN

*Hymn: #707 Hymn of Promise

Benediction:

May the blessing of God, fountain of living water, flow within us as a river of life.  May we drink deep of her wisdom.  May we never thirst again.  May we go through life refreshing many, as a sign of healing for all; through the One who is Life eternal.  AMEN

Postlude: 

Next Week’s Scripture :2 Kings 2:1-12; Psalm 50:1-6; 2 Corinthians 4:3-6; Mark 9:2-9

Organist:Carol Loud

Lay Leader: Ann Deitrich

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