Chilmark Community Church, United Methodist
\nFebruary 22, 2009<\/p>\n
Gathering and Announcements
\nPrelude :\u00a0 From the First Partita, JS Bach
\nCall to Worship
\nGod is our strength and our song.\u00a0 God has become our salvation.
\nHear the glad songs of God’s victory! We shall proclaim the deeds of our God!
\nGod has not given us over to death.\u00a0 Open are the gates of life.
\nWe shall enter the gates of life and give thanks to God!
\nall: God has answered us and has become our salvation. We have been given light and love.\u00a0 Hear the glad songs of God’s victory!\u00a0 ( from psalm 118:14-15,17-19, 21,27. ) Jan Cather Weaver<\/p>\n
*Hymn: # 454 \u201cOpen My Eyes\u201d<\/p>\n
Psalm: 50:1-6\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 p.783
\nPeace<\/p>\n
Confession
\nHoly Happiness, Forgive our forgetting!\u00a0 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.\u00a0 How often we’ve been stranded in a sea that was you and still not seen you!\u00a0\u00a0 AMEN\u00a0\u00a0 Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
\n(silent reflection)
\nWords of Assurance
\nGof of compassion, we thank you that you forgive our sins, and blot out our transgressions.\u00a0 Renew our hearts, O God, and teach us wisdom.\u00a0 Grant us the joy of your salvation, and keep us steadfast in your service.\u00a0 AMEN psalm 51:1, 10, 12-13. Ruth C. Duck<\/p>\n
Proclamation and Praise<\/p>\n
Hebrew Scriptures: 2Kings 2:1-12
\nNew Testament: 2 Corinthians 4:3-6; Mark 9:2-9<\/p>\n
Response to the Word:
\nMay the words from our lips and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord.\u00a0 AMEN
\n( background of passages and open discussion.)<\/p>\n
*Hymn: 258 O Wondrous Sight! O Vision Fair<\/p>\n
Concerns and Prayers
\nLet us bring those for whom we pray into God’s presence in our hearts.
\nSilent prayer
\nPastoral prayer
\nO 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.\u00a0 AMEN Terence Elwyn Johnson<\/p>\n
Lord’s Prayer<\/p>\n
Offering *Hymn 94<\/p>\n
Prayer of Dedication:
\nO God, yesterday is memory. Tomorrow is the unknown.\u00a0 We have only today to open our hearts to others.\u00a0 May they find with us what we’ve found with you. AMEN\u00a0 Anton K. Jacobs<\/p>\n
*Hymn: 451 Be Thou My Vision<\/p>\n
Benediction:
\nLove all beings:\u00a0 every flower, every cloud, every pebbled in the road.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 AMEN Ingrid Goff-Maidoff<\/p>\n
Postlude:\u00a0 Trumpet Tune Vivaldi<\/p>\n
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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\nOrganist: Carol Loud
\nLay Leader: Ann Deitrich<\/p>\n
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