Chilmark Community Church
\nMay 8, 2011
\nPrelude: #9 in E Major by J.S. Bach
\nGathering and Announcements
\nPeace<\/p>\n
Introit : #328 \u201cSurely the Presence\u201d\u00a0 seated
\nCall to Worship
\nToday we celebrate our mothers, grandmothers, aunties, and all the women who have loved us.
\nThank you God for giving us mothers.
\nWe remember with deep gratitude all the ways they demonstrated their love for us.
\nSometimes we did not understand them, but we know that God understood.
\nWe take time to remember our mothers because a mother’s love is most like God’s love.
\nFor their tears, for their hugs, for their wisdom, for their unfailing trust in our abilities, we give thanks today.<\/p>\n
Children\u2019s Moment
\n*Hymn\u00a0 #\u00a0 92 \u201c\u201dFor the Beauty of the Earth\u201d vs. 1-4<\/p>\n
Prayer of Reconciliation\u00a0 (unison)
\nLet us, in silence, remember our\u00a0 short comings in being God\u2019s people this week.
\nOpen our hearts to your power moving
\naround us and between us and within us,
\nuntil your glory is revealed in our love of both friend and enemy,
\nin communities transformed by justice and compassion,
\nand in the healing of all that is broken. Amen.<\/p>\n
Proclamation and Praise\u00a0 Marilyn Hollinshead
\nPsalm 116:1-4, 12-19\u00a0 p.837 no musical response
\nLuke 24:13-35
\nLet us pray:
\nElusive God,
\ncompanion on the way,
\nyou walk behind, beside, beyond; you catch us unawares.
\nBreak through the disillusionment and despair clouding our vision, that, with wide-eyed wonder, we may find our way and journey on as messengers of your good news. Amen.<\/p>\n
Hymn: #454 \u201c Open My Eyes that I May See\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSermon\u201d\u00a0 :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cBatter My Heart\u201d\u00a0 by Dan Cabot<\/p>\n
Musical Interlude: To a Wild Rose Edward MacDowell<\/p>\n
Concerns and Celebrations
\nLet us remember those who need prayer in the silence of our hearts.
\nCommunal Prayer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ruth Duck
\nO, God, most loving Parent, we thank you that you are not a faraway God, hidden in magnificence in the heavens; we thank you that you commune with us in the depths of our souls.\u00a0 You know us through and through; you hear our prayers; you heal our sorrows.\u00a0 Like a father you pity us; like a mother, you comfort us. Help us to live in childlike trust in you that we may be free to live with courage as your children on earth.\u00a0 AMEN
\nThe Lord\u2019s Prayer<\/p>\n
Offering\u00a0\u00a0 We give of our time, our talent and our treasure.
\n*Hymn 95 \u201cPraise God From Whom All Blessing Flow\u201d
\nPrayer of Dedication (unison)
\nLord, out of your great love for us you, like a mother, have provided for our needs.\u00a0 There is food for our tables, clothes to cover us, a roof over our heads and someone to love us.
\nFor these gifts we are grateful.\u00a0 Bless now, our tithes and offerings, we ask, so that they may be used to share your love. Amen.<\/p>\n
*Closing Hymn #671 \u201cLord Dismiss Us with Thy blessing\u201d
\nPostlude: Moderato Sebastian Scherer
\n________________________________________
\nOrganist:\u00a0 Carol Loud
\nWorship Leader:\u00a0 Ann Deitrich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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