Celebration of the Power and Movement of the Holy Spirit!

Celebration of the Power and Movement of the Holy Spirit!

Pentecost Sunday Celebration         May 23, 2021    (Printable PDF)
Video will be posted LIVE on the church’s FB page at 11am.  Livestream will be cross-posted here ASAP once the livestream starts.  

PRELUDE: Les Baricades Mistérieuses — François Couperin
CALL TO RETURN TO OUR SOULS       

Pastor:            Here in the busy city
People:         Now let the church be seen
Pastor:           Where lesser gods are worshipped
People:         In money and machine;
Pastor:           Where news is but sensation,
People:         The Good News hardly heard.
Pastor:           Now let the church take action
People:         In living out the word!
Pastor:           Here in the busy city
People:         God walks on every street
Pastor:           In generous or greedy,
People:         The honest or the cheat,
Pastor:           And daily we must offer
People:         The good that goes unpriced
Pastor:           With vigor and with vision
People:         The lifestyle of the Christ.
–Shirley Erena Murray, New Zealand

HYMN: Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness  GTG#291
CALL TO CONFESSION AND COMMITMENT 

Pastor:        There is something basically wrong with our world,
People:       We don’t have to look too far to see that.
Pastor:        Look in the hearts and souls of human beings.
People:       The great danger facing us today is not the atomic bomb, dangerous as it is.
Pastor:        The real danger is that atomic bomb which lies in the hearts & souls of humans.
People:       Capable of exploding in the vilest of hate and the most damaging selfishness.
Pastor:        That’s the atomic bomb we must fear today.
People:       And that is the basis of our confession
Pastor:        And our commitment
People:       To go beyond the mind that we now have. Amen.
-—adapted from “Recovering Lost Values” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr     

HYMN:    Spirit of the Living God  #288
SCRIPTURE:   Acts 2:1-21   Romans 8:22-27
SUNG RESPONSE TO SCRIPTURE:
On Pentecost They Gathered GTG #289
SERMON:   Living Inside the Pentecost Story
HYMN:   Breathe on Me, Breath of God  #286
WELCOME
CHORAL ANTHEM:
Descend, O Heavenly Dove-Mark Schweizer
Prayer, Lords Prayer, Congregational Response
HYMN:   
Holy Spirit, Come to Us (Taize)  GTG #284
OFFERTORY SOLO: God Is a Spirit—Charles P. Scott, Emma WitbolsFeugen , mezzo soprano
                 Offering link
PRAYER OF DEDICATION  

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Amen.                                              —Lao Tzu

CLOSING HYMN: Every Time I Feel the Spirit  GTG#66
Add a 3rd stanza:  Now my Lord does, just what he said
                                                          Loves those low down , sees all are fed
BLESSING
SUNG BENEDICTION RESPONSE: May the Love of the Lord (China) GTG #549
POSTLUDE: Chaconne in D minor— Louis Couperin

 

Participants:
Pastor- Scott Myers
Piano- Emily Davidson
Choir-  Josh Stark, Jennifer Weiman, Em WitbolsFeugen
Camera/Facebook/Prayer requests: Deanna Capps
Webpage- Martine Roesel

 

 

 

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