Worship | Sunday May 2, 2010
Fifth Sunday of Easter
At CCC, we honor and celebrate people of all races, cultures, ages, abilities,
sexual orientations and gender identity.Let us now enter into the Holy One’s presence.
Prelude Ten Chorale Preludes Gerald Near
I. Canonbury
*Call to Worship Karl Brown
Eternal God, we come to you with hungry hearts, waiting to be filled:
waiting to be filled with a sense of your presence;
waiting to be filled with the touch of your spirit;
waiting to be filled with new energy for service.
Come to us, we pray.
Be with us.
Touch us.
Empower us as your people that we might worship you here and act in the world for Jesus’ sake.
*Hymn of Praise # Sing a New Song Dan Schutte
(page 10 of the bulletin)Prayer Of Invocation And The Lord’s Prayer
Speak to us, Giver of Life, and make us new. We thirst for the waters of eternal life,
we yearn to know ourselves as Resurrection People. Send your Holy Spirit upon us this day, and create in us your new heaven and new earth. Speak to us words of comfort and hope, words of challenge and courage. Come, move among us, we pray.
Holy God, who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Musical Offering Buryl Red and Grace Hawthorne
Show Us the Dream
from It's Cool in the Furnace
The Chapel Choir, Nick Michel, soloTime With Children Caren Holmes, Michelle Esposito
Call to Confession
It is good to acknowledge our transgression before God. Let us pray,Prayer of Personal and Corporate Confession
Journeying God, migrant Christ and border-crossing Spirit. You are always making something new in us. Though we are often set in our ways and hesitant to change, You continue to speak to us and call on us to weave together the textures and colors of all cultures and races. You move in us, calling us to examine our hearts and actions. Have mercy on us and forgive us for our sins. Help us to have the courage to actively take down walls that divide people from Your love. Walk with us as we find our way to freedom, and as we work for others to find freedom, too. Oh God, our Common Bond, grant us visions and hopes for newness of life in our daily living, to honor You and all of Your children in this world we share.Assurance of God’s Love
In spite of our tendency to pull apart, in spite of our tenacity of our old ways, our loving God continues to call us back together again, showing us the true nature of forgiveness. God does not keep score of our wrongs or measure how far we have wandered. God welcomes us home, encourages us to learn from the forgiveness graced upon us. God calls us to offer this forgiveness to ourselves and to others, again and again, as God offers it to us in Jesus Christ, our hope and our home.Scripture Revelation 21:1-6 Bryce Ingram
Meditation “Food Choices and the Just Peace Covenant” Winifred Roberts
Presentation of Tithes and OfferingOffertory Christ Hath A Garden Gerald Near
The Chancel ChoirDoxology Sung to the tune: LASST UNS ERFREUEN
Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise God, all creatures here below; Alleluia, Alleluia.
Praise God for all that love has done;
Creator, Christ and Spirit, One. Alleluia, Alleluia.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
*Prayer of Dedication
Giver of Life and New Life, bless the offerings we bring to you today, that through them we may share your love with the whole world. Bless us, too, to do your will and to do your work. Let us be the spring of the water of life, the new heaven and new earth, the messengers of your glory.Sacrament of Holy Communion
Setting the Communion Table The Pete Macleod Family
Hymn For Setting the Table # 331 THE CALL
Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life
Invitation to the TableWords of Institution
Prayer of Blessing
Come, Holy Spirit, come. Bless this bread, and bless this fruit of the vine. Bless all of us in our eating and drinking at this table that our eyes may be opened, and we may recognize the risen Christ in our midst, in each other, and in all for whom Christ died.The Sharing of the Bread and the Cup
(Beginning with the front row, come forward and partake of the bread and cup.
Return to your seats by the side aisles. If you prefer, remain seated and you will be served.
A gluten free option is available on each bread plate.)Music during Communion Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 J. S. Bach
Variation 2
Variation 7-al tempo di Giga
Variation 13
Variation 22-Alla breve
Prayer of Thanksgiving*Hymn of Going Forth #531 CANONBURY
God, Speak to Me, That I May SpeakBenediction
We go forth from this sacred place,
Energized by the Spirit of Christ among us,
Ready to be springs of hope and renewal in our world. Amen.Postlude Fantasia on "St. Anne" Alfred Fedak
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Flowers
The flowers on the altar are given by Bridget Pellew Dougall in celebration of Susan Henderson, a very special interim pastor, whose footprints at CCC are indelible.Communion Servers
Madelyn Anderson Fraley, Karl Brown, Bryce Ingram, Erin Michel, Michelle EspositoThe youth assisting in the service today are members of the Covenant Class
Lectionary Readings for May 9
Acts 16:9-15
Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5
John 14:23-29 or John 5:1-9
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