Prelude I am a Poor, Wayfaring Stranger Charlotte Rathke, organist
Welcome & Announcements please pass attendance pads
Announcement: Erica Berges
Silent Reflection and Opening Prayer Troy Miller, Associate Pastor
Greeting time (You may stand up and greet those around you with a hand shake or an elbow bump)
*Opening Hymn Father, We Have Heard You Calling W&S 3150
Call to Worship Mary Meckenstock-Gribben, Lay Leader
Leader: Some Pharisees came to Jesus and said, “Leave this place and go
somewhere else.”
People: “Herod wants to kill you,” they warned.
Leader: Jesus replied, Go tell that fox, ‘I will drive out demons and heal
today and tomorrow.’”
People: “On the third day I will reach my goal.”
Leader: “In any case, I must press on today, tomorrow, and the next
day.”
People: “For surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem.”
Leader: Jesus mourned, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the
prophets and stone those sent to you!”
People: “How often I have longed to gather your children together,
as a hen gathers her chicks.”
Children’s Time Erica Berges
Special Music Duetto Op. 47 No. 15 Souvenir of Beethoven
(arr. Stephen Heller) Grayson Decker, pianist
Prayer Hymn O Lord, Hear My Prayer FWS 2200
Prayers of the people Mary Meckenstock-Gribben
Lord’s Prayer UMH 95
Choral Anthem Sing Unto the Lord (Stanley Smith)
Garrett Cole, director Charlotte Rathke, accompanist
Scripture Reading: Luke 13:31-35 Mary Meckenstock-Gribben
At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course. Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.’ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! Behold, your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say. ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”
Leader: The word of God for the people of God.
People: Thanks be to God
Sermon What Then Shall We Lament? Pastor Troy
Call for Faithful Stewardship Pastor Troy
Offertory Just As I Am
Offertory Prayer Pastor Troy
*Closing Hymn My Hope Is Built UMH 368
*Benediction
* Postlude Postlude in B-flat