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Prelude My Jesus, I Love Thee  (Hayes/Wagner) Hannah Barrett, organist

Welcome and Announcements   please pass attendance pads

                  Susan Murithi, Senior Pastor

Announcement:     

Silent Reflection and Opening Prayer                      

Greeting Time  (You may stand up and greet those around you with a

fist bump.)

*Opening Hymn    Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above       UMH 126

Children’s Time Sarah Miller

Vision Recitation      Hays First UMC--------

Mission Recitation at Hays First UMC we----                               

Special Music I Love You (from An Old Rugged Cross) (arr. Phil Nite)

  Caitlin Glassman and Jenna Brubaker        

Hymn   introduced by Norman Clark        God of the Plains

 (choir will sing 1st verse and Congregation will join in on last three verses)   

Prayers of the People            Troy Miller, Associate Pastor            Lord’s Prayer                            UMH 895

Scripture Matthew 4:1-11                          Mary Meckenstock

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by

 the devil.  He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he 

was famished.  The tempter came and said to him, if you are the Son

 of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”  But, he 

answered “It is written.  ‘One does not live by bread alone, but by 

every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”  Then the devil took 

him  to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, 

saying to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it 

is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and ‘on their 

hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot 

against a stone.’”  Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘Do not put 

the Lord your God to the test.’”  Again the devil took him to a very 

high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and 

their splendor; and he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will 

fall down and worship me.”  Jesus said to him ”Away with you, Satan! 

For it is written’ ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.’”

Then the devil left him, and suddenly angels came and waited on him.

Sermon Returning to God: Words & Prayer  Susan Murithi, Senior Pastor

Faithful Stewardship         Malachi 3:10                      Mary Meckenstock

“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my 

house.  Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw

open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there

will not be room enough to store it.”

Congregational Prayer:  “Faithful Father, You invite us to bring the whole

tithe into Your house, and You promise to open the windows of heaven

in return.  Help us to trust You fully with what we have. To give not in     fear, but in faith.  Pour out Your blessing, Lord—not just for us, but that

we may be a blessing to others.  Teach us to give boldly, and believe

deeply.  Amen.”                                             

Offertory    Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy (arr. Sikes)      Hannah                                                                  

Doxology     Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow           UMH 95                   Offertory Prayer             Troy Miller            

*Closing Hymn   Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days   UMH 269              

*Benediction                                                                          Susan Murithi

*Postlude    O Bless the Lord, My Soul!  (arr. Krug)     Hannah Barrett