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Prelude       How Deep the Father’s Love  (arr. Hayes/Gaspard)

                                                                              Hannah Barrett, organist       

Welcome and Announcements   please pass attendance pads

               Troy Miller, Associate Pastor

Announcement:  Sherri Brown 

Silent Reflection and Opening Prayer                      

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

fist bump.)

*Opening Hymn    What Gift Can We Bring  (V. 1-4)       UMH  87       

Children’s Time            Sarah Miller                             

Vision and Mission Recitation

Capital Campaign Prayer: Mary Meckenstock                

Leader:  Heavenly Father, we ask you to show us how to use our talents, our financial gifts and our time to help us as we place this campaign in your hands, trusting that you will supply every need.  Bless each giver with peace, joy, and a deeper sense of your presence.  Multiply these offerings so they may bear fruit beyond what we can imagine. 

Response:  May these gifts help strengthen your church.  May they ensure a legacy that future generations may know your love, hear your truth and be transformed in faith.   We trust you to lead us forward, step by step, in to the future we have prepared.  In Christ’s holy name.  Amen.

Choral Anthem        Beneath the Cross of Jesus             Chancel Choir

Hannah Barrett, accompanist

Prayer Hymn     What a Friend We Have in Jesus  (VS 1)    UMH 526                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Prayers of the People               Troy Miller, Associate Pastor 

Lord’s Prayer                            UMH 895

Scripture Luke 14:12-14                               Mary Meckenstock

Sermon Returning to God Through Hospitality & Generosity     

        “The Guest List of the Kingdom”        Troy Miller, Associate Pastor

Faithful Stewardship          Proverbs 21:26                Mary Meckenstock

“The righteous give without sparing.”                                             

Prayer: “Lord of our desires, So many chase after more, never satisfied,

But Your Word says the righteous give without holding back.,  Help us

To live with open hands and content hearts.  Free us from endless

Wanting, and fill us with a desire to bless others.  Make generosity

Our joy, and let our lives reflect  Your giving nature.  Amen.”

Offertory         Offertory on “Jewels”  (Smith)          Hannah Barrett                                                Doxology     Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow           UMH 95                  Offertory Prayer               Troy Miller            

*Closing Hymn          Here I Am, Lord  (Vs. 1-3)                        UMH 593                                                                                                       *Benediction  Troy Miller

*Postlude   Festivity on  “Come Thou Fount”  (Wagner)                                                                                    Hannah Barrett