Prelude With Every Rising of the Sun Charlotte Rathke, organist
Welcome & Announcements please pass attendance pads
Silent Reflection and Opening Prayer Susan Murithi, Senior Pastor
Greeting time (You may stand up and greet those around you with a hand shake or an elbow bump)
CELEBRATION OF NEW MEMBERS
*Opening Hymn From All That Dwells Below the Skies UMH 101
*Call to Worship Mary Meckenstock-Gribben, liturgist
Leader: Come, members of one body---
People: We are united in Christ.
Leader: Rejoice with those who rejoice, and mourn with those who mourn---
People: For when one part suffers, we all suffer together.
Leader: Each one is needed and loved---
People: We serve as one body with many gifts.
Leader: Let us worship the One who makes us whole---
People: And celebrate the Spirit who binds us together.
Children’s Time Paityn Homan
Prayer Hymn Bind Us Together FWS 2226
Prayers of the People Troy Miller, Associate Pastor
Lord’s Prayer UMH 895
Special Music “Sanctuary” with God’s Holy Temple (arr. Larson)
Caitlin Glassman and Meredith Cory Sharon Graham, accomp.
Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 (NIV) Mary
Just as the human body is a single unit made up of many parts, and although all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ, for we were all inspired by one Spirit so as to become part of one body---whether Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free---and we were all given the one Spirit to drink, which means that the body is not made up of one part but of many, every part belongs. Now, if the foot were to say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not, for that reason, mean it ceases to be part of the body; and if the ear were to say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would still remain a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, how would it hear? Or if the whole body were an ear, how would it smell? But in fact, God has arranged the parts in the body, everyone of them, just as He wanted them to be, and if they were all the same part, there would be no body, as it is, there are many parts, but one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” nor can the head say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are actually indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor, and the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it so that there should be no division in the body and that its parts should have equal concern for each other; therefore, if one part suffers, every part suffers with it, and if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now, you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
Sermon: Never By Yourself Susan Murithi, Senior Pastor
Faithful Stewardship
“Give, and it will be given unto you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Prayer: “Gracious God, Your promise that as we give, it will be given to us. Help us to give with a generous heart, without hesitation or fear. Teach us to trust in Your abundant provision, and to bless others as freely as you have blessed us. Amen.
Offertory He is Able
Doxology Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow UMH 95
Offertory Prayer Pastor Troy
*Closing Hymn We Are the Church (Vs 1-4) UMH 558
*Benediction
*Postlude Finale