ORDER OF WORSHIP
JUNE 16, 2024 10:30 AM
FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
If you have individual prayer requests, please write them on prayer cards in the pews and bring them up or give them to an usher during the prelude.
**Kindly stand if you are able
PRELUDE “All Things Are Yours” Mary Lee Farris, Piano
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: Let us come to worship God
PEOPLE: God who is the sower of the seed that gives life.
Leader: God who brings fruitfulness and abundance.
PEOPLE: God who carries us through the challenges that life brings.
Leader: God who enables us to serve fully and freely.
PEOPLE: Let us offer our thankful hearts in praise.
INVOCATION
Dear God-For your generous outpouring of creative love we praise your holy name. We praise you for
the sunshine and rain which lead to growth, and for your gifts of creativity in human life. Your Holy
Spirit comes with the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness
and self-control. You come with seeds that bear fruit in our hearts and minds and lives. We praise
you for your generous outpouring of love. Amen.
**OPENING HYMN “Let there be Peace on Earth” Insert
CALL TO CONFESSION
God gathers and prepares us for worship. Let us confess the sins that detract and distract us from
God’s path.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
God forgive for the times when we have not let your seed of life be planted in us, when we’ve closed our hearts and minds to the receiving of your gifts flowing out of your love for us. Forgive us when we’ve chosen to go our own way and not followed where you lead us. Forgive us when we’ve been put off by the challenges of this world and have neglected caring for your creation and felt too daunted to take the action that is needed. Amen.
(moment for silent personal confession)
ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
May God, the Sower of good seeds, free us from all that troubles and binds us. May Jesus, the giver
of new life, pour out his forgiveness upon us. May the Holy Spirit lift us up and open us to new
possibilities Be at peace, God forgives you. Thanks be to God. Amen
**GLORIA PATRI Red #805
**PASSING OF THE PEACE
**AFFIRMATION OF FAITH - APOSTLES CREED (as adapted by John Redman)
I Believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, who was born of a young peasant woman, trained as a carpenter, and baptized by His cousin John. He taught many, He healed many, and He angered many. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. He defeated death and He offers us grace and love in the name of God the Father Almighty; from that time through all time to come. I believe in the power of the Holy Spirit; the universal Church of Christ; the Communion of sharing our gifts with others; the forgiveness of our sins; the Grace of God’s love, and that each soul may have life everlasting. Amen.
**HYMN OF PRAISE “Fairest Lord Jesus” Red #115
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
May the words that are spoken, and the thoughts of our hearts offer us your seeds of hope and love, that your word of new creation may be planted in us, O God our loving creator. Amen
SCRIPTURE READINGS
OLD TESTAMENT READING Ezekiel 17:22-24 Cathy McCarty
NEW TESTAMENT READING Psalm 92 1-4, 12-15
GOSPEL READING Mark 4:26-34
SERMON: Seedy People Mary W
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PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S PRAYER
Gracious God, keep in our hearts all those whose names you already know and who ask for healing in their own quiet ways, let us pray together as our redeemer taught us, saying:
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy 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.
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen
OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS
These summer days, when earth produces of itself, first the stalk and then the full grain. We
celebrate the abundance of our loving God, and offer up a part of that abundance now in the name of
Jesus, Amen.
OFFERTORY “Give to the Winds Your Fears”
**DOXOLOGY Traditional Red #809
**PRAYER OF THANKS
Most generous God, you have blessed us with gifts to serve and share. May the offerings we present
today be used to further your kingdom and flourish your fields and forests and beloved community. Amen.
**HYMN OF PARTING “Blest Be the Tie that Binds” Red # 708
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE “Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us” Mary Lee Farris, Piano
Blessings!
John Redman, CRE
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44 Balmville Rd, Newburgh NY 12550
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