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Sunday Nov 29, 2020
Sunday Nov 29, 2020
PETALUMA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
THE WORSHIP PODCAST
November 29th, 2020
THE 1ST SUNDAY IN ADVENT
The Order of Service
CELEBRATING THE PROMISE
Advent 1
“The Promise of Abundance”
PRELUDE: “ MEDITATION VENI IMMANUEL” played by Organist, Marilyn Lee
GREETING: Pastor Schuyler Rhodes
LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT CANDLE: Charlotte Peterson
CALL TO WORSHIP: Nora Tallent
This day we look back over the years
It was a time not unlike our own.
The days were difficult, and the times were hard.
And through the darkness of those days came the yearning hope of God’s promise.
This promise comes to us also in this moment. In this season.
It is a promise of new life; a promise of hope; a promise of abundance.
Come, let us lay down our burdens and lift up God’s promise to us;
The promise of salvation and new birth.
OPENING HYMN: “Great Is Thy Faithfulness “(UMH 140) played by Organist, Marilyn Lee
1 Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father;
There is no shadow of turning with thee;
Thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not;
As thou hast been thou forever wilt be.
Refrain:
Great is thy faithfulness!
Great is thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed thy hand hath provided.
Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!
2 Summer and winter and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon, and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love. [Refrain]
CALL TO CONFESSION: Rob Bickmore
PRAYER OF CONFESSION: Charlotte Peterson
Holy God, as we prepare in this season for a birth of new hope, we come to you and confess our hopelessness. As we look to a time when of new life, we come to you to confess that we have participated in the ways of death. And Holy One, as we seek to be your church in this moment, we confess that we sometimes turn away from this task. We confess that we have not always loved you and our neighbor as we have been called to do by your Son Jesus.
Forgive us, we pray. Have mercy on us for the times when we stray and for the moments when we forget who we are and to whom we belong.
Pour out on us, Holy One, a Sprit of promise and possibility. Awaken in us a vibrant vision of our community and our lives together. We seek renewal in your love and salvation through your grace. And we seek this as we humbly give ourselves anew to you through Jesus Christ Our Lord, AMEN.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Rob Bickmore
SCRIPTURE READINGS:
Psalm 80:1-7
English Reading by Nora Tallent
2nd Corinthians 9:6-15
English reading by Sue Sarno
Fijian reading by Vakatawa Sekuri Yadraca
SERMON: “The Promise of Abundance” Pastor SchuylerRhodes
THE PASTORAL PRAYER: Pastor Schuyler Rhodes
THE LORD’S PRAYER:
English - led by Charlotte Peterson
Fijian - led by Vacatawa Sekuri Yadraka
THE OFFERING OF OUR GIFTS AND TITHES: Pastor Schuyler Rhodes
OFFERTORY: “Largetto” played by Marilyn Lee
PRAYER OF DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT: Pastor Schuyler Rhodes
CLOSING HYMN: “Soon and Very Soon” (UMH 706) played by Marilyn Lee
1 Soon and very soon we are goin' to see the King,
Soon and very soon we are goin' to see the King,
Soon and very soon we are goin' to see the King,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
we’re goin' to see the King!
2 No more cryin' there we are goin' to see the King,
No more cryin' there we are goin' to see the King,
No more cryin' there we are goin' to see the King,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
we’re goin' to see the King!
THE BENEDICTION: Pastor Schuyler Rhodes
POSTLUDE: “Preparation for the King” played by Marilyn Lee
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