October 4, 2020 Service

 

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF PETALUMA

THE WORSHIP PODCAST

October 4th, 2020

The 18^th Sunday after Pentecost

The Order of Service

 

 

 

PRELUDE:  “Prelude on a Welsh Tune” played by Marilyn Lee

 

WELCOME: Rob Bickmore

 

GREETING:  Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

 

CALL TO WORSHIP: Charlotte Peterson

 

God calls us from the tumult of the world around us.

God calls us to lay down our burdens and give them to God.

God calls us to set our sights on and give our lives to the healing of the world.

God calls us now to spiritual nurture and worship as we rise to this moment.

Come, let us worship.  Come, let us worship.

 

OPENING HYMN:  “How Great Thou Art” (UM Hymnal 77) played by Marilyn Lee

 

1: O Lord my God, When I was in awesome wonder,

Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;

I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,

Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

 

Chorus: Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,

how great Thou art, how great Thou art.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,

how great Thou art, how great Thou art!

 

2: When through the woods, and forest glades I wander.

And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees.

When I look down, from lofty mountain grandeur. 

And see the brook, and feel the gentle breeze.

 

(Chorus)

 

3: And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing;

Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;

That on a Cross, my burdens gladly  bearing,

He bled and died to take away my sin.

 

(Chorus)

 

 

PRAYER OF CONFESSION: Elizabeth Truesdell

 

 

ASSURANCE OF PARDON:  Rob Bickmore

 

 

SCRIPTURE READINGS:

 

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 read by Rob Bickmore

 

Philippians 3:4b-14 read by Charlotte Peterson

 

SERMON:  “Christian Goal Setting”  Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

 

THE PASTORAL PRAYER:   Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

 

THE LORD'S PRAYER: read in Fijian by Vacatawa Sekuri Yadraka

 

Mo dou qai masu kina vakaoqo: “Tama i keimami mai omalagi,

                         Me vakarokorokotaki na yacamuni,

Me yaco mai na nomuni matanitu; Me caka na lomamuni e vuravura

                         Me vaka sa caka tiko mai lomalagi,

“Ni solia mai vei keimami ena siga oqo Na kakana e rauti keimami.”

Ni bokoca mada na neimami i valavala ca, Me vaka keimami sa

            bokoca oti na nodra Era sai valavala ca vei keimami.

Ni kakua ni kauti keimami ki na vere; Ka mo ni vakabulai keimami

             mai na ca.  (Ni sa nomuni na matanitu, Kei na kaukauwa,

                         Kei na lagilagi Ka sega ni mudu.  Emeni.

 

 

THE LORD'S PRAYER: read in English by Elizabeth Truesdell

 

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 trespasses

                              As we forgive those who trespass against us.

                  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

             For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.

                                                             Amen.

 

 

HOLY COMMUNION: Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

 

 

CELEBRATING OUR OFFERINGS AND TITHES:  Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

 

 

OFFERTORY: “Imperfect Peace” played by Marilyn Lee

 

 

PRAYER OF DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT: Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

 

 

CLOSING HYMN:  “The Church’s One Foundation” (UMH 546) played by Marilyn Lee

 

1: The church's one foundation
is Jesus Christ, her Lord;
she is his new creation
by water and the Word:
from heav'n he came and sought her
to be his holy bride;
with his own blood he bought her,
and for her life he died.

 

2: Elect from ev'ry nation,
yet one o'er all the earth,
her charter of salvation
one Lord, one faith, one birth;
one holy name she blesses,
partakes one holy food,
and to one hope she presses,
with ev'ry grace endued.

 

3: Though with a scornful wonder
men see her sore oppressed,
by schisms rent asunder,
by heresies distressed,
yet saints their watch are keeping,
their cry goes up, "How long?"
And soon the night of weeping
shall be the morn of song.

 

 

THE BENEDICTION:  Pastor Schuyler Rhodes

 

POSTLUDE: “The Singing Trumpet” played by Marilyn Lee