April 21 2019 Welcome to OPC Welcome and

April 21, 2019 Welcome to OPC

Welcome and Announcements Choral Introit “Alleluia! Rejoice!” Greeting Each Other

Prelude “Alleluia” ~Mozart Lighting of the candles

*CALL TO WORSHIP L: Come, gather together, disciples, on the first day of the week and meet Jesus. P: He brings peace and new life to our world!

L: Come, gather together, disciples, and meet the One who overcame Friday. P: He comes to us, risen, whole, and bringing hope!

L: Come, sisters and brothers in Christ, and meet the future: P: The future is calling us to be a Resurrection people in an Easter Sunday world!

*HYMN “Jesus Lives, Alleluia” v. 1 Choir & Congregation Jesus Christ is ris’n today, alleluia Our triumphant holy day, alleluia Who did once upon the cross, alleluia Suffer to redeem our loss, alleluia.

*HYMN “Jesus Lives, Alleluia” v. 2 CHOIR ONLY

*HYMN “Jesus Lives, Alleluia” v. 3 Choir & Congregation Sing we to our God above, alleluia Praise eternal as His love, alleluia Praise Him all ye heaven’ly host, alleluia Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, alleluia.

*PRAYER OF CONFESSION (unison) Gracious God, you have walked patiently with us throughout our journey. You have celebrated our successes and our growing understanding of your love,

and you have mourned our failures and rejections of your love. Today, as we have gathered to celebrate the joy of Easter, let us remember that we are to become “Easter People, ”

people of the Resurrection. Continue to teach us that we are people who know that was thought to be impossible has been conquered. Forgive our stubbornness and fears.

Fill us with your healing love, and help us to become the disciples that you need to serve in this world. For we ask this in the name of our Risen Lord, Jesus Christ.

*ASSURANCE OF PARDON L: Friday and its sin are overcome! Christ is Risen! His love and mercy are poured out for you. Rejoice! You have been forgiven through the gift of Jesus Christ. AMEN.

*ASSURANCE OF PARDON P: Through the Risen Christ we are forgiven. Hallelujah, Amen.

CHOIR ANTHEM “The Power of the Cross” ~Getty/Townsend

TIME WITH YOUNG CHRISTIANS

SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 24: 1 -12

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in, they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them.

The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, ‘Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners,

and be crucified, and on the third day rise again. ’ Then they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb, they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles.

But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened.

L: This is the Word of the Lord. P: Thanks be to God!

“Sunday’s Comin’” Rev. Tedd Pullano

*HYMN #106 “Alleluia, Alleluia! Give Thanks” v. 1 Alleluia, alleluia! Give thanks to the risen Lord. Alleluia, alleluia! Give praise to His Name.

*HYMN #106 “Alleluia, Alleluia! Give Thanks” v. 1 Jesus is Lord of all the earth. He is the King of creation.

*HYMN #106 “Alleluia, Alleluia! Give Thanks” v. 2 Alleluia, alleluia! Give thanks to the risen Lord. Alleluia, alleluia! Give praise to His Name.

*HYMN #106 “Alleluia, Alleluia! Give Thanks” v. 2 Spread the good news o’er all the earth: Jesus has died and has risen.

*HYMN #106 “Alleluia, Alleluia! Give Thanks” v. 3 Alleluia, alleluia! Give thanks to the risen Lord. Alleluia, alleluia! Give praise to His Name.

*HYMN #106 “Alleluia, Alleluia! Give Thanks” v. 3 We have been crucified with Christ. Now we shall live for ever.

*HYMN #106 “Alleluia, Alleluia! Give Thanks” v. 4 Alleluia, alleluia! Give thanks to the risen Lord. Alleluia, alleluia! Give praise to His Name.

*HYMN #106 “Alleluia, Alleluia! Give Thanks” v. 4 Come, let us praise the living God, Joyfully sing to our Savior.

*HYMN #106 “Alleluia, Alleluia! Give Thanks” Alleluia, alleluia! Give thanks to the risen Lord. Alleluia, alleluia! Give praise to His Name.

OFFERING OUR GIFTS TO GOD Offertory Invitation Offertory “Easter Hymns Medley”

*DOXOLOGY #542, v. 4 Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise God all creatures here below; Praise God above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION (unison) Loving God, we thank you for this Easter Day – with its promise of new life, and new hope. Use us, and these our gifts, to love and to serve you.

Use us and these gifts to make your Resurrection power known in the world. Thank you for loving us, Amen.

RESPONDING TO THE WORD JOYS AND CONCERNS PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

The Lord’s Prayer (unison) 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.

BEARING AND FOLLOWING THE WORD INTO THE WORLD

*HYMN #108 “Christ is Alive!” v. 1 Christ is alive! Let Christians sing. The cross stands empty to the sky. Let streets and homes with praises ring, Love, drowned in death, shall never die.

*HYMN #108 “Christ is Alive!” v. 2 Christ is alive! No longer bound to distant years in Palestine, But saving, healing, here and now, And touching every place and time.

*HYMN #108 “Christ is Alive!” v. 3 Not throned afar, remotely high, Untouched, unmoved by human pains, But daily, in the midst of life, Our Savior in the God-head reigns.

*HYMN #108 “Christ is Alive!” v. 4 In every insult, rift, and war, Where color, scorn, or wealth divide, Christ suffers still, yet loves the more, And lives, where even hope has died.

*BENEDICTION

Postlude “Hallelujah” ~Handel