May 12 2019 Welcome to OPC Cambridge Chimes

May 12, 2019 Welcome to OPC

Cambridge Chimes Welcome and Announcements Greeting Each Other Ringing of the Bell

Prelude “Toccata on ‘How Firm a Foundation’” ~Young Lighting of the candles

*CALL TO WORSHIP L: Sisters and brothers, today is the first day of our week, a new start and a new hope. P: Lord, help us to be ready to hear your words of life this morning and each day.

L: Body of Christ, open your hearts and receive God’s breath of new life. P: Risen Lord, help us to receive your peace and feel our joy for this week. L: Come everyone, let us worship the Lord with great joy and hope!

P: Let us worship God!

*Hymn #111 “Good Christians All, Rejoice” v. 1 Good Christians all, rejoice and sing! Now is the triumph of our King! To all the world glad news we bring: Alleluia!

*Hymn #111 “Good Christians All, Rejoice” v. 2 The Lord of life is risen today! Bring flowers of song, bedeck the way; Let every tongue rejoice and say: Alleluia!

*Hymn #111 “Good Christians All, Rejoice” v. 3 Praise we in songs of victory that love, that life which cannot die, and sing with hearts uplifted high: Alleluia!

*Hymn #111 “Good Christians All, Rejoice” v. 4 Thy name we bless, O risen Lord, and sing today with one accord the life laid down, the life restored: Alleluia!

*PRAYER OF CONFESSION (unison) God of hope and safety, like sheep who go astray, we have wandered from your Path of Life and Light. We have heard the Shepherd’s voice

calling us by name, but we have turned instead to our own way, our own path. We have sinned against you and our neighbors. Show us your tender mercy;

restore us in the security of your fold. Lead us back to the still waters. Fill us with your Spirit, that we might bear glad witness to your saving mercies,

revealed to us in the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

ASSURANCE OF PARDON L: Sisters and Brothers, Christ knows the sinfulness and brokenness of our lives. He calls to us with forgiveness and mercy and healing. Accept that gift with grace and hope.

ASSURANCE OF PARDON P: Christ forgives us and fills us with peace, so we may know him more fully and also so we may proclaim the good news of mercy and forgiveness for all.

ASSURANCE OF PARDON Thanks be to God, Amen.

CHOIR ANTHEM “The Gift of Love” ~Hopson

Time With Young Christians

A Celebration of Mothers

L: This is the day the Lord has made! P: We will rejoice and be glad in it! L: To those who are pregnant with new life, P: we anticipate with you and pray that God

will knit together the child in your womb. L: To those who gave birth this year to their first child, P: we celebrate with you!

L: To those who lost a child this year; to those who experienced loss this year, P: we mourn with you. L: To those who walk the hard path of infertility, fraught with pokes, prods,

tears, hopes that are dashed, and disappointment, P: we walk with you. Forgive us when we say foolish things. We don’t mean to make this harder than it is.

L: To those who are moms, foster moms, mentor moms, and spiritual moms, P: thank you! We need you! We appreciate you! L: To those who experienced abuse at the hands of your own mother,

P: we acknowledge your experience. We are sad with you. We hope for your healing. L: To those who are caring for their mothers in the midst of medical needs,

P: may God sustain you. L: To those whose mother died this year or in years past, P: we grieve with you. Peace be with you.

L: This Mother’s Day, we all walk together as the family of God. All are valued. All make a difference. For the mothers present and represented among us, we give extra thanksgiving today.

P: For their love, encouragement, and strength, we thank the Lord. L: Drawn together by the Spirit, we join with others as one family in worship, in prayer, in praise, in company.

We come to worship God and to grow in faith together. P: Let us love one another as God first loved us. (Litany by Amy Young and Bree Truax)

PROCLAIMING THE WORD SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 23

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me;

your rod and your staff—they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dw. Ell in the house of the Lord my whole life long.

SCRIPTURE READING: John 10: 22 -30

At that time the festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, ‘How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly. ’

Jesus answered, ‘I have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name testify to me; but you do not believe, because you do not belong to my sheep. My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish.

No one will snatch them out of my hand. What my Father has given me is greater than all else, and no one can snatch it out of the Father’s hand. The Father and I are one. L: This is the Word of the Lord. P: Thanks be to God!

“Listening Ears” Rev. Tedd Pullano

*Hymn #527 “Near to the Heart of God” v. 1 There is a place of quiet rest, near to the heart of God, A place where sin cannot molest, near to the heart of God.

*Hymn #527 “Near to the Heart of God” v. 1 O Jesus, blest Redeemer, sent from the heart of God, Hold us, who wait before Thee, near to the heart of God.

*Hymn #527 “Near to the Heart of God” v. 2 There is a place of comfort sweet, near to the heart of God, a place where we our Savior meet, near to the heart of God.

*Hymn #527 “Near to the Heart of God” v. 2 O Jesus, blest Redeemer, sent from the heart of God, Hold us, who wait before Thee, near to the heart of God.

*Hymn #527 “Near to the Heart of God” v. 3 There is a place of full release, near to the heart of God, A place where all is joy and peace, near to the heart of God.

*Hymn #527 “Near to the Heart of God” v. 3 O Jesus, blest Redeemer, sent from the heart of God, Hold us, who wait before Thee, near to the heart of God.

OFFERING OUR GIFTS TO GOD OFFERTORY INVITATION Offertory “Ave Maria” ~Bach/Gounod

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

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION Good and beautiful God of all good gifts, we are blessed to hear and know the voice of your Son. When we consider this blessing, we are moved to respond.

Please accept these gifts of money we present to you now. Bless and multiply them so all may come to hear and know the voice of your Son. In his name we pray, Amen.

RESPONDING TO THE WORD JOYS AND CONCERNS PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE PASTORAL PRAYER

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. 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 #2062 “The Lily of the Valley” v. 1 I have found a friend in Jesus, he’s everything to me, he’s the fairest of ten thousand to my soul;

*Hymn #2062 “The Lily of the Valley” v. 1 The Lily of the Valley, in him alone I see all I need to cleanse and make me fully whole.

*Hymn #2062 “The Lily of the Valley” v. 1 In sorrow he’s my comfort, in trouble he’s my stay, he tells me every care on him to roll.

*Hymn #2062 “The Lily of the Valley” v. 1 He’s the Lily of the Valley, the bright and Morning Star, he’s the fairest of ten thousand to my soul.

*Hymn #2062 “The Lily of the Valley” v. 2 He all my grief has taken, and all my sorrows borne; in temptation he’s my strong and mighty tower;

*Hymn #2062 “The Lily of the Valley” v. 2 I have all for him forsaken, and all my idols torn from my heart, and now he keeps me by his power.

*Hymn #2062 “The Lily of the Valley” v. 2 Though all the world forsake me, and Satan tempts me sore, through Jesus I shall safely reach the goal.

*Hymn #2062 “The Lily of the Valley” v. 2 He’s the Lily of the Valley, the bright and Morning Star, he’s the fairest of ten thousand to my soul.

*Hymn #2062 “The Lily of the Valley” v. 3 He will never, never leave me, nor yet forsake me here, while I live by faith and do his blessed will;

*Hymn #2062 “The Lily of the Valley” v. 3 A wall of fire about me, I’ve nothing now to fear, with his manna he my hungry soul shall fill.

*Hymn #2062 “The Lily of the Valley” v. 3 Then sweeping up to glory, to see his blessed face, where rivers of delight shall ever roll.

*Hymn #2062 “The Lily of the Valley” v. 3 He’s the Lily of the Valley, the bright and Morning Star, he’s the fairest of ten thousand to my soul.

BENEDICTION

Postlude “Toccata” ~Du. Bois