Prelude "Great Is Your Reward" by Roberta Rowland-Raybold
Psalm 107:1-3
L: (1) O give thanks to the Lord, who is good,
L: Whose steadfast love endures for ever!
ALL: (2) Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,
ALL: Whom the Lord has redeemed from trouble
ALL: (3) And gathered in from the lands,
ALL: From the east and from the west,
ALL: From the north and from the south.
Apostles Creed
O Holy God of Israel,
you faithfully keep the promises
you made to our ancestors
and lead your people into the future,
providing hospitality on the way.
Help us who inherit the pilgrim life
to journey faithfully at your command,
that we may be a band of disciples
called to be sojourners in your service. Amen.
#400 "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing"
1. Come, thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace; streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it, mount of thy redeeming love.
2. Here I raise mine Ebenezer; hither by thy help I'm come; and I hope, by thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home. Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God; he, to rescue me from danger, interposed his precious blood.
3. O to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be! Let thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love; here's my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above.
Church in Prayer
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Rev Ron Little
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Mattie Clarke - Spina Bifida
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Living with Cancer
Rev Ron Davis - Gospel Hill
Roberta Stanton - Barbs sister
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TJ Foster - Athens, Ohio
Ryan Thomas - Okinawa
Our Missionaries
Mike & Nancy Mahon
Recovering from Surgery
Don Lapp
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Offering
"Loving Spirit" by Roberta Rowland-Raybold
Baptism of Stormy & Stella Swinehart
Special Music - Ed Duling
"Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" by John Carter
1 Thessalonians 2:9-13
9Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you. 10You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were among you who believed. 11For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, 12encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory. 13And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe.
Congregation Selection
Joshua 3:7-17
7 And the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you as I was with Moses. 8 Tell the priests who carry the ark of the covenant: ‘When you reach the edge of the Jordan’s waters, go and stand in the river.’ ” 9 Joshua said to the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God. 10 This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that he will certainly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites and Jebusites. 11 See, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go into the Jordan ahead of you. 12 Now then, choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe. 13 And as soon as the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off and stand up in a heap.” 14 So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them. 15 Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge, 16 the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan, while the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho. 17 The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.
The Land of Rest
# 724 "On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand"
1. On [Jordan's] stormy banks I stand, and cast a wishful eye to Canaan's fair and happy land, where my possessions lie. I am bound for the promised land, I am bound for the promised land; oh, who will come and go with me? I am bound for the promised land.
2. O'er all those wide extended plains shines one eternal day; there God the Son forever reigns, and scatters night away. I am bound for the promised land, I am bound for the promised land; oh, who will come and go with me? I am bound for the promised land.
3. No chilling winds or poisonous breath can reach that healthful shore; sickness and sorrow, pain and death, are felt and feared no more. I am bound for the promised land, I am bound for the promised land; oh, who will come and go with me? I am bound for the promised land.
4. When I shall reach that happy place, I'll be forever blest, for I shall see my Father's face, and in his bosom rest. I am bound for the promised land, I am bound for the promised land; oh, who will come and go with me? I am bound for the promised land.
Send forth & Benediction
Choral Response "Great Amen"
Postlude "Dance to the Spirit" by Roberta Rowland-Raybold