Prelude   Pastorale          Douglas E Wagner🎼

Welcome & Announcements 👋

Prayer for World Peace 

Gathering  Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying 🎼

Lord, listen to your children praying,

Lord, send your Spirit in this place;

Lord, listen to your children praying,

Send us love, send us pow'r, send us grace.

Call to Worship

For some of us, our father's love is like God's love -- too deep, too long, too wide, too strong to measure.

Some of our dads are here; some were never here.

For some of us, God's love fills in the empty spaces our fathers left behind.

All of us are shaped by the relationship or lack of relationship with our fathers.

On this day when we remember what it means to have a father or be a father, we recognize the importance of fathers in our communities. We pledge as a congregation to love and nurture the fathers among us so that they will manifest the love of God in all that they do.

Hymn  #466 O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing 🎼

Call to Confession

If we say we have no sin, then the truth is not in us. Boldly, let us confess our sins before God and before others.

Prayer of Confession

Dear Lord,

You are the King of the world, the Creator of all things, and the Giver of life. You have made us in Your image and invited us to be Your children—the heirs of Your Kingdom—and we give You our thanks and praise. We confess that we have sinned and fallen short of what You would have us be. We have found our identity in earthly things like work, money, family, reputation, our homes, our friends, even our country. We have worshiped them more than You. We have turned away from being part of Your Kingdom work to satisfy our own agendas. We have broken Your heart with our sin, and we are sorry. Please forgive us. Help us open our hearts to receive the gift of forgiveness that You offer through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. Create in us clean hearts and fill us with Your presence. In Jesus’ Name we pray, Amen.

Assurance of Pardon 💦

Time with Young Believers

Children are invited to go to Children’s Worship with our Children’s Worship Leader. Children will return to their parents during the final hymn.

Call to Offering

Offertory  Our Father Who Art in Heaven        Johann Krieger🎼

Prayer of Dedication 🙏

Anthem  The Lone Wild Bird    Walker's Southern Harmony/Henry Richard McFayden/Marty Haugen🎼

Scripture: Galatians 3:23-29 ✝️

Pastoral Prayer & Lord's Prayer 🙏

Scripture: Luke 8:26-39 ✝️

Message ✝️

Affirming our Faith – Apostle’s Creed

Closing Hymn  Faith of Our Fathers🎼

Benediction

Postlude O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing         Paul Manz🎼