Welcome and Announcements 👋
Prelude Blessed Jesus, We Are Here Sigfrid Karg-Elert🎼
Call to Worship 🙌
Listen up! God is calling.
Not just in the usual ways, but in the news, and the background music, and the silence.
Wherever you are: at home, at work, at school, at play…
whether those are all the same place or if they require careful planning to reach , listen.
Hear this reminder: God calls us, every one, to imitate Christ’s life.
Not just pretty words, not just for special people, not just in the perfect circumstances —
the Spirit’s voice leads us to action.
We long to encounter the Living Word,
in the sanctuary of our hearts and in the streets of our community.
Come, let us worship, and hear, and be transformed.
Confession of Sin🙏
Life-giving God, you draw us to streams of faith
and yet we draw back from drinking
for fear of facing the truth.
Forgive us.
You call us to rivers of renewal,
and yet we will not bathe
for fear of commitment.
Forgive us.
You shower us with a flood of blessings,
yet we shield ourselves from them
for fear we need to change.
Forgive us.
Forgive us our timidity, O God.
Encourage us to face our flaws and failings
and find faith overflowing.
Assurance of Pardon Remembering Our Baptism 💦
Gloria Patri 🎼
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be,
World without end, Amen. Amen.
Time with Young Believers 🧒🏼👦🏻
Call to Offering
You may give online at tithe.ly.com or mail a check to the office. You may also check the website for a multitude of volunteer opportunities that are safe and little to no contact.
Scripture Genesis 1:1-5 ✝️
Pastoral Prayer 🙏
Anthem Water, River, Spirit, Grace Thomas Troeger/OL Cricket Harrison 🎼
Scripture Mark 1:4-11 ✝️
Message
Affirmation of Faith – Baptism Renewal
Hymn 72 When Jesus Came to Jordan 🎼
Ordination and Installation of Elders
Ruling Elder Class of 2023:
Deanne McVey
Lisa Venable
Randy Wertz
Tracey Ramey
Opening Scripture – David Edwards
There are a variety of gifts,
But it is the same spirit who gives them.
There are different ways of serving God,
But it is the same Lord who is served.
God works through each person in a unique way,
But it is God’s purpose that is accomplished.
To each is given a gift of the Spirit
To be used for the common good
Together we are the body of Christ,
And individually members of it.
Statement of Ordination and Installation
Benediction
The Lord Bless and Keep You 🎼
The Lord bless and keep you,
the Lord make His face to shine on you
and be gracious, gracious.
The Lord bless and keep you,
the Lord lift His countenance on you,
and give peace, give you peace.
Shalom. Shalom.
Postlude How Brightly Shines the Morningstar
Andreas Armsdorff🎼
