Sunday February 8th Worship Service

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©Order of Worship for Sunday February 08, 2026

Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany

Welcome Home Worship Series

Holy Communion

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Prelude.……….……“Home”…………………….Greg D.
Words and Music: Charlie Smalls © 1974 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.
 
Coming of the Light:
 
Greetings:………………………………………………..Pastor Liz
 
Announcements:…………………………………………..Lorri B.
 
Call to Worship:…………….,….Psalm 122:1 ……..Ian D.
I was glad when they said to me,
Let us go to the house of the Lord.
 
Opening Prayer:……………………………………………..Ian D.
O God, you pour out your spirit of grace and love.
Deliver us from cold hearts and wandering thoughts,
    that with burning zeal and steady minds
    we may worship you in spirit and truth. Amen.
 
Opening Hymns: “Somebody’s Knockin’ at Your Door” #3095 W&S
Words & Music: African American Spiritual Harm. © 1986 GIA Publications
 Refrain
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door; somebody’s
knockin’ at your door; O sinner, why don’t you
answer? Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
 
1. Knocks like Jesus. Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
Knocks like Jesus. Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
O sinner, why don’t you answer?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
 
2. Can’t you hear him? Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
Can’t you hear him? Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
O sinner, why don’t you answer?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
 
3. Jesus calls you. Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
Jesus calls you. Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
O sinner, why don’t you answer?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
 
4. Can’t you trust him. Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
Can’t you trust him. Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
O sinner, why don’t you answer?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
 
Epistle Lesson:…….……Romans 12:1-8 ………Ian D.
One body in Christ, with gifts that differ
I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, on the basis of God’s mercy, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable act of worship.
Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God–what is good and acceptable and perfect.
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
For as in one body we have many members and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another.
We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith; ministry, in ministering; the teacher, in teaching; the encourager, in encouragement; the giver, in sincerity; the leader, in diligence; the compassionate, in cheerfulness.

Passing of the Peace:………………………………Pastor Liz
Let us offer signs of reconciliation and peace to one another.
 
Gloria Patri:…….“Glory Be to the Father”…….#71 UMH
Words: Lesser Doxology, 3rd-4th century
Music: Henry W. Greatorex, 1851
 
Glory be to the Father
and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning, to
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen. Amen.
 
Giving of our Tithes and Offerings:……………………Pastor Liz
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Offertory:………………“Pan de Vida”…………………Choir
 
“Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow” (The Doxology) #94 UMH
Adapted © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
Words by Thomas Ken, 1674, adapted by Gilbert Vieira, 1978
Music: Geistliche Kirchengesänge, 1623; harmony by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906
 
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
praise God, all creatures here below:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Praise God, the source of all our gifts!
Praise Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts!
Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
 
Prayer After Receiving:………………………………Pastor Liz
 
The Prayers of the People:………………………….Pastor Liz
 
Gospel Lesson: ……….John 17:11-19……………..Ian D.
And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.
While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled.
But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.
They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

Hymn of Preparation:…….“Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling” #348, UMH
 
1. Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,
calling for you and for me;
see, on the portals he’s waiting and watching,
watching for you and for me.
 
Come home (come home), come home (come home),
you who are weary, come home;
earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,
calling, O sinner, come home!
 
2. Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading,
pleading for you and for me?
Why should we linger and heed not his mercies,
mercies for you and for me?

Come home (come home), come home (come home),
you who are weary, come home;
earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,
calling, O sinner, come home!
 
Message: …………..“Make Yourself at Home:
…………………………….Sanctifying Grace”…………….Pastor Liz
 
Response to the Word: Holy Communion
 
Communion Hymn: (To be sung during Communion)

“Let Us Break Bread Together” #618 UMH
Words and Music: Afro-American spiritual
Adapt. And arr. © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
 
1. Let us break bread together on our knees,
let us break bread together on our knees.
When I fall on my knees, with my face to the rising sun,
O Lord, have mercy on me.
 
2. Let us drink wine together on our knees,
let us drink wine together on our knees.
When I fall on my knees with my face to the rising sun,
O Lord, have mercy on me.
 
3. Let us praise God together on our knees,
let us praise God together on our knees.
When I fall on my knees with my face to the rising sun,
O Lord, have mercy on me.
 
Closing Hymn:“It’s Me, It’s Me, O Lord” #352 UMH
Words and Music: Afro-American Spiritual Arr. © 1989 UM Publishing House

Refrain:
It’s me it’s me, O Lord, standing in the
need of prayer. It’s me (it’s me), it’s
me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer.
 
1. Not my brother, not my sister, but it’s
me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer.
Not my brother, not my sister, but it’s
me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer.
 
Refrain:
It’s me it’s me, O Lord, standing in the
need of prayer. It’s me (it’s me), it’s
me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer.
 
2. Not the preacher, not the deacon,
3. Not my father, not my mother,
 
Dismissal with Blessing:……………………………Pastor Liz
 
Postlude:……………………………………………………..Greg D.

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