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©Order of Worship for Sunday October 25, 2026
Twentysecond Sunday After Pentecost
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Prelude:…………………………………………………Valerie W.
Coming of the Light:………………………………………
Greetings:………………………………………..….…Lorri B.
Announcements:…………………………………………..Lorri B.
Call to Worship:…………………………………………..Robin C.
O church of God, united, we have a mission:
To make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation
of the world!
O people of God, we have a vision:
To ignite and sustain a passionate spiritual relationship with Christ among all people!
O brothers and sisters, we have one great value at the
core of our being.
To love! We shall love our God with all that we have
and love our neighbors as ourselves.
Opening Prayer: …………………………….…Robin C.
Almighty God,
Your Son has shown us how to love one another.
May our love for you
overflow into joyous service
and be a healing witness to our neighbors
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Opening Hymns: “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” #400 UMH
1. Come, thou Fount of every blessing tune my heart to
sing thy grace; streams of mercy, never ceasing,
call of 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.
“Take My Life, and Let It Be” #399 UMH
1. Take my life, and let it be consecrated
Lord, to thee. Take my moments and my
days; let them flow in ceaseless praise.
Take my hands, and let them move at the
impulse of thy love. Take my feet, and let
them be swift and beautiful for thee.
2. Take my voice, and let me sing always,
only, for my King. Take my lips, and let
them be filled with messages from thee.
Take my silver and my gold; not a mite
would I withhold. Take my intellect, and
use every power as thou shalt choose.
3. Take my will, and make it thine; it shall
be no longer mine. Take my heart, it is
thine own; it shall be thy royal throne.
Take my love, my Lord, I pour at thy feet
its treasure store. Take myself, and I
will be ever, only, all for thee.
Passing of the Peace:…………………………….Elizabeth B.
Let us offer signs of reconciliation and peace to one another.
Gloria Patri: ……Glory Be to the Father#71 UMH
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.
My Story:……………..…………………………….Karin J.
Offering of our Tithes and Offerings:…………..Phillip J.
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Offertory:…………………………………………………Valerie W.
Offertory Response:
“Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow” #95
The United Methodist Hymnal
Words by Thomas Ken, 1674 Music attributed to Louis Bourgeois, 1551
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
praise God, all creatures here below;
praise God above, ye heavenly host;
praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Prayer After Receiving:………………………………Phillip J.
Prayers of the People:………………………………..Phillip J.
The Lord’s Prayer:
Anthem:……….”Shine On Us”……………Samantha/Elizabeth
Psalm: Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17…………………….…….G.
Show your servants your works
Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
You turn us back to dust and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”
For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past or like a watch in the night.
You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning;
in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.
Turn, O Lord! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Make us glad as many days as you have afflicted us and as many years as we have seen evil.
Let your work be manifest to your servants and your glorious power to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and prosper for us the work of our hands — O prosper the work of our hands!
This Church has been a Gift to me:…………………..Melrose D.
Closing Hymn:“Blest Be the Tie That Binds” #557 UMH
1. Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love;
the fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above.
2. Before our Father’s throne we pour our ardent prayers;
our fears, our hopes, our aims are one, our comforts
and our cares.
3. We share each other’s woes, our mutual burdens bear;
and often for each other flows the sympathizing tear.
4. When we asunder part, it gives us inward pain; but we shall
still be joined in heart, and hope to meet again.
Dismissal with Blessing:………………………..Elizabeth B.
May the love of God surround you.
May the love of God stand with you through the
challenges ahead.
May the love of God convince you, in every situation,
to love.
Go now to love others, even as Christ loves you. Amen.
Postlude:…………………………………………………Valerie W.
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