5-7-23 Celebration Worship Bulletin & Livestream

May 7, 2023

May 7, 2023, Celebration Service (8:50 AM)

Prelude

Gathering Music & Light Brought into Worship

Sunshine Gospel Singers: Just as I Am/I Came Broken

Welcome & Communion Offering for VBS/Children’s Ministries

†Congregational Hymns

Amazing Grace (United Methodist Hymnal #378 Verse 1)

Amazing Grace (United Methodist Hymnal #378 Verse 4)

Grace Greater than Our Sin (United Methodist Hymnal #365 Verses 1 & 4)

Amazing Grace (United Methodist Hymnal #378 Verse 6)

Grace Greater than Our Sin (United Methodist Hymnal #365 Chorus)

Thanksgiving

Doxology 95

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise Him, all creatures here below;

praise Him above, ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Celebration Choir: Christ is with Us

Silent Prayer Over Names

Prayer of Confession

Prayer Response: Alleluia (United Methodist Hymnal #186 Verses 1, 2 & 3)

†Prayer of Illumination

Loving God, we thank you for presence with us through scripture. By your Holy Spirit, open our hearts and minds to your words of transforming love. Amen.

Scripture

John 14:1-11

This is the Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God!

Sermon

Celebration of Holy Communion

The Lord be with you.

And also with you.

Lift up your hearts.

We lift them up to the Lord.

Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

It is right to give our thanks and praise.

And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven

we praise your name and join their unending hymn:

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.

(Gloria Patri UMH #70)

In remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ,

we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice,

in union with Christ's offering for us, as we proclaim the mystery of faith.

Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.

Lord’s Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.

Serving of the Elements Music: Solo

Invitation to Christ and the Church

Kid’s Choir with Orff Instruments: Real Love

Receiving of New Members

(Congregational Response)

We give thanks for all that God has already given you

and we welcome you in Christian love.

As members together with you at Christ United Methodist Church,

we renew our covenant faithfully to participate

in the ministries of the Church by our prayers, our presence,

our gifts, our service, and our witness, that in everything

God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. Amen.