Welcome to the Red Lodge Community Church Worship With Us 10 AM April 28, 2024 Worship Leader: Helen Mackay Hazel Chamberlain Fund Presenters: Libby Gardner, Hands on Global Audrey Clark, DSVS
If you are joining us in person, the service is at 10:00 AM Sunday School
Mission: Red Lodge Community Church, United Church of Christ, welcomes all people to gather for worship, fellowship and to study God’s Word. We seek to be servants of our Lord in the care of all people.”
Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge, with humility, that the land upon which we worship today was once the land of the Apsaalooke People, those who we now know as the Crow People. Their stewardship and relationship with the land is the stewardship and relationship that we hope to honor with the mission of this church.
Red Lodge Community Church April 21, 2024
Gathering Music Welcome & Announcements Prelude Bell Ringing
CALL TO WORSHIP (Responsive) The Lord is in this Holy Temple, let all the children of God rejoice. We are called as family to hold up holy hands and praise the God of love and healing for all! Not some, but for all people regardless of where you are on life’s journey or who you are in the Kindom of God. One: We are here to worship! Many: Hallelujah! One: We are here to lift up Holy hands! Many: Hallelujah! One: We are the Kindom of God! All: Glory Hallelujah. Let us praise the name of the Lord! OPENING HYMN NCH #289 Come Forth O Love Divine INVOCATION Reveal Yourself Reveal Yourself now Rise up in this assembly Show us a manifestation of who You are I call forth a knitting together by Your Spirit Of all created beings within the sound of my voice Reveal Yourself Reveal Yourself now Awaken within each one of us Reach out from within each one of us So that your intangible essence will be felt and known Reveal Yourself Reveal Yourself now You have promised to make yourself known I call forth the revelation of Your presence Of You as Presence within, between, and around us We step into Your Sacred Circle We invite You into our Sacred Circle As we reveal ourselves to You We also reach out to You and call upon You Reveal Yourself now PASSING THE PEACE As a sign of our acceptance of God’s grace and our intention to follow Christ more faithfully, let us greet those near us with a sign of peace. MESSAGE WITH CHILDREN PRAYER OF TRANSFORMATION (Responsive) Righteous God, we find ourselves as your hands, legs, heart and spirit here in the earth. As your children, as were your disciples, we are called to manifest a Gospel of love, justice, reconciliation and healing in the present world. But our concern for a just and egalitarian world too often dissipates at the point of our discomfort. Forgive us for our humanity and our frailty as we dwell in your presence and seek transformation and new energy for the work of your ministry. Revive us again O Lord. One: O Lord Revive… Many: Our love for the Kindom! One: O Lord Revive… Many: Our yearning for You! One: O Lord Revive… Many: Our desire for reconciliation! One: O Lord Revive… Many: Our need for healing! Amen! WORDS OF GRACE (Responsive) Just as Jesus endowed his disciples, his family, with moments of rest and amazement, it is good for us, kinfolk, to bask in the glorious and loving presence of God. Fortunately, God does not condemn us when we too often choose to linger there rather than enter into difficult, tough, unfamiliar or even mundane places and spaces. But I’m so glad that with grace and compassion, the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit lifts, informs and propels us in the direction we should go to heal, deliver and resurrect. One: Come Holy Spirit. Many: Lift us! One: Come Holy Spirit. Many: Inform us! One: Come Holy Spirit. Many: Propel us! One: Come Holy Spirit. Many: Shower us with your Grace and Mercy! Amen! PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE THE PRAYER OF OUR SAVIOR Aramaic version O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos, focus your light within us – make it useful: Create your reign of unity now – Your one desire then acts with ours, as in all light, so in all forms. Grant what we need each day in bread and insight. Loose the cords of mistakes binding us, as we release the strands we hold of others’ guilt. Don’t let surface things delude us, but free us from what holds us back. From you is born all ruling will, the power and the life to do, the song that beautifies all, from age to age it renews. Truly – power to these statements – may they be the ground from which all my actions grow: Amen SACRED TEXT: John 14: 15-27 (The English Standard Version) “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me. “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. One: The Word of God for the People of God All: Thanks Be to God SPECIAL MUSIC Selections from Bach Cantata No. 140 “Wachet Auf” played by Dr. Lynell Kruckeberg SERMON: Stay Awake With Me; An invitation from the Holy Spirit Helen Mackay Video Insert: “Stay Awake With Me” by Gayan Macher HAZEL CHAMBERLAIN FUND Libby Gardner Hands on Global Audrey Clark DSVS Invitation to Generosity The Holy Spirit comes down to us as a gift of presence, compassion, and companionship. We honor and uphold the Kindom here on earth through our stewardship; as we are called to present our lives as a living testimony of the God who has created each one of us to be unique and minister to a world that needs what we have to offer in time, talent and treasure. Let us now uphold the glory of God by the giving of our gifts in the spirit of generosity.
OFFERING w/OFFERTORY DOXOLOGY PRAYER OF DEDICATION (Unison) Generous God, may these gifts glorify your spirit and meet the needs of your Kindom. In the name of Jesus the Christ, we pray. Amen. CLOSING HYMN NCH #288 Let It Breathe On Me BENEDICATION May the glory of God transform you. May the Holy Spirit revive you. May you embrace difference as strength. May you reach the high and low places. May you spread the Good News of relationship. May you be renewed and empowered to an ethic of inclusion, care, mutual support, solidarity, and unity that calls us to treat one another as family. May thy Kindom come. For the glory of God and the hope of the world. Go in peace and Kinship to serve. SENDING HYMN NCH #283 Spirit of the Living God
THIS WEEK: Monday, April 29 1pm Staff Meeting 6:00 pm Theater Group (Fellowship Hall)
Tuesday, April 30
Wednesday, May 01 9am Coffee Klatch & Prayer Zoom combined 11 am HbH Practice 1:30pm Choir Practice 6:00 pm Theater Group
Thursday, May 02
Friday, May 03 3:30 Girl Scouts
Saturday, May 04
************************************************************************************************************** Sun, May 05 10am Worship Sunday School Worship Leader: Laura Ymker Hazel Chamberlain Fund Presenters: Cara Kisthard, Beartooth Humane Alliance Steve Hanson, World Central Kitchen
Next Week’s Volunteers Liturgist: Don Kinney Deacons: Mark Sechler, Lori Floyd Christian Education: Zina General Tech: Jay West Coffee Hour: Renee Gabrian
Participating in Today's Worship Worship Leader – Helen MacKay Liturgist - Audrey Clark Acolyte - Pianist – Dr Lynell Kruckeberg Choir- Marty Clague, Director, Martha Brown, Julia Childs, Jo Ann Eder, Lori Floyd, Libby Gardner, Steve Hanson, Sharyn McKenzie, Allan Schuyler, Mark Sechler, Karen Simmons, Lanny Hilderman, Kathy Munson Homebrewed Harmony- Marty Clague, Steve Hanson, Jim Howe, Mark Sechler, Don Redfoot, Alan Schuyler
Videography, Audio, Tech Support – Jay West
Christian Education - Zina General
Red Lodge Community Church, United Church of Christ PO Box 786, 308 South Broadway Avenue Red Lodge, MT 59068 406-446-1444 www.redlodgecommunitychurch.com rlccassistant@gmail.com, Church 406-446-1444 Office Hours: M-Thurs 8am-3PM, Fri 9-1pm Dr. Lynell Kruckeberg, Music lynell.kruckeberg@yahoo.com 303-868-1434 Marty Clague, Director Choir marty.clague@gmail.com OneLicense.net License #A-725904 or CLI #294875.
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Kindom: Service Prayers for the Third Sunday after Pentecost was written by Pastor Kevin Tindell, Pastor of Community Engagement, GATHER Church Chicago and Vice President of the Open and Affirming Coalition of the UCC.
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