10 a.m. Sunday March 21, 2021 (2)

Hingham Congregational Church,

United Church of Christ

March 21, 2021

10 a.m.

Many ways to worship!

10:00 am - Full Worship Service on HCC's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwvLqzvjbXllo7SErFpyLdg

Please have your elements ready

10:00 am - Live Sermon on Pete's Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/peter.allen.5070276

You can also view the bulletin by going to hccucc.com - Worship and Music,

Bulletins and Announcements.

The service will remain on Facebook and YouTube if you would like to watch later.

11:00 am HCC Virtual Coffee Hour

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/73756471043?pwd=MXBPVzJOQjRvaG5SNU5mVVowQjRnZz09

Meeting ID: 737 5647 1043 Passcode: HCC

11:30 am Waking Up White - Lenten Book Study, Part two of our study. If you missed part one, please feel free to participate in part two.

HCC

KIDS:

There is a new time for

Hot Cocoa Hour

10:15 am

and a new link:

Zoom Link:

https://zoom.us/j/97950493093?pwd=MjlhRWFOK01qT3loV0I2MGRJNnB3QT09

Meeting ID: 979 5049 3093

Passcode: HCCkids21

Next Sunday, Palm Sunday,

Drive Thru Spring Fling 1:00 pm

Welcoming Covenant

In the name of God and Jesus Christ, the Hingham Congregational Church

welcomes all who seek to know and worship God, and invites everyone to join

in our mission through participation and leadership of the congregation.

As a community of faith, we take seriously the biblical call to love God and our

neighbors as ourselves, and recognize that, although we are many members,

we are one.

❖ We celebrate the uniqueness of everyone.

❖ We rejoice in our diversity of views and understandings of our shared faith.

❖ We affirm relationships based on love, commitment, and mutual respect.

❖ As is stated in our by-laws, we strive for righteousness, justice and peace.

It is with this spirit and the love of God that we openly welcome all persons,

inclusive of every race, ethnicity, class, age, gender, physical or mental ability,

sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and inclusive of any

others, to journey with us as we move forward with the work of this church in the

world.

Order of Worship

Prelude

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

H. C. Parry

Welcome

Rev. Dr. Peter W. Allen

Introit

Your Ways Are Higher

Junior Choir with

Ed Bartholomew & Sarah England

Traditional

Opening Prayer and Lord’s Prayer

Mysterious Creator, Guide Deep Within, March Wind in our Imaginations, we feel you calling to us, shining light for us, and urging us forward on our Lenten journey. Please strengthen and deepen our faith so that we might become more authentic followers of Christ and doers of your Word. We ask that you would open our minds and hearts this morning as we listen and pray and sing together...

(silent 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 debts as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, Amen.

*Please feel free to pray as you wish. We respect tradition — and we welcome images

of the Divine that are diverse and inclusive.

Hymn

Just As I Am

Dr. Eileen Hutchins, piano

Todd Swavey, tenor

NCH 207

Verses 1,2,3,4

Just as I am, without one plea but that your

blood was shed for me, And that you called in

viting me, O Lamb of God, I come, I come!

Just as I am, though tossed about with many a

conflict, many a doubt, Fightings and fears with

in, without, O lamb of God, I come, I come!

Just as I am, you will receive, will welcome,

pardon, cleanse, relieve; Because your promise

I believe, O Lamb of God, I come, I come!

Just as I am, your love unknown has broken

every barrier down; Now to be yours, and

yours a lone, O Lamb of God, I come, I come!

Children’s Message

Priscilla Anderson, Teacher

Pastoral Prayer

Daryl H. Denelle, Ministry Intern

Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 31:31-34

Deacon Paul Jeffrey

A New Covenant

The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, ‘Know the Lord’, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.

Sermon

Not Just Going Through the Motions

Rev. Dr. Peter W. Allen

Special Music

Better Get Ready

Folk Choir with Steve Waynen, Whit Hall, and Tracy Allen

The Hoppers

Benediction

Postlude

Prelude in d minor

J. S. Bach

Many thanks to the HCC staff, our volunteer musicians, Deacon Paul Jeffrey and cameraperson, Tracy Allen for making this service possible.

Please keep in

your prayers...

Family and friends of Mike Collins, Jeff's brother, who passed away recently
Laura Spaziani, whose mom passed away recently
Marcia Ross, whose mom passed away recently
Nick Nasson, with health concerns
Kris Shorey, following surgery
Peter Edson’s sister, Dale, with health concerns
Ann Holmes, Priscilla Anderson’s mother
Al Carpenter
Ryan Lamonde, prayers for peace and courage
People in abusive households
All brave essential employees
Allan Bacon, Carolyn Antoine's brother
Peter Edson
Children and youth with atypical routines at this time, especially those with food insecurity
Daryl Denelle, seeking ordination
All those affected by the coronavirus in the world.