Order of Worship

5-3-26

Always maintaining a proper balance between proclamation of the word about life with the deeds which make life good.

Prelude ~

Shared by Tanner Bayles

Welcome and Announcements

Shared by Pastor Ken

We welcome everyone to our service and hope you are blessed by worshipping with us.

Opening Words

Shared by Pastor Ken

One: Who are we and what are we called to do?

All: We are the sensitive and responsive ones called to create a world where every person is radically affirmed, and barriers between people become

bridges of inclusion, justice, and spirituality.



GATHERING WITH HOPE



Call to Worship ~ Shared by the Gaberdiels

One: God of love and compassion, may we always recognize

your spirit:

All: in the refugee family, seeking safety from violence;

in the migrant worker, bringing food to our tables;

in the asylum-seekers, seeking justice for their

families;

in the unaccompanied child, traveling in a dangerous

world.

One: Give us hearts that break open whenever our brothers and sisters turn to us.

All: Give us hearts that no longer turn deaf to their voices

in times of need.

One: Give us eyes to recognize a moment for grace instead of a threat.

All: Give us voices that fail to remain silent but which

decide instead to advocate prophetically.

One: Give us hands that reach out in welcome, but also in work, for a world of justice until all homelands are safe and

secure.

All: Bless us, O Lord. Amen.

Singing Our Faith ~  

Gather Us In

by Marty Haugen

1. Here in this place a new light is streaming,

Now is the darkness vanished away,

See in this space our fears and our dreamings

Brought here to you in the light of this day.

Gather us in, the lost and forsaken,

Gather us in, the blind and the lame.

Call to us now, and we shall awaken;

We shall arise at the sound of our name.

2. We are the young, our lives are a myst’ry,

We are the old who yearn for your face.

We have been sung throughout all of hist’ry,

Called to be light to the whole human race.

Gather us in, the rich and the haughty.

Gather us in, the proud and the strong.

Give us a heart so meek and so lowly;

Give us the courage to enter the song.

3. Here we will take the wine and the water.

Here we will take the bread of new birth,

Here you shall call your sons and your daughters,

Call us anew to be salt for the earth.

Give us to drink the wine of compassion.

Give us to eat the bread that is yours,

Nourish us well, and teach us to fashion,

Lives that are holy and hearts that are true.

LISTENING WITH HOPE

Celebrations ~ Pastor Ken

Kathy Kaplan, Chief Programs Officer, Family Promise of Greater Phoenix

This is our time to share the celebrations of our lives: birthdays, anniversaries, words of kindness and works of peace and justice.

Music for Thinking of You Cards ~ Shared by Tanner

Bread, Wine, and Invitation to Give

Led by the Gaberdiels

One: At this table, we give thanks for inclusion, justice, love,

peace and freedom.

All: At this table, we give thanks for friends and strangers

together in community in this safe place. At this table,

we welcome old and young.

One: We break the bread for the broken earth, ravaged and

plundered for greed.

All: May there be healing of our beautiful blue and green

planet.

One: We break this bread for our broken humanity, for the

powerful and the powerless trapped by exploitation and

oppression.

All: May there be the healing of humanity.

One: We break this bread for those who follow other paths:

for those who follow the noble path of the Buddha,

the yogic path of the Hindus;

the way of the Eternal Guru of the Sikhs;

and for the children of Abraham and Sarah and Rachel -

the Jews, and the Muslims.

All: May there be healing where there is pain and

woundedness.

One: We break this bread for the unhealed hurts and wounds

that lie within us all.

All: May we be healed.

One: This is the cup of peace and of new life for all. A sign of

love for the community of hope.

All: A reminder of the call to live fully, to love wastefully,

and to be all that we can be.

One: To share this bread and cup reminds us of the deeper

aspects of human fellowship, for from time immemorial the

sharing of bread and wine has been the most universal of

all symbols of community.

Please come forward because all are welcome. All bread is

gluten-free. Our offering for the communion baskets is

dedicated to One Great Hour of Sharing.

Invitation to Give ~ Led by the Gaberdiels

One:  As one heart is lifted,

All:   May we share its celebration.

One:  As one heart is burdened,

All:   May we share the pain it knows.

One:  As one Body, we share ourselves through our offerings.

QR Code for Giving Page

The Chime Calls Us to The Prayer for Peace

Shared by the Gaberdiels

We are moulded, each one of us,

in the image of God,

and within our souls there is a fingerprint

none can erase.

We pray for those who have no regard

for anyone but self,

who put no value on human life.

We are not called to be judge or jury,

but we are called to be agents of change,

and if the butterfly that flaps its wings

should be our attitude to others

then so be it, Lord,

and may the hurricane this generates

somewhere within the world

reach into the hearts and souls of those

for whom we pray, and reveal to them

how precious are those

for whom they have no love,

and how precious are they

who now bring tears to the eyes of God.

Word About Life ~ Pastor Ken

SCATTERING WITH HOPE

Words for Mission ~ Led by the Gaberdiels

One: Hold in your heart the trust that the Spirit of Life is with you always.

All: When our hearts are torn asunder or when we soar with sweet joy, we are never alone, never apart from the spirit that resides within us, that guides our lives and cherishes us always.

One: These are the times!

All: We are the people!

One: All of Creation is blessed!

All: May we love all and serve all!

One: May God be with you.

All: And also with you.

One: Amen.

All: Amen.

Sending Forth Song ~ Draw the Circle Wide

by Ruth C. Duck and Jim Strethdee

Chorus

Draw the circle wide. Draw it wider still.

Let this be our song, no one stands alone,

Standing side-by-side, draw the circle wide.

1. God the still-point of the circle,

Round whom all creation turns;

Nothing lost, but held forever

In God’s gracious arms.

Chorus

2. Let our hearts touch far horizons,

So encompass great and small,

Let our loving know no borders,

Faithful to God’s call.

Chorus

3. Let the dreams we dream be larger,

Than we’ve ever dreamed before;

Let the dream of Christ be in us,

Open ev’ry door.

Chorus

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