ACCESS Sunday

Order of Worship

8 October 2023

Sunday Morning Spiritual Formation

For Adults: the How and Why of Spiritual Connections

We gather at 9:00 am in the Multipurpose Room. Expect a warm welcome and grace-filled discussion about spirituality. For a brief season we are asking is Jesus a political person?

For Children Ages 4 and up: Getting to Know You

You can find us in the Blue Room! Look for signs and friendly faces as you enter the education building. For children under 4, Amy and Jaian are ready for you in the Red Room. Sunday mornings are time for fun and connection.

Order of Worship

Prelude ~ Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Shared by Christine Kyhn

Welcome and Announcements

Pastor Ken

Opening Words

Led 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.

Call to Worship

Led by WISE Team Member

One:   We gather in the presence of the One

who abandons no one.

All:    All are welcome in the sacred place, made holy through

your presence with us.

One: Open our hearts and minds this day and guide us into a loving

relationship with all your children.

All: Spark us with a word of life and radical belonging – a

message that we share with others as we seek to live out

Christ’s love.

One: We call on the name of God, who creates, redeems, and

sustains us.

All: Let’s celebrate a call to new life.

Singing Our Faith ~ We Are the Family

by Ray Repp

Chorus

     We are the family and we are the home,

     We are the mountain where love can be known.

We are the voices and we are the hands

For bringing peace to our land.

(Repeat)

1. And in our family all are welcome,

Doesn’t matter who you are,

In our home there’s always room

So plan to stay.

On our mountain where we labor

There’s much work that’s left to do,

And your talents would be helpful if you stay.

Chorus

2. And in our family ev’ry nation,

Ev’ry planet, ev’ry race,

Ev’ryone is always welcome to our home.

And with our voices let us tell you

That we mean just what we say,

And with our hands united, let us pray.

Chorus

Gathering and Centering Prayer

Shared by Pastor Ken



Celebrations and Celebration Song

Led by A WISE Team Member

At this time, we share moments from our lives: birthdays,

anniversaries, and words of peace and justice. We celebrate

sorrows and grief as part of our comprehensive view of life.

Chorus

Weave, weave, weave us together

Weave us together in unity and love.

Weave, weave, weave us together,

Weave us together, together in love.

1. We are many textures, we are many colors,

Each one diff’rent from the other.

But we are entwined with one another in one great tapestry.

Chorus

2.   Moments ago we did not know our unity, only diversity.

Now the Christ in me greets the Christ in thee,

In one great family.

Chorus

Offerings and Offertory ~ Open My Eyes          

Shared by Christine Kyhn

Dedication of Our Offerings

Led by WISE Team Member

One:    The riches of God's gracious love have been            

entrusted to us. 

All:     It is a love that cannot and will not be hoarded.

One: Through the giving of ourselves and our offerings we share

the love of God and we are true to our values of inclusion,

justice, and spirituality.

All: Amen.

Word About Life                 "Just Like You"        Shared by Pastor Ken                      by Tara Brach

                                           inspired by the Dalai Lama

Walk gently on this earth with purposeful steps

You share this space with seven billion human beings

And countless other precious life forms

Just like you

They all want to be happy

Just like you

They all need love

We’re not going to survive unless we walk

Gently on this earth together,

Until we touch something in others that

Feels just like the shards of our own pain,

The fluttering warmth of our own joy,

Until we sew their wounds into our hearts

And seal it with our own skin

Words For Mission   

Led by Pastor Ken



One:   Jesus taught us to love one another as fiercely and freely as God loves each of us, with the power that binds us together as the Body of Christ.

All: We will embody Christ by shattering stigma and welcoming all, leaving no one outside.

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                     Trees of the Field

You shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace;

The mountains and the hills will break forth before you.

There’ll be shouts of joy, and all the trees of the field

will clap, will clap their hands.

And all the trees of the field will clap their hands, (clap, clap)

The trees of the field will clap their hands, (clap, clap)

The trees of the field will clap their hands (clap, clap)

While you go out with joy.     (Repeat faster)

Sermon Reboot is ON for today. Please stay on Zoom and we will convene in 5-10 minutes. This is a time to talk about the message and explore together using the ORID Art Form Conversation methodology. What is ORID? It stands for Observation, Reflection, Interpretation, and Decision. You will get the hang of it.