Prelude: “As the Deer” (arr. Fred Bock)
Mary Bahnfleth, organ
Greeting
Rev. Greg Milinovich
Call to Worship: Psalm 42 (UMH 77)
Sung Refrain: God will Give you a new heart, a new spirit put within.
As a deer longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for you, O God,
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and behold the face of God?
My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually, “Where is your God?”
These things I remember as I pour out my soul:
how I went with the throng, and led them in procession to the house of God,
with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God whom again I shall praise, my help and my God.
Sung Refrain: God will Give you a new heart, a new spirit put within.
My soul is cast down within me, therefore I remember you
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep at the thunder of your cataracts;
all your waves and your billows have gone over me.
By day the Lord commands his steadfast love;
and at night God’s song is with me; a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I mourn because of the oppression of the enemy?”
Like a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me;
they say to me continually, “Where is your God?”
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God whom again I shall praise, my help and my God.
Sung Refrain: God will Give you a new heart, a new spirit put within.
Opening Hymn: "O God, Our Help in Ages Past" (UMH 117)
Passing the Peace
Children’s Message
Ted Voigt
Scripture Reading: Galatians 3:23-29 (NRSV)
Rev. Pam Ford
Message: “A Big Hope”
Rev. Greg Milinovich
Pastoral Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer
Offering
Closing Hymn: “O Church of God, United” (UMH 547)
Benediction
Postlude: “Rondo” (John Bull)
Mary Bahnfleth, organ
