Hybrid Worship
19 September 2021
Good Morning - Welcome to Hybrid Worship!

We're continuing with a single service at 10:15 am, in the sanctuary, on Zoom, and streaming live to YouTube. While we love our mountain campus, we're also excited to be "breaking out" by using technology to share our core values of justice, inclusion, and spirituality.

Whether you are getting ready to come to the campus or you're preparing to participate online, you are loved!
We Covenant One With Another
Spiritual Formation
Spiritual Formation (adult Sunday School) is back! Join us by Zoom at 9:00 am or show up in the Shadow Rock Multipurpose Room! Our topic for September and October is "Wading Into Theology," informed by Elizabeth Johnson's Quest for the Living God. Last week, we talked briefly about modern theism as a departure point and the marvelous diversity of theology in the 21st century. This week, we get down to business with the question: "In what ways does belief make sense and in what ways does it not?" Everyone is welcome - come prepared to share your journey with others in ways that feel best for you.

Prelude

Greeting and Announcements
No matter who you are, or where you are on life's journey, you are welcome here!

Get ready to share celebrations and prayer requests. Zoom worshippers can unmute and share when invited to do so or use the chat function anytime. All congregants can text Pastor Ken at 480-263-3308. In-person worshippers can also write a card with their celebration or prayer concern.

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Call to Worship
One: Let’s talk. It is a good morning to be together!
All: We are drawn by the warmth of faces, familiar and
new, to the welcoming space of this sacred place.
One: We can see and hear with our eyes and ears.
All: We can see and hear with our hearts and minds.
One: In gratitude we want to keep each other, our true selves and our neighbors within sight and sound.
All: This is what the beloved community does.      
One: Equipped by God to love, laugh and discern, we gather together.  
All: Perhaps we should keep the God who loves and equips us in sight and sound as well.
One: That’s a good idea! It is a good morning to be together.  

Singing Our Faith - "Circle of Friends"

Opening Prayer

Meditation - Seven Gates of Transformation
From Prayer Seeds © Joyce Rupp. Used by permission of Ave Maria Press Inc. 

This is the gate to Life;
Those who know Love shall enter through it.
~Psalm 118

Celebrations and Prayer Concerns

Celebration Song - "Celebrate / Be True"
Perceiving and Responding
Pastoral Prayer

Prayer Response
"Those Who Wait on the Lord"

Stewardship Moment and Offertory
Thank you for your faithful support for Shadow Rock's ministries of care. Our ultimate stewardship is our care for each other.
Balancing Word and Deed
Word About Life for Today ~ Ken Heintzelman

Sending Forth
  
One: Go into the world: dance, laugh, sing and create.
All: We go with the encouragement of God.
One: Go into the world: risk, explore, discover and love.
All: We go with the empowerment of God.
One: Go into the world: believe, hope, struggle and remember.
All: We go with the assurance of the love of God.
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: God be with you. 
All: And also with you.
One: Amen.
All: Amen.

Postlude - "Blest Be the Tie That Binds"