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Flowers:
The flowers on the altar are given to the Glory of God by Jean Staley in
loving memory of Flo Kes.
Lay Reader:
Dick Adams
Come
Are
Ushers:as You
Paul
and Diane Selnau, Howard Stewart, and Omer Yalincak
Greeters:
Side: Gerry Berggren
Keeping
What
Tower: Yvonne Hill
Is Necessar
01/11/2015 Worship Attendance:
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8:00 – 18; 9:00 – 78; 10:30 – 131; Total = 227
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Church School Attendance: 49
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Our Pastors – Woody Eddins and Peter Preiser
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Worship
Simsbury United Methodist Church
“Listening for
God’s Difficult
Messages”
Organist & Adult Music – Yves Venne
Children/Youth/Contemporary Music – Dorothy Cowles
A Stephen Ministry Church
“We need to find God, but God
cannot be found in noise and
restlessness. God is the friend of
silence. See how nature - trees,
flowers, grass - grows in silence; see
the stars, the moon and the sun, how
they move in silence... We need
silence to be able to touch souls.”
Mother Teresa
10:30 a.m.
Jan 18, 2015
01.18.15 – 3rd Sunday after Epiphany
Worship Service – 10:30 a.m.
Welcome
Prelude | A tribute to early African American music with Yves at the piano
Message | “Listening for God’s Difficult Messages” Pastor Woody Eddins
◊Call to Worship
Leader:
Listen to God speak in the silence of your being, be aware of God’s voice as you
journey to your soul.
People: How does God speak, and when should we listen? How can we
recognize the voice of God with so many competing voices?
Leader:
Be still and know God. Wait on God to touch your life with healing and hope,
with joy and peace.
People: We need to experience these gifts in our lives; we need to know God
as one who frees us from the anxiety of living.
Leader:
God is light, in God there is no darkness. God is love and nothing in all
creation is beyond redemption.
People: Speak, O God, for your servants are listening.
◊Hymn of Response | I’ve Got Peace Like a River #2145 (Faith We Sing Hymnal)
Pastoral Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer | Blue hymnal #895
Offertory Music | “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” an African American traditional
Chancel Choir
◊Presentation of Gifts/Doxology #94
Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise God, all creatures here
below: Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise God, the source of all our gifts! Praise
Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts! Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
◊Opening Hymn | Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing #400
◊Opening Prayer | (unison)
All knowing God, we confess that we act at times as if you did not exist. Our
lives are inundated by the narrowness of our existence. We define ourselves
by what we do and by what we refuse to do. We see the evil, but we blame
others and forget that we participate by our silence. Restore our life and
awaken our desire to give and to forgive. Teach us again to dance with the
saints the dance of faith, of hope, and of justice, and of love. Amen.
A Time for Children
◊Prayer of Dedication
◊Closing Hymn | We Shall Overcome #533
◊Benediction
◊Benediction Response | Go In Peace
Go in peace and the peace of God be with you this day; Go in peace and the
peace of God be with you alway. Celebrate and share the joy, celebrate
new life. Go in peace and the peace of God be with you alway.
First Lesson | 1 Samuel 3: 1-20
◊Postlude | In remembrance of MLK with Yves at the piano (improvisation)
Psalter | Psalm 139, Blue hymnal page #854
◊ please stand as you are able
Second Lesson | John 1: 43-51