JULY 15, 2012 SERVICE

Enter to Worship, Depart to Serve

Our Mission:  "To make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world."

WORDS OF WELCOME/ANNOUNCEMENTS

ORGAN PRELUDE

+CALL TO WORSHIP

LEADER:    O’God, give us hearts to see the things our

                     eyes overlook.
PEOPLE:   Open our hearts to feel the things our

                     hands can't touch.LEADER:    Open our hearts to hear the still, small voice

                     which sounds like only silence to our listening

                     ears.
PEOPLE:   Teach us to know you for what you really

                     are - not flash or thunder, but love softly

                     spoken.  Amen.

+OPENING HYMN     “For the Beauty of the Earth”       #92

PRAYER

God, save us from being self-centered in our prayers, and teach us to remember to pray for others. May we be so bound up in love with those for whom we pray that we may feel their needs as acutely as our own, and intercede for them with sensitiveness, with understanding and with imagination. This we ask in Christ's name. Amen.

Time with Young Disciples

HYMN            “Breathe on Me, Breath of God”                #420

SCRIPTURES          1 John 5:1-12

MESSAGE

OFFERING

As forgiven and reconciled people, let us offer ourselves and our gifts to God.  

+DOXOLOGY #95

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.  Amen.

PRAYER OF DEDICATION

+ CLOSING HYMN              “Trust and Obey”                  #467

+ SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING

+ POSTLUDE

(+) Those who are able are invited to stand.      

*Communion is available