Join us for a short service this Friday from 12:15-12:45 pm.
Good Friday: Deep in the Shadows
ORDER OF SERVICE
PRELUDE VIDEO – Khudaya, rahem kar (Have Mercy on Us, Lord)
– from Voices Together #693 sung by the Story Musicians
GREETING
CALL TO WORSHIP
One: Today we gather to enter the story of Jesus’ betrayal and pain together.
Many: With heavy feet we enter the story. The sea, the earth, the sky, the woods, the current, the wilderness, all lead us here. We rest in God’s shadow.
One: We are here in the darkness remembering Jesus’ death.
Many: Slowly we open our hearts to grief and to our part in the story.
One: We are here in the darkness, following Christ, who says, “Take up your cross.”
Many: Deep in the darkness, we trust that death is not the end.
All: And there was darkness.
SCRIPTURE – John 18: 3-12 (Arrest of Jesus)
SONG – Go to Dark Gethsemane (Voices Together #317)
PRAYER
SCRIPTURE – John 18:25-27 (Peter denies Jesus a Third Time); Isaiah 53:6
SONG – Before the Cock Crew Twice (Blue Hymnal #243)
PRAYER
SCRIPTURE – John 18: 33-38 (Pilate interviews Jesus); Isaiah 53:2-3
SONG – When We are Tempted, verses 1-3 (Purple songbook #81)
PRAYER
SCRIPTURE – John 19: 17-22 (Crucifixion of Jesus); Isaiah 53:10
SONG – Were You There (Voices Together #329)
PRAYER
SCRIPTURE – John 19: 28-30 (The Death of Jesus); Isaiah 53: 12
SONG – When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Voices Together #322)
PRAYER
SCRIPTURE – John 19: 38-42 (Burial of Jesus)
SENDING BLESSING
POSTLUDE VIDEO – Ya hamala Allah (O Lamb of God)
– from Voices Together #321 sung by the Hesston College Bel Canto Singers
Worship Leader – Sam Cox
Hymns – Pastor Deb
Scripture readers – Sam Cox & Pastor Deb
Videos – Rhonda Gibson
Technician – Phil Martens