WORSHIP SERVICES

Orders of worship for recent and upcoming services

Celebration of Worship May 2, 2021

Apr 30, 2021

ORDER OF SERVICE

Note: All hymns are from the new Voices Together hymnal

Centering chimes Lighting of the solidarity lamp –
Symbolic of our Sister Church relationship with El Divino Redentor

Prelude – Beautiful Things/Christ Has Arisen (Voices Together #551/#341) arr. by Debra Sutter

Call to Worship (Voices Together #20: Psalm 100)

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness; come into God’s presence with a song.

Know that the Lord is God, our maker to whom we belong;

we are God’s people and the sheep of God’s pasture.

Enter the gates of the Lord with thanksgiving and the courts with praise;

give thanks and bless God’s holy name.

Good indeed is the Lord, whose steadfast love is everlasting,

whose faithfulness endures from age to age.

Hymn #166 – Your Love is Washing Over Me

Welcome & prayer

Passing the peace (break-out zoom groups)

Hymn #120 – For the Beauty of the Earth

Children’s story
– Song “Let the children come to me”
– The children’s offering benefits Crisis Nursery in Champaign. The organization’s mission is to prevent child abuse and neglect by providing 24-hour emergency care for children and support to families in crisis. Donations may be sent to the FMC office at any time or can be made online (select children’s offering in “To” box)

Scripture: Acts 15:36-41 & Acts 16:6-15

Sermon

Hymn #565 – Christ is Alive and Goes Before Us

Congregational Sharing & prayer

Meditation music – There’s a Wild Hope in the Wind (Voices Together #828) 
– In the absence of a weekly offering collection, reflect on how you are practicing and receiving generosity. Consider giving to First Mennonite Church by mailing a check, giving through your bank, or giving online.

Work of the church

Hymn #839 – Go My Friends in Peace

Benediction

Worship Leader- Pastor Michael
Prelude – Pastor Debra Sutter
Meditation – Aaron Kaufmann & Sarah Sutter Kaufmann
Hymns – Andrea Welty Peachey
Children’s Story – Mary Biddle
Scripture Reader – Emerson Nafziger
Sermon – Pastor Deb Sutter
Sharing – Pastor Deb Sutter
Technician – Phil Martens

Celebration of Worship April 25, 2021

Apr 23, 2021

ORDER OF SERVICE

Note: All hymns are from the new Voices Together hymnal

Centering chimes Lighting of the solidarity lamp –
Symbolic of our Sister Church relationship with El Divino Redentor

Prelude – Pandemics – People Rise Up by Kristy Rice

Call to Worship (Psalm 23 & 1 John 3:16-24)

Day by day, God leads us:

 

to the deep, deep pools of peace, to the rivers and waters of grace.

 

Day by day, Jesus calls us:

 

to pour out ourselves in service, to anoint the stranger with hope.

 

Day by day, the Holy Spirit shows us:

 

the community we could be, the family we are called to become.

 

Adapted from a Call to Worship written by Thom Shuman, Lectionary Liturgies. 

Hymn #67 – My God is Here (Tú estás aquí)

Welcome & prayer

Passing the peace (break-out zoom groups)

Hymn #84 – To God Be the Glory

Children’s story
– Song “Let the children come to me”
– The children’s offering benefits Crisis Nursery in Champaign. The organization’s mission is to prevent child abuse and neglect by providing 24-hour emergency care for children and support to families in crisis. Donations may be sent to the FMC office at any time or can be made online (select children’s offering in “To” box)

Scripture: 1 John 3:16-24; John 10:11-18

Sermon

Hymn #716 – God of Grace and God of Glory

Congregational Sharing & prayer

Meditation music 
– In the absence of a weekly offering collection, reflect on how you are practicing and receiving generosity. Consider giving to First Mennonite Church by mailing a check, giving through your bank, or giving online.

Work of the church
– Holy Remix (Pete Shungu)

Hymn #705 – For the Healing of the Nations

Benediction

Worship Leader- Pastor Michael
Prelude – Kristy Rice
Meditation – Lesley Deem
Hymns – Rafael Luquis
Children’s Story – Melissa Shungu
Scripture Reader – Janet Elaine Guthrie
Sermon – Weldon Nisly, CPT member (Iraq Kurdistan)
Sharing – Pastor Michael
Technician – Bharat Patel

Celebration of Worship April 18, 2021

Apr 16, 2021

ORDER OF SERVICE

Note: All hymns are from the new Voices Together hymnal

Centering chimes Lighting of the solidarity lamp –
Symbolic of our Sister Church relationship with El Divino Redentor

Prelude – Take Up Your Spade by Sara Watkins

Call to Worship (Voices Together #884)

Leader: In the beginning, before time, before people, before the world began,

All:  God was.

 

Leader:  Here and now, among us, beside us, clearer than air, closer than breathing,

All:  God is.

 

Leader: In all that is to come, when we have turned to dust and human knowledge has been complete,

All:  God will be.

 

Leader:  Not despairing of earth, but delighting in it,
not condemning the world, but redeeming it through Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit,

All:  God was, God is, God will be.

 

Hymn #359 – Christ is Alive! Let Christians Sing

Welcome & prayer

Passing the peace (break-out zoom groups)

Hymn #44 – We Long to Know Her

Children’s story
– Song “Let the children come to me”
– The children’s offering benefits Crisis Nursery in Champaign. The organization’s mission is to prevent child abuse and neglect by providing 24-hour emergency care for children and support to families in crisis. Donations may be sent to the FMC office at any time or can be made online (select children’s offering in “To” box)

Scripture: Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Hymn #422 – Called or Not Called

Congregational Sharing & prayer

Meditation music – Revelation Song (Digno y santo) from Voices Together #415
 – In the absence of a weekly offering collection, reflect on how you are practicing and receiving generosity. Consider giving to First Mennonite Church by mailing a check, giving through your bank, or giving online.

Work of the church
– Earth Week video

Hymn #353 – Now the Green Blade Rises

Benediction

Worship Leader- Pastor Deb
Prelude – Lincoln Morris
Meditation – Hilary Rhodes
Hymns – Sarah Sutter Kaufmann and Deb Sutter
Children’s Story – Courtney Malcolm
Scripture Reader – Tom Anderson
Sermon & Sharing – Pastor Michael
Technician – Phil Martens