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April 27, 2025
Second Sunday of Easter
Music for Gathering:
Brian Jay
Organist
Welcome & Announcements:
Rev. Cindy Harvey, Parish Associate
Minute for Mission:
Kathy Egr – Camp Calvin Crest
Call to Worship:
Praise God with clapping hands; praise God with hands comforting a child.
Praise God with silent hearts; praise God with hearts broken for the world.
Praise God with electric guitars; praise God with soft piano chords.
Praise God with be-bop and hip-hop; praise God with rhythms that don’t stop.
Praise God with a hallelujah chorus; praise God with a Gregorian chant.
Praise God with dancing steps; praise God with feet walking for justice.
* Hymn 254 “That Easter Day with Joy Was Bright”
Please see screens for lyrics.
Confession of Sin:
Beverly Shelton, Worship Leader
God of empty tombs and emptier people: when we hesitate to speak of your hope, forgive us, and give us a voice. When we find it difficult to love one another, forgive us, and give us fresh compassion. When we want to stand with the high and mighty, forgive us, and seat us next to the poor and oppressed. When we stay locked behind our fears and doubts, forgive us, and send us out to share your grace. When we cannot believe your Word of new life, forgive us, and fill us with your joy.
Silence for personal confession
* Assurance of Pardon:
…Christ comes into the locked rooms of our faults and gifts us with grace & hope.
Christ comes to fill us with peace, so we may proclaim the good news of mercy and forgiveness for all. Thanks be to God. Amen.
* Song of Praise #243 “Be Not Afraid”
Please see Sanctuary screens for lyrics.
* Passing the Peace
Prayer for Illumination:
Beverly Shelton, Worship Leader
First Scripture:
Revelation 1:4-8
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Anthem:
“Glory, Glory, Hallelujah”
PCM Chancel Choir
Second Scripture:
John 20:19-31
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Time for the Children:
Kathy Sutula
Sermon:
Rev. Cindy Harvey
* Hymn 268 “Crown Him with Many Crowns”
Please see screens for lyrics.
The Reaffirmation of Baptism & Profession of Faith for Confirmands
Presentation
Do you believe in God, the Father almighty?
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
Do you believe in Jesus Christ?
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead.
Do you believe in the Holy Spirit?
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
Laying On of Hands
Presentation of Gifts
Welcome
Pastoral Prayer:
Congregation Response: Bless us with peace.
Invitation to Discipleship
The Lord’s Prayer:
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
* Hymn #238 “Thine Is the Glory”
Please see screens for lyrics.
* Charge & Blessing
God sends us forth with songs of joy in our hearts.
We will go to sing of wonder to all who are empty of life even as we gather them close to our hearts.
Jesus calls us to step out of our fears into lives of witness.
We will go to breathe peace into all the broken places around us.
The Spirit teaches us new dance steps of grace.
We will go to take our sisters and brothers by the hand to dance in the streets of the kingdom.
* Music for departing