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Pastor: Rev. James Tubbs
Organist: Jim Ross
Offertory: In Memoriam (For the victims of Covid-19) - John Stallsmith

ALL SAINTS SUNDAY -- COMMUNION SUNDAY

ORDER OF WORSHIP
 
 Prelude - Consolation - Josef Low
 
 Welcome
  
*Call to Worship 
Leader: On this All Saints’ Sunday, we gather to join the multitude of saints across the generations from all tribes, peoples, and languages, to proclaim:
 People: Salvation belongs to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!
Leader: We come to remember, to grieve, and to celebrate those saints who have come before, yet whose life and witness continues to teach us:
 People: Salvation belongs to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!
Leader: We gather today as the family of Christ, siblings and saints, diverse yet united by grace to live lives that declare:
 People: Salvation belongs to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!
Leader: May we be guided today by the Lamb who is our Shepherd, the one who gathers us, comforts us and tends us.
 People: May we join in the work of the Shepherd to bring about a world with no more hunger, no more thirst, no more suffering, and no more pain that all the saints of the past, the present, and the future may share in God’s abundant life. Amen.
 
*Opening Hymn "The Church’s One Foundation" #545 Vs 1, 3, 5 
 
* Prayer
Leader: Loving and generous God, we come to you hungry and thirsty for your word. Satisfy our hunger, quench our thirst, nourish our soul. Teach us to listen and heed all your promises and receive the abundance of your inexhaustible grace.
People: We pause to remember the faithfulness of your servants from all generations, from all peoples, in all languages, who shared in word and deed the many wonders of your love and grace.
Leader: And now, with words of hope in our hearts, we again respond to your call to carry the Good News of Jesus Christ, in all languages, beginning here in our communities, across all borders, and unto the ends of the earth.
People: Send us in the power of your Holy Spirit to join your mission of bearing witness to your Son, our Lord, who in a humble Nazarene synagogue announced: “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
All: Amen.

 Affirmation of Faith – Apostles’ Creed #881
Gloria Patri #70
 
Children's Chat

 Music Ministry and Offertory 
Doxology and Prayer of Gratitude
 
 Scripture: John 5:1-18
 
 Sermon: “My Father Is Always at Work”  -Rev. Jim Tubbs
 
Joys/Concerns 

Hymn "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" #140

Pastoral Prayer/Lord's Prayer
 
 Communion - The Great Thanksgiving (Insert)

 Closing Hymn "For All the Saints" #711 Vs. 1-4
 
Announcements, Action Steps, & Benediction
 
 Postlude - Trumpet Voluntary - John Barr