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OCTOBER 18, 2026
21ST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
PASTOR DOMINGOS FERNANDO
ORGANIST JIM ROSS
 
Prelude -  Heaven Came Down and Glory Filled My Soul- John Peterson
 Welcome & Announcements - Dr. Armendia P. Dixon
 
 *Call to Worship
LEADER: We are chosen children of God, bound together by the Holy Spirit.
PEOPLE: We belong to God, and through God, we belong to one another.
LEADER: The Spirit empowers us to live as imitators of Christ in love of God, neighbor, self, and all creation.
PEOPLE: We belong to God, and through God, we learn to love one another.
LEADER: The Spirit inspires us to receive God’s Word with joy in a world that rejects the good news.
PEOPLE: We belong to God, and through God, we live in joy with one another.
LEADER: Come, let us worship in the assurance of God’s love that chooses us, empowers us, and inspires us to live as the family of Christ.
ALL: We come to worship God in the assurance that we belong to God, and through God, we belong to one another. Amen. 

 *Opening Hymn “When Morning Gilds the Skies" UMH #185
 
 *Opening Prayer, in unison
 Loving, living God, be among us now. Show us your ways. Guide our steps. Live in us, that we may be people of steadfast hope and powerful giving. Help us hear your words, challenging us to give you all the things that are yours. Help us remember that all we are and all we have are gifts from you, gifts to be shared in service and love. Holy One among us, help us be a holy people who receive your word with joy and live your message with love. Amen.

Children's Time

Responsive Reading - Psalm 1, UMH p.738
 1 Blessed are those
            Who do not walk in the counsel of the wicked;
Or stand in the way of sinners,
          Or sit in the seat of scoffers;
2 but their delight is in the law of the Lord,
           and on God’s law they mediate day and night.
3 They are like trees
              planted by streams of water
              that yield their fruit in season,
               and their leaves do not wither.
In all that they do, they prosper.
4 The wicked are not so,
      but are like chaff which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment;
           Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6 for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
          But the way of the wicked will perish. 

 Scripture Reading
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 (NIV)

Leader: The word of God for the people of God.
ALL: Thanks be to God.
 
Morning Message - "Let Your Life Tell the Story"
 
Collection of Tithes and Offerings
Offertory -   Reach Out and Touch- Charles Brown

Gloria Patri

Joys & Concerns 
 
Hymn - “His Name Is Wonderful" UMH #174
 
*Prayer of Thanksgiving 
 
*Closing Hymn - “I Love to Tell the Story" UMH #156
 
Blessing & Benediction 
 
Postlude -  Higher Ground-Charles Gabriel

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