evangelism: transforming congregations – engaging communities evening worship friday, november 4th...

Evangelism:Transforming Congregations – Engaging Communities

Evening WorshipFriday, November 4th – 7 PM

Silent Meditation

Out of faith, we reach out to your world. We have made mistakes, but we have learned. Out of our passion, we extend ourselves. We have sown seeds of justice, love and peace. God of hope and promise, continue to use us as Your instruments with eyes of wisdom. Keep us grounded in mission and blooming in faith.

Gathering Music • Rev. Yvette Flunder and Gideon Lawson

Love Divine All Love Excelling

Love divine, all loves excelling,Joy of heaven on earth be found;Fix in us a humble dwelling;All your faithful mercies crown!Jesus, you are all compassion,Pure unbounded love impart;Visit us with your salvation; Enter every trembling heart.

Love Divine All Love Excelling

Breathe, O breathe your loving Spirit,Into every troubled breast!Let us all in you inherit;Let us find your promised rest.Take away our love of sinning;Alpha and Omega be;End of faith, as its Beginning,

Set our hearts at liberty.

Love Divine All Love Excelling

Come, Almighty to deliver, Let us all your life receive;Suddenly return and never,Never more your temples leave.You we would be always blessing,Love you as your angels love,Pray and praise for your unfailing,

wounded arms outstretched above.

Love Divine All Love Excelling

Finish, then, your new creation;Pure and spotless me we prove.Let us see your great salvationPerfectly restored in you;Changed from glory into glory,'Til in heaven we take our place,Crowned as saints, we ever shall be

lost in wonder, love, and praise.

Call to Worship• Leader: Hallelujah, my brothers and sisters,

God is our everything! Will you be a witness? • Congregation: Yes, Lord, we will be witnesses.

We will celebrate the goodness and mercy of our God, Hallelujah!

• Leader: We will seek peace, mercy and justice and be sources of them. We will tell our sons and daughters what God has done through the ages. Will you be a witness?

Call to Worship• Congregation: Yes, Lord, we will be

witnesses. We will shout from the rooftops that our God is a rock in a weary land, a shelter in the time of storm. We will worship you and be your instruments in the world.

• Leader: Hallelujah, we are witnesses for a God of mercy and love. Let us worship and live like children of royalty and grace. Hallelujah!

• Invocation and Lord’s Prayer • Words of Welcome • Worship in song –

Fellowship Chapel Choir

• Mime - Children

Responsive Reading• Leader: We come before you this day, O God…

• Congregation: Mindful of our ancestors in the faith who sought to respond to your invitation to take your healing love and Christ’s ministry to our communities and around the world.

• Leader: We come before you this day, O God…

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Responsive Reading• Congregation: Thankful for the privilege of

serving you today and the responsibility to seek to discern your will for our work in Your name throughout the world.

• Leader: We come before you this day, O God …• Congregation: Committing ourselves to

discovering and sharing exciting new ways to share the story of your love in Christ Jesus.

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Responsive Reading• • Leader: We come before you this day, O God

• All: Gathered in worship to celebrate Your Spirit alive today in us and in the world.

Gospel Scripture • 1 John 4:7-12Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God;

everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Sermon HymnFellowship Chapel UCC

Sermon

The Pelican and the Grasshopper

Rev. DaVita McCallisterAssociate Conference Minister forYouth and Young Adult Ministry

Connecticut Conference UCC

They Will Know We Are Christians by Our Love

We are one in the Spirit,we are one in the Lord, We are one in the Spiritwe are one in the Lord,And we pray that all unitymay one day be restored:

They Will Know We Are Christians by Our Love

And they'll know we are ChristiansBy our love, by our love,

Yes, they'll know we are ChristiansBy our love.

They Will Know We Are Christians by Our Love

We will walk with each otherwe will walk hand in handWe will walk with each otherwe will walk hand in handand together we'll spread the

news that God is in our land:

They Will Know We Are Christians by Our Love

And they'll know we are ChristiansBy our love, by our love,

Yes, they'll know we are ChristiansBy our love.

They Will Know We Are Christians by Our Love

We will work with each otherwe will work side by sideWe will work with each otherWe will work side by sideAnd we'll guard each one's

dignity and save each one's pride:

They Will Know We Are Christians by Our Love

And they'll know we are ChristiansBy our love, by our love,

Yes, they'll know we are ChristiansBy our love.

They Will Know We Are Christians by Our Love

All Praise to our Creatorfrom whom all things come,And all praise to Christ JesusGod’s only Son, and all praise to the Spiritwho makes us all one:

They Will Know We Are Christians by Our Love

And they'll know we are ChristiansBy our love, by our love,

Yes, they'll know we are ChristiansBy our love.

Tonight’s MISSION:1 OfferingBen Guess

Tonight’s Offering is going to Gleaners Headquarters & Distribution Center Detroit, MI UCOM (United Church Outreach Ministry) Grand Rapids andAfrican Drought Relief

I Love to Tell the Story I love to tell the story of unseen things above, of Jesus’ radiant glory, of Jesus’ endless love. I love to tell the story, because I know it’s true; it satisfies my longings as nothing else can do.

I love to tell the story, and when I am in glory, I’ll tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.

I Love to Tell the Story I love to tell the story; more wonderful it seems than all the golden visions of all our golden dreams. I love to tell the story, I tell it now to you because I want to share it, because I know it’s true.I love to tell the story, and when I am in glory, I’ll tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.

I Love to Tell the Story I love to tell the story; it’s pleasant to repeat what seems, each time I tell it, more wonderfully sweet. I love to tell the story, for some have never heard the message of salvation from God's own holy Word. I love to tell the story, and when I am in glory, I’ll tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.

I Love to Tell the Story I love to tell the story, for those who know it best seem hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest. And when, I sing in glory, I know the new, new song, will be the old, old story that I have loved so long.I love to tell the story, and when I am in glory, I’ll tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.

Benediction

Saturday Morning Schedule

• 7:45 AM – 8:15 AM Transportation from the Hilton to Fellowship Chapel. (You will be responsible for your own transportation if you are not on board the bus before 8:15 AM.)

• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM Prayer and praise Sanctuary – Rev. Yvette Flunder and Mr. Gideon Lawson

• 8:45 AM – 9: 15 AM Bible Study Sanctuary – Rev. Alice Hunt