Our church is celebrating its tenth birthday this Sunday. We had normal morning services, along with a birthday celebration in the evening with some liturgical moments:
CREATOR/GLORIOUS DAY
Call to Worship: Psalm 24:1-6
GREAT ARE YOU LORD
ABIDE
Sermon: Psalm 145
The Apostles’ Creed
Baptism Affirmations
Trusting in the gracious mercy of God, do you turn from the ways of sin and renounce evil and its power in the world? I do.
Do you turn to Jesus Christ and accept Him as your Lord and Savior, trusting in His grace and love? I do.
Will you be Christ’s faithful disciple, obeying His Word and showing His love? I will, with God’s help.
Baptisms
LIVING HOPE
Benediction
SUNDAY EVENING
Welcome & Prayer
Father, we are gathered here because we believe that we are called together into a work we cannot yet know the fullness of. Still, we trust the voice of the One who has called us.
And so we offer to you, O God, these things:
Our dreams, our plans, our vision.
Shape them as You will.
Our moments and our gifts.
May they be invested toward bright, eternal ends.
Richly bless the work before us, Father.
Shepherd us well lest we grow enamored of our own accomplishment or entrenched in old habit.
Instead let us listen for Your voice, our hearts ever open to the quieter beckonings of Your Spirit.
May our love and our labors now echo your love and your labors, O Lord.
O Spirit of God, now shape our hearts.
O Spirit of God, now guide our hands.
O Spirit of God, now build Your kingdom among us.
Amen.
Adapted from “A Liturgy for the Labors of Community”
Every Moment Holy, Douglas McKelvey
10,000 Reasons
RAISE A HALLELUJAH/WAITING HERE FOR YOU/O PRAISE THE NAME/DOXOLOGY
Sermon
Celebration