August 30, 2020 Service

 

 

PETALUMA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

August 30, 2020

The 13th Sunday after Pentecost

The Order of Service

 

 

PRELUDE:   “Pastorale”     (Organist - Marilyn Lee)

 

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:  (Rob Bickmore)

 

GREETING ONE ANOTHER:  (Pastor Schuyler Rhodes)

Good morning Sisters and Brothers!   Though we cannot greet one another in person as we would love to do, we can reach out and send our welcome to others.   Let us take a moment in silence.  In this time, think of three people you will call this week.   In the coming days call these people to see how they are doing.  Offer to pray with them.  Greet them in the name of Christ. 

 

CALL TO WORSHIP:   (Elizabeth Truesdell)

We are called by a wonderful God to rise up beyond the challenges that surround us and to give our lives in worship to God!   In this moment the voice of the Holy comes to each one of us, saying, “lay your burdens down and trust in me.”  This ability to trust God is the beginning of faith and the touchstone of worship.

 

OPENING HYMN:   “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus”   (FWS 2129)

 

1 I have decided to follow Jesus;
I have decided to follow Jesus;
I have decided to follow Jesus;
no turning back, no turning back.

2 Though none go with me, I still will follow;
though none go with me, I still will follow;
though none go with me, I still will follow;
no turning back, no turning back.

3 The world behind me, the cross before me;
the world behind me, the cross before me,
the world behind me, the cross before me;
no turning back, no turning back.

 

CALL TO CONFESSION: (Pastor Schuyler Rhodes)

In a world like the one we inhabit today, truth telling is not held up as a very high value. 

But for people of faith, speaking truth is at the core of who we are in Jesus Christ.   We are called to speak the truth of love, the truth of compassion, the truth of forgiveness and grace.   And, sisters and brothers we are called to live these truths.   But first, let us come to the source, our wonderful God, and tell God our very own truths. 

Let us silence our busy minds and offer up our prayer of confession to God

 

SILENT PRAYER OF CONFESSION:

 

PRAYER OF CONFESSION:   (Charlotte Peterson)

 

God, we are an imperfect people in search of your perfect wonder.

We stumble, we fall, we sometimes do the wrong things, and other times

    we hesitate to do what we know is right.  Forgive us, we pray.

Pour out your Holy Spirit on us so that we might begin our journey anew.

 In the name of Jesus Christ we pray.  Amen.

 

ASSURANCE OF PARDON:  (Pastor Schuyler Rhodes)

 

Forgiveness comes to us even when we do not know or sense it.   For God has gone the distance, giving even God’s self in Christ Jesus so that we might be forgiven.   This beautiful reality both humbles and calls us forward!  In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven!

 

1st SCRIPTURE:   Psalm 105:1-6  

English (Elizabeth Truesdell )

 

2nd SCRIPTURE:   Romans 12:9-21  

Fijian (Vacatawa Sekuri Yadraka)                      

English (Charlotte Peterson)

 

SERMON: “Love Without Pretending” (Pastor Schuyler Rhodes)

 

THE PASTORAL PRAYER:  (Pastor Schuyler Rhodes)

 

THE LORD’S PRAYER: Fijian( Vakatawa Sekuri Yadraka)

 

Mo dou qai masu kina vakaoqo: “Tama i keimami mai omalagi,

                         Me vakarokorokotaki na yacamuni,

Me yaco mai na nomuni matanitu; Me caka na lomamuni e vuravura

                         Me vaka sa caka tiko mai lomalagi,

“Ni solia mai vei keimami ena siga oqo Na kakana e rauti keimami.”

Ni bokoca mada na neimami i valavala ca, Me vaka keimami sa

            bokoca oti na nodra Era sai valavala ca vei keimami.

Ni kakua ni kauti keimami ki na vere; Ka mo ni vakabulai keimami

             mai na ca.  (Ni sa nomuni na matanitu, Kei na kaukauwa,

                         Kei na lagilagi Ka sega ni mudu.  Emeni.)

 

 

THE LORD’S PRAYER: English (Rob Bickmore)

 

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 trespasses

                              As we forgive those that trespass 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.

 

CELEBRATING OUR OFFERINGS AND TITHES:  (Charlotte Peterson)

 

OFFERTORY:   “Amazing Grace”  (Marilyn Lee)

 

PRAYER OF DEDICATION:  (Pastor Schuyler Rhodes)

 

CLOSING HYMN:  “The Church’s One Foundation” (UMH 545, Vs. 1-3)(Marilyn Lee)

 

1 The church's one foundation
is Jesus Christ, her Lord;
she is his new creation
by water and the Word:
from heav'n he came and sought her
to be his holy bride;
with his own blood he bought her,
and for her life he died.

2 Elect from ev'ry nation,
yet one o'er all the earth,
her charter of salvation
one Lord, one faith, one birth;
one holy name she blesses,
partakes one holy food,
and to one hope she presses,
with ev'ry grace endued.

3 Though with a scornful wonder
men see her sore oppressed,
by schisms rent asunder,
by heresies distressed,
yet saints their watch are keeping,
their cry goes up, "How long?"
And soon the night of weeping
shall be the morn of song.

 

 

 

 

THE BENEDICTION: (Pastor Schuyler Rhodes)   

 

And now may the God of peace, the God of hope and new beginnings call us each to become a living sacrifice, pure and holy, as we go forward in the name of the Creator, the Word and the Holy Spirit.

 

POSTLUDE:  “Jubilate Deo”(Marilyn Lee)