Gad oY On Ae0e Birk. Heo dd ie WORSHIP SERVIC MAY FELLOWSHIP DAY - May, 1994 IN COMMUNITY Edited by Mary Cline Detrick, Staff for Celebrations, with Eleanor Dirrane, Administrative Assistant for the Ecumenical Celebrations Planning Group: Sharon Rezac Andersen, A’‘la Perle Hickman, Audrey Lawrence, Beverly Wolfard and Joan Redfearn, Chairperson. Copyright 1993 by Church Women United 475 Riverside Drive, Room 812, New York, NY 10115 8 : This time of worship invites us to pause and see our community with new eyes. Whether we are newcomers or have spent our entire life in this locale, the Rev. Angelique Walker-Smith of Indianapolis and the Celebrations Planning Group designed this worship to enable us to open our eyes, as if seeing our community for the first time. Listen to the people who make up our community; discover how we minister with each other; covenant with ctners for actions which will demonstrate our love and care for each other, as befitting those who would worship God. Sponsored by Church Women United THE SERVICE OF WORSHIP “Go, See and Act in Community’ a work I've :3 ‘ an (Reflect in silence) seems HYMN Most Loving and Compassionate God, We thank you for the beauty of your creation. Today we especially recognize the blessing of your human creation That invites us to be in relationship with sisters and brothers unlike and like ourselves a relationship that encourages equal participation of those marginalized In our community. We pray that your Holy Spirit will direct us anew In understanding what this means for the community In which we live. Amen, God of Grace and God of Glory GERMANY LM (Verses 1,2,3 and 5, only) ANNOUNCEMENT Announcer: GOSPEL LESSON /Z.,.L}, Charles W. Everest/ like, seemslikenothing at = ——. 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I ae your praise | ge bee 5 | TI | ee = oo love; stead - fast for SSS === | fill - cae | moar TL SSE _ me. for - pose pur your . \ . | Story Three | 4 =~ Psalm 138** RrsrONnst (General) the me. aa j | Choral Response 5 | Gary Alan Smith A I O_# \ |_ eel ; . — == sing I e Af id P * be for- Ps. 138:1,2,6 (General) o a ; dont un-der - a £: work I'vedone friends I —; : my 4s 4 Fy and ' ' is noth-ing that can He will mis- takes Psalm 138** fe Ke it So 1 sing I a | (my — j ful PREP }—__1_} -— fill Ps. 138:1,2,6 eee 2 a for stead - = some praise your e t your Sao et —— 7—t T pur - pose for 7tac Scart Caer love; fast t i | Gary Alan Smith i aan tar eee 8 | f me. ** Music; Copyright 1989, United Methodist Publishing House. Reprinted from the United Methodist Hymnal with permission. Words: The United Methodist Liturgicol Psalter, edited by Harrell Beck, John Holbert, S. T. Kimbrough, Jr., and Alan Luff, c. 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House, based on the New Revised Standard Version Bible, 1989, and adapted by permission of the Division of Christian Education of the National Council Churches of Christ in the USA, all rights reserved. ANNOUNCEMENT Announcer: | | Act! CA : ‘But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.’** CONFESSION James 1:22, NRSV Speech Choir From Meditations of the Heart by Howard Thurman, Friends United Press, © 1984 Mrs. Howard Thurman. Adapted for worship by A. Walker-Smith and M.C. Detrick. ASSURANCE OF GOD’S FORGIVENESS In the name of Christ, may your life and work be blessed! Amen. “May the Work I’ve Done Speak for Me RESPONSIVE READING All: Leader: There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love. All: Those who say, “I love God,” and hate thelr brothers or sisters, are llars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. Amen. 4 John 4:7-9, 11-13, 18, 20, NRSV, adapted. | Beloved, 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. Leader: God's love was revealed among us in this way: God sent All: Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. God's only Son into the world so that we might live through him. Vocal Solo OFFERING Leader Statement Offerings -collecting gifts of money and witten commitments. COMMUNITY COVENANT Prayers for the Community Leader: By this we know that we abide in God and God In us, because God has given us God’s Spirit. i May the work I’ve Done Speak for Me (Asks each group fo stand.) INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE All: MEDITATION WITH MUSIC May you feel the blessings of God in your life. All: Noone has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and God’s love is perfected in us. John 8:11b-12, NRSV COMMUNITY PRAYERS — Leader: Leader: — All: We covenant with God wate. ) and with one another, In the presence of God and one another, to walk together with those who have been marginalized 7 from our churches and community. We commit ourselves to finding new ways to listen, to learn and thereby to minister effectively so that we might demonstrate the love of Christ. Specifically, we promise fo fulfill the written commitments we have made today. We pray for the Holy Spirit’s guidance, the love and commitment of Church Women United Sisters, and the support of our churches as we seek fo live out the covenant rendered here this day. Amen.