Piano Meditations

 

 Welcome

 

Special Music

                                               “Softly & Tenderly”                              Angelus Handbell Choir      

 

*Silence, Procession, Lighting of the Candles

 

  Organ Prelude                               

                                               “O God, Thou Holy God” - Bach       

 

 Opening Hymn #158

                                               Come, Christians Join to Sing

 

  The Scripture

                                               Selections from Genesis 1 & 2

 

  The Sermon

                                               “God’s Fantasy for a Better World”

 

*Hymn

              #732                          Come, We That Love the Lord                                                      

     (Bring written joys and concerns forward during this hymn.)

 

  Sharing of Joys and Concerns

       (After each joy, we pray, “Thanks be to God;” after concerns, “Lord have mercy.”)

                                                                                                                                                     

  The Morning Offerings

                                               “We Thank Thee Jesus” -  Buxtehude

 

*Doxology                                         

             #95                           “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”

                                                                                      

 

 

 

 

 

 Sacrament of Communion #18

 

 Benediction

 

 Postlude                               

                                         “Prelude in G Major” - Bach

 

Welcome to Grace Church this morning.  This is a community of persons devoted to offering healthy relationships and thinking fresh thoughts.  We value and seek wholeness with God, each other, and our neighborhood.

 

Preaching today:  J. Michael Smith

Organist/Pianist:  Gordon Wilson

Piano Meditations:  Karen Henderson

Handbell Leader:  Callie McFarland

 

The Fellowship Café is open from 8-9:30 a.m. each Sunday.  It is located in our Fellowship Hall (downstairs from the sanctuary) and includes breakfast items.  Baskets are available for those who wish to help defray the cost.  Please join us for this time of fellowship.

 

Directions to Farm Lake for the Picnic and Baptism on September 11, at noon:

 

North on Cunningham until you see the Park Inn.  At the stop light, turn right – then right again at the T – intersection.  Make an almost immediate left.  Do not follow the curve around the front of the motel.  There will be Farm Lake signs with a red barn on them.  The road will be posted ‘No Outlet”.  Park in the field on the right.  Beware of Peacocks sitting along the edges of the road.