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Unleashing the Spirit of Thankfulness and Gratitude

Join us for a worship service centered around thankfulness and gratitude. Experience joyful worship, uplifting music, and inspiring messages. All are welcome!

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Unleashing the Spirit of Thankfulness and Gratitude

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  1. October 21, 2018 Welcome to OPC

  2. Cambridge Chimes Welcome and Announcements Greeting Each Other Ringing of the Bell

  3. Prelude“For All the Saints” ~Arr. Hopson Lighting of the candles

  4. *CALL TO WORSHIP AND INVOCATION L: Let us make a joyful noise to the Lord this day. P: Let us worship God with gratitude and gladness as we come into his presence.

  5. L: As King David said: “the Lord is good, his love endures forever.” • P: Yes, and the Lord is our God, and he has made each one of us.

  6. L: God calls each of you to stand in God’s presence and feel God’s love. • P: We are thankful God has called us and covers us with his presence.

  7. L: May your hearts and souls be filled with God’s Spirit and blessings this hour. • P: May we unleash God’s Spirit of Thankfulness this hour and may our worship honor our God!

  8. *HYMN #411 “Arise, Your Light Is Come!” v.1 Arise, your light is come! The Spirit’s call obey; Show forth the glory of your God, which shines on you today.

  9. *HYMN #411 “Arise, Your Light Is Come!” v.2 Arise, your light is come! Fling wide the prison door;Proclaim the captives’ liberty, good tidings to the poor.

  10. *HYMN #411 “Arise, Your Light Is Come!” v.3 Arise, your light is come! All you in sorrow born,Bind up the brokenhearted ones and comfort those who mourn.

  11. *HYMN #411 “Arise, Your Light Is Come!” v.4 Arise, your light is come! The mountains burst in song!Rise up like eagles on the wing; God’s power will make us strong.

  12. *PRAYER OF CONFESSION(unison) Sometimes, God, we think all we have and all we have accomplished in life are because we are so awesome. When we think like that, Holy One, we forget that

  13. all we have and all we have accomplished is because of you. In our selfishness, our hears become so ungrateful that we forget to give you thanks for what you have done for each of us.

  14. Please hear us this day as we confess our sinfulness, our arrogance, and our selfishness. Accept our broken hearts and cleanse them. Help us to remember to give you thanks and praise each day, Mighty God.

  15. (silence is observed for reflection and prayer)

  16. ASSURANCE OF PARDON L: Friends, please know that we serve a loving, merciful God who forgives those who confess. In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, you are forgiven.

  17. ASSURANCE OF PARDON P: With grateful hearts we accept your forgiveness, and with gratitude we say: Amen!

  18. CHOIR ANTHEM “O When the Saints”

  19. A jazz funeral procession is a sign of esteem for the deceased. A band plays somber music from the church to the cemetery. After the burial, a hymn tune or spiritual is played in a “swinging” style. There is raucous music and dancing where onlookers join in to celebrate the life of the deceased. ALL SAINTS DAY – NOVEMBER 1st

  20. Time with Young Christians

  21. PROCLAIMING THE WORD SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 100

  22. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come into his presence with singing. Know that the Lord is God. It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving,

  23. and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, bless his name. For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures for ever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

  24. SCRIPTURE READING: Acts 27:21-25;33-38

  25. Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul then stood up among them and said, ‘Men, you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete and thereby avoided this damage and loss. I urge you now to keep up your courage, for therewill be no loss oflife among you,

  26. but only of the ship. For last night there stood by me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship, and he said, “Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before the emperor; and indeed, God has granted safety to all those who are sailing with you.”

  27. So keep your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told. Just before daybreak, Paul urged all of them to take some food, saying, ‘Today is the fourteenth day that you have been in suspense and remain without food,having eatennothing.

  28. Therefore I urge you to take some food, for it will help you survive; for none of you will lose a hair from your heads.’ After he had said this, he took bread; and giving thanks to God in the presence of all, he broke it and began to eat. Then all of them wereencouraged andtook food forthemselves.

  29. (We were in all two hundred and seventy-six persons in the ship.) After they had satisfied their hunger, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea. L: This is the Word of the Lord. P: Thanks be to God!

  30. “Unleashing the Spirit of Thankfulness and Gratitude” Rev. TeddPullano

  31. *HYMN #422“God Whose Giving Knows No Ending” v.1 God, whose giving knows no ending, from Your rich and endless store,Nature’s wonder, Jesus’ wisdom, costly cross, grave’s shattered door:

  32. *HYMN #422“God Whose Giving Knows No Ending” v.1 Gifted by You, we turn to You, Offering up ourselves in praise;Thankful song shall rise forever, gracious donor of our days.

  33. *HYMN #422“God Whose Giving Knows No Ending” v.2 Skills and time are ours for pressing toward the goals of Christ, Your Son:All at peace in health and freedom, races joined, the church made one.

  34. *HYMN #422“God Whose Giving Knows No Ending” v.2 Now direct our daily labor, lest we strive for self alone;Born with talents, make us servants fit to answer at Your throne.

  35. *HYMN #422“God Whose Giving Knows No Ending” v.3 Treasure too You have entrusted, gain through powers Your grace conferred;Ours to use for home and kindred, and to spread the gospel Word.

  36. *HYMN #422“God Whose Giving Knows No Ending” v.3 Open wide our hands, in sharing, as we heed Christ’s ageless call,Healing, teaching, and reclaiming, serving You by loving all.

  37. OFFERING OUR GIFTS TO GOD Offertory Invitation Offertory “Air” ~Handel

  38. *DOXOLOGY #542, v.4 Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise God all creatures here below; Praise God above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

  39. *PRAYER OF DEDICATION (unison) Good and giving God, we are grateful this day that we have enough. Our stomachs and our pockets are full.

  40. Out of that fullness, we express our thankfulness by returning to you a bit of our prosperity. Please accept these offerings and use them to bring more and

  41. more blessings to your people. Through your son we pray, Amen.

  42. RESPONDING TO THE WORD JOYS AND CONCERNS PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

  43. The Lord’s Prayer (unison) Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come; thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

  44. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

  45. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.

  46. BEARING AND FOLLOWINGTHE WORD INTO THE WORLD

  47. *HYMN #554 “Let All Things Now Living” v.1 Let all things now living a song of thanksgiving to God our Creator triumphantly raise;

  48. *HYMN #554 “Let All Things Now Living” v.1 Who fashioned and made us, protected and stayed us, By guiding us on to the end of our days.

  49. *HYMN #554 “Let All Things Now Living” v.1 God’s banners are o’er us, pure light goes before us,A pillar of fire shining forth in the night:

  50. *HYMN #554 “Let All Things Now Living” v.1 Till shadows have vanished, all fearfulness banished, as forward we travel from light into Light.

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