Sunday Worship Bulletin

We will meet in-person and Livestream will also be available!

Wherever we are in our spiritual journey,we intend to come into closer relationship with God and with each other. God’s presence awakens our hearts, and informs our lives, so that we are grounded by divine grace. Our church is a place where we practice living in faith, supporting each other so that with time we become the beloved community.  For when we awaken our soul, God is brought into the world.   

May 28, 2023

Pentecost Sunday Worship

10 a.m.

Prelude

Musicians: Terry Winn and Jeffrey McFarland-Johnson

Welcome

Announcements

Pass the Peace

Contemplative Prayer: A Prayer for Pentecost

Call to Worship:

Come, sing a new song of worship.

Come, sing a new song of praise.

Today is the day when a promise is fulfilled.

With joy we celebrate Pentecost.

Pentecost – a day when power and joy flowed.

Pentecost – a day of hope and inspiration.

The day when the Holy Spirit was revealed in flaming glory

and the glory transformed all the people.

The fire of the Holy Spirit lives on in us.

Sing God’s blessings!

We give thanks for the Lord’s abiding grace!

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*Singing: Love Divine All Loves Excelling, #384

1. Love divine, all loves excelling,
joy of heaven, to earth come down;
fix in us thy humble dwelling;
all thy faithful mercies crown!
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
pure, unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation;
enter every trembling heart.

2. Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit
into every troubled breast!
Let us all in thee inherit;
let us find that second rest.
Take away our bent to sinning;
Alpha and Omega be;
end of faith, as its beginning,
set our hearts at liberty.

3. Come, Almighty to deliver,
let us all thy life receive;
suddenly return and never,
nevermore thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing,
serve thee as thy hosts above,
pray and praise thee without ceasing,
glory in thy perfect love.

4. Finish, then, thy new creation;
pure and spotless let us be.
Let us see thy great salvation
perfectly restored in thee;
changed from glory into glory,
till in heaven we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder, love, and praise.

*Unity Prayer:

Come, O Holy Spirit.
Come as Holy Fire and burn in us,
come as Holy Wind and cleanse us within,
come as Holy Light and lead us in the darkness,
come as Holy Truth and dispel our ignorance,
come as Holy Power and enable our strength,
come as Holy Life and dwell in us.
Convict us, convert us, consecrate us,
until we are set free from the service of ourselves,
and become your servants in this life. Amen.

Reading: Acts 2:1-21

For the word of God in scripture

For the word of God among us

For the word of God within us,

Thanks be to God

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Special Music

Reading: Acts 9:36-43

For the word of God in scripture

For the word of God among us

For the word of God within us,

Thanks be to God

Special Music

Moment of silence

Message: Pentecost

(Elizabeth, Candace, & Dorcas: women of the New Testament)

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Time for prayer

Prayers

Joys and Concerns

Pastoral prayer

The Lord’s prayer

*Offering and Gifts

Doxology:

Praise God, From whom all blessings flow;

Praise God, all creatures here below: Alleluia! Alleluia!

Praise God, the source of all our gifts!

Praise Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts!

Praise the spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

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Singing: Give Thanks, #2036

Give thanks with a grateful heart,
give thanks to the Holy One;
give thanks, because he’s given
Jesus Christ, his Son.


Give thanks with a grateful heart,
give thanks to the Holy One;
give thanks, because he’s given
Jesus Christ, his Son.

And now let the weak say ‘I am strong’,
let the poor say ‘I am rich’,
because of what the Lord has done for us;


and now let the weak say ‘I am strong’,
let the poor say ‘I am rich’,
because of what the Lord has done for us.


Benediction

Postlude

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All St Helena United Methodist Church worship services will be livestreamed on YOUTUBE and recorded, then posted to both the YOUTUBE and Facebook church pages.

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Our church Facebook page address is: https://www.facebook.com/st.helenaUMC

Our Sunday Coffee Fellowship-only Zoom meeting address is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3518499642

Please use our weekday small group-only link for your weekday meetings.