Order of Worship

GATHERING
October 17, 2021, Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost
Theme: Beyond the Offering Plate
Choir Introit: "Many Gifts, One Spirit" by Allen Pote
Welcome: comments from Reverend Susan Bresser
*Hymn: Worship and Song hymnal: 3124 - How Shall I Come Before the Lord (verses 1-3). Accompanied by Tom Ajack and John Sheaffer.
*Call to Worship: Reverend Greta Hietpas

Leader: We gather to give thanks, O Creator God.
People: Holy One, we are here.
Leader: Be with us as we pray and sing together.
People Holy One, we are here.
Leader: Be with us in our words, in our listening, and in our hearts.
People Holy One, we are here
Leader: We are here to worship, to remember the gifts flowing from you, O Creator God, and to give thanks. Amen.

*Hymn: Red hymnal 87 - What Gift Can We Bring (verse 1)
A Time of Prayer (with Lord’s Prayer): offered by Reverend Greta Hietpas
Musical Response: Let There Be Peace on Earth, word and music by Sy Miller and Jill Jackson, Offered by Tom Ajack, Guitar
THE WORD
Musical Setting for the Scripture - “Thy Word”
The Epistle Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:4-13

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
Contemporary Message: Stewardship of Spirit - Reverend Susan Bresser
RESPONSE
Stewardship Witness: Rob Geissler
Ministry Moment: Reverend Greta Hietpas
Prayer of Dedication: Rev. Greta Hietpas
Generous God, we bring ourselves, our gifts, our talents to you. Bless each one of us.
Take us, our gifts, and all you have made us to be, that your work may be done in this place and in the world.
Through the power of your Holy Spirit and in your name, we pray. Amen.

Hymn: red hymnal, 117 - O God, Our Help in Ages Past (verses 1, 4, 5, 6)

Benediction: Reverend Susan Bresser

Postlude: “O God, Our Help in Ages Past” by Charles Callahan, John Sheaffer, pipe organ

Prepare for worship next Sunday by reading: Colossians 1:15-20
Flowers Donated by: Tim Sears