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First Congregational Church United Church of Christ
3 Gray Road, North Yarmouth, Maine 04097 Organized in 1806
World Communion Sunday
Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost October 3, 2021 ~ 9:30 a.m.
World Communion Sunday Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost October 3, 2021 Prelude Variation on Ashgrove Christine Schulz Sung: God welcomes all! Strangers and friends! God’s love is strong! And it never ends! Words: John L. Bell, Music: South African traditional, transcribed by John L. Bell at the Sunrise Hospice, Themba Text: © 2008, GIA/Iona Community / WGRG Welcome and Announcements CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: We were created in relationship and for relationship. Congregation: We are created for community! Leader: God knew it was not right for us to be alone. Congregation: We are created for community! Leader: Through Jesus Christ, God entered into human relationship with us. Congregation: We are created for community! Leader: We rejoice in our unity with all humanity. Congregation: We are created for community! *HYMN Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ #422 Words: Fred Kaan, 1975 Music: Jamaican folk melody, adapt. Doreen Potter, 1975 © 1975 Hope Publishing Let us talents and tongues employ, reaching out with a shout of joy: bread is broken, the wine is poured, Christ is spoken and seen and heard. Refrain: Jesus lives again, earth can breathe again, pass the Word around: loaves abound! Christ is able to make us one, at the table he set the tone,
teaching people to live to bless, love in word and in deed express. Refrain Jesus calls us in, sends us out bearing fruit in a world of doubt, gives us love to tell, bread to share: God (Immanuel) everywhere! Refrain PRAYER OF CONFESSION God-made-flesh, Bone of our bone, We confess that we think we can go it alone, That we try to do it all, That in doing so, we neglect the gifts you have given us: The bone of our bone, The flesh of our flesh, The bodies you created, And the relationships you created us for. Jesus Christ, you who lived in a human body, Call us to community. Remind us that in you we are one. Awake in us a respect for one another, And celebrate with us the diversity within that unity. May it be so now and forever. Amen. ASSURANCE OF PARDON Leader: You are the divine creation, and it is not right for you to be alone. Know now that you are forgiven and called back into relationship with God and with one another.
Scripture Reading Genesis 2:18-24 Message Rev. Nancy J. White CALL FOR THE OFFERING Leader: In communion with one another, let us share what we have received, knowing that we are one flesh with all humanity.
*Doxology Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below; Praise God for all that love has done; Creator, Christ, and Spirit, One. Amen. PRAYER OF DEDICATION God of all creation, breathe your life-giving breath upon these gifts that they might be a blessing to all flesh.
CELEBRATION OF HOLY COMMUNION AND CONNECTION
Leader: First, God created one person.
Volunteers: But it was not right for that one person to be alone. Leader: That person had God, but needed an equal, so God made animals. Volunteers: How about a [Giraffe], a [Raven], a [Dog]? Leader: But it still wasn’t enough, so God made another person, an equal, someone to share with, and talk with. God created relationship. God created communion. Volunteers: This at last is bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh! Leader: And then God took it one step further. God looked at the many people living in relationship with one another and decided to join the community! God came to be with us as one of us, and his human family called him Jesus. This at last is bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh! Hymn For Everyone Born Words: Shirley E. Murray, 1931, Sp. Tr. John Glaser, 1961; Fr. Tr. Ervelyne Bernard 1973 Music: Brian Mann, 1979-
For everyone born, a place at the table, for everyone born, clean water and bread,
a shelter, a space, a safe place for growing, for everyone born, a star over-head, and God will delight when we are creators of justice and joy, compassion and peace, Yes, God will delight when we are creators of justice, … justice and joy!
This at last is bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh!
Leader: And one night, when Jesus sat with his community, he took bread, and broke it, and blessed it, saying, “This is my body.” Then he took the cup, saying, “This is my blood.” This at last is bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh!
Leader: Come, Holy Spirit, and make us one body of Christ.
This at last is bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh! For woman and man, a place at the table, revising the roles, deciding the share, with wisdom and grace, dividing the power, for woman and man, a system that’s fair, and God will delight when we are creators of justice and joy, compassion and peace, Yes, God will delight when we are creators of justice, …justice and joy! For young and for old, a place at the table, a voice to be heard, a part in the song, the hands of a child in hands that are wrinkled, for young and for old, the right to belong, and God will delight when we are creators of justice and joy, compassion and peace, Yes, God will delight when we are creators of justice, …justice and joy! Leader: Bone of our bone; flesh of our flesh: one with each other and all humanity: the Body of Christ. We invite you to share in the bread and the cup together,
and saying to one another, “Bone of our bone; Flesh of our flesh: The Body of Christ!” HYMN Eat This Bread #414
Words: Robert Batastini and the Taize Community, 1982 Music Jacques Berthier, 1982
Eat this bread, drink this cup, come to me and never be hungry. Eat this bread, drink this cup, trust in me and you will not thirst. Prayers of the People and the Lord’s Prayer Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 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: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
For everyone born, a place at the table, to live without fear, and simply to be, to work, to speak out, to witness and worship, for everyone born, the right to be free, and God will delight when we are creators of justice and joy, compassion and peace, Yes, God will delight when we are creators of justice, …justice and joy! *Benediction
As you leave this sacred space, live out your connection with one another, knowing that all humanity is bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh, one world communion. Amen! Postlude Now Thank We All Our God J.S. Bach
This at Last! An Intergenerational Liturgy for World Communion Sunday, Nineteenth Sunday of Pentecost, was written by the Rev. Dr. Laurel Koepf Taylor, Eden Theological Seminary, Saint Louis, Missouri.
Copyright 2021, Faith INFO Ministry Team, United Church of Christ, 700 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115-1100. Permission granted to reproduce or adapt this material for use in services of worship or church education. All publishing rights reserved.
Staff Pastor: Rev. Nancy J. White
Administrative Assistant: Lyn Glassock Organist: Peter Dickson* Organist: Linda Lambrides
Choir Director: David Myers, Jr. Sexton: Mark R.H. Heath
Treasurer: Liz McGlinn, CPA, CGMA
Thank you to Nancy Wines-Dewan for serving as our guest Organist today.
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