CLAREMONT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Entering the Passion of Jesus

Fourth Sunday in Lent

“The First Dinner: Risking Reputation” March 22, 2020 ~ 9:30 a.m.

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Entering the Passion of Jesus The First Dinner: Risking Reputation

GREETING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Entering the Story

PROCESSIONAL CROSSING THE THRESHOLD Minister: We continue on our journey through Lent…. …. I invite you to open your hands wide as we sing and pray together. SUNG RESPONSE “Enter the Passion”

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PRAYER OF CONFESSION Minister: Let us pray together: People: It is so hard to not be afraid. Sometimes our fear makes us less compassionate, and more judgmental. We think we can ward off getting hurt by holding back, unwilling to risk putting ourselves out there for the sake of love. Forgive us, O God. Encourage us to extravagant acts of love, especially when we are frightened. You entered our story through Jesus, now help us to enter fully into the story of your kin-dom on earth as it is in heaven. Amen. ASSURANCE OF PARDON Minister: Know this: There is no limit on love. Love doesn’t run out, and you can start giving more of it anytime. You are forgiven and freed, encouraged and loved by a God who wants you to live fully. In the name of Jesus Christ, You are forgiven. People: In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven. Minister: Let us enter the passion of Christ. OPENING HYMN “The Servant Song” TFWS No. 2222

pg. 4 Getting Perspective

MOMENTS WITH CHILDREN AND THE GOSPEL Mark 14:3-9 HYMN “I Love to Tell the Story” verse 1 UMH No. 156 I love to tell the story of unseen things above, of Jesus and his glory, of Jesus and his love. I love to tell the story, because I know ‘tis true; it satisfies my longings as nothing else can do. I love to tell the story, ‘twill be my theme in glory, to tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.

WORDS: Katherine Hankey, ca. 1868, and MUSIC: HANKEY, William G. Fischer, 1869. LISTENING FOR THE STORY Psalm 23

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ANTHEM “The Alabaster Jar” Craig Courtney The Sanctuary Singers; Jeremy Sheets, cellist

DWELLING IN THE STORY Suzanne Basson SERMON Rev. Karen Clark Ristine

“Risking Reputation”

Zooming In

CALL TO PRAYER “Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus” UMH No. 349 Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full on his wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace.

WORDS and MUSIC: Helen H. Lemmel, 1922, © 1950 Singspiration Music PRAYERS FOR THE WORLD AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD (prayer list on pg. 7) THE LORD’S PRAYER (Former Methodist Church from UMH No. 895) Our Father (or Mother, Abba, God, Creator), 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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. OFFERING OUR GIFTS OFFERTORY Gymnopedie Erik Satie OFFERTORY HYMN tune Old 100th Praise God throughout these forty days. Praise Christ, our Lord, whom God did raise. And praise the Spirit who imparts God’s love in Christ into our hearts. OFFERTORY PRAYER

Entering the World’s Story

HYMN “Blest Be the Tie That Binds” UMH No. 557 pg. 6

BENEDICTION POSTLUDE Prélude Nadia Boulanger

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from The United Methodist Hymnal, copyright © 1989, The United Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, TN, used by permission, One License number 725011-A

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NEW TO THE PRAYER LIST: Stacee Reese (Nancy Goodman’s daughter); World Council of Churches Countries of the Week: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia. THE FULL PRAYER LIST, including those who are unwillingly absent, can be found at http://claremontumc.net/cumc/Newsletters/WINDOW/TheWindow_2020-03-04.pdf, pages 3-5.

OUR PRAYERS PLEASE keep the church office updated on your loved ones.

*The art on the cover and first page are Mary Anoints Jesus' Feet, Anonymous - detail, from Art in the Christian Tra-dition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN, http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56139 [retrieved March 17, 2020]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:German_School,_16th_Century_-_Mary_Magdalene_anointing_the_feet_of_Christ.jpg, licensed under the Cre-ative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License. Worship liturgy and design is © 2019 wor-shipdesignstudio.com/passion, adapted by permission. The words of the Offertory Hymn are by G. W. Dub Shep-herd, 2006, © The General Board of Discipleship of The United Methodist Church, PO BOX 340003, Nashville, TN 37203; www.umcworship.org. Used by permission. Music license is available in the church office.

KATIE’S POSTLUDES for the month of March are by women composers in honor of Women’s History Month. WE ARE GLAD YOU ARE HERE! Claremont United Methodist Church is a welcoming and reconciling congregation, affirming its ministry with the whole family of God regardless of age, race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, economic situation, or marital status. Claremont United Methodist Church believes its diversity is a blessing through which persons are strengthened to love and serve. INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE IN WORSHIP: Because language has the power to shape our thinking about one another, Claremont United Methodist Church uses inclusive language for Bible readings from the New Revised Standard Version. Some historical texts that are widely known and loved are left unaltered. This, we believe, in no way diminishes our commitment to inclusive expression. We invite persons to change the words of hymns deemed to be exclusive so that the hymns might have meaning for all.

TODAY AT CUMC

SOUND: Genaro Cordova

CAMERA: Ed Hume

Sunday worship is usually recorded on CD each week. If you’d like a copy, a donation per CD is accepted. Contact the CUMC office, churchoffice@claremontumc.info. Thank you!

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WONDERFUL WORSHIP “TOGETHER” NOW FAITHFULLY FORWARD

We sang, prayed, read the Bible

What an unexpected joy it was this Sunday, to feel so connected across the distance -- the social distance. Many of you who joined worship live or watched the video later shared how much it meant to you to see the amazing creation window on your screens, to feel that you were in this sacred space. And you were. We joined together in prayer and song and scripture just as we do every Sunday.

While it was a hard decision to suspend in-person worship, we found that the Holy Spirit was palpably present in familiar rituals witnessed from an unfamiliar distance.

I am grateful to our worship and tech team who made it possible. Special thanks to Ed Hume who put together the equipment that made the livestream possible and then operated the camera.

With the CDC and California Health Department Covid-19 restrictions in place for some time, we will continue to suspend in-person worship and stream worship on Facebook live. We will continue the practice of publishing both the worship order and the worship script online for you to use at home. In prayer and care, Rev. Karen

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ONLINE DAILY DEVOTION RESOURCES

Pray As You Go and Sight Psalms are two online resources that offer daily devotions.

Pray As You Go offers inspiring music, a scripture reading, and questions for reflection. It is produced by British Jesuits, so the accents offer a delightful change of pace.

Rev. Karen uses this spiritual resource several mornings a week.

It can be found online at: https://pray-as-you-go.org/. It can also be downloaded as an app on your smartphone or tablet.

Sight Pslams offers a daily photo and inspirational comment. It is produced by The Upper Room. It can be found online at: https://www.upperroom.org/sight_psalms.

Choir member and SPRC chair, Paula Hui, uses this spiritual resource.

What spiritual resources do you use? Email Rev. Karen, revkaren@claremontumc.info, and we’ll share others together.

WAYS TO GET INVOLVED

CUMC’s 2020 Pictorial Directory: Please Remember to Sign Up! We hope that every individual, couple, and family of Claremont UMC, member or friend, will be included in this new directory. The remaining dates have been pushed back to Friday, June 12, Saturday, June 13, and Tuesday, June 16. What this means: is that if you were scheduled for: March 27, your picture will now be June 12, March 28, your picture will now be June 13, and March 31, your picture will now be June 16. If these dates don’t work for you, email the church, churchoffice@claremontumc.info, and we can help change your appointment. Volunteers from the church will also call you. If you haven’t yet scheduled your photo session, please do so by going online: https://booknow-lifetouch.appointment-plus.com/b6ygrjnv/.

Username/Password: No username or password is required to access. You will create a unique username and password as part of the scheduling process.

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THANKS! MARCH 2020 PLEDGE REPORT Thanks again to the members and friends of our church. Giving of pledged and unpledged contributions for the first two months of the year continued the strong trend you established last year. Contributions for the first two months of the year were $89,041. That exceeded our budgeted amount of $81,931 by $7,110! Again, thank you! Your contributions continue to allow us to provide the ministries and support the missional work of our church. During the year to come, I’ll continue to provide you with bi-monthly reports on how we are doing with pledged and non-pledged giving. Bob Dalton Financial Secretary

CONNECT TO OTHERS AROUND THE WORLD… Send a letter for Amnesty International! Instead of having hard copies of letters for you to mail this month, how about sending a letter by going to the Amnesty International website? You can speak up for justice for many around the world without worrying about a stamp or a trip to the post office! Visit https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/. Thank you!

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WORSHIP LIVE ON FACEBOOK 9:30 A.M. SUNDAY

Our livestream will be on the CUMC Facebook page at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday mornings, and then it can be watched later from the CUMC Facebook videos.

Watch as a family. Watch with faith friends in small groups. Watch by yourself, but know you are connected to all of us. And, we are all connected through the Holy Spirit of our Loving God.

To watch live, go to the ClaremontUMC Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ClaremontUMC/

To watch later, go to the video section of the ClaremontUMC Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ClaremontUMC/videos

If you have a Facebook account, it helps to “like” the church’s page. Doing so will give you a notice any time we go live.

Even if you do not have a Facebook account, you can watch. Just click on the link: https://www.facebook.com/ClaremontUMC/

In prayer and care, Rev. Karen

www.claremontumc.net ~ churchoffice@claremontumc.info Office: 909-624-9021 Fax: 909-624-7308 ~ 211 W. Foothill Blvd., Claremont, CA 91711

Nurturing spirits…Working for justice…

Serving others and creation…

Clergy and Staff The Rev. Karen Clark Ristine ~ Lead Pastor x224

The Rev. Martha Morales ~ Minister of Education and Caring Ministries x231 Jessica Johnston, M.Div. ~ Church Administrator x222

Genaro Cordova ~ Facilities Engineer Jeri Bollman, M.S. ~ Director: CUMC Preschool

Sara Swift Tharpe, M.Div. ~ Director of Youth Ministries Dena Dissmeyer ~ Director of Children’s Ministries

Katie Franklin Ledsinger, M.A. ~ Organist; Director of The Circuit Ringers, CUMC Kids Choir, and Youth Chimes

Jared Pugh ~ Director of The Sanctuary Choir Moon Young Kong and Mateo Mamea ~ Pastoral Interns

Sajjad Alobaidi ~ Sunday Custodian Marie Soltero and Elizabeth Slater ~ Nursery Attendants

Leeann Nabors ~ The Clinebell Institute

Located in the California Pacific Annual Conference The Rev. Dr. Grant J. Hagiya ~ Resident Bishop

The Rev. Melissa Roux MacKinnon ~ East District Superintendent

In covenant with United Methodist Missionaries Mozart Adevu ~ West Africa

In covenant with Dios es Amor Methodist Church ~ Tijuana, Mexico