Thanksgiving Day - 2015

Thursday, November 26, 2015 – 9:30 am

OCHEYEDAN CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH

833 5th Street, Ocheyedan, Iowa 51354

Worship Leader – Pastor Bill Van Der Heide

Pianist – Thelma Haack Song Leaders – Team Five

Singing Thanks to God for Providing for Us

Prelude

Just Give Thanks – Children

Praise and Thanksgiving Let Everyone Bring –

Lift up Your Hearts 873: stanzas 1, 2, 3

Stanza 1 – Children; Stanzas 2-3 - All

*Let All Things Now Living – Lift up Your Hearts 5: stanzas 1, 2

*The Holy One Calls Us in Hope – Psalm 100 – A Responsive Reading

*Come You Thankful People Come – Lift up Your Hearts 473:

Stanzas 1, 2, 4

*The Holy One Receives Us in Grace

*We Greet One Another

*For the Fruit of All Creation – Lift up Your Hearts 396:

Stanzas 1, 2, and 3

Praise God for the Harvest of Orchard and Field –

Lift up Your Hearts 397: stanzas 1, 2, and 5

Stanza 1 – Worship Team; Stanza 2 – All; Stanza 5 - All

Reader’s Theatre – Psalm 65:9-13 – Worship Team

*Sing to the Lord of Harvest – Lift up Your Hearts 398:

Stanzas 1, 2, and 3

We Give Thanks for God’s Gifts – A Choral Reading of Thanksgiving

The Holy One Comforts Us in Peace

Scripture Reading – Psalm 104 – page 940-942

Scripture Focus: Psalm 104:27-28

27All creatures look to you // to give them their food at the proper time.

28When you give it to them, // they gather it up;

when you open your hand, // they are satisfied with good things.

Message Set: GOD, WE SING THANKS TO YOU

Message: Because You Provide for Us

Prayer of Application

Thanksgiving Day Offerings

… of our Gifts to God – Offerings

… of our Thanks to God – Sharing Our Thanks

Prayer

*We Praise You, O God – Lift up Your Hearts 560: stanzas 1-2

*The Holy One Equips Us in Power

*We Praise You O God – Lift up Your Hearts 560: stanza 3

Postlude

* - Invites those who are able to stand

Because You Provide for Us - Our short series on singing thanks to God comes to a close this Thanksgiving Day 2015. We join the Psalmist in singing thanks to God because He is the God who provides. We sing thanks to God because He provides the food we need to sustain life. As we think about that we can’t help but reflect back on the bountiful harvest God has again provided even though, this year, it did come through some difficult circumstances for some – like the avian flu. We also sing our thanks to God because in His providing food to nourish our bodies He also nourishes our souls because we recognize that there is not only a physical blessing in the food God provides but a spiritual blessing. God provides us with every sort of good things in abundance. So we sing this day, our thanks to Him.

Greeters: James & Sherri I --- Josh & Tamra H

Nursery: Esther D & Brielle V

Offering: FRB /Envelopes

1