Sunday Morning Worship / Fixing of Appointments
Sunday, June 23, 2013 - 11:15a.m.
Preacher: Bishop Young Jin Cho - Resident Bishop, Virginia Conference
Liturgist: Pat Inge- Crenshaw UMC, Farmville District
Liturgist: The Rev. Harold White, Jr. - Pastor, New Mission UMC, Eastern Shore District
Worship Team Leader: The Rev. Dwight Hughes- Pastor, Saint James UMC, York River District
Worship Team Leader: The Rev. Rachel May- Pastor, Boulevard UMC, Richmond District
*GATHERING MUSIC“A New Hallelujah"
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GREETINGPat Inge
*CALL TO WORSHIPPat Inge
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Leader:We come, like Abraham and Sarah, because you ask us to.
People:We come, like Job and the Samaritan woman, with holy protest.
Leader:We come, like Moses and Mary, insecurely.
People:We come, like Deborah and Stephen, taking courage.
Leader:We come, like Rebekah and Samuel, like Hosea and Esther, like Nathaniel and Martha,
All:People with parts to play in God’s story of immeasurably more!
*SONG“Everlasting God”
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OPENING PRAYERHarold White Jr.
God of great deeds:
On the first day of the week you called forth light out of darkness.
On the first day of the week you raised Jesus from the dead.
On the first day of the week you formed the church through the gift of your Spirit.
Cause us to be first and always about this triple witness;
a people preoccupied with your covenant love.
Grant that all who worship you this day may do so wholeheartedly.
To this end, banish from us,
pettiness and rivalry,
speaking ill of one another,
seeking to serve ourselves rather than you.
Bind us, Lord;
into one company of hope, one community of service;
through Christ who summons and sends us. Amen.
Adapted and compiled from"A Wesleyan Way of Prayer"
*SONG“Sing to the Lord”
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PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATIONPat Inge
Please remain seated and join in unison prayer:
All:Lord, open our hearts and minds by the power of your Holy Spirit,
that, as the Scriptures are read and your Word proclaimed,
we may hear with joy what you say to us today. Amen.
SCRIPTURE Joshua 1:1-9Pat Inge
1After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' assistant, saying,2"My servant Moses is dead. Now proceed to cross the Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the Israelites.3Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, as I promised to Moses.4From the wilderness and the Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, to the Great Sea in the west shall be your territory.5No one shall be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you.6Be strong and courageous; for you shall put this people in possession of the land that I swore to their ancestors to give them.7Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to act in accordance with all the law that my servant Moses commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may be successful wherever you go.8This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to act in accordance with all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall be successful.9I hereby command you: Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."
Leader:The word of the Lord.
All:Thanks be to God!
SERMON “Be Strong and Courageous and Be Careful”Bishop Young Jin Cho
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH#884, United Methodist HymnalHarold White Jr.
Please stand, as you are able, and join in “A Statement of Faith of the Korean Methodist Church”
We believe in the one God,
creator and sustainer of all things,Father of all nations,
the source of all goodness and beauty, all truthand love.
We believe in Jesus Christ,
God manifest in the flesh,
our teacher, example and Redeemer, the Savior of the world.
We believe in the Holy Spirit,
God present with us for guidance, for comfort, and for strength.
We believe in the forgiveness of sins,
in the life of love and prayer,
and in grace equal to every need.
We believe in the Word of God
contained in the Old and New Testaments
as the sufficient rule both of faith and of practice.
We believe in the church,
those who are united in the living Lord
for the purpose of worship and service.
We believe in the reign of God
as the divine will realized in humansociety,
and in the family of God,
where we are all brothers andsisters.
We believe in the final triumph of righteousness
and in the life everlasting. Amen.
*SONG#2222, The Faith We Sing"Servant Song"
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FIXING OF APPOINTMENTS
ANTHEM“If We Are the Body”Shenandoah House Band
*CHARGE TO ALL MINISTERS
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Bishop: Will all ministers — lay and clergy — please rise?
Will you go where you are sent?
Will you receive those sent to you?
Will you pray for the ministry of all Christians?
Will you embrace life together, so as to evidence the reign of God?
All:By God's grace we are called into connection.
In God's strength we will go, and we will receive.
With God's help, we will bring forth the kingdom.
Bishop:Together, we pray:
O God of all times and places,
we pray for your Church,
which is set today amid the perplexities of a changing order,
and face to face with new tasks.
People:Baptize her afresh in the life-giving spirit of Jesus.
Bishop: Bestow upon her a great responsiveness to duty,
a swifter compassion for suffering,
and an utter loyalty to your will.
People:Help her to proclaim boldly the coming of your kingdom.
Bishop: Put upon her lips the ancient gospel of her Lord.
Fill her with the prophets’ scorn of tyranny,
and a Christ-like tenderness for the heavy-laden and downtrodden.
People:Bid her cease from seeking her own life, lest she lose it.
Bishop: Make her valiant to give her life to humanity,
that, like her crucified Lord, she may mount by the path of the cross
to a higher glory;
People:Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
—Walter Rauschenbusch
*SONG“You Are Good”
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*DISMISSAL WITH BLESSING Bishop Young Jin Cho
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MUSICAL RESPONSE“You Are Good”