Mill Plain UMC
Sunday March 27, 2022
Daughters of Jerusalem
Songs
These are the days of Elijah
There is a balm in Gilead
In the Cross of Christ I Glory
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Sunday March 27, 2022
Prelude
Welcome Announcements
Greeting
Call To Worship
Worship Assistant: If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly?
People: If they can do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?
Opening Prayer
We follow you, Lord Jesus, on your road to the cross. We weep and wail for the horrors that will be done to you. And we hear you tell us to weep instead for our children and the suffering that is to come. Show us how to turn our sorrow into action, our wailing into productive change, that through you we may find a path to new life. In your name we pray, Amen.
Young Disciples Moment
Song These are the Days of Elijah
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
Lords Prayer
Offerings
Doxology
Luke 23:28-31
But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us’; and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
Song: There Is a Balm in Gilead
Message Daughters of Jerusalem
Prayer As your daughters and sons, O God, made in your image and tasked to till and keep the earth, we ask your forgiveness for the way we have abused the earth and for your wisdom that we may know how to tend it. Grant that our tears of sorrow will water our efforts and restore to us a new creation. Amen.
Song In the Cross of Christ I Glory #295
Benediction
The love of Jesus Christ
and the blessings of God
and the presence of the Holy Spirit be with you now and forever. Amen.