Organizing Gifts

Organizing Gifts

Mill Plain UMC
Sunday April 18, 2024
Organizing Gifts

Music
Everlasting God
10,000 reasons (Bless the Lord)
Hallelujah Feeling
The Churches One Foundation
Alleluia Alleluia Give Thanks

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Mill Plain UMC
April 28 2024
10:00 am

Mill Plain UMC

 April 28th ,2024

10 a.m.

Greeting Each Other                     60 second timer

Praise Song                                      Everlasting God

Greetings

Call to Worship

Written by the youth of Tigard United Methodist Church on behalf of the 2023 S.L.A.M. Trips GNW UMC Participants

One: We come to this place seeking faith;

All: May God strengthen our faith in all that we do and witness.

 One: We come to this place seeking forgiveness;

All: Open our eyes and ears to the places that we have acted in ignorance.

One: We come to this place seeking to learn;

All: Help us to know our neighbors and our history.

 One: We come to this place seeking transformation;

All: Give us all the courage to step into a new way of being.

Opening Prayer

Gracious God, you have organized us as the Body of Christ with members who perform different functions.  Thank you for those who have the gifts to administer and direct the Body, to form the skeleton which keeps us shapes and molded in your image.  In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Praise Songs                                              10,000 reasons

                                                                        Hallellujah Feeling  

Young Disciples Moment

Silent Prayer

Pastoral Prayer

Lord’s Prayer

Offertory      

Presentation of Offerings

Doxology     

Scripture

Exodus 18:13-27

The next day Moses sat as judge for the people, while the people stood around him from morning until evening. When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?” Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God. When they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make known to them the statutes and instructions of God.” Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good. You will surely wear yourself out, both you and these people with you. For the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone. Now listen to me. I will give you counsel, and God be with you! You should represent the people before God, and you should bring their cases before God; teach them the statutes and instructions and make known to them the way they are to go and the things they are to do. You should also look for able men among all the people, men who fear God, are trustworthy, and hate dishonest gain; set such men over them as officers over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. Let them sit as judges for the people at all times; let them bring every important case to you, but decide every minor case themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you. If you do this, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will go to their home in peace.” So Moses listened to his father-in-law and did all that he had said. Moses chose able men from all Israel and appointed them as heads over the people, as officers over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens. And they judged the people at all times; hard cases they brought to Moses, but any minor case they decided themselves. Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went off to his own country.

Hymn                                     The Church’s One Foundation #545 v1,2,5

Sermon                                 Organizing Gifts

Prayer

Reveal to us, God, where and how you would have us each serve you.  Receive the work of our heads, our hands, and our hearts and teach us to so work with each other that the world is blessed through us.

Revive us, Blessed God, that we will follow you in toil and tribulation, in joy and in ease.

In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Hymn                                                 Alleluia No 1 (Alleluia Alleluia Give Thanks) UMC #162

Special music                                 Prayer of Dedication One License 122924

“Now we will walk in peace with the Lord.

Living in faith and teaching His word.

Share His love every day.

For He has surely shown us the way!

Amen, amen. “

Benediction

Go forth in peace, and be of good courage; hold fast that which is good, rejoicing in the power of the Holy spirit. May the blessings of God, Creator, Christ, and Comforter, be with you and remain with you forever.  Amen.