Live stream Sunday Service with Pastor Sue
Accompanied by a worship assistant
Accompanist Andrea Llafet
Mill Plain UMC 10 a.m.,
Sunday, September 26, 2021
Scripture:
James 5:13-20
Mark 9:38-41
Music:
Blessed Be Your Name
Cornerstone
Sweet hour of Prayer
To Make an Offering: https://millplainumc.org/giving/
Order Of Worship
Prelude
Call to Worship (Worship Assistant)
Worship Leader: Are any among you suffering?
People: In my distress, I cried to the Lord.
Worship Leader: Are any among you cheerful?
People: In my joy, I prayed the to the Lord.
Worship Leader: Are any among you sick?
People: Let us pray for those diseased in body and spirit.
Worship Leader: Are any among you guilty?
People: Let us confess our sin that God may cleanse us.
Opening Prayer (Worship Assistant)
Good and Gracious God, you speak to us in the silence of the night and the clamor of the day, you call to us before we even recognize you are there. We confess that we fail to hear your voice and recognize your presence. We become so caught up in our own troubles, so enamored of our joys, and we forget to turn to you. Forgive our distractions and self-occupation.
Heal us from our illnesses and cure our warring ways. Cleanse us from all iniquity and put a new and right spirit within us.
We pray in the name of Jesus Christ our Savior, Amen.
Blessing of Purple Caps
Gracious God, you knit each of us together in our mother’s wombs at the start of our lives. Today we offer up to you these purple caps, knitted and crocheted with love by artists in our church. The purple reminds us of purple faces of fussy babies and the frustrations of those who care for them. May these purple caps remind all caregivers to never shake babies. Bless the caps and the message they send; bless parents and other caregivers, fill them with your patience and energy even in the long hours of tending little children. Of God, you came among us as a little child and today we pray for infants and young children. May they grow in wisdom and stature. Help us to recognize your presence among us in them still today. Amen.
Young Disciples
Song Blessed Be Your Name
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer
Presentation of Our Offerings
Doxology
Reading from the New Testament
James 5:13-
“Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.”
Mark 9:38-41
40 For he that is not against us is on our part.
Hymn Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise UMH #103 ????
The Message The Prayers of the Righteous
Prayer After Message
Blessed God, you hear us when we pray and you hear us when we reach out in mercy. You speak to us as we gather to worship and you speak to us when we go forth to serve. Grant that our prayers each day may move us to lives of caring and that knowing your grace may lead us to be your grace in the world. Amen.
Closing Song Sweet Hour of Prayer #496
Benediction
The grace of Christ attend you.
The love of God surround you.
The Holy Spirit keep you.
Abound in hope and grow in love,
Both now and forever. Amen.
Postlude