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Pastor: Rev. Kendra Balliet
Organist: Jim Ross
Offertory: Armed Services Medley -Coates/Ross

24TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
ORDER OF WORSHIP 
 
Prelude -  Partita on "Land of Rest" - Anthony Giamanco
 
Welcome 
 
*Call to Worship  
Leader: We enter worship once again this day
choosing to serve you, God, and no other.
People: With waiting hearts, we come to worship. 
Leader: We enter as witnesses to one another
to live out our baptism and grow into the Body of Christ.
People: With waiting hearts, we come to worship 
Leader: We enter dependent on the Spirit
to be with us in our thoughts and feelings.
People: With waiting hearts, we come to worship. 
 
*Opening Hymn “We Gather Together” #131 
 
*Unison Prayer 
Almighty God, who claims us as your own, we bring our full selves to worship today. Our happiness and our sorrow, our singing and our crying, our strengths, and our failures—we carry it all. Teach us to trust that your faithfulness endures in all the seasons and circumstances of our lives. Help us to know that all that we are is bound to you and teach us to rest on your steadfast love as the source of our gratitude and joy as we, your sheep, follow you wherever you lead. Amen. 
 
Affirmation of Faith – Apostles’ Creed #881 
Gloria Patri #70 
 
Children's Chat 
 
Music Ministry and Offertory - Armed Services Medley-Coates/Ross
Doxology and Prayer of Gratitude 
 
Scripture Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25 
 
Sermon “We Will Serve the Lord” 
 
Joys/Concerns  

Hymn "O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee" #430 

Pastoral Prayer/Lord's Prayer
 
Closing Hymn "Father, I Adore You" #2038 
 
Action Steps & Benediction
 
Postlude -Fanfare-Recessional on "America the Beautiful" -Franklin Ashdown

The flowers on the altar today are given in loving memory of Professor Louise R. Helmreich by Jonathan & Nancy Helmreich.  

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