Mifflin Avenue United Methodist Church

11:00 AM Worship                          Fourth Sunday of Easter                           29 April 2012

 

GATHERING                                              “Verset In F”                                                          H.S. Savage 

  

GREETING AND WELCOME

  

*THE PEACE

 

INTROIT                                            “The Lord’s Peace”                                                   A. Zinter

 

*CALL TO WORSHIP

  Leader: Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful

  People: And kindle in them the fire of your love.

  Leader: Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created

  People: And you will renew the face of the earth.

  Leader: Come, let us worship our Lord and God.

  All: Let us give thanks for the life God gives us, thanks be to God, the God of all.

 

*HYMN UMH 177                                 “He is Lord”                                                             He Is Lord                                               

                UMH 310  (TTT)                     “He Lives”                                                                             Ackley

 

*PRAYER  in unison

    God of power and majesty, with the rising of the sun you have raised Jesus Christ

and delivered him and us from death’s destruction.  We praise you on this wonderful

day for all your gifts of new life.  Especially we thank you for all victories over sin and

evil in our lives… for loyalty and love of friends and family… for the newborn, the newly

baptized, and those now in your eternal home…for the renewal of nature…and for the

continuing witness of the church of Christ.  We bring to you our prayers for this world in

need of resurrection.  We pray for nations and peoples in strife…for the poor – both at

home and abroad… for those we know in particular distress… for all who follow the risen

 Christ! Amen.

 ANTHEM

    “The Lord Is My Shepherd”                                                                                                 R. Leaf  

 

*PSALM 23    UMH 754                                                                                                 

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION

 

FIRST READING    

   Acts 4: 1-12

  

SECOND READING   

   John 10: 11-18

   

The Word of the Lord.

   Thanks be to God.

 

CHILDREN’S MESSAGE

               Following the message, children from K-3 are invited to attend the Junior Church program.

 

SERMON       “Feeling sheepish doesn’t mean you’ll be fleeced!”            Claudia K. Viehland

 

HYMN  UMH 159

     “Lift High the Cross”                                                                                                           Crucifer

 

 SHARING OUR JOYS AND CONCERNS

 

PASTORAL PRAYER

 

THE LORD’S PRAYER  in unison

    Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.  Thy kingdom come, thy will

    be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us    

    our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into

    temptation, but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom and the power and   

    the glory, forever.  Amen.

 

OFFERING

   “Come, Sweet Repose”                                                                                                       J.S. Bach        

 

*DOXOLOGY  UMH 95

 

*HYMN UMH 143  (TTT)

      “On Eagle’s Wings”                                                                                            On Eagle’s Wings

    

*BENEDICTION

 

*GOING FORTH

   “St. Anne”                                                                                                                H. Willan  

 

*Those who are able are invited to stand.