Mifflin
Avenue United Methodist Church
11:00
AM Worship Fourteenth
Sunday after Pentecost 18 September 2011
GATHERING
Preludio D.
Zipoli
GREETING AND
WELCOME
*INTROIT
You Are
My All in All D.
Jernigan
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Listen for the story of life.
We come broken.
This is
a story of hope.
We come fearful.
This is
a story of peace.
We come cynical.
This is
a story of liberation.
We come empty.
Listen
for the story of life.
*HYMN UMH 127
Guide
Me, O Thou Great Jehovah CWM
Rhondda
PRAYER in unison
O God,
from
your providing hand even the dissatisfied and grumbling
receive
what they need for their lives.
Teach us your ways of
justice
and
lead us to practice your generosity,
so
that we may live a life worthy of the gospel
made
known through your Son Jesus Christ, our Savior.
Amen.
ANTHEM
Day By Day M. How
PRAYER FOR
ILLUMINATION
FIRST READING
Exodus 16:2-15
SECOND READING
Matthew 20:1-16
The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be
to God.
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE
SERMON
In
the Wilderness: Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
HYMN FWS 2244
People Need the Lord People Need the Lord
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.
*THE PEACE
OFFERING
Elevation
IV L.
Boellmann
*DOXOLOGY UMH 95
*PRAYER OF
THANKSGIVING
*HYMN UMH 672
God Be
with You till We Meet Again (verses 1, 2) God Be With You
*BENEDICTION
Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing;
fill our hearts with
joy and peace;
let us each, thy
love possessing,
triumph in redeeming
grace.
O refresh us, O refresh us,
traveling through
this wilderness Attr. to John Fawcett
*GOING FORTH
Jubilation J.
Denton
*Those who are able are invited to stand.