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.