Transfiguration Sunday

March 2, 2014

*Those that are able are invited to stand

Gathering

Welcome and Announcements

Entering into worship

*Opening Invocation

All: O God, you are beyond words and description, your love is beyond knowledge and explanation.

Make our hearts ready to receive you.

Change us, we pray, that our lives may reflect the glory of your transfiguration.

We rejoice in the power of your Holy Spirit. Amen.

*Opening Hymn “Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies” #173

*Opening Prayer

*Hymn “Surely the Presence of the Lord” #328

Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place. I can feel His mighty power and His grace.

I can hear the brush of angels’ wings. I see glory on each face.

Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place.

A Time for Prayer

(You are invited to share your prayer concerns with the congregation by writing them on the

Prayer Request cards in the pews and placing them in the offering plate.)

Joys and Concerns

Prayer Hymn “Be Thou My Vision” #451

Silent Prayer / Pastoral Prayer / Lord’s Prayer

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.

Moving into God’s word

Children’s Sermon

*Hymn “O Wondrous Sight! O Vision Fair” #258

Scripture Matthew 17:1–9

Message

Celebrating the Eucharist

Anthem “Taste and See” Choir

Sharing the Bread and Cup

Communion Hymn “Let Us Break Bread Together” #618

Sharing our blessings

Offering our Gifts and Tithes

Offering Prayer

Holy and transforming God, far too often we have wanted keep you up on a mountain,

uninvolved in the decisions we make or the way we respond to one another. Through Christ,

you lead us down, back into the world. You push us back into life that we might see you in

the opportunities to extend love and grace to those who suffer, thinking they are beyond

the reach of your love. May the gifts we give now move from being an act of worship to an

act of compassion, finding places where they can be the balm that heals. We pray this

in the holy name of Jesus, the Christ. Amen.

Offertory

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Taking the Word to the World

*Closing Hymn “Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life” #427

*Benediction

*Hymn “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus” (Verse 1 only) #2129

in The Faith We Sing

I have decided to follow Jesus, I have decided to follow Jesus,

I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back.

Postlude

Concerns:

Joey (5^th grader from Sewickly)- diagnosed with cancer

Keri (secretary) – fell, has whip lash and head injury, recovering at home

Bill (friend of Judy and Marilyn) - in hospital

Jeanne Mayo - bronchitis

Carolyn Hartner - still recovering

Kate (co-worker of Jen) - mom passed away

Family of Frances (family friend of Jen) - passed away

Chuck (custodian) - awaiting hip replacement surgery

Eric Barto (neighbor of Jean McQuade) - quadruple bypass surgery

People or Ukraine, Congo, Venezuela and other places in turmoil

Ongoing Prayer Requests:

George- battling stomach cancer; Pat Spencer- continued healing;

Steve (friend of Gail)- continued healing in rehab; Flo (cousin of Jean McQuade)- lung cancer;

Baby Gavin- brain tumor and mom Ashley- cysts; Lily -chemo; Mary Ellen (Sharon’s sister)- cancer;

Steve (John McQuade co-worker)- prostate cancer;

Mike (Tammy’s friend)- non Hodgkin’s lymphoma; Sydney-diagnosed with Leukemia;

Tina Whitehead and her work for human dignity; Our military and their families