Washington Mennonite Church
September 7, 2014
9:30 AM
Claiming
Faith: Claiming Peace
Confession of Faith Article 22
Gracious God, we need your help to live peacefully
with you and
with others.
You know what is in our hearts and on our minds today. Grant us your courage, patience, and wisdom
to make right choices so we can faithfully live lives of peace. In your name we pray. Amen
GATHERING AS GOD’S PEOPLE
We invite you to greet those around you and welcome visitors to
our time of worship as you enter the sanctuary.
As the prelude begins, we invite you to end your conversations
with those around you and quiet your hearts and minds in preparation for the
worship service.
Prelude
Call to Worship
Leader: Gather, not with
heart and mind full of answers, but with a willingness to engage the questions:
People: What is justice? What is
peace? How do we “love God and neighbor?” Who are our enemies?” In what ways do I – do we – continue to
perpetuate violence in its myriad forms?
Leader: Let God speak into
the uncertainty; allow God’s vision to bring light to your eyes.
People: God, may we taste and see that You are good.
All: Let us hold
loosely to ourselves that we may cling more fully to You and to one another.
Leader: Gather, the
firstfruits of God’s peaceable kingdom,
All: the body of
Christ – a proclamation of justice, a pronouncement of peace.
Songs of Worship
LISTENING FOR GOD
Children’s Time
Scripture Reading Isaiah
10:33-11:16
Meditation “The calf, the lion, and the fatling
together”
Time of Confession
Leader: How beautiful upon
the mountains are the feet of the Messenger who announces peace!
People: But, our feet are soiled with the things that make not for peace,
but strife. We have broken covenant and
spoken lies, engaged in gossip and called it concern, cursed God and neighbor
alike, and spoken in ignorance and anger rather than pursuing understanding and
speaking the truth in love.
All: Lord, forgive
us of our sins.
(Silent Prayers of Confession)
Leader: How beautiful upon
the mountains are the feet of the Messenger who announces peace!
People: But, we have engaged in the ugliness of violence in its myriad of
forms: war, yes, but also the perpetuation of poverty for our own personal
gain, the simple refusal to be neighborly…our selfish, even self-righteous,
insistence on having our own way.
All: Lord, forgive
us of our sins.
(Silent Prayers of Confession)
Leader: How beautiful upon
the mountains are the feet of the Messenger who announces peace!
People: But, we have preferred to announce and bolster our privilege, a
growing sense of entitlement, opinion at the expense of truth, justice at the
expense of “law,” and faith at the expense of the “body politic.”
All: Lord, forgive
us of our sins.
(Silent Prayers of Confession)
Leader: How beautiful upon
the mountains are the feet of the Messenger who announces peace!
People: We are broken, and yet mended by the grace of God. We are sinners who have been blessed to
receive forgiveness.
All: God’s grace has
covered us. We are forgiven!
Leader: How beautiful upon
the mountains are the feet of the Messenger who announces peace!
Song of Response
BEING THE PEOPLE OF GOD
Sharing and Congregational Prayer
Offering
Sending Song
Benediction
Leader: We have gathered,
not with heart and mind full of answers, but with a willingness to engage the
questions:
People: What is justice? What is
peace? How do we “love God and neighbor?” Who are our “enemies?” In what ways do I – do we – continue to
perpetuate violence in its myriad forms?
Leader: We depart now
knowing God has spoken into the uncertainty, God’s vision bringing light to our
eyes.
People: We have tasted and seen that God is good. We go from here holding loosely to ourselves
that we may cling more fully to You and to one another.
All: We are the
firstfruits of God’s peaceable Kingdom, the body of Christ – a proclamation of
justice, a pronouncement of peace.
Centro Cristiano Hispanic Worship Service 2:30 PM
Martha
Hernandez, pastor
Worship
Leaders:
Meditation: Amanda
Beachy Worship Leader: Becky Widmer
Prelude/Offertory:
Carol Detweiler Song Leader: Angela Widmer
Children’s Story:
Susan See Pastoral
Prayer: Grant Nebel
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Upcoming
Events:
Sept 10 –
Church Council Meeting, 7pm
Sept 13 –
Saturday Kitchen
Sept 14 –
Dinner Theatre Kick-Off, 5:30
Sept 14 –
Bike to Church Sunday
Sept 17 –
Monthly Sewing
(Mark 12:28-31; Deuteronomy
6:4-9)
Sept 17 –
Fall Business Meeting, 7pm
Sept 20-21 – All
Church Retreat
December
11-13 – Dinner Theatre
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Preaching
Schedule:
Sept 14 – Amanda
Claiming
Allegiance, articles 20, 23, 24
Sept 21 – Church Retreat!
Worship Service At Crooked Creek
Education Leaders:
All Ages Sunday School (Fellowship Hall): Amanda Beachy
Nursery
(West classrooms off Fellowship Hall)
We welcome
all to this place for
the worship of God and for Christian fellowship. Let us worship God in spirit and in truth,
reaching out to one another in Christ’s love.
We welcome our guests and visitors and hope you will join us again soon.
Vision Statement - As
followers of Jesus Christ, we are a community of faith empowered by the Holy
Spirit, seeking to love God with all our hearts, minds, souls, and strength,
and to love others as ourselves.
Ministers: All of God’s People
Pastors: Grant Nebel Amanda Beachy
319.931.2579
(cell) 319.325.4522 (cell)
grant.edie at gmail.com abeach25 at gmail.com
Elders: Barb Ramsey 653.3785, Myron Graber 653.1674, Jon Widmer 653.4714
Church Secretary: Andrea Nussbaum 815.404.3363 Church
Office Phone: 653.6041
Church Office e-mail: wash.mennonite at juno.com
Church Website: www.washingtonmennonitechurch.blogspot.com
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