FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
ORDER OF WORSHIP
7th Sunday of Easter
Mother’s Day
May 12, 2024
PRELUDE Holy Spirit Medley, Lani Smith
WELCOME
ANNOUNCEMENTS
-TUESDAY MORNING COFFEE GROUP at 9:30ish AM at First Lutheran Mission Coffee House.
- PIECES AND PRAYERS Tuesdays at 1:30 PM at the FPC Quilting Room.
-THURSDAY MORNING BIBLE STUDY at 9:30 AM in the FPC Center Meeting Room.
-SISTERHOOD will meet Thursday, May 16 at 11:30 AM at the First Lutheran Mission Coffee House.
-MEN’S BROTHERHOOD will meet Thursday, May 16 at 5:30 PM at the church lounge
-INVITATION: You are invited to the reception for Tia Glaus’s graduation from Sioux Valley High on Saturday, May 18 from 5-7 PM, at her home at 1317 Orchard Drive.
GRADUATE RECOGNITION: Sunday, May 19 during Worship Service FPC will be recognizing our 2024 high school graduates, Tia Glaus and Dylan Scubelek!
-CHURCH PICNIC: Sunday, May 19 following worship service CE/Fellowship will host a church picnic in the church basement after church on Pentecost Sunday, May 19, 2024. CE/Fellowship will provide grilled hamburgers, hot dogs, sides, and ice cream so come and enjoy a great meal and fellowship.
– ‘PENTECOST SPECIAL OFFERING’ (Children at Risk, Youth, Young Adults)-. donations are being accepted April 1 through May 19. Please use the envelopes by the offering plates or write ‘Pentecost; on check memo. Thank you for your generosity!
CALL TO WORSHIP
We have heard that we are not enough: not good enough, not strong enough, not whole enough.
If we receive human testimony, the testimony of God is greater.
We have heard that we do not make enough, do not own enough, do not have enough.
Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts.
We gather to worship, for God’s Word is enough: hope enough, love enough, life enough.
God gave us eternal life, and this life is in God’s Son.
Let us worship God.
*OPENING HYMN #267 (Red) Come Christians Join to Sing
Come, Christians, join to sing: Alleluia, Amen!
Loud praise to Christ our King: Alleluia, Amen!
Let all, with heart and voice, before His throne rejoice;
Praise is His gracious choice: Alleluia, Amen!
Come, lift your hearts on high: Alleluia, Amen!
Let praises fill the sky: Alleluia, Amen!
He is our guide and friend, to us He'll condescend;
His love shall never end: Alleluia, Amen!
Praise yet our Christ again: Alleluia, Amen!
Life shall not end the strain: Alleluia, Amen!
On heaven's blissful shore His goodness we'll adore,
Singing forevermore: Alleluia, Amen!"
*CALL TO CONFESSION
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION
O Christ who prayed for us, died for us, and lives for us, you taught us that we belong to you, and your word is our truth. Forgive us, O Lord, when we live as if we belonged only to ourselves. Forgive us, O Lord, when we foolishly think that power is the ultimate truth. Speak your words of peace to us this day, and make our lives a testimony to your grace. For you are the source of life itself, and only in you can we truly live.
*ASSURANCE OF PARDON
*GLORIA PATRI (on screen)
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now,
And ever shall be,
World without end. Amen, Amen.
MOTHER’S DAY LITANY (on screen)
Today we celebrate our mothers.
Thank you, God, for giving us mothers.
We celebrate all the women who have loved us, nurtured us, corrected us, and encouraged us.
Thank you, God, for the women who have made a difference in our lives.
We remember with deep gratitude all the ways they demonstrated their love for us.
Sometimes we did not understand them, but we know that God understood.
We take time to remember this because their love is most like God's love.
For their tears, for their hugs, for their wisdom, for their unfailing trust in our abilities, we give thanks today.
Lord, on this day set aside to honor and remember mothers, we give you thanks. We thank you for the many examples of faithful mothers in scripture, like Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth, and Lois. We are mindful this day of all these women, and especially Mary the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, who had the courage in faith to say “yes” to your calling. May the women here today emulate these examples of faith. And may they model for all the rest of us what it means to be your disciple.
We thank you for the women who raised us and all those women who served as our mothers in childhood. Whether birth mom, adopted mom, older sister, aunt, grandmother, stepmother or dear friend, we thank you for those women who held us and fed us, who cared for us and kissed away our pain, who saw the good in us and nurtured its growth. We pray that our lives may reflect the love they showed us, and that they would be pleased to be called our moms. Bless them on this special day; in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
SPECIAL MUSIC ‘O How Good It Is’ Choir
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE READINGS
Psalm 119: 1-8 (Read responsively)
1 Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to the law of the LORD.
2 Blessed are those who keep his statutes
and seek him with all their heart--
3 they do no wrong
but follow his ways.
4 You have laid down precepts
that are to be fully obeyed.
5 Oh, that my ways were steadfast
in obeying your decrees!
6 Then I would not be put to shame
when I consider all your commands.
7 I will praise you with an upright heart
as I learn your righteous laws.
8 I will obey your decrees;
do not utterly forsake me.
Matthew 28:18-20
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Acts 4: 1-5, 7-10a, 12-13
1The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people. 2 They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. 3 They seized Peter and John and, because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day. 4 But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand. 5 The next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem.
7 They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?” 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! 9 If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, 10 then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”
13 When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.
SERMON Are You Bold in Your Faith Journey?
John Stiegelmeier, guest speaker
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH -APOSTLES’ CREED (on screen)
I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty, from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.
*HYMN OF RESPONSE #726 'Will You Come and Follow me -- The Summons'
“Will you come and follow me if I but call your name?
Will you go where you don’t know and never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown; will you let my name be known;
Will you let my life be grown in you and you in me?”
“Will you leave yourself behind if I but call your name?
Will you care for cruel and kind and never be the same?
Will you risk the hostile stare should your life attract or scare?
Will you let me answer prayer in you and you in me?”
“Will you let the blinded see if I but call your name?
Will you set the prisoners free and never be the same?
Will you kiss the leper clean, and do such as this unseen,
And admit to what I mean in you and you in me?”
“Will you love the ‘you’ you hide if I but call your name?
Will you quell the fear inside and never be the same?
Will you use the faith you’ve found to reshape the world around,
Through my sight and touch and sound in you and you in me?”
Lord, your summons echoes true when you but call my name.
Let me turn and follow you and never be the same.
In your company I’ll go where your love and footsteps show.
Thus I’ll move and live and grow in you and you in me.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
-Concerns: John E
-Our homebound or in care members: Richard and Dolores C, Bob & Jan J, Delores K, Darwin L (Jeanne as caregiver), Bob O (Nancy as caregiver), Rose P, Joyce R, Steve VB, Dee W (Please reach out and call)
-This Week’s Prayer Families: Elizabeth F, Betty G, Jon & Linda G & family Grace & Lottie
-Those Who Mourn: all who have lost loved ones
THE 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 debts as we forgive our debtors. 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 OF OURSELVES AND OUR RESOURCES
*DOXOLOGY (on screen)
Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly hosts;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
*CLOSING HYMN #69 (Red) ‘I, the Lord of Sea and Sky -- Here I am Lord’
I, the Lord of sea and sky, I have heard my people cry.
All who dwell in dark and sin my hand will save.
I, who made the stars of night, I will make their darkness bright.
Who will bear my light to them? Whom shall I send?
Refrain:
Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night.
I will go, Lord, if you lead me.
I will hold your people in my heart.
I, the Lord of snow and rain, I have borne my people’s pain.
I have wept for love of them. They turn away.
I will break their hearts of stone, give them hearts of love alone.
I will speak my word to them. Whom shall I send? [Refrain]
I, the Lord of wind and flam, I will tend the poor and lame.
I will set a feast for them. My hand will save.
Finest bread I will provide till their hearts be satisfied.
I will give my life to them. Whom shall I send? [Refrain]
CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE Crown Him with Many Crowns, Hayes/Gaspard
ORDER OF WORSHIP
7th Sunday of Easter
Mother’s Day
May 12, 2024
PRELUDE Holy Spirit Medley, Lani Smith
WELCOME
ANNOUNCEMENTS
-TUESDAY MORNING COFFEE GROUP at 9:30ish AM at First Lutheran Mission Coffee House.
- PIECES AND PRAYERS Tuesdays at 1:30 PM at the FPC Quilting Room.
-THURSDAY MORNING BIBLE STUDY at 9:30 AM in the FPC Center Meeting Room.
-SISTERHOOD will meet Thursday, May 16 at 11:30 AM at the First Lutheran Mission Coffee House.
-MEN’S BROTHERHOOD will meet Thursday, May 16 at 5:30 PM at the church lounge
-INVITATION: You are invited to the reception for Tia Glaus’s graduation from Sioux Valley High on Saturday, May 18 from 5-7 PM, at her home at 1317 Orchard Drive.
GRADUATE RECOGNITION: Sunday, May 19 during Worship Service FPC will be recognizing our 2024 high school graduates, Tia Glaus and Dylan Scubelek!
-CHURCH PICNIC: Sunday, May 19 following worship service CE/Fellowship will host a church picnic in the church basement after church on Pentecost Sunday, May 19, 2024. CE/Fellowship will provide grilled hamburgers, hot dogs, sides, and ice cream so come and enjoy a great meal and fellowship.
– ‘PENTECOST SPECIAL OFFERING’ (Children at Risk, Youth, Young Adults)-. donations are being accepted April 1 through May 19. Please use the envelopes by the offering plates or write ‘Pentecost; on check memo. Thank you for your generosity!
CALL TO WORSHIP
We have heard that we are not enough: not good enough, not strong enough, not whole enough.
If we receive human testimony, the testimony of God is greater.
We have heard that we do not make enough, do not own enough, do not have enough.
Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts.
We gather to worship, for God’s Word is enough: hope enough, love enough, life enough.
God gave us eternal life, and this life is in God’s Son.
Let us worship God.
*OPENING HYMN #267 (Red) Come Christians Join to Sing
Come, Christians, join to sing: Alleluia, Amen!
Loud praise to Christ our King: Alleluia, Amen!
Let all, with heart and voice, before His throne rejoice;
Praise is His gracious choice: Alleluia, Amen!
Come, lift your hearts on high: Alleluia, Amen!
Let praises fill the sky: Alleluia, Amen!
He is our guide and friend, to us He'll condescend;
His love shall never end: Alleluia, Amen!
Praise yet our Christ again: Alleluia, Amen!
Life shall not end the strain: Alleluia, Amen!
On heaven's blissful shore His goodness we'll adore,
Singing forevermore: Alleluia, Amen!"
*CALL TO CONFESSION
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION
O Christ who prayed for us, died for us, and lives for us, you taught us that we belong to you, and your word is our truth. Forgive us, O Lord, when we live as if we belonged only to ourselves. Forgive us, O Lord, when we foolishly think that power is the ultimate truth. Speak your words of peace to us this day, and make our lives a testimony to your grace. For you are the source of life itself, and only in you can we truly live.
*ASSURANCE OF PARDON
*GLORIA PATRI (on screen)
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now,
And ever shall be,
World without end. Amen, Amen.
MOTHER’S DAY LITANY (on screen)
Today we celebrate our mothers.
Thank you, God, for giving us mothers.
We celebrate all the women who have loved us, nurtured us, corrected us, and encouraged us.
Thank you, God, for the women who have made a difference in our lives.
We remember with deep gratitude all the ways they demonstrated their love for us.
Sometimes we did not understand them, but we know that God understood.
We take time to remember this because their love is most like God's love.
For their tears, for their hugs, for their wisdom, for their unfailing trust in our abilities, we give thanks today.
Lord, on this day set aside to honor and remember mothers, we give you thanks. We thank you for the many examples of faithful mothers in scripture, like Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth, and Lois. We are mindful this day of all these women, and especially Mary the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, who had the courage in faith to say “yes” to your calling. May the women here today emulate these examples of faith. And may they model for all the rest of us what it means to be your disciple.
We thank you for the women who raised us and all those women who served as our mothers in childhood. Whether birth mom, adopted mom, older sister, aunt, grandmother, stepmother or dear friend, we thank you for those women who held us and fed us, who cared for us and kissed away our pain, who saw the good in us and nurtured its growth. We pray that our lives may reflect the love they showed us, and that they would be pleased to be called our moms. Bless them on this special day; in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
SPECIAL MUSIC ‘O How Good It Is’ Choir
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE READINGS
Psalm 119: 1-8 (Read responsively)
1 Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to the law of the LORD.
2 Blessed are those who keep his statutes
and seek him with all their heart--
3 they do no wrong
but follow his ways.
4 You have laid down precepts
that are to be fully obeyed.
5 Oh, that my ways were steadfast
in obeying your decrees!
6 Then I would not be put to shame
when I consider all your commands.
7 I will praise you with an upright heart
as I learn your righteous laws.
8 I will obey your decrees;
do not utterly forsake me.
Matthew 28:18-20
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Acts 4: 1-5, 7-10a, 12-13
1The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people. 2 They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. 3 They seized Peter and John and, because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day. 4 But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand. 5 The next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem.
7 They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?” 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! 9 If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, 10 then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”
13 When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.
SERMON Are You Bold in Your Faith Journey?
John Stiegelmeier, guest speaker
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH -APOSTLES’ CREED (on screen)
I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty, from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.
*HYMN OF RESPONSE #726 'Will You Come and Follow me -- The Summons'
“Will you come and follow me if I but call your name?
Will you go where you don’t know and never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown; will you let my name be known;
Will you let my life be grown in you and you in me?”
“Will you leave yourself behind if I but call your name?
Will you care for cruel and kind and never be the same?
Will you risk the hostile stare should your life attract or scare?
Will you let me answer prayer in you and you in me?”
“Will you let the blinded see if I but call your name?
Will you set the prisoners free and never be the same?
Will you kiss the leper clean, and do such as this unseen,
And admit to what I mean in you and you in me?”
“Will you love the ‘you’ you hide if I but call your name?
Will you quell the fear inside and never be the same?
Will you use the faith you’ve found to reshape the world around,
Through my sight and touch and sound in you and you in me?”
Lord, your summons echoes true when you but call my name.
Let me turn and follow you and never be the same.
In your company I’ll go where your love and footsteps show.
Thus I’ll move and live and grow in you and you in me.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
-Concerns: John E
-Our homebound or in care members: Richard and Dolores C, Bob & Jan J, Delores K, Darwin L (Jeanne as caregiver), Bob O (Nancy as caregiver), Rose P, Joyce R, Steve VB, Dee W (Please reach out and call)
-This Week’s Prayer Families: Elizabeth F, Betty G, Jon & Linda G & family Grace & Lottie
-Those Who Mourn: all who have lost loved ones
THE 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 debts as we forgive our debtors. 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 OF OURSELVES AND OUR RESOURCES
*DOXOLOGY (on screen)
Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly hosts;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
*CLOSING HYMN #69 (Red) ‘I, the Lord of Sea and Sky -- Here I am Lord’
I, the Lord of sea and sky, I have heard my people cry.
All who dwell in dark and sin my hand will save.
I, who made the stars of night, I will make their darkness bright.
Who will bear my light to them? Whom shall I send?
Refrain:
Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night.
I will go, Lord, if you lead me.
I will hold your people in my heart.
I, the Lord of snow and rain, I have borne my people’s pain.
I have wept for love of them. They turn away.
I will break their hearts of stone, give them hearts of love alone.
I will speak my word to them. Whom shall I send? [Refrain]
I, the Lord of wind and flam, I will tend the poor and lame.
I will set a feast for them. My hand will save.
Finest bread I will provide till their hearts be satisfied.
I will give my life to them. Whom shall I send? [Refrain]
CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE Crown Him with Many Crowns, Hayes/Gaspard