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Weekly worship services are held Sunday at 8:00 AM and 10:00 AM. Junior and Senior High Youth and Pre-K through 6th grade Sunday School begin at 10:15 AM 
Sermon Archives (dates back to Sept. 9, 2001) | This page updated: 03/13/2010

NORTH KINGSTOWN UMC SUNDAY WORSHIP

Pastor, The Rev. Lori Eldredge

Order of Worship  for this week

Services at 8 & 10 AM

Sunday Worship at 8 and 10 AM each week ... Communion is offered on the first Sunday of the month

 

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Worship for Sunday March 14

THE FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT

March 14, 2010

One Great Hour of Sharing

 

“He Is Lord”  #177

 

PRELUDE & LIGHTING THE CHRIST CANDLE

 

WELCOME  & INVOCATION

Rend your hearts and not your clothing. 

 Return to the Lord, your God,

For he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love,

 and relents from punishing.     Joel 2: 13

 

*CALL TO WORSHIP 

Those who want to save their lives

have good health insurance,

pay their bills on time,  exercise and eat right…

Those who want to save their lives will lose them.

Those who lose their lives in pursuit of God

who abandon the world's values,

who live generously and faithfully,

who listen to a voice beyond...

Those who lose their lives

in pursuit of God will find life.

May we learn the value of loss.

May we know the value of life.

 

*HYMN    “ This is the Day of New Beginnings”   #383

 

OPENING PRAYER

O merciful God, in compassion for your children you sent your Son Jesus Christ to be the Savior of the world. Grant us grace to feel and to lament our sins that contribute to the pain and suffering of the world and you.  Help us by self-denial, prayer, and meditation to prepare our hearts for deeper penitence and a better life.

And give us true longing to be free from sin,

Through the deliverance won by Jesus Christ our Redeemer. Amen.

  

SCRIPTURE      Joshua 5: 9-12

CHILDREN’S TIME

 

*HYMN  “He Knows My Name” 

By Paul Mancini,  Sr.   

 

I have a Maker, He formed my heart,

Before even time began my life was in His hands.

He knows my name, He knows my ev’ry thought,

He sees each tear that falls and hears me when I call.

I have a Father, He calls me His own.

He’ll never leave me, no matter where I go.

He knows my name, He knows my ev’ry thought,

He sees each tear that falls and hears me when I call.

 

INVITATION TO DISCIPLESHIP

OFFERING OUR GIFTS

DOXOLOGY    #95

PRAYER OF DEDICATION

 

ANTHEM    “Ancient Words”

 

SHARING OF JOYS AND CONCERNS

PASTORAL PRAYER

 

 

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 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.

 

       “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus”        #349

Please remain seated.

 

LISTENING TO GOD’S WORD READ AND PROCLAIMED

The Gospel: Luke 15: 1-3, 11b-32

                                                            “Living in the Far Country”      Rev. Lori Eldredge

       * HYMN “The Trees of the Field”      #2279

 

*BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE

*PASSING THE PEACE OF CHRIST
MINISTRY OF PRAYER

If you would like to pray with one of our spiritual formation leaders please indicate this by coming to the front of the sanctuary.

 

Large print bulletins and hymnals are available.

Please ask one of the ushers to assist you.

 

Sunday morning childcare for young children is available in the childcare room. (10:00)

 

Please join us for coffee and fellowship in the Hall and Narthex following the service.

 

Flower Ministry

The flowers that beautify the Sanctuary this morning are given

in memory of Greta Fisher by Paul, Ian, and Kyle Nannig and Susan Fisher.

 

Acolyte Schedule

North Kingstown United Methodist Church

2009-2010

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****If you are going to be away on the Sunday you are scheduled to serve, please try to

find a replacement, then call the office at 294-9293 or Mr. Cone at 886-4738.****

 

Lighting the Candles                                                             Extinguishing the Candles

 

 

 

North Kingstown, RI United Methodist Church
450 Boston Neck Road (Route 1A)
North Kingstown, Rhode Island 02852, United States of America
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