Order of Worship, August 2, 2020

Community United Methodist Church

Quincy, CA

WELCOME EVERYONE!!   We are happy you are worshiping with us today, wherever and whenever you are worshiping.  Please feel free to leave us a message or leave a comment in the video and let us know how we can best connect with you and pray for you.  

We are a church where ALL are welcome!! 

 

Please participate as fully as you wish, or simply watch and take it all in.

FWS – The Faith We Sing (Black Hymnal)

UMH – The United Methodist Hymnal (Red Hymnal)

 

Gathering Music:                                 

                Alice King, Piano

    

Welcome & Opening Prayer                                                                   Rev. Andrew Davis

                         

Hymn of Praise:                                                                       

 

1.    

Come from wilderness and wandering.  Here in truth, we will be fed.

You that yearn for days of fullness, all around us is our food.

Taste and see the grace eternal.  Taste and see that God is good.

 

 

 

2.    

Come from restlessness and roaming.  Here, in joy, we keep the feast.

We that once were lost and scattered in communion’s love have stood.

Taste and see the grace eternal.  Taste and see that God is good.

 

3.    

Come from loneliness and longing.  Here, in peace, we have been led.

Blest are those who from this table live their lives in gratitude.

Taste and see the grace eternal.  Taste and see that God is good.

                                                                                    

Lesson for Children & Young at Heart:                                                        Grandma Susie

 

Epistle Lesson:                                                                                   Romans 9: 1-5 (NRSV)

 

I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience confirms it by the Holy Spirit—

 

Gospel Lesson:                                                                           Matthew 14: 13-21 (NRSV)

 

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The Word of God for the People of God…

 

Meditation:                                                “Because God…: You Give Them Something”

 

Questions for Reflection this Week:

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Response:      

 

1.    

Nestling bird nor star in heaven such a refuge e’er was given.

 

2.    

From all evil things he spares them; in his mighty arms he bears them.

 

3.    

Unto them his grace he showeth, and their sorrows all he knoweth.

 

4.    

His the loving purpose solely to preserve them pure and holy.

 

Invitation to Holy Communion:                                                                                  

Holy Communion in The United Methodist Church is open to EVERYONE!!  You do not need to be a member of this church or any church; just simply have an open heart, a sincere repentance of sin, and desire to know and love God and neighbor.  Please have a piece of bread or cracker with you and a cup of juice or beverage of choice.  You will be guided through the liturgy by Pastor Andrew and instructed when to eat the bread and drink the juice.  

 

Confession:  

As we prepare our hearts for this feast and to come to the table of grace, let us confess our sins as one body before God: 

 

God Almighty, we confess that we have not always lived up to what you have wanted us to do!!  We have been quick to judge, quick to speak badly of others, and quick to anger.  We have sometimes failed in letting your Holy Spirit guide our way, instead dousing the flames of your Spirit with cold water and our personal preferences.  Forgive us, Lord for these times where we do not do what you want us to do.  Forgive us, Lord for our shortcomings.  Renew us, Lord in our relationship with you and with each other, so that the fire of your Holy Spirit will burn brightly within each of us.  

 

Good News, Good News, Good News!!  Christ died for us while we still sinned and while we still fell short.  That is proof of God’s infinite love and grace for each of us.  In the name of Jesus Christ, YOU are forgiven!!  

 

In the name of Jesus Christ, we are ALL forgiven!!  Alleluia, Amen!!

 

God’s Holy Spirit is present here with us in this very time and place! 

 

We know and sense, our Creator is in our midst! 

 

Let’s give everything we bring, our hearts, intentions, and thoughts over to God. 

 

We give them all joyfully! 

Let’s also give thanks to God who gets everything! 

 

Of course, God gets everything! God made everything! 

Let’s show our thanks and honor to God. 

 

You’re so right! Giving God our thanks and honor is the best thing we can ever do! So, let’s do it: 

 

God, you created everything; every living thing was put on Earth by you. All people of every nation belong to you!

 

So, together with all creation; everything on earth and in heaven we add our voices and join in with the world’s eternal song of praise: 

 

Holy, incredible, unimaginable God, full of power and strength, all of heaven and earth are full of the signs of your glory! You amaze us! And your Son Jesus the Christ who you sent to us is equally amazing! We never cease to be amazed by you!

 

God you are amazing and so is your Son, Jesus Christ. At just the right time you sent Jesus to us and filled him with your Holy Spirit so he could show us way you intended us to live. Filled with your Wisdom he came to show us the Truth about the universe. 

 

We remember how nearly 2,000 years ago, Jesus ate the Passover meal with his disciples in an upper room in Jerusalem, Israel During the ceremonial meal, Jesus took the bread, thanked God for it, broke it, and told the friends he knew would betray him: “This is my body which I give to you. Take it and eat it and remember me.” 

 

When the feast was over he took a cup of wine, thanked God for it and said to the friends he knew would desert him: “This is my blood given to you as a new agreement between humans and God. Drink it and remember me.” 

 

According to your holy plan, Jesus was arrested and executed as a terrorist, threatening Rome’s national security with the radical message of how your great love turns the world upside down, throws the head honchos from their thrones and lifts up the poor, nobodies to first place. 

 

Three days after his execution by crucifixion on a cross, the women of his group discovered his tomb was empty and Mary Magdalene was the first to encounter the risen Christ, resurrected to show us how great and powerful your love is for us. 

 

Fifty days after Christ’s resurrection people gathered in Jerusalem again, this time to celebrate the festival of the harvest called Pentecost. Among the followers of Jesus your wild and holy Spirit broke loose! Everyone there was drawn in to witness the birth of Christ’s Church and the gift of your never-failing presence remains with us in the world today. Your Spirit continues to speak to each of us in our own language and leads us in the way of Christ as we follow Jesus’ final instructions to tell the whole world about Your love.

 

 We remember Christ’s perfect love and life by happily and thankfully give our lives back to you as holy, living sacrifices. Receive this gift of our lives together with Christ’s gifts for us as we speak the Truth about our faith: 

 

Christ dies; Christ lives; Christ is coming again. 

 

Join me in praying God’s blessing over our symbols: 

God, we ask you to once again pour your Holy Spirit on each person in this room and on these gifts of bread and wine. Make them the body and blood of Christ so that by taking them into our bodies, you will make us the body of Christ for the rest of the world and everyone will know that You can make all wrongs right. 

 

Renew us in this holy meal and help us remember we are Christ’s Church. Strengthen our faith and service in every nation and with all people so we can faithfully show and tell the world how much your love can do. 

 

Use your Holy Spirit to unite us with Christ and with each other so we can care for the world until Christ comes again and we all join around his table as family in perfect love. 

 

We proclaim to the world that you possess every good quality and you deserve all of our honor and obedience now and forever.  

 

Prayers of the People & 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.

 

Sharing in Communion: 

 

Prayer After Receiving 

 

Closing Hymn:                                                                            

 

1.    

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:

            

            I will go, Lord, if you lead me.  I will hold your people in my heart.

 

2.    

I have wept for love of them.  They turn away. 

I will break their hearts of stone, give them hearts for love alone.

I will speak my word to them.  Whom shall I send?

 

Refrain

 

3.    

I will set a feast for them.  My hand will save.

Finest bread I will provide till their hearts are satisfied.

I will give my life to them.  Whom shall I send?

 

Refrain

                                                 

Blessing & Sending Forth

 

                                                                 UMC Mission:                                   

To Make Disciples of Jesus Christ For the Transformation of the World

 

Community UMC Mission: 

We are a Christ-centered community, joyfully committed to being His ambassadors.  In the fellowship of His love and grace, we grow in Christ through the study of God’s word, prayer and worship; living out our faith in service to others.

 

 

 

Mission Opportunity:  

 

P.O. Box 766, Quincy, CA 95971

Tel/Fax (530)283-1740

email:quincyumc@sbcglobal.net

Church Website: 

Facebook: CommunityUnitedMethodistChurchQuincy

YouTube: QuincyUMC95971

Instagram: @QuincyUMC95971

 

Please mail your tithes/offerings to the church office at the above address.  You can also set up automatic bill pay through your bank for tithes/offerings.

Please e-mail prayer requests to the church office or Pastor Andrew.  

 

Community UMC Office Hours:

Closed until further notice due to COVID-19 Precautions

 

Rev. Andrew Davis

Pastor Andrew’s E-mail: Andrew.davis@cnumc.org 

Pastor Andrew’s Google Voice Number: 530-238-5723

During the COVID-19 closure of our buildings, Pastor Andrew cannot meet in-person in most cases, but is available by phone, e-mail, or text between 10:00am-7:00pm Monday-Thursday and Saturday. He can also meet via Zoom by appointment.  Pastor Andrew will continue taking Friday off and is not available on Fridays except for emergencies.

 

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[i] “Let Us Break Bread Together.” African-American Spiritual, arr. Lloyd Larson.  ©2014 Lorenz Publishing Company.  All Rights Reserved.  Streamed with permission under ONE LICENCE, License # A-735696.  All Rights Reserved.  

 

[ii] “All Who Hunger.” Words by Sylvia G. Dunstan (Exod. 16: 13-15; Ps. 34: 8; John 4: 10; 1 Cor. 5:8).  Music by William Moore.  Words ©1991 GIA Publications Inc. All Rights Reserved.  

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[iii] “Children of the Heavenly Father.” Words Carline V. Sandell-Berg, 1855; trans. By Ernst W. Olson, 1925.  Music Swedish Melody.  Trans. ©1925, renewed 1953 Augsburg Fortress.  All Rights Reserved.  

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[iv] Written by Rev. Corey Turnpenny 2017 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.

 

[v] “Here I Am, Lord.” Words and Music by Dan Schutte, 1981; Adapted by Carlton Young, 1988, ©1981, 1983, 1989 Daniel L. Schutte and NALR.  All Rights Reserved.  

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Order of Worship, July 26, 2020

Community United Methodist Church

Quincy, CA

July 26, 2020/Eighth Sunday After Pentecost

 

WELCOME EVERYONE!!   We are happy you are worshiping with us today, wherever and whenever you are worshiping.  Please feel free to leave us a message or leave a comment in the video and let us know how we can best connect with you and pray for you.  

We are a church where ALL are welcome!! 

 

Please participate as fully as you wish, or simply watch and take it all in.

FWS – The Faith We Sing (Black Hymnal)

UMH – The United Methodist Hymnal (Red Hymnal)

 

Gathering Music:                                                                                            Alice King, Piano

Deep River, played to honor the late Civil Rights Leader, John Lewis.  

Arranged by Barbara J. Heastings.

    

Welcome & Opening Prayer                                                                   Rev. Andrew Davis

                          

Hymn of Praise:                                                             Sweet Hour of Prayer – UMH 496

 

1.    Sweet hour of prayer!  Sweet hour of prayer! 

That calls me from a world of care, and bids me at my Father’s throne

Make all my wants and wishes known.

In seasons of distress and grief; my soul has often found relief,

And oft escaped the tempter’s snare by thy return, sweet hour of prayer!  

 

2.    Sweet hour of prayer!  Sweet hour of prayer!  

The joys I feel, the bliss I share of those whose anxious spirits burn

With strong desires for thy return!

With such I hasten to the place where God my Savior shows his face,

And gladly take my station there, and wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer.

 

3.    Sweet hour of prayer!  Sweet hour of prayer!  

Thy wings shall my petition bear to him whose truth and faithfulness

Engage the waiting soul to bless.

And since he bids me seek his face, believe his word, and trust his grace,

I’ll cast on him my every care, and wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer. 

                                                                            

Lesson for Children & Young at Heart:                                                        Grandma Susie

 

Scripture Lesson:                                                               Romans 8: 26-39 (The Message)

^26-28 Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

^29-30 God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.

^31-39 So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:

They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.
We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.

None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.[i]

The Word of God for the People of God…Thanks be to God!

 

Meditation:                                   “Nothing Can Separate Us: More than Conquerors”

 

Questions for Reflection this Week:

·      What prayer practice do you find most meaningful?  

·      What expectations do you put on prayer?  

 

Response:                                           Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying – FWS 2193

 

            Lord, listen to your children praying, 

Lord send your Spirit in this place;

            Lord, listen to your children praying, 

send us love, send us power, send us grace.[ii]

CCLI#22829

                        

Moment of Stillness/Pastoral Prayer/The Lord’s Prayer (Altogether):

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.

 

Closing Hymn:                                               Goodness is Stronger than Evil – FWS 2219    

 

            Goodness is stronger than evil, love is stronger than hate;

            Light is stronger than darkness, life is stronger than death.

            Victory is ours, victory is ours, through him who loved us.

            Oh, victory is ours, victory is ours, through him who loved us.[iii]                             

                                                 

Blessing & Sending Forth

 

                                                                 UMC Mission:                                   

To Make Disciples of Jesus Christ For the Transformation of the World

 

Community UMC Mission: 

We are a Christ-centered community, joyfully committed to being His ambassadors.  In the fellowship of His love and grace, we grow in Christ through the study of God’s word, prayer and worship; living out our faith in service to others.

 

Mission Opportunity:  The PIumas Crisis Intervention Resource Center (PCIRC) and Portola Wellness Center have a need for around 200 face masks, including kids sizes.  If anyone would like to make masks, they can be dropped off on the front porch of the church office, at Our Savior Lutheran Church, or PCIRC.  Please see Pastor Andrew, Pastor Kendrah, or Sandra for more information.  

 

P.O. Box 766, Quincy, CA 95971

Tel/Fax (530)283-1740

email:quincyumc@sbcglobal.net

Church Website: www.quincymethodist.org

Facebook: CommunityUnitedMethodistChurchQuincy

YouTube: QuincyUMC95971

Instagram: @QuincyUMC95971

 

Please mail your tithes/offerings to the church office at the above address.  You can also set up automatic bill pay through your bank for tithes/offerings.

Please e-mail prayer requests to the church office or Pastor Andrew.  

 

Community UMC Office Hours:

Closed until further notice due to COVID-19 Precautions

 

Rev. Andrew Davis

Pastor Andrew’s E-mail: Andrew.davis@cnumc.org 

Pastor Andrew’s Google Voice Number: 530-238-5723

During the COVID-19 closure of our buildings, Pastor Andrew cannot meet in-person in most cases, but is available by phone, e-mail, or text between 10:00am-7:00pm Monday-Thursday and Saturday. He can also meet via Zoom by appointment.  Pastor Andrew will continue taking Friday off and is not available on Fridays except for emergencies.

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[i] Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

 

[ii] “Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying” words and music by Ken Medema

©1973 Hope Publishing Company
Used by Permission. CCLI License #20665172

 

[iii] “Goodness is Stronger than Evil” words by Desmond Tutu, Music by John Bell.  Words ©1995 Desmond Tutu, administered by Doubleday (a division of Random House) and Hodder and Stoughton Limited; Music ©1996 WGRG The Iona Community (Scotland), admin. By GIA Publications, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.  

Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENCE, License # A-735696.  All Rights Reserved.