Sayville Congregational United Church of Christ. Where you are welcome, long before you arrive.

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2 Sayville Congregational United Church of Christ Where you are welcome, long before you arrive.

3 Prelude Sonata in G by George Handel

4 Call to Worship

5 God is friendship says the mystic. God is. We are. God with us. Come, let us worship together, this present God, as we are, Emmanuel.

6 Opening Hymn NCH #419 Now Thank We All Our God

7 Now thank we all our God with heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things has done, in whom this world rejoices, Who, from our parents arms, has blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.

8 O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us, With ever joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us, And keep us still in grace, and guide us when perplexed, And free us from all ills in this world and the next.

9 All praise and thanks to God our Maker now be given, To Christ, and Spirit, too, our help in highest heaven, The one eternal God, whom earth and heaven adore, For thus it was, is now and shall be evermore.

10 Unison Prayer

11 He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lake-side, he came to those who knew him not. He speaks to us the same word: Follow thou me! and sets us to the tasks that he has to fulfill for our time.

12 He commands. And to those who obey, whether they be wise or simple, he will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings that they shall pass through with him, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who he is.

13 A moment for silence and the Assurance of God s Love.

14 Passing of the Peace Hugging is encouraged but optional!

15 Reading Psalm 16 from Psalms for Praying Nan C. Merrill

16 Choral Anthem Let Us Hope When Hope Seems Hopeless by Emma Lou Diemer

17 Gospel Reading Mark 13:5-8 New International Version

18 Gospel Reading Mark 13:5-8 The Message

19 Children s Time

20 Provocation To the place of peace

21 A Remain ever before me, O Living Presence. for in You I am safe.

22 B You are my Beloved; In You and through You I can do all things.

23 I look to those who are at one with You and learn from them and your ways; My delight increases each time I sense your Presence within me! C Songs of praise well up from my heart!

24 Love is my chosen food, my cup, holding me in its power. Where I have come from, wherever I shall go, Love is my birthright, My true estate. D

25 I bless the Counselor who guides my way; in the night also does my heart instruct me. I walk beside the Spirit of Truth; I celebrate the Light E I bask in the Oneness of All!

26 Thus my heart is glasd, and my soul rejoices; I shall not be afraid, nor fall into the pit of despair; For in Love s presence I know fullness of joy. F

27 G You are my beloved and, in You I will live forever.

28 H Then Jesus began to say to them, Beware no one leads you astray.

29 Many will come in my name and say, I am he! And they will lead many astray. I

30 J When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed for this must take place, but the end is still to come.

31 For nation will rise up against nation and kindom against kindom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. K This is but the beginning of birthpangs.

32 L Water and clay, when fed on the breath of Jesus, Spread wings, became a bird and flew. Your praise of God is a breath from your body of water and clay. Make it a bird of paradise by breathing into it your heart s sincerity.

33 Hymn NCH #421 We Gather Together

34 We gather together to ask for God's blessing, to live in community, seeking God's will. We come now, as sisters and brothers, confessing the sins that divide and the wrong in us still.

35 Beside us, forgiving, enabling, sustaining, you call us, 0 Savior, to life that is new. You draw us away from selfcentered complaining. You lead us and guide us in ways that are true.

36 All praise to the Spirit, provider, defender. You offer us freedom, to follow or stray, Empowering all by the hope you engender. Grant wisdom and courage to follow your way.

37 Our Prayers

38 The Prayer Jesus Taught the Disciples to Pray

39 Musical Praise The Peace of God by Douglas E. Wagner

40 An Invitation for Giving & Offertory

41 Doxology We praise thee, O God, our Redeemer, Creator; in grateful devotion, our tribute we bring. We lay it before thee, we come and adore thee, We bless thy holy name, glad praises we sing. Amen.

42 NCH #422 Come, O Thankful People, Come

43 Come, O thankful people, come raise the song of harvest home; All is safely gathered in as the winter storms begin; God our Maker does provide for our wants to be supplied; Come to God s own temple, come, raise the song of harvest home.

44 All the blessings of the field, all the stores the gardens yield, All the fruits in full supply, ripened neath the summer sky, All that spring with bounteous hand scatters o er the smiling land, All the liberal autumn pours from its rich o erflowing stores.

45 These to you, our God, we owe, Source from whom all blessings flow; And for these our songs we raise, Grateful vows and solemn praise. Come, then, thankful people, come, Raise the song of harvest home; Come to God s own temple, come, raise the song of harvest home.

46 Benediction & Sending Forth

47 Choral Blessing

48 Postlude So Many People by Stephen Sondheim

49 Thank you for being with us today! Please join us for hospitality in the Vestry and talkback in the Sanctuary starting at 11:30 AM Have a wonderful week.

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