PASTORAL PRAYER WORDS OF TRADITION: THE LORD S PRAYER 895. March 29, :00a.m. PALM/PASSION SUNDAY Liturgical Color Purple

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1 March 29, :00a.m. PALM/PASSION SUNDAY Liturgical Color Purple And those who went out before and those who followed cried out, Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Mark 11:9 The children will meet in the Courtyard at 10:30 am for the Children s Procession of Palms around the block. THE GLORIOUS ENTRANCE OF THE KING When the children return, you are invited to join them in the front yard and courtyard [weather permitting]. We will then enter the Sanctuary in a procession of palms. You are invited to process down the center aisle, leaving your palm branches on the communion railing. Please return to your seats by the outside aisle. The children stand with Pastor Paul during the singing. Children are invited to stay in the chancel area through the Gloria Patri. *PROCESSIONAL OF PALMS 278 Hosanna, Loud Hosanna Ellacombe Hosanna, loud Hosanna, the little children sang; through pillared court and temple the lovely anthem rang. To Jesus, who had blessed them close folded to his breast, the children sang their praises, the simplest and the best. From Olivet they followed mid an exultant crowd, the victor palm branch waving and chanting clear and loud. The Lord of earth and heaven rode on in lowly state, nor scorned that little children should on his bidding wait. Hosanna in the highest! that ancient song we sing, for Christ is our Redeemer, the Lord of heaven our King. O may we ever praise him with heart and life and voice, and in his blissful presence eternally rejoice! GATHERING & ANNOUNCEMENTS Rev. Paul J. Kottke RESPONSIVE PRAYER Chuck Jansch, Liturgist Leader: The Lord be with you. People: And also with you. Leader: Let us pray. We praise and bless you, ever-living God. People: For the acts of love by which you redeem the world. Leader: This day so long ago Jesus entered the holy city of Jerusalem People: And was proclaimed king by those who spread their garments and palm branches along his way. Leader: Let these branches be for us, signs of his victory during this Holy Week, People: And grant that we who bear them may always acclaim Jesus Messiah Leader: By walking the way of his suffering and cross; People: That, dying and rising with him, we may enter into your Holy Reign. All: Through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen. *GOSPEL READING Mark 11:1-11 Rev. Kottke Reader: May God bless the hearing and understanding of these words. People: Thanks be to God. *GLORIA PATRI 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. [Parents, you are invited to lead your children to Children s Church, if you so desire.] PASTORAL PRAYER WORDS OF TRADITION: THE LORD S PRAYER 895 OFFERING - Giving out of gratitude for the blessings of our life OFFERTORY All Glory, Laud, and Honor arr. Thomas Chesterton OFFERTORY PRAYER Kelsey Forsyth *PRESENTATION OF OFFERING AND DOXOLOGY HYMN 95 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. THE PASSION BEGINS SCRIPTURAL ACCLAMATION SCRIPTURE Psalm 31:9-16 Rev. Kottke Leader: This is the Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God. Joseph Haydn Missa Sancti Nicolai (mass no. 6 in G Major) [see insert for text] 1. Kyrie 2. Gloria 3. Credo 4. Sanctus 5. Benedictus 6. Agnus Dei Soloists: Kelly Sowell, soprano; Janet Wolfer, alto; Carlos Arellano, tenor; Tom VandenBosch, bass In silence, the Chancel is stripped of its symbols. A large wooden cross is brought forth through the congregation, carrying with it the suffering of the people. It is placed in the stand, symbolically recreating the altar from which Christ offered for all the world a lasting and complete reconciliation with God Almighty. *BENEDICTION The Hammering of the Nail Please depart in silence. As the Sanctuary empties, you are welcome to move forward to the columbarium Chapel area to the left of the Chancel for prayer. Please join us for a reception in immediately following worship. ASSISTING IN THE WORSHIP SERVICE TODAY Greeters: Glenn Tuthill, George Gramer, Reda Walsh, Joan Buresh Ushers: Ron Justiss, Debbie Justiss, Hugh Alexander, Joann Beieler, Greg Fernandez, Quinn Brown Acolytes: Alyssa Salomonsson, Lucas Frazier *Please stand as able. A Staffed Nursery is available. Please alert an usher if you need a large-print hymnal or hearing aids

2 Peniel The Place Where We Connect & Wrestle with God 10:30 a.m. Palm/Passion Sunday March 29, 2015 Order of Service Today s Message Presented by Rev. Debby Lawrence Gathering Song Refining Friendship Part VI in our Lenten Series based on A World Worth Saving Lenten Spiritual Practices for Action "...both friendship and hospitality begin with the inner discipline of prayer. George Hovaness Donigan Scripture: 1 John 3:18 24, And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. (23) Palm/Passion Sunday March 29, 2015 UNIVERSITY PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Invocation and Announcements Finding 5 Worship Song Scripture Reading Worship Song Joys and Concerns Prayers of the People & the Lord s Prayer Message Closing Song Benediction Worship crew: Liza Stoltz Hanson, Denton Hanson, Debby Lawrence, Kevin Garman, Brittany Collins, Ben Wilkins, Chris Beeson, and Chelsea Pearson. STAFF Rev. Paul Kottke, Senior Pastor Rev. Debby Lawrence, Assoc. Pastor of Congregational Care Duane Buys, Director of Christian Education Rev. Linda Bibb, Interim Director of The Christina Pacheco, Assist. to Christian Education Rev. Anne Davidson-Mundt, Program Minister Steve Felt, Youth Assistant Marilyn Stranske, Admin. Assistant Liza Stoltz Hanson, Director of Foundation Campus Ministry Diane Felt, UPark UMC Admin. Assistant Liza Stoltz Hanson/Denton Hanson, Peniel Leaders Kevin Garman, Peniel Band Leader/Student Pastor JoAnn Gudvangen-Brown, Director of Music/Organist Renae Gudvangen, Assist. Organist/Pianist Regino Pepe Espinoza, Custodian Josh Rousis, Building Liaison Sandy Schumm, Bookkeeper Angela Hudgens, Wedding Coordinator Larry Grauberger, Jo and Jim Morgan, Lay Leaders Elizabeth Boyer, Newsletter Editor University Park United Methodist Church 2180 S. University Blvd. ~ Denver, CO / ~ upark@universityparkumc.org ~ for Spiritual Wholeness and Healing 2122 S. Lafayette St. ~ Denver CO (303) ~ evanstoncenter@gmail.com ~ The UPark Vision: To be a community of Disciple leaders who practice stewardship and hospitality as we engage each other and the world around us. Since 1894 The UPark Core Values: Inclusive, Intergenerational, Interfaith, International

3 Journey with us at the Park UPark Christian Education Classes March 29 9:30-10:30am NOTE: No Sunday School today nor on Easter ADULT FORUM We offer presentations from many speakers on diverse and Bryans Room interesting topics. Cal Neptune and Jim Fleet work together to facilitate this class in the lower level Bryans Room. March 29 Pretzel Sunday Join us in April 5 Easter Sunday No Sunday School. Come to the Easter Breakfast! CORNERSTONE II Cornerstone II Lounge This class is geared to families with young children but is open to anyone. Family topics are discussed with an emphasis on sharing and fellowship. Led by Melane & Ross Theilen. March 29 Pretzel Sunday Join us in April 5 Easter Sunday No Sunday School. Come to the Easter Breakfast! JOURNEYS IN FAITH This class is in by the Sanctuary. Join us for interesting and lively discussions. Come watch the mini-series Peter & Paul. Facilitators are Les Law and Tony Winger. March 29 Pretzel Sunday Join us in April 5 Easter Sunday No Sunday School. Come to the Easter Breakfast! SPECIAL NEEDS This class meets in the Journeys in Faith Room. This is a Journeys in Faith Room combined Sunday school class and worship time. This sacred Lower Level gathering and experiential learning is especially open to those Christian Ed Wing with cognitive disabilities. We would appreciate volunteer help! YOUTH CLASSES B03 Classroom: 6th-8th Youth Lounge: 9th-12th The youth have two classes: 6th-8th is Middle School and 9th-12th is High School. Middle School meets in B03 with Steve and Diane Felt. The High School meets in the Youth Lounge with Barb Eulenstein. On Easter, we will be in making breakfast! CHILDREN S CLASSES All children from preschool through 5th grade meet in the Top Level Music/Movement room at 9:30am. They are dismissed to their Christian Ed Wing respective areas following a short introduction to the lesson. Pretzel Sunday Join us in CHILDCARE Nursery Main Level Christian Ed Wing CHILDREN S CHURCH Quality care for newborns to three years or potty trained provided by Barbara P-Walker and a volunteer, 8:15am-12:15pm. March 29 Early, Jamie Sayers; Late, Jamie Nahil April 5 - Early, NEED HELP; Late, NEED HELP Children s Church provided by Christina Pacheco, Mary Worth, and Hannah Westra. Children ages 3.5 through 3rd grade gather following the Children s Message at the 8:30 & 11:00 services. March 29, 2015 ~ Palm/Passion Sunday 8:30 a.m. ~ Informal Worship ~ ORDER OF WORSHIP PRELUDE The Palms Jean Baptiste Faurél/arr. Lani Smith GATHERING/SHARING Rev. Paul J. Kottke PASSING OF THE PEACE Please greet the person next to you with the words, Peace be with you. The response is And also with you. SCRIPTURE Mark 11:1-11 *OPENING HYMN 278 Hosanna, Loud Hosanna Ellacombe [The children are encouraged to join Pastor Paul up front waving their palm fronds.] UNISON PRAYER God of endings, you promised to be with us always, even to the end of time. Move with us now in these occasions of last things, vulnerabilities and letting go. God of new beginnings. Help us be a beginning for others, to become a beginning of hope for the despairing, to become a beginning of freedom for the oppressed, to become a beginning for the new creation. May we live with the risky passion of Jesus Christ. Amen [edited from a prayer by Ted Loder] CHILDREN S MOMENTS Duane Buys [As the children leave, let us join in singing] Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. All the shades from dark to light, they are precious in his sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world. SILENT PRAYER PASTORAL PRAYER THE LORD S PRAYER 895 OFFERING Giving out of gratitude for the blessings of our lives OFFERTORY SOLO Mantos y Palmos Ruben Ruiz Avila Refer to Hymnal page 279 [Diana Helper, alto] OFFERTORY PRAYER SERMON Moving through the Realities of our Season Rev. Kottke *CLOSING HYMN 2171 [TFWS] Make Me a Channel of Your Peace Channel of Peace *BENEDICTION Rev. Kottke *SUNG BENEDICTION 143 On Eagle s Wings Joncas POSTLUDE All Hail, King Jesus *Please stand as able Acolyte: Caden Sayers

4 DATE TIME EVENT LOCATION Informal Service 9:30am Pretzel Making 10:30am Peniel Service 11:00am Traditional Service Sanctuary 12:15pm UPark Youth Group B03 6:00pm Sunday Night Ticket AA Lent Vespers DU s Evans Chapel Sunday, March 29 Palm Sunday Sign-up for your Easter Lily Monday, March 30 Tuesday, March 31 Wednesday, April 1 10:30am 11:00am 5:30pm 5:30pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 10:00am 10:00am 4:15pm 5:00pm 6:30pm 8:00am 9:00am This Week at UPark UMC Gentle Yoga with Kate Retired Clergy Chair Yoga Covenant Bible Study Pack 5: Bear Den Meditation/Mindfulness Class Gamma Phi Beta Group 13AA Stepping Stones Al-Anon Prayer Book: #22, page 148, Year B Kindermusik I Men s Fellowship A Child s Song: Piano Kindermusik II Pack 5: Wolf Den BMCM Meditation Troop 5 Gentle Yoga with Máire & Ruth Staff Meeting Forgiveness Al-Anon Continued on Next Page Easter Bryans Room Cornerstone II Bryans Room Osborne Parlor Music Room Osborne Parlor Music Room Music Room Bryans, East Fellowship, B03 Conference Room EASTER PANCAKE BREAKFAST: On Easter morning (7:30 10:45am) in, the youth will prepare a pancake breakfast and ask for a donation that will add to the youth fund to support future mission trips. If you don t want to partake of the great breakfast because you have Easter plans, you can still come down and leave a donation. Contact Duane Buys with questions at or dbuys@universityparkumc.org. Sanctuary flowers may be provided for a particular Sunday. A sign up sheet is posted on the kiosk in the foyer. It is a wonderful way to honor or remember someone. The price is $50. You may take them home or have Rev. Debby Lawrence designate a recipient. UPARK S FAITH IN ACTION COMMITTEE (FIA), in order to better understand the total scope of the missional outreaches of UPark UMC members, has been asking those who regularly volunteer their time with local or international causes to share information about their work. If this applies to you and you ve not completed a form at a meeting, please send an to OliveAnn Slotta or Jim Slotta (FIA Chairs): Oslotta@earthlink.net or jslotta@earthlink.net with the following information: 1) Your name; 2) Name of the organization; 3) The number of hours/month you serve; 4) What inspires/calls you to do this work. Thank you. VBS.SAVE THE DATE! Monday, June 22 through Thursday, June 25, 9am noon is our Vacation Bible School with the Kingdom Rock theme. Jane Rogers has stepped forward to be our VBS Director. We need volunteers to lead in many ways. Please contact Duane to become a volunteer: dbuys@universityparkumc.org. ATTENTION BOWLERS! Join us for fun and fellowship. Bowling is for ages 8 to 80. We bowl 3:30pm on Sundays, AMF Broadway Bowl on South Broadway. The league wraps up by early May. Cost is $9.00/ person (includes shoe rental). Contact either Rob Eulenstein ( ) or Larry Roggensack ( ). KIDS CANS FOR KIDS BRING THOSE ALUMINUM CANS! Our can redemption thus far for 2015 has resulted in 254 pounds, worth $ for aluminum cans and other miscellaneous metals. Contributors please separate the different types of metals prior to donating. This relieves Sharon Sanita, our volunteer who delivers the metals, from separating them. We send these funds to the Children s Hospital Chaplaincy to supply Bibles, Spanish Bibles, and other reading material for patients. UPark s All Church Camp Buckhorn is Memorial Day Weekend, Friday May 22 Sunday, May 24. Mark your calendars now before you forget! Details are coming in the April Messenger and future bulletins. This is a lovely intergenerational time for families, singles, and couples! Check out the framed photos displayed in the office hallway featuring our past All Church Camp gatherings. Election Forum Comes to UPark On Saturday April 11 there is an important Election Forum being held at UPark UMC all morning. It starts at 9am and will be held in our East Fellowship Hall. This is an opportunity for everyone to listen to and ask questions of candidates for District 6 (this district) as well as candidates for Mayor and other offices. It's sponsored by the League of Woman Voters, Channel 8, Historic Denver, Inter Neighborhood Cooperation (INC), and others.

5 Thursday, April 2 Maundy Thursday Friday, April 3 Good Friday Saturday, April 4 Sunday, April 5 Easter Sunday 10:00am 6:30pm 7:15pm 3:00pm 5:00pm 7:30pm Graduate Christian Fellowship World Café Maundy Thursday Service Sangha Meditation DU Tango Club Choir Practice Groundwork Coffee House Good Friday Service PB&J Ministry Ecumenical Stations of the Cross Peniel Band Practice Tenebrae Service 8:00am Food Addicts in Recovery 6:30am 7:30am 9:00am 10:15am 11:00am 6:00pm This Week at UPark UMC (Continued) Sunrise Service Easter Pancake Breakfast by the Youth Easter Worship Service Children s Easter Egg Hunt Easter Service Sunday Night Ticket AA Bryans Room Choir Room & East Fellowship Hall Civic Center Park Observatory Park South DU s Evans Chapel Sanctuary Courtyard & UPark Lawn Sanctuary END GUN VIOLENCE EVENT FEATURES PROMINENT RABBIS AS GUEST SPEAKER Is there such a thing as a smart gun? JOE, the Jewish Outreach Effort, and Temple Emanuel will hold a special program featuring Rabbi Joel Mosbacher, a national leader in the effort to make smart gun technology available to the public. Mosbacher is national co chair of the Do Not Stand Idly By (DNSIB) Campaign, which works to reduce gun violence by pressing firearm manufacturers to introduce safer weapons. The DNSIB campaign has been endorsed by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and over 70 municipalities. JOE is made up of members of local Jewish congregations allied with Colorado Faith Communities United to End Gun Violence. The event is free and open to the public. Tuesday, March 31, at 7:00 pm 8:30, followed by a reception at Temple Emanuel, 51 Grape Street, Denver. The fire arm industry continues to press the belief that the more guns in distribution the safer our streets/homes will be. The United States has the highest firearm ownership rate of any country, and yet has a firearms homicide rate 20 times the average of 22 peer countries. On February 19 th, the Colorado Senate by straight party line voted to allow anyone to carry a concealed weapon without a permit. On February 23 the Colorado Senate will have in committee the ban on high capacity ammunition magazines. Does this truly make us safer? ~ Pastor Paul Easter Related Announcements Thank you to everyone who purchased an Easter lily to adorn the sanctuary on Easter. Please note that you may take yours home following the service that you attend on Easter. EASTER SUNDAY NURSERY We need help in the nursery on Easter Sunday! This is typically a Sunday with high attendance and many visitors and my usual volunteers want to be involved in the Easter Egg Hunt and other activities so I m looking for volunteers who don t have children involved in the festivities!! On Easter, our services are at 9:00am and 11:00am. Please help to show that UPARK is a hospitable community!! Thanks, contact Duane. The Faith in Action offering that we receive on Easter Sunday will benefit Denver Inner Parish, Denver Urban Ministry, Metro Caring, and the Zimbabwe HIV/AIDS Project [an Advance Special of the UMC]. Pretzel Sunday is at 9:30 today! Today, the Sixth Sunday in Lent (Palm Sunday) is designated as Pretzel Sunday. No Sunday School Classes! Everyone is welcome to join together in to make pretzels. This is an intergenerational fun, learning experience. Gluten free dough will be available.

6 Holy Week Schedule March 29, Palm/Passion Sunday Informal Service in 9:30am Intergenerational Activity: Pretzel Making in No Sunday School Classes 10:30am Children s Palm Procession 10:30am Peniel Service in 11:00am Palm/Passion Service in the Sanctuary April 2, Maundy Thursday 6:30pm Maundy Thursday Service at our located at 2122 S. Lafayette (corner of Evans and Lafayette) April 3, Good Friday Good Friday Service in 3:00pm Ecumenical Stations of the Cross at Observatory Park near Iliff Ave. 7:30pm Tenebrae Service in April 5, Easter Sunday 6:30am Sunrise Service at DU s Evans Chapel 7:30am Easter Breakfast furnished by UPark Youth 9:00am Easter Service in the Sanctuary 10:15am Children s Easter Egg Hunt 11:00am Easter Service in the Sanctuary April 6, UPark UMC Offices Will Be Closed, Scheduled Groups Still Meet