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News & Announcements UPCOMING EVENTS HAYRACK RIDE AT SHERMAN RANCH: The Hospitality Committee is hosting a fun afternoon with a hayrack ride near the Platte River at Sherman Ranch! Join us on Sunday, November 18th at 2:00pm for the hayrack ride and snacks afterward. Please sign up in the Information Center so we know how many to expect! We can t wait to see you there! THANKSGIVING EVE AT UNITED, HAMPTON: Join us for Thanksgiving Eve Worship at United in Hampton on Wednesday, November 21st at 6:30pm. Worship will be followed by pie! (Please note: this is a Joint Service, there will no worship at Messiah on Thanksgiving Eve.) WOMEN, WISDOM, & WINE: Join us on Tuesday, November 20th to study a woman of the Bible and join in fellowship! WWW meets at the Parsonage: 130 Galway Rd. Aurora. MEN S BREAKFAST: The next Men s Breakfast will be on Friday, November 30th at 6:30am. Join us for breakfast and fellowship! CHILDREN S CHRISTMAS PROGRAM: Join us on Sunday, December 9th during worship to hear our children proclaim the Good News of God s greatest gift to us: Jesus Christ! At Messiah, we are powered by God s Grace! God s grace comes to us as we are. through grains of wheat that comprise the bread of Christ we share and that gathers us into the one Body of Christ. through grapes that are poured out together in the Blood of Christ, as we pour ourselves out into the world. through water that fills the baptismal font, washes us clean, and embraces us as Children of God..through the Holy Spirit that lives within us as the breath of life and that inspires us to live as grace-powered throughout the world. Messiah Lutheran Church, ELCA 415 S. 18th St., Aurora, NE 68818 402-694-2017 www.messiahaurora.org Senior Pastor - Rev. Sarah Ruch 402-833-8218 Pastor of Children, Youth & Family - Rev. Miles Ruch, Jr. 402-833-8219 ~ Thankoffering Service November 18, 2018 11/18/2018 12 11/18/2018

A warm welcome to all today! May this time of worship strengthen your faith and desire to serve the Creator who loves us with everlasting love in Christ Jesus. Children are welcome in this worship service, and encouraged to participate in any way they are able to. Teach the children sitting around you how to use their hymnals, bulletins, follow the screens, and sing & speak loudly! We value the noise made by our children! Visitors, we are especially glad to see you. Please come again!! As disciples of Christ, we encourage you to CONNECT with ministry opportunities here at Messiah! Please fill out a CONNECT sheet today. After you ve recorded your name(s) and pertinent information, please turn these sheets over and think about the ways in which you can use the gifts and talents given to you in the ministry here at Messiah. CONNECT sheets can be placed in the offering plate as we give our gifts of time, talent, and treasure to God. THIS WEEK AT MESSIAH Sunday, November 18th 9:00 am -- Worship 10:15 am -- Sunday School 10:15 am -- Year of the Bible 6:00 pm -- Year of the Bible Tuesday, November 20th 8:30 am -- WELCA Quilting 7:00 pm -- Women, Wisdom & Wine 7:00 pm -- Daycare Support Group Wednesday, November 21st 6:30 pm -- Thanksgiving Worship at United Thursday, November 22nd OFFICE CLOSED Friday, November 23rd OFFICE CLOSED Sunday, November 25th 9:00 am -- Worship 10:15 am -- Year of the Bible 10:15 am -- Hanging of the greens 6:00 pm -- Year of the Bible *PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION We thank you, gracious God, for loving all your family with a mother's tender care, and feeding us in a way our hearts and souls can understand, with the saving body and blood of Jesus Christ. Renew and enliven us by your presence in this meal, that we may be your presence in the world, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen BLESSING SENDING God blesses us and sends us in mission to the world. In our wilderness, God gives us water from the rock. May you find hope and healing in God's grace. Amen Christ Jesus is the Messiah, the redeemer of the world. May you be renewed by his life-giving water and Word. Amen The Holy Spirit renews the face of the earth. May you be renewed by God's endless love. Amen Holy Trinity + one God, bless you now and forever. Amen SENDING SONG We Are Called ELW 720 DISMISSAL Ever and anew in God's grace, let us go forth in peace to share the good news. Thanks be to God! Copyright 2018 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #SAS000462. New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. 11/18/2018 2 11/18/2018 11

GREAT THANKSGIVING *DIALOGUE ELW p. 144 The Lord be with you. And also with you. Lift up your hearts. We lift them to the Lord. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right to give our thanks and praise. *PREFACE Ushers: Youth Ushers: Reader: Acolytes: Musician: Serving Us in Worship Today Scott Schuster Greeters: Ralph & Marsha Troy McCain Redman Kiley Mersch Sound Booth: George Chaney Kelsey Mersch Video Recorder: KC Pawling Marsha Redman PowerPoint: Keegan Chaney Kirsten Jensen Worship Asst: Eric Sweeney Kasey Schuster Coffee Bar Hosts: Cheryl Frickel Beth Johnson A Few Notes. It is indeed right, our duty and our joy,...... we praise your name and join their unending hymn: *THANKSGIVING AT THE TABLE ELW p. 145 In the night in which he was betrayed,..... Do this for the remembrance of me. Again, after supper, he took the cup, gave thanks,...... Do this for the remembrance of me. *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 and ever. Amen. COMMUNION COMMUNION SONG ELW p. 146 11/18/2018 10 * Indicates congregation please stand if able. Congregational responses are printed in BOLD type ELW stands for Evangelical Lutheran Worship. This is the Cranberry colored hymnal found in each pew. You are welcome to look up our songs and liturgy in these hymnals, or follow along on the screens. If a p. is listed before the number, these are the small numbers found on the lower corners of each page in the front of the hymnal. If a number is simply listed, these are the large numbers found on the top corners in the back half of the hymnal. Communion today will be celebrated by Intinction. You will be offered a wafer and invited to dip this wafer into the chalice, where both wine and white grape juice are available. Gluten and Nut-free wafers are available from each server. Please simply indicate that this is needed and we will also provide an uncontaminated chalice of wine & grape juice for your use as well. We practice an open communion table at Messiah. If you are a baptized child of God and believe that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior, you are welcome at the table. 11/18/2018 3

GATHERING SONG GATHERING The Holy Spirit calls us together as the people of God. The Heart of Worship When the music fades, all is stripped away, and I simply come, longing just to bring something that s of worth that will bless Your heart. I ll bring you more than a song, for a song in itself is not what You have required. You search much deeper within through the way things appear; You re looking into my heart. I m coming back to the heart of worship, and its all about You, all about You, Jesus. I m sorry, Lord, for the thing I ve made it, when it s all about You, all about You, Jesus. King of endless worth, no one could express how much You deserve. Though I m weak and poor, all I have is Yours, ev ry single breath. I ll bring you more than a song, for a song in itself is not what You have required. You search much deeper within through the way things appear; You re looking into my heart. GATHERING SONG Order for Worship I m coming back to the heart of worship, and its all about You, all about You, Jesus. I m sorry, Lord, for the thing I ve made it, when it s all about You, all about You, Jesus. Come, now is the time to worship. Words and Music by Matt Redman Kingsway s Thankyou Music Come, Now is the Time to Worship 11/18/2018 4 *PRAYERS Today s prayer refrain is taken from the Refrain of Gracious Spirit, Heed Our Pleading found in the ELW #401. Called together into the Spirit's loving embrace, let us pray for the renewal of the church, those in need, and all of God's creation. Each petition will end: Gracious Spirit, fashion us all anew. The congregation sings: Come, come, come Holy Spirit, come. All these things, and whatever else you see that we need, we entrust to your care through Jesus Christ. Amen *PEACE The peace of Christ be with you always. And also with you. THANKOFFERING OFFERING *OFFERING PRAYER MEAL God feeds us with the presence of Jesus Christ. God of grace, you have showered us with abundance and entrusted to us the ministries of Women of the ELCA as well as the ministries of Messiah Lutheran Church. Help us to grow in faith, affirm our gifts, support one another in our callings, engage in ministry and action, and promote healing and wholeness in the church, the society, and the world. Accept these gifts and our prayer that, nurtured by your Word, filled with your Spirit, and fed at your table, we may share with gladness all that you have shared with us, until all creation is satisfied. Amen 11/18/2018 9

will be thirsty again, 14 but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life." 15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water." 16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back." 17 The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!" 19 The woman said to him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem." 21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." 25 The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us." 26 Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who is speaking to you." The gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ. SERMON HYMN OF THE DAY Lord, You Give the Great Commission ELW 579 *CREED I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, God s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. 11/18/2018 8 Come, now is the time to give your heart. Come, just as you are to worship. Come, just as you are before your God, come. One day ev ry tongue will confess You are God. One day ev ry knee will bow. Still the greatest treasure remains for those who gladly praise you now. ANNOUNCEMENTS Come, now is the time to worship. Come, now is the time to give your heart. Come, just as you are to worship. Come, just as you are before your God. Come. Come. CCLI Song # 2430948 Brian Doerksen 1998 Vineyard Songs (UK/Eire) (Admin. by Vineyard Music UK) For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com CCLI License # 1287534 GATHERING SONG Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing ELW 807 *GREETING The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And also with you. *THANKSGIVING FOR BAPTISM Blessed be the holy Trinity, + one God, the fountain of living water, the rock who gave us birth,our light and our salvation. Amen Joined to Christ in the waters of baptism, we are clothed with God's mercy and forgiveness. Let us give thanks for the gracious gift of baptism. 11/18/2018 5

Holy God, holy and merciful who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen THANKSGIVING SONG Waterlife ELW 457 *PRAYER OF THE DAY Renewing God, pour out your power and come. In the waters of baptism you claim us and call us to be your beloved children. May water be our ever-present sign that you ever make all things new. Refresh us with the good news of Christ's love and anoint us with your Holy Spirit, that we might know the fullness of the new life that you prepare for us in your kingdom. In the name of Christ, we pray. Amen WORD God speaks to us in scripture reading, preaching, and song. FIRST READING Exodus 17:1-7 Old Testament pg. 49 1 From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2 The people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?" 3 But the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses and said, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?" 4 So Moses cried out to the LORD, "What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me." 5 The LORD said to Moses, "Go on ahead of the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6 I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink." Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled and tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?" Word of God, word of life. Thanks be to God. SECOND READING Titus 3:4-7 New Testament pg. 167 4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. 6 This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Word of God, word of life. Thanks be to God. CHILDREN'S MESSAGE This is the Day! *GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Gospel Acclamation ELW 175 Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. *GOSPEL John 4:5-26 New Testament pg. 72 The holy gospel according to John. Glory to you, O Lord. 5 So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. 7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." 8 (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?" (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." 11 The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?" 13 Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water 11/18/2018 6 11/18/2018 7