Sunday April 26, 2026 Worship Service
Livestream at 11:10 a.m.

Gathering in God’s Name

Prelude — Christians, We Have Met to Worship — Mark Hayes/Douglas Wagner
As the prelude begins, you are invited to begin your personal preparation for worship.

Silent Meditation                                                                                                         
“Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.”              – John Wesley

Choral Call to Worship (11:10) — Oh, What a Beautiful City! — Jeannie Dean

Praise and Adoration

*Hymn #239 — Good Christians All, Rejoice and Sing! — GELOBT SEI GOTT   
(*Please stand, if you are able)

Confession and Pardon

Call to Confession

Prayer of Confession
Gracious God, from before the foundation of the world, you called us by name and pledged your steadfast love. But like ornery sheep, we stray from the fold. You offer to lead us, but we prefer to lead ourselves. Christ laid down his life, yet we refuse to lay down our phones, our plans, our pride. Forgive us, O God. Call us back to the open gate of Christ’s redeeming love that we may enter your Beloved Community and find restoration for our souls, reconciliation with our enemies and the glory of abiding with you forevermore. Amen.

Silent Prayers of Confession and Petition

Kyrie Eleison #551 — Lord, Have Mercy — LAND OF REST
Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy; Lord, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy; Lord, have mercy upon us.

Assurance of Pardon

*Congregational Response (#485) — We Know That Christ Is Raised — ENGELBERG

*Welcome

The Sacrament of Baptism (11:10)
Mabel Grace Jenkins, born on February 28, 2026
Mabel is the daughter of Chase and Katie Jenkins, granddaughter of Larry and Melissa Rock, and great-granddaughter of Stan and Jeanette Garner.

*Congregation Response: With joy and thanksgiving, we welcome Mabel Grace Jenkins into Christ’s church to share with us in the one ministry of Christ, for we are all one in Him.

Anthem (11:10) — Come Down, Angels — Undine Smith Moore

Announcements

Fellowship of Prayer

Joys and Concerns

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 debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.

Reception of New Members (11:10) — Earlene Uhrig and Trudy Meyer, elders
Co-Moderators of the Membership Committee

Joining today are new members:
Ann and Dennis Christiansen, Connie and Jim Karasek, Lucy Johns, and Bonnie Tomek.

Anthem — I Know That My Redeemer Lives — Craig Courtney

Proclamation of God’s Word

Scripture Lesson — John 10: 1-10 — page 872 of the pew Bible

Sermon — “More Than Just Enough” — Dr. Zieman

Our Response to God’s Word

*Affirmation of Faith — from The Heidelberg Catechism
What is your only comfort in life and in death?

That I belong – body and soul, in life and in death – not to myself but to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ, who at the cost of his own blood has fully paid for all my sins and has completely freed me from the dominion of the devil; that he protects me so well that without the will of my Father in heaven not a hair can fall from my head; indeed, that everything must fit his purpose for my salvation. Therefore, by his Holy Spirit, he also assures me of eternal life, and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for Him.

*Sanctus (#572) — Holy, Holy, Holy — SANCTUS (Pavlechko)

Presentation of Tithes and Offerings

Offertory — The Lord Is My Shepherd — John Rutter

*Doxology (#609) — Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow — LASST UNS ERFREUEN
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow. Praise God, all creatures high and low. Alleluia, Alleluia!
Praise God, in Jesus fully known: Creator, Word, and Spirit one. Alleluia, alleluia!
alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

*Prayer of Dedication        
Shepherding God, you lead us, guard us, prepare us and preserve us. We have responded by giving back to you what has come from your hand. Bless these gifts, and multiply them in the life of your church, so that the gates of salvation may be flung wide, and all your Beloved Community may know the love and the peace that is ours in Christ Jesus. Amen.

*Hymn of Dedication #249 — Because You Live, O Christ — VRUECHTEN

*Charge and Benediction

Postlude — Trumpet Fanfare IV — Robert Wetzler