Sunday November 23, 2025 Worship Service
Livestream at 11:10 a.m.

Gathering in God’s Name

Prelude — Chorale, Meditation, & Trio from “Partita on Nun Danket alle Gott” — Charles Callahan
As the prelude begins, you are invited to begin your personal preparation for worship.

Silent Meditation
Let us not forget to recognize the birthday of Andrew Carnegie, born on November 25, 1835, who donated more than 7,600 pipe organs, mainly to churches. He said the organ “lessens the pain of the sermon.”
Happy Birthday and thank you, Mr. Carnegie. – From Marshall and Josh

Call to Worship
Let us come together to praise the Lord, the God of all creation
       The God who is here, and in all places, and in all locations! Psalm 139
Let us fill God’s house with the joyful sounds of thanks and praise
       Praise the Lord who is good, whose mercy endures forever! Psalm 118

Praise and Adoration

*Opening Hymn #305 — Come Sing, O Church, in Joy! — TUNE
(*Please stand, if you are able.)

Call to Confession

Prayer of Confession
Lord of the joyful feast for the people of God, You have called us again and again to join You at Your table. You call to us, and yet we do not always sit down. You call to all, and yet we do not always invite others to join. Forgive us, Lord. Renew in us a right spirit. Widen our hearts and lengthen our tables. As you send us from Your house this day, send us home thinking of You. Let this coming week of Thanksgiving be rooted in gratitude. And from that gratitude, let a willingness to serve grow forth.

Silent Prayers of Confession and Petition

Kyrie Eleison — Lord, Have Mercy — Schubert

Assurance of Pardon

*Congregational Response (#581) — Glory Be to the Father — GLORIA PATRI (Greatorex)

Welcome

Time for Young Disciples

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.

Anthem —  For the Beauty of the Earth — arr. Eric Nelson

Proclamation of God’s Word

Scripture Lesson — Ephesians 2:11-23; 4:1-6 — page 950 of the pew Bible

Sermon — Mending Wall — Rev. Joshua Garry

Our Response to God’s Word

*Affirmation of Faith — The Confession of Belhar, 10.5
We believe that God has entrusted the church with the message of reconciliation in and through Jesus Christ; that the church is called to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world, that the church is called blessed because it is a peace-maker, that the church is witness both by word and by deed to the new heaven and the new earth in which righteousness dwells. Amen.

*Sanctus (#562) — Holy, Holy, Holy — SANCTUS (Schubert)

Presentation of Tithes and Offerings

Offertory — Adagio from “Partita on Nun Danket alle Gott” — Charles Callahan

*Doxology (#607) — Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow — OLD HUNDREDTH
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise Christ, all people here below;
praise Holy Spirit evermore; praise Triune God, whom we adore. Amen.

*Prayer of Dedication
Gracious and Loving God, we come to You this day with humility and faith, offering to You what we can. In all that we give we only ask that others would see Your hands at work, and not our own. That through Your grace others would come to know our gifts as Your blessings. Amen.

*Hymn of Dedication #338 — O Beautiful for Spacious Skies — TUNE

*Charge and Benediction

*Benediction Response — Christ Be with Me (11:10)            K. Lee Scott        

*Postlude  — Postlude from “Partita on Nun Danket alle Gott”  — Charles Callahan