Sunday October 12, 2025 Worship Service
Livestream at 11:10 a.m.

Gathering in God’s Name

Prelude — Prelude I, Op. 202 — Charles V. Stanford        
As the prelude begins, you are invited to begin your personal preparation for worship.

Silent Meditation
The face of Jesus is a face that belongs to us the way our past belongs to us. — Listening to Your Life, Frederick Buechner

Call to Worship — Psalm 66: 1-12
Make a joyful noise to God, all the earth!
       Give to Him glorious praise!
All the earth worships You!
       They sing praises to You, sing praises to Your name.

Praise and Adoration

*Opening Hymn #54 — Make a Joyful Noise to God! — DIX
(*Please stand, if you are able.)     

Call to Confession

Prayer of Confession
God of eternal forgiveness, we come to You ready for change. We know that again and again You interrupt our lives in new and surprising ways. We know this, and yet we have remained skeptical and closeminded to Your inbreaking. Forgive us for our lack of openness and ambiguity. Give us a will that matches our readiness for change. Help us to act in ways that lead others to see You at work in this world. Help us to see You in others.  Amen.

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

Presentation of Bibles to Second Graders   

Moira Hopp        June Karges       Dylan Spencer      James Tot     Mika Trapp

*Congregational Response (to the Second Graders):
We rejoice with you as your church recognizes this step in your religious growth. We pray God’s continued guidance for you and your family as you use this Bible in the years to come. We are already proud of you, and we look forward to helping you grow in faith.

Moment for Stewardship  — Keith Allen, Elder on the Mission Committee

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 — Lead Me, Lord — Samuel Wesley

Proclamation of God’s Word

Scripture Lesson — Luke 17: 11-19 — page 852 of the pew Bible

Sermon — Ten Healed, One Saved — Rev. Joshua Garry

Our Response to God’s Word

*Affirmation of Faith                                                             
We believe that to be reconciled to God is to be sent into the world as his reconciling community. This community, the church universal, is entrusted with God’s message of reconciliation and shares his labor of healing the enmities which separate men from God and from each other. Christ has called the church to this mission and given it the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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

Presentation of Tithes and Offerings

Offertory — Down in the River to Pray — arr. Eric Nelson

*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                                                                                                                                           

*Hymn of Witness #179 — Ten Lepers Facing Constant Scorn — RADIANT CITY

*Charge and Benediction                              

*Benediction Response —  Christ Be with Me — K. Lee Scott

*Postlude — Carillon for Organ — Herbert Murrill