Sunday October 20, 2024 Worship Service
Livestream at 11:10 a.m.

GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME

PRELUDE — Prelude and Fughetta — Healey Willan
As the prelude begins, you are invited to begin your personal preparation for worship.

SILENT MEDITATION
Prayer the Church’s banquet, Angel’s age, God’s breath in man returning to his birth, the soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, the Christian plummet sounding heaven and earth, engine against the Almighty, sinner’s tower, reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear, the six-days transposing in an hour.
Prayer (I), George Herbert

CALL TO WORSHIP                                                                                                   
Bless the Lord, O my Soul.
       O LORD my God, you are very great.
You are clothed with honor and majesty,
       Wrapped in light as with a garment.
Bless the Lord, O my Soul.
       Praise the LORD!

PRAISE AND ADORATION

*HYMN #611 — Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee      HYMN TO JOY
(*Please stand, if you are able)

CONFESSION AND PARDON

CALL TO CONFESSION

PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Almighty God, too often we come to You asking for favors, instead of asking what it is that we can do for You. We ask You to help us solve the problems we create, long after we should have helped ourselves and others. We ask you to change the things around us, instead of asking You for the strength to change within ourselves. Forgive us, Lord. Reorder our desires. Help us to listen to You more than we speak. Help us to serve You more than we ask to be served. Amen.

SILENT PRAYERS OF CONFESSION AND PETITION

KYRIE ELEISON #575 — Lord, Have Mercy Upon Us — KYRIE ELEISON (Pardini)                                                                         

ASSURANCE OF PARDON

CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE (#447) — We Are Forgiven — WE ARE FORGIVEN

WELCOME                          
During the welcome, children are invited to come forward.

TIME FOR YOUNG DISCIPLES — Rock Sumner, Business Administrator

MOMENT FOR STEWARDSHIP — Jeffrey Friessen — Elder, Member of the Finance Committee

*HYMN #711 — Lord of All Good — TOULON

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MOMENT FOR EDUCATION — Carla Fritz, for the Advent Workshop

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 — Assurance — John Ness Beck

PROCLAMATION OF GOD’S WORD

SCRIPTURE LESSON — Mark 10:35-45 — page 823 of the pew Bible

SERMON — “The Road to Greatness” — Rev. Dr. Richard C. Meyer, HR

OUR RESPONSE TO GOD’S WORD

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH — from The Confession of Belhar
We believe that the church is called to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world, that the church is blessed because it is a peacemaker, that the church is witness both by word and by deed to the new heaven and the new earth in which righteousness dwells; that God’s life-giving Word and Spirit has conquered the powers of death, and therefore also of irreconciliation and hatred, bitterness and enmity, that God’s life-giving Word and Spirit will enable the church to live in a new obedience which can open new possibilities of life for society and the world. Amen.

*GLORIA PATRI #581 — Glory Be to the Father — GLORIA PATRI

PRESENTATION OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS

OFFERTORY — Festival Piece on “Saint Anne” — Eugene Butler

*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 Merciful God, without you, we have nothing. It is only right then that as your people we give unto You and others as we have been given unto. We offer up to you our gifts and talents, our time and resources. We offer them up in humble servitude, asking that your will be done. Amen.

*HYMN #727 — Will You Let Me Be Your Servant — THE SERVANT SONG                                                            

*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

*BENEDICTION RESPONSE — Amen — Peter Lutkin                 

*POSTLUDE — Finale Jubilante — Healey Willan