Sun May 30, 2021

From whichever platform your participating in worship today, let us know in the comments that you're here. Say hi! And say something about how God has added to your life

As you are a part of our online worship, it is a recording of our previous week's in person worship service. We do that so that we can share in a higher quality of worship together. Even though the service is recorded, Pastor John is down in the comments of the service every weekend.

What comes next follows the same order of service that is used during in person worship.

Prelude-Giants Fall

Welcome
To start today, will you say this prayer with me
Come Holy Spirit, come show us how we can be the spiritual heart of this community

I'm glad to be worshiping with you today!
Today is the day of Pentecost when we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit so that we can know God is at work in us and through us.

Announcements
Announcements are for the current week, and will not be the same as on the video
Monday 5/31: Memorial Day!
11am VFW Memorial Day Service in Ripley Park
Tuesday 6/1: 4pm Centering Prayer on live on our Facebook Page
5:00pm Prayer Group meeting in the downstairs Sunday School room

You can sign up to serve a meal at Celebrate Recovery by clicking on the following link
CR Meal Sign-Up

Camp information is available in the back of the Sanctuary and at Camp Jo-Ota 

Join us in the Call to Worship
I'll say the words in regular type, and please reply with the words in bold
Leader: We are God’s church:
People: We come together to worship. 
Leader: He has given us his Word:
People: We come together to learn from him.
Leader: He has filled us with his power:
People: We go out to bring others to him.
Leader: He has called us into his family:
People: We come together to share our lives.
Leader: He has put his words on our lips:
People: We go out to tell the world about him.
Leader: He has given us his Spirit:
People: We come together to celebrate.
Leader: He has showered us with his riches:
People: We go out to share his goodness with others.
Leader: He has freed us from our past:
People: We come together to move forwards.
Leader: He has planned for us a glorious future:
People: We go out to live our lives to please him.
Leader: We are God’s church:
People: We come together to worship.
~ copyright © John Leach/The Jubilate Group.  Posted on The Jubilate Group website. http://www.jubilate.co.uk/liturgy/liturgy/acts_invitation_to_worship

Opening Prayer
Gracious God,
We give you thanks
for all the ways that you bless our lives:
the beauty and abundance of nature,
the love of family and friends,
the joy of knowing you and hearing your word.
Send Your Spirit during this time of worship
so that we might dream your dreams
and see visions of the world as you created it to be.
Guide our thoughts and actions.
Bring us closer to you so that we might do your will
and dwell in your house forever. Amen.
~ Adapted from Rev. Christopher Ney, in Prophecy, Dreams and Visions: Service Prayers for the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost. Posted on the United Church of Christ’s Worship Ways website. http://www.ucc.org/worship/worship-ways/

O Spirit of the Living God--UMH 539

Children's Message--Pastor John

Prayers, Presence, Gifts, Service, Witness
As people of faith, we share who we are with each other. Below I invite you to share your joys and concerns, your prayer requests, and your offerings. You can use the link below, or in the comments

Share a joy, concern, and/or prayer request

Remember that you can mail in your offerings to:

Marceline UMC
321 N Kansas Ave
Marceline, MO 64658

You can also give online. 

Take some time for some personal prayer, and take some time to give. This could be the time when you go online, or you write a check to the church, or when you make that commitment to give in a different way.

After the personal prayer, I'll say a prayer (if you're watching the video), and then join in saying the Lord's Prayer below.

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. 
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen 

Scripture Reading
Our scripture reading for worship is Acts 2:43-47
As you are able, please stand for the reading of God's Word.

42The believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to the community, to their shared meals, and to their prayers. 43A sense of awe came over everyone. God performed many wonders and signs through the apostles. 44All the believers were united and shared everything. 45They would sell pieces of property and possessions and distribute the proceeds to everyone who needed them. 46Every day, they met together in the temple and ate in their homes. They shared food with gladness and simplicity. 47They praised God and demonstrated God’s goodness to everyone. The Lord added daily to the community those who were being saved.

Leader: This is the word of God, for the people of God
People: Thanks be to God!

Today's Message: The Lord Added
Pentecost tells the story of God at work, and God's call on us to share what we have so that others can see him at work too

There's a Spirit in the Air--UMH 192

Benediction
Move among us, O God, and gather us together with you. 
Take our many selves—our lives, our loves, our ideas, our questions, our speech, our silence—and unite us as your people. 
Give us the gifts of perception and understanding,
so that even as we dream your dreams and see your visions, we may be able to witness to your presence in our common life.  
Let us do this in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
~adapted from Come, Let Us Build, written by Rev. Mary Nelson Abbott. Posted on the United Church of Christ’s Worship Ways Archive. http://www.ucc.org/worship/worship-ways/year-c/p/pentecost-sunday.html

Postlude-Gracefully Broken