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Worship Materials and Bulletin August 8, 2021 Streaming License Number: 20160536 Copyright License: 2880734 Video License: 504308177 This Sunday morning at9:30, we will worship in person indoor in the sanctuary in accordance with our COVID safety policy, and we will livestream the worship service to Facebook. You can access the livestreamed service at https://www.facebook.com/CrievewoodUMC/ Please note that the COVID Task Force has reinstated wearing of masks for all gathered indoors. Please share this bulletin with any members that you think might not see this email before Sunday. Thank you. Prayer List Ecumenical Prayer Cycle: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea Cumberland River District Prayer Cycle: Pennington UMC, Premier Iglesia UMC, and Seay Hubbard UMC Crievewood UMC: https://crievewoodumc.org/prayer-list/ (a password is necessary) Crievewood PrayerMost gracious God, thank you for all the gifts you have bestowed on Crievewood United Methodist Church over the generations. By your Holy Spirit, grant us the grace that welcomes all of your children. Make us a community that reflects the full diversity of Christ’s body. Help us grow to love one another as You love us. Empower us to reveal Christ through worship and service. In your holy name we pray. Amen.  Worship Order Words of Welcome: Rev. John Hill Centering Music: Jubilate Deo: Caleb Dinger, Piano Call to Worship:Rev. Chelsey Hedglin A king’s time as a ruler rises and falls like the sun. But you, O God, are timeless. Everything the light touches is yours, God. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. Everything exists in a delicate balance. Everything is connected in the great circle of life. Hymns: Let There Be Light and Creating God, Your Fingers Trace Let There Be Light Let there be light, let there be understanding, let all nations gather, let them be face to face. Open our lips, open our minds to ponder, open the door of concord opening into grace. Perish the sword, perish the angry judgment, perish the bombs and hunger, perish the fight for gain. Hallow our love, hallow the deaths of martyrs, hallow their holy freedom, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your Spirit turn to language, your people speak together, your Spirit never fade. Let there be light, open our hearts to wonder, perish the way of terror, hallow the world God made. Creating God, Your Fingers Trace Creating God, your fingers trace the bold designs of farthest space; let sun and moon and stars and light and what lies hidden praise your might. Sustaining God, your hands uphold earth’s mysteries known or yet untold; let water’s fragile blend with air, enabling life, proclaim your care. Redeeming God, your arms embrace all now despised for creed or race; let peace, descending like a dove, make known on earth your healing love. Indwelling God, your gospel claims one family with a billion names; let every life be touched by grace until we praise you face to face. Affirmation of Faith: UMH #883: Rev. John HillWe are not alone, we live in God’s world. We believe in God: who has created and is creating, who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh, to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others by the Spirit. We trust in God. We are called to be the church: to celebrate God’s presence, to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope. In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us. We are not alone. Thanks be to God. Amen. Bible Presentation: Rev. Chelsey Hedglin Congratulations to James Hill, David Sims, and Henry Trump! Crievewood is excited to present them with a new Bible as they take another step in their faith journey. Congregation: Receive the Word of God. Learn its stories, and study its words. Its stories belong to all of us, and its words speak to all of us. They tell us who we are and that we belong to one another-for we are people of God. Children: We receive these Bibles with our hands, with our hearts, and with our minds. Thank you for allowing us to be able to read and study the Bible together. Congregation: We rejoice in this step in your journey with God. We pray God will guide you, your family, and us as you use this Bible in your homes, in your classes, and in your worship. We will learn together and grow in our love for God’s word. Children: The word of God is a lamp to our feet and a light on our path. All: Thanks be to God! Scripture Reading: John1:1-14: Rev. John Hill In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people.The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. Sermon: Bible on Broadway – Lion King: Rev. Chelsey Hedglin Musical Reflection: They Live in You: Caleb Dinger, Instrumentalist Pastoral Prayer: Rev. John Hill The Lord’s Prayer Invitation to Offer Tithes and Gifts: Rev. John Hill https://onrealm.org/CrievewoodUMC/GiveOffertory Anthem: Circle of Life: Hailee Hunt-Hawkins, Vocalist, Caleb Dinger, Instrumentalist Prayer of Confession: UMH #597 Prayer from Kenya: Rev. Chelsey Hedglin From the cowardice that dares not face new truth, from the laziness that is contended with half-truth, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, Good Lord, deliver me. Amen. Silent Prayer Kyrie Words of Assurance Hear the Good News: Christ died for us while we were yet sinners. That proves God’s love toward us. In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven. In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven. Glory to God! Amen. Closing Hymn: Thy Word Is a LampThy Word Is a Lamp Refrain Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Verse 1 When I feel afraid, think I’ve lost my way, still you’re there right beside me, and nothing will I fear as long as you are near. Please be near me to the end. Refrain Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.Verse 2 Now I will not forget your love for me and yet my heart forever is wandering. Jesus, be my guide and hold me to your side, and I will love you to the end. Refrain Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Blessing of the Backpacks: Rev. Chelsey Hedglin Benediction: Rev. Chelsey Hedglin |