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Greetings & Announcements                                                                  Pastor Susanna

  Minute for Mission                                                                                           Jennifer Billings

Gathering in God’s Presence

  Prelude                                                                                                                  Miles Sutton   

  Acolytes bring the light of God into our worship space

*Call to Worship (Read Responsively)                                      Raemil Billings

One: Praise the LORD!

Many: We will praise the LORD as long as we live.

One: Happy are those whose hope is in the LORD their God,

Many: God keeps faith forever, executes justice for the oppressed, and gives food to the hungry.

One: The LORD sets the prisoners free and opens the eyes of the blind.

Many: The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, and loves the righteous.

One: Put not your trust in princes in mortals in whom there is no help.

Many: For the LORD will reign forever. Praise the LORD!

 *Opening Hymn                                It Is Well                                                       561 

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*Prayer of Approach and Lord’s Prayer                                Raemil Billings

(using debts and debtors)

Proclaiming God’s Word

  Scripture Reading                                                                         Don Fisher

Hebrew Lesson                                                                    Psalm 84

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One: The Word of God for the people of God

Many: Thanks be to God!

  Veteran’s Recognition

  Trust Quartet                                                                           Buzz Beasley, Rhonda Mohr,
       Spencer Decker and Steve Faison

Responding to God’s Word

  Invitation                                        Pastor Susanna

*Invitation Hymn                     Let There Be Peace on Earth                        677

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 (come forward at this time to unite with our church family,

for a prayer, or to commit your life to Jesus Christ.)

  Communion Meditation                                             Pastor Susanna

  Communion Hymn                One Bread, One Body                                       393

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  Prayer for the Bread and Cup                                                  John Hamilton

  Distribution and Sharing of Emblems                       The Diaconate

(Eat the Bread when served. Please hold the Cup

and we will drink together.)

  Offering Meditation and Prayer of Dedication

*Doxology                    Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow                          46

Taking God’s Word to the World

*Parting Hymn                               This is My Song                                              722

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  Collecting of Love Offering

*Acolytes take the light of God out into the World

*Benediction                                                                          Pastor Susanna

*Postlude                                                                                        Miles Sutton

Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! -4

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!

Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee;

holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty,

God in three persons, blessed Trinity!

Holy, holy, holy! All the saints adore thee;

casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;

cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee,

God ever living, through eternity.

Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide thee,

though the sinful human eye thy glory may not see;

only thou arty holy; there is none beside thee,

perfect in power, in love, and purity.

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!

All thy works shall praise thy name in earth and sky and sea;

Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty,

God in three persons, blessed Trinity!

Psalm 84

Scripture Reading    Sunday, November 8, 2015              Don Fisher

Our Hebrew Lesson comes from Psalm 84

How lovely is your dwelling place,

    O LORD of hosts!

2 My soul longs, indeed it faints

    for the courts of the LORD;

my heart and my flesh sing for joy

    to the living God.

3 Even the sparrow finds a home,

    and the swallow a nest for herself,

    where she may lay her young,

at your altars, O LORD of hosts,

    my King and my God.

4 Happy are those who live in your house,

    ever singing your praise. Selah

5 Happy are those whose strength is in you,

    in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

6 As they go through the valley of Baca

    they make it a place of springs;

    the early rain also covers it with pools.

7 They go from strength to strength;

    the God of gods will be seen in Zion.

8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer;

    give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah

9 Behold our shield, O God;

    look on the face of your anointed.

10 For a day in your courts is better

    than a thousand elsewhere.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God

    than live in the tents of wickedness.

11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield;

    he bestows favor and honor.

No good thing does the LORD withhold

    from those who walk uprightly.

12 O LORD of hosts,

    happy is everyone who trusts in you.

THE WORD OF GOD FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD!

This Is My Song- 722

This is my song, O God of all the nations,

a song of peace for lands afar and mine.

This is my home, the country where my heart is;

here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;

but other hearts in other lands are beating

with hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.

My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean,

and sunlight beams on clover leaf and pine;

but other lands have sunlight too, and clover,

and skies are everywhere as blue as mine.

O hear4 my song, thou God of all the nations,

a song of peace for their land and for mine.

This is my prayer, O Ruler of all nations:

let thy reign come; on earth thy will be done.

In peace may all earth’s people draw together,

and hearts united learn to live as one.

O hear my prayer, thou God of all the nations;

myself I give thee; let thy will be done.

Let There Be Peace on Earth - 677

Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me;

let there be peace on earth,

the peace that was meant to be.

With God our creator, children all are we.

Let us walk with each other in perfect harmony.

Let peace begin with me; let this be the moment now.

With every step I take, let this be my solemn vow:

to take each moment and live each moment in peace eternally.

Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.

It Is Well with My Soul - 561

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,

when sorrows like sea billows roll; whatever my lot,

thou has taught me to say,

it is well, it is well with my soul.

It is well (it is well)

with my soul, (with my soul)

it is well, it is well with my soul.

When Satan should buffet, though trials should come,

let this blest assurance control, that Christ has regarded

my helpless estate,

and hath shed his own blood for my soul.

It is well (it is well)

with my soul, (with my soul)

it is well, it is well with my soul.

My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!

My sin, not in part but the whole, is nailed to the cross,

and I bear it no more, praise the Lord,

praise the Lord, O my soul!

It is well (it is well)

with my soul, (with my soul)

it is well, it is well with my soul.

May God haste the day when my faith shall be sight,

the clouds be rolled back as a scroll; the trump shall resound,

and the Lord shall descend, even so,

it is well with my soul.

It is well (it is well)

with my soul, (with my soul)

it is well, it is well with my soul.

One Bread, One Body- 393

One bread, one body, one Lord of all,

one cup of blessings which we bless.

And we, though many throughout the earth,

we are one body in this one Lord.

Gentile or Jew, servant or free,

woman or man, no more.

One bread, one body, one Lord of all,

one cup of blessings which we bless.

And we, though many throughout the earth,

we are one body in this one Lord.

Many the gifts, many the works,

one in the Lord of all.

One bread, one body, one Lord of all,

one cup of blessings which we bless.

And we, though many throughout the earth,

we are one body in this one Lord.

Grain for the fields, scattered and grown,

gathered to one, for all.

One bread, one body, one Lord of all,

one cup of blessings which we bless.

And we, though many throughout the earth,

we are one body in this one Lord.