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CHURCH SERVICES at the UNITED CHURCH of LUDLOW are shared ELECTRONICALLY Contact [email protected] or call 802-228-4211 for more information. _________________________________________________________________________ If you are comfortable attending in person, please join us. The doors open at 9:45 am, and worship begins at 10:00 am. We follow procedures to minimize the risk of exposure. Please read and follow those procedures for the safety of all. If you are not able to attend in person, a simultaneous Zoom stream is available. Send an email to [email protected] to get Zoom access. _________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENTS We wish to thank Jack Mahoney for leading our worship service this morning. A Warm Welcome to All Visitors If any member of the congregation may be of service to you, please contact the church office at 802-228-4211 or [email protected]. Regarding Individuals in the Hospital or Sick at Home It would be greatly appreciated if you know of individuals or family members in the hospital or sick at home, to kindly inform the church office at 802-228-4211 or [email protected]. Upcoming Meetings/Events Executive Board Meeting - Wednesday, August 25, 7:00 pm Weekly Offerings Offerings and other cash receipts for the week ending July 25, 2021 were $ 1306. The costs for each week are $1,320 (derived by dividing the annual budget by 52 weeks). Please continue to mail your offerings to our Receiver of Offerings, Anne Oakes, at 145 Merrill Road, Ludlow, Vermont 05149. Altar Guild Linda Alexander and Carol Wu provide our Altar Guild services. Prayer Concerns Please keep Gavin Greenawalt in your prayers in his struggle with Long Covid. Please keep the family of Carolyn Gauthier in your prayers. Please keep Bernie Stolp in your prayers. We keep the following in our prayers: James Almond, Anthony Cuteri, Jean Eggleston, Kathy Rick and Mindy Doyle, Judy Edwards, Bridget Janney, Sheila Kafer, Susan Kneebone, Ginny Kottkamp, Anne Matulonis, Anne Oakes, Hannah Sotak, Evelyn Tucker, Herb Van Guilder, and Evelyn Verro. Celebrations Kathy and Rick Doyle anniversary on August 13 _________________________________________________________________________ August 8, 2021 10:00 A.M. SERVICE OF WORSHIP Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost PRELUDE (All are encouraged to use the prelude as a quiet time of meditation in preparation for the worship service which follows.) ANNOUNCEMENTS AND GREETING The grace of our LORD Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (2 Corinthians 13: 13) And also with you. CALL TO WORSHIP* (Please stand.) All: Lord, we seek to bless you at all times. Let your praise live forever in our word and deed. Fill our souls with humility and gladness. Let us exalt your name together. Amen HYMN 426 * Behold A Broken World OPENING PRAYER* CONFESSION OF SIN If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (I John 1: 8-9) Let us confess our sins before God and one another. God who knows the innermost workings of hearts and minds, we seek your compassion and mercy as we confess our sins. In our imperfect understanding of you, we can only claim imperfect love, imperfect forgiveness. In our days spent in your creation we so often miss the mark of living into Christ’s message by letting Christ’s love transform us. You gave us a guide in Jesus so that we might know you more intimately, but we rejected him. We lift up our imperfection to you. Help guide us back to you in the embodied evidence of your overwhelming grace. SILENCE (Silence may be observed for reflection and prayer.) ASSURANCE OF GOD’S LOVE AND FORGIVENESS READING OF SCRIPTURE OLD TESTAMENT READING 2 Sam 18:5-17, 32-33 PSALM 130 Hymnal, pages 848 GLORIA 70 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen. NEW TESTAMENT READING Eph 4:25 - 5:2 SERMON HYMN 474 * Precious Lord Take My Hand JOYS AND CONCERNS PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE The Lord be with you. And also with you. Let us pray. LORD’S PRAYER (“trespasses”) PRAYER RESPONSE Hymnal, No. 473 Lead me, Lord, lead me in thy righteousness; Make thy way plain before my face. For it is thou, Lord, thou, Lord only, That makest me dwell in safety OFFERTORY SENTENCE Friends, we are called to serve God with all we have. Let us gather our gifts together and offer them to God in gratitude, faithful commitment, and praise. OFFERTORY DOXOLOGY At the Presentation, Hymn 95* Old 100th Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise him, all creatures here below; Praise him above, you heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen. PRAYER OF DEDICATION* HYMN 368 * My Hope is Built BENEDICTION AND BLESSING* BENEDICTION RESPONSE DISMISSAL Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. _________________________________________________________________________ Lyrics to the Hymns and Responsive Reading for the August 8 Service 426 Behold a Broken World Behold a broken world, we pray, where want and war increase, and grant us, Lord, in this our day, the ancient dream of peace: A dream of swords to sickles bent, of spears to scythe and spade, the weapons of our warfare spent, a world of peace remade; Where every battle-flag is furled and every trumpet stilled, where wars shall cease in all the world, a waking dream fulfilled. No force of arms shall there prevail nor justice cease its sway; nor shall their loftiest visions fail the dreamers of the day. O Prince of peace, who died to save, a lost world to redeem, and rose in triumph from the grave, behold our waking dream. Bring, Lord, your better world to birth, your kingdom, love's domain; where peace with God, and peace on earth, and peace eternal reign. 474 Precious Lord, Take My Hand Precious Lord, take my hand, Lead me on, let me stand, I am tired, I am weak, I am worn; Through the storm, through the night, lead me on to the light: Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home. When my way grows drear, precious Lord, linger near, When my life is almost gone, Hear my cry, hear my call, Hold my hand lest I fall, Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home. When the darkness appears and the night draws near, And the day is past and gone, At the river I stand, Guide my feet, hold my hand, Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home. 368 My Hope Is Built My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name. Refrain: On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand; all other ground is sinking sand. When darkness veils his lovely face, I rest on his unchanging grace. In every high and stormy gale, my anchor holds within the veil. (Refrain) His oath, his covenant, his blood supports me in the whelming flood. When all around my soul gives way, he then is all my hope and stay. (Refrain) When he shall come with trumpet sound, O may I then in him be found! Dressed in his righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne! (Refrain) PSALM 130  _________________________________________________________________________
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