WELCOME AND CONCERNS OF THE CONGREGATION

PRELUDE        “Will You Let Me Be Your Servant”      David Lasky

*CALL TO WORSHIP

One: Have you heard? God heals the broken and 

blesses the wounded.

All: Sing praise to God!

One: Have you heard? God forgives, 

and the past is over and done.

All: Sing praise to God!

One: Have you heard? God lifts up the downcast 

and gives peace to the troubled.

All: Sing praise to God!

One: Have you heard? God smooths out rough paths 

and makes a way for us.

All: Sing praise to God!

One: Have you heard? God gives power to the weak and renews our strength. Sing praise to God.

All: We come to worship the Eternal God.

*PRAYER OF THE DAY

*HYMN 645          Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above  

PRAYER OF CONFESSION 

Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo. Forgive what our lips tremble to name, what our hearts can no longer bear, and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgment. Set us free from a past that we cannot change; open to us a future in which we can be changed; and grant us grace to grow more and more in your likeness and image; through Jesus Christ, the light of the world…

Silent Prayers of Confession

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS – from 2 Corinthians 5:17

If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; behold, everything has become new!  All this is from God to whom we have been reconciled by Christ.  Rejoice then, for we are known, accepted, loved and forgiven. 

Thanks be to God!

*GLORIA PATRI     “Glory Be to the Father”                #581

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION

SCRIPTURE LESSONS:   Isaiah 40: 21-31, Mark 1: 29-39

SERMON       “Healing Through Service” Rev. Maryellen Robeson  

*HYMN 716    God, Whose Giving Knows No Ending

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH        The Apostles’ Creed           Page 35

 I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic* Church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.      

PASTORAL PRAYER AND THE LORD’S PRAYER 

OFFERTORY ANTHEM      “They That Wait Upon the Lord”                                                                            K. Lee Scott                     

RECEIVING OF GOD’S TITHES AND OFFERINGS

*DOXOLOGY – Hymn 606 

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION

*HYMN 744          Arise, Your Light Is Come!   

*BENEDICTION  

*POSTLUDE          “Prelude in G Major”                    J. S. Bach