GATHERING TO PRAISE GOD Sunday, February 13, 2022

Prelude

Praise Song

Welcome

The People Gather
L: We have been called to this place by the God. Praise God.
P: Amen.
L: We are met in this place by the risen Christ. Praise God again.
P: Amen.

Hymn

The People Pray
If we met you, Jesus we might not think you were on a mission.
Your talk would be of common and curious things: salt, dough, lost lambs, lost coins, paying taxes, hosting a meal, wise virgins and generous widows.
We would not know you were on a mission, we would think you were making sense of life, lighting up the ordinary, identifying the truth.
When next you look with compassion on the world and need mission done in your way, Lord send us. Amen.

Special Music Paula Linza

Children’s Moment
Children are dismissed to Sunday School after

The People Confess Their Sin
Forgive us, Lord because we buy what we do not need;
For confusing what we need with what we want;
For wasting what we do own,
For owning what we will never use,
For keeping what is rightfully yours.

God’s Words of Assurance
L: By the blood of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.

The Word of God for the People of God

Scripture Mark 12:41-44
Jesus sat across from the collection box for the temple treasury and observed how the crowd gave their money. Many rich people were throwing in lots of money. 42 One poor widow came forward and put in two small copper coins worth a penny.[a] 43 Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I assure you that this poor widow has put in more than everyone who’s been putting money in the treasury. 44 All of them are giving out of their spare change. But she from her hopeless poverty has given everything she had, even what she needed to live on.”

Message Who Are You Watching?

Pastoral Prayer

The People Bring Their Gifts
Please use the website or your App to make your offering

The People Go into The World

Praise Song

Benediction
L: Jesus, in gratitude for this moment, this place, the people around us, we give ourselves to you.
P: Take us from this place to live resurrection lives, because we have been touched by the living Lord and cannot remain the same.
L: Ask much from us, expect much from us, enable much by us, encourage many through us.
P: So, Lord, may we live to your glory, both as inhabitants of earth and citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Organ Postlude