Series Art:
The art piece at the front of our worship space is a collaboration between Creator’s Space participants and people from Wednesday night groups at Hope. The window frame was orginally left for the garbage, repaired, broken, repaired again, and then augmented to include the extra new artwork. The contruction of this multilayered/multiparticipant piece is similar to the way the church mends it’s own brokeness while creating new and expansive spaces for new expressions of faith.
Today’s Scripture:
Genesis 1:26-31
26 Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”
27 So God created humankind in his image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” 29 God said, “See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Today’s Music:
Today’s music is a mix of exploring the wideness of God’s embrace that includes absolutley everyone.
Today’s Words for Worship:
Call to worship
Gracious God,
in this time of worship and wonder, story and song
into which you have gathered us,
we marvel at the wondrous diversity of your human creation.
Each of us — Black, white, Latine, Asian, Indigenous, and beyond —
is an integral part of your magnificent spectrum.
You call us to join in joyous worship, just as we are.
Each of us — Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, atheist, and beyond —
is an integral part of your magnificent spectrum.
You call us into community, just as we are.
Each of us — with our bodies of diverse shapes, sizes, and abilities —
is an integral part of your magnificent spectrum.
You call us Good, you call us whole and holy, just as we are.
Each of us — of all sexualities and genders, all these ways of being and loving —
is an integral part of your magnificent spectrum.
You call us to share the gifts you gave us, just as we are.