Easter Sunday 3/31/24

TheWorshipofGod Easter Sunday

*We invite you to stand as you are able.

Gathering at God’s Invitation

Welcome

Christ is risen.

He is risen indeed. Alleluia!

CalltoWorship

Christ is Risen! Shout Hosanna!

Hosanna! Hosanna!

Celebrate this day of days!

Hosanna! Hosanna!

Let all creation be amazed!

Hosanna! Hosanna! Christ is Risen!

LightingoftheChristCandle

AngelaZimmerman

AngelaZimmerman

BobbyHankins

We light the Christ candle as a reminder that Christ is the one who has drawn us to this place, abides with us now, and is with us to the end of the age.

Prelude

LifeoftheCommunity

I Know that My Redeemer Lives

Offering Ourselves to God

*Hymn#194

Christ the Lord is Risen Today

ScriptureReading Acts10:34-43

The Word of God for the People of God

Thanks Be to God.

MichaelBurkhardt

ShirleySimmons

EASTERHYMN

AngelaZimmerman

AffirmationofFaith ShirleySimmons

This is the good news which we have received, in which we stand, and by which we are saved, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day, and that he appeared first to the women, then to Peter, and to the Twelve, and then to many faithful witnesses. We believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Jesus Christ is the first and the last, the beginning and the end; he is our Lord and our God. Amen.

ScriptureReading

Psalm118:1-2,14-24

The Word of God for the People of God

Thanks Be to God.

AngelaZimmerman

*Hymn#207 Low in the Grave He Lay CHRISTAROSE

GivingourTithesandOfferings

OffertoryPrayer

LindaPulliam

Offertory Sonata no. 4 2nd movement FelixMendelssohn

*Doxology(Hymn#705)

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.

Listening to God

*ScriptureReading

Mark16:1-8

ShirleySimmons

For the Word of God in Scripture, for the Word of God among us, for the Word of God within us.

Thanks be to God

TheChurchatPrayer

AngelaZimmerman

Anthem He Is Alive Forevermore MichaelWare

DisciplineofSilence

To be in God’s presence is to be changed. During this moment of silent reflection, consider the change God wishes to make in you.

Communion at God’s Table

InvitationtoChrist’sTable

PrayerofThanksgivingandtheLord’sPrayer

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

SharingtheBread

Astheplateispassed,saytoyourneighbor: The body of Christ was broken for you.

SharingtheCup

Astheplateispassed,saytoyourneighbor: The blood of Christ was shed for you.

Responding to God’s Word

*Hymn#415 Lift High the Cross CRUCIFER

If you sense God calling you today, we invite you to respond during this time of invitation. If God is calling you to follow Jesus for the first time, to rededicate yourself as a Christ-follower, or as a faithful Christian, to join the fellowship of our church, we encourage you to come forward to speak to our pastor during this closing hymn.

Sending Into God’s World

Benediction

Postlude Thine Is The Glory EmilyPorter

Please join us outside for the flowering of the cross and refreshments in the garden.

Sermon

AngelaZimmerman