August 2 2020 Worship Service Liturgy
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Order of Worship - Zebulon United Methodist Church
Sunday, August 2, 2020
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
The Love Feast
Let everything that breathes praise the Lord! Psalm 150:6
Preparation for the Love Feast Pastor Liz
Prelude You Say Kara Zaharin
Lauren Daigle
Welcome Terri Moore
Today is the start of our adventure on Psalm Island! We will explore several psalms the rest of the summer and into September through a sermon series based on the Songs of Ascents (Psalms 120-134). Please join us each week as we learn how to be more faithful followers of Jesus together. Psalm Island will be inspiring, helpful and fun!
Opening Prayer O God, our Guardian and Guide, thank you for a new day. Thank you for loving us and for watching over us. You guard us faithfully. Please help us to realize more fully your amazing and gracious protection. Instill confidence in us, that we may walk our journeys of faith, not in our power, but with your great strength and guidance. May you live and shine in us more brightly than ever for all the world to see. For it is in the name of our precious Lord Jesus that we pray. Amen.
Hymn of Praise Because He Lives United Methodist Hymnal 364 Cynthia Dixon
Children’s Moment Linda Daughtridge
Psalter Lesson Psalm 121 UMH 844
Let’s try something new! A choir member will sing the response through one time. Please join in on the repeat. Then join in the responsive reading on the bold parts. After the reading, please sing the response again.
Sung response: Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of God’s might.
I lift up my eyes to the hills. From whence does my help come?
My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
The Lord will not let your foot be moved, the Lord who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold, the One who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
The Lord is your keeper;
The Lord is your shade on your right hand.
The sun shall not smite you by day,
Nor the moon by night.
The Lord will keep you from all evil, and will keep your life.
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and for evermore.
Sung response: Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of God’s might.
Scripture lesson Psalm 121 The Message Terri Moore
1-2 I look up to the mountains;
does my strength come from mountains?
No, my strength comes from God,
who made heaven, and earth, and mountains.
3-4 He won’t let you stumble,
your Guardian God won’t fall asleep.
Not on your life! Israel’s
Guardian will never doze or sleep.
5-6 God’s your Guardian,
right at your side to protect you—
Shielding you from sunstroke,
sheltering you from moonstroke.
7-8 God guards you from every evil,
he guards your very life.
He guards you when you leave and when you return,
he guards you now, he guards you always.
Sermon “Who’s Got Your Back?” Pastor Liz
Anthem Lord God, Almighty Kelly Daughtridge & Linda Chambleee
Coni Huisman
The Love Feast
“The Love Feast, or Agape Meal, is a Christian fellowship meal recalling the meals Jesus shared with disciples during his ministry and expressing the koinonia (community, sharing, fellowship) enjoyed by the family of Christ.”
Please have some bread or a sweet roll close at hand for the sharing of the bread.
Let us pray.
Be present at our table, Lord:
Be here and everywhere adored;
Thy creatures bless and grant that we
May feast in paradise with Thee.
https://nccumc.org/love-feast/what-is-a-love-feast/
Witness Darrell Jones
Sharing of the Bread
As you eat the bread, you are invited to share how God has worked in your life lately with those around you or you may write it down on a piece of paper or in a journal.
Interlude Make Us One Kara Zaharin
Carol Cymbala
Pastoral Prayer and The Lord’s Prayer
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.
Worship of God with Tithes & Offerings Terri Moore
Prayer of Dedication
Thank you so much for your faithful support of our church and missions.
Please remember that our church expenses continue. You can mail your offering to the church at 121 W. Gannon Ave., Zebulon, NC, 27597 or drop off your offering in the mail slot on the back door of the church office. Also, our Annual Conference has provided a secure link for giving, which is sent back to our church. This can be found on our church website: www.zumchurch.org. Please note that we are in the Heritage District.
Hymn of Commitment Spirit Song UMH 347 Cynthia Dixon
Benediction
Postlude Holy Holy Holy Lord Kara Zaharin
Gary Allen Smith
Thank you so much for joining us for worship. We pray that you have a blessed week! Hope to see you next Sunday, August 9, for in-person worship at 10 am. Please contact the church office at 919-269-9408 for important guidelines about our in-house worship (if you have not received them via email) or if you have any questions.
Here is what’s coming up in our Psalm Island Series!
August 9
Psalm 122
“Worship Ahoy!”
August 16
Psalm 124
“Pilot, Skylot”
Everyone please wear blue, even if you are watching from home!
August 23
Psalm 126
“All My Joy”
August 30
Psalm 130
“Hopeward”
September 6 - Labor Day Weekend
Psalm 132
“Sit. Stay. Pray.”
September 13
Psalm 133
“2 Gather”
September 20
Psalm 134
“Take A Deep Breeze”
September 22
First Day of Fall!
