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EASTER
April 4, 2021
First Church Sandwich, UCC
Gathering Music: Halleujah (Your Love is Amazing)
Welcome
Bell Choir
Call to Worship
Leader: Out of the darkness of grief and despair comes a message of hope. Christ is risen.
People: Christ is risen, indeed.
Leader: We run to the tomb to see for ourselves. And it is true. Christ is risen.
People: Christ is risen, indeed.
Leader: We hear a voice call our name, and we know our risen Lord is with us now and always.
People: Christ is risen.
ALL: Christ is risen, indeed. Thanks be to God!
~from The Abingdon Worship Annual 2006
Prayer of Invocation
O God of all our days, we come this morning with eager anticipation.
We seek to know you, to see you, to touch you.
Open our hearts, that we might experience you anew.
Open our lives, that we may be faithful witnesses to your resurrection.
May we, with shouts of joy, proclaim your steadfast, liberating love
to all people, everywhere. Amen.
~adapted from The Abingdon Worship Annual 2006
Song Christ the Lord is Risen Today
Scripture Luke 24:1-27 Dave Bergeson
Children’s Message Rev. Jennie Valentine
Sermon “Rising with Christ” Rev. Tina Walker-Morin
Song Christ Arose! Bob and Dottie Kreisinger
Adorning the Kite and Offering
Please come forward down the center aisle keeping social distance and attach one of the streamers
you were given at the beginning of the service to the Kite tail. During this time, we will also receive
the morning offering. Venmo @firstchurch-sandwich or firstchurchsandwich.org/
Prayer of Dedication
HOLY COMMUNION
Communion Song At This Table by Idina Menzel
Scripture: Luke 24:28-35 Lindsay Sullivan
Invitation to Holy Communion
Words of Institution
Sharing of the Sacrament
Prayer of Thanksgiving and Lord’s Prayer:
All: O Christ, we thank you for this feast of life.
Fed by your love,
and strengthened by your life;
we humbly accept your call to go
into this world to live with hope,
and to share your joy.
You commission us to
feed as we have been fed,
forgive as we have been forgiven,
and love as we have been loved.
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 debts, as we forgive our debtors;
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever.
Amen
Closing Song Easter Medley Kathy Gernhardt, Roy Gernhardt,
John Williams, Grace Chamberlin
Benediction Rev. Tina Walker-Morin
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Thank you Treehouse Brewery for your support in our service!
Thank you to Marian Gmeiner, Midge Ferrari, Annie & John Morrison, Wendy & Walley King, Amy Howell, Nancy & Rick Lawrence,
and Judy Coppola for helping to beautify the front of First Church this Easter!
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