Order of Worship
Order of Worship
June 7, 2026
ORDER OF WORSHIP
June 7, 2026
Continuing God’s Story Together“Let this little message be but a reminder,
and I will continue with the story.”
2 Maccabees 6:17
Worship Participants
Deacon: Mary Beers, Michelle Reynolds
Welcomers: Noel Gray, Tom Greene
Reader: Jan Greene
Announcer: Grace Tilden
Prelude The Blessing
Welcome Rev. Tina Walker-Morin
Choir I Love The Lord Who Heard My Cry
Opening Prayer (unison) Deacon
Holy God,you name as blessed what the world overlooks or rejects. Open our hearts to see as you see,and to live as you call us to live.Guide us now as we worship you. Amen.
Song Come to the Water
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
Invitation
Rev Tina Walker-Morin: Dear friends, as we come to this font of the living water, let us recall the meaning of baptism. For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
People: For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body - Jews or Greeks, slaves or free- and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
Rev. Tina Walker-Morin: Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Rev. Jennie Valentine: Story of Jesus’ baptism
Rev. Tina Walker-Morin: The sacrament of baptism is an outward and visible sign of the grace of God. Inasmuch as the promise of the gospel is not only to us but also to our children, baptism with water and the Holy Spirit is the mark of their acceptance into the care of Christ’s church. In baptism, God works in us the power of forgiveness, the renewal of the Spirit, and the knowledge of the call to be God’s people always.
Questions of the Candidates Rev. Tina Walker-Morin: Parents, do you desire to have your child baptized into the faith and family of Jesus Christ?
Parents: We do
Rev. Jennie Valentine: (To Parents and Godparents) Will you with God’s help to guide and encourage this child by counsel and example, in prayer and with love?
Parents & God parents: We will
Rev. Tina Walker-Morin: (To Parents and Godparents): Do you promise to seek out our still speaking God at work all around you in the beauty of nature, in the love of family and friends, in the wonder of the ways God’s love saves us from hopelessness, and restores us to our true and authentic selves, and to show love and justice to others? If so, say we will with the help of God.
Parents and Godparents: We will, with the help of God
Rev. Jennie Valentine: (To Parents and God parents): Do you promise, through the grace of God, to seek and live as a follower of the Christ, to show love to all people and to work for justice, and to witness as best as you are able to the work and word of the Christ? If so, say we will with the help of God.
Parents and Godparents: We will with the help of God.
*Congregational Assent Rev. Tina Walker-Morin: Jesus Christ calls us to make disciples of all nations and to offer them the gift of grace in baptism. Do you, who witness and celebrate this sacrament, promise your love, support and care to the one about to be baptized, as she lives and grows in Christ?
People: We promise our love, support and care.
Prayer of Baptism
Rev. Jennie Valentine: Bless by your Holy Spirit, gracious God this living water, which flowed through the streams of your world coming to the town of Sandwich.
By your Holy Spirit watch over those who come in the name of Jesus Christ. Create new life in the one baptized this day that they may rise in Christ. Glory to you, eternal God, the one who was, and is, and shall always be, Amen.
Act of Baptism Maeve Clark Osborne
Prayer For the Baptized
Gracious God, you have filled the world with joy by giving us the gift of Jesus. Bless Maeve may she be filled with joy; may she grow in faith and curiosity. Give her strength for life’s journey, courage in time of suffering, the joy of faith, the freedom of love, and the hope of new life; through Jesus Christ, who makes us one. Amen.
Scripture: Matthew 5:3-13a, 14a Jan Greene
Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Matthew from the First Nations Version:
Creator’s blessing rests on the poor, the ones with broken spirits. The good road from above is theirs to walk.
Creator’s blessing rests on the ones who walk a trail of tears, for he will wipe the tears from their eyes and comfort them.
Creator’s blessing rests on the ones who walk softly and in a humble manner. The earth, land, and sky will welcome them and always be their home.
Creator’s blessing rests on the ones who hunger and thirst for wrongs to be made right again. They will eat and drink until they are full.
Creator’s blessing rests on the ones who are merciful and kind to others. Their kindness will find its way back to them—full circle.
Creator’s blessing rests on the pure of heart. They are the ones who will see the Great Spirit.
Creator’s blessing rests on the ones who make peace. It will be said of them, “They are the children of the Great Spirit!”
Creator’s blessing rests on the ones who are hunted down and mistreated for doing what is right, for they are walking the road from above.
Others will lie about you, speak against you, and look down on you with scorn and contempt, all because you walk the road with me. This is a sign that Creator’s blessing is resting on you. So let your hearts be glad and jump for joy, for you will be honored in the spirit-world above. You are like the prophets of old, who were treated in the same way by your ancestors.
As you walk the good road with me, you are the salt of the earth, bringing cleaning and healing to all.
As you walk the road with me, you are a light shining in the dark world.
May God bless this reading and our understanding. Amen
God’s Stories Rev. Jennie Valentine
Sermon Service Learning Trip Participants
Communion Song The Kingdom Is Yours
Holy Communion
Invitation Rev. Tina Walker-Morin
Prayer of Confession Rev. Tina Walker-Morin
Holy and Merciful God,I admit that I have forget that I am one of your blessed people. At times I focus on myself instead of others and neglect to be a blessing to this world. Forgive me and restore me. Amen.
Assurance of Pardon Rev. Tina Walker-Morin
Words of Institution Rev. Jennie Valentine
Prayer of Consecration & Lord’s Prayer Rev. Tina Walker-Morin
Our Father/Mother/Creator, who art in heaven hallowed be thy name. Thy kin-dom 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 kin-dom and the power and the glory for ever. Amen
Sharing of the Elements
Prayer of Thanksgiving Rev. Jennie Valentine
Gracious God,thank you for your unconditional love. Thank you for empowering me to make change through your love. Amen
Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise God, all creatures here below;
Praise God for all that love has done;
Creator, Christ, and Spirit, One. Amen
Send Forth Song We Are
Benediction Rev. Tina Walker-Morin
Announcements
Postlude Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee