Order of Worship

Song:   Be Still, My Soul Chalice #566

Opening Prayer (“When God Imagined Me” written by Tim Graves)

One: In the midst of darkness & chaos
Many: God imagined.
One: In the fury & darkness…
Many: God imagined a world filled with trees,
and blue skies and fluffy white clouds.

One: In the meadow, God stood and…
Many: imagined foxes, bluebirds, and slithering snakes.

One: In a world of rainstorms and wildlife
and cattle and grasses blowing in the breeze…
Many: God imagined humanity.

One: In a world teeming with billions of people…
Many: God imagined me.

One: God imagined you and God imagined me.
Many: We are created in the image of God.
God imagined us all. God loves each of us.
Let us worship with the same imagination as the creating One!
Amen.

Song: Friend of God

Scripture   Jeremiah 1:4-10 (NRSVUE)

Today’s reading is from the prophet of Jeremiah.

Now the word of God came to me saying,
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy.” But
God said to me,
“Do not say, ‘I am only a boy,’
for you shall go to all to whom I send you,
and you shall speak whatever I command you.
Do not be afraid of them,
for I am with you to deliver you,
says God.”
Then God put out God’s hand and touched my mouth, and God said to me,
“Now I have put my words in your mouth.
See, today I appoint you over nations and territories,
to uproot and to tear down,
to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.”

May God bless this reading and our understanding. Amen

Message for All Ages

Sermon 

Song:   Remind Me Who I am

Prayers of the People & Lord’s Prayer

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

Offering

Invitation
Song: Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore Chalice #342
Dedication

Send Forth Song:    Made for More

Benediction 

Announcements

Postlude