FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WAUWATOSA

 

October 8, 2006

MORNING WORSHIP 8:45 A.M.

The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

 

GATHERING MUSIC                    Fanfare on Coronation                                              Linker

                 

WELCOME                                                                                 Rev. Steven A. Peay, Ph.D.           

(Please pass the red pew pads now. If you are a guest this Sunday,

we would love to greet you following the service or at coffee hour in Friendship Lounge.)

 

PRELUDE                                              Meditation                                                      Linker           

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS                                                                            Rev. Robert J. Brink                                   

 

CHIMES AND TOWER BELLS

                                                                                                                                                           

CALL TO WORSHIP                                                                         Rev. Samuel R. Schaal                       

Liturgist:          We come together to be reminded that we are called to be one community

                        with all creation.

People:           We do not come here to find relief from those who need us.

Liturgist:          We do not come here to exclude those who are different from us.

People:           We do not come here to find sanctuary from those who challenge us.

Liturgist:          We do not come here to protect ourselves from those who call us “enemy.”

People:           We come here to be strengthened to meet needs, to celebrate

                        difference, to rise to challenges, and to love our enemies.

ALL:               We come here to remind ourselves we belong to God and to praise the God who loves us. Alleluia!

 

*HYMN 372                                  How Firm a Foundation

 

*CHORAL CALL TO WORSHIP

 

*INVOCATION AND LORD’S PRAYER (unison)                                                              

Sovereign God, you make us for each other, to live in loving community as friends, parents and children, sons and daughters, sisters and brothers, wives and husbands. Teach us to choose love that is committed and devoted; teach us like little children to wonder and to trust, that our loving may reflect the image of Christ, who taught us to call you Father, saying…

 

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, forever.  Amen.

 

*GLORIA PATRI

 

THE NEW TESTAMENT LESSON   Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12                     Bible, page 1089

 

*HYMN [back cover]                        When Love Is Found                                          verses 1-4           

{Children ages 3 through 8th grade are dismissed to Sunday School during the singing of the hymn.}

 

THE PSALMODY (unison)                      Psalm 8                                          Bible, page 482

 

THE GOSPEL LESSON                     Mark 10:2-16                                     Bible, page 921

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

ANTHEM                                         Be Thou My Vision                                          arr. Ortega

                                                  Jillian Bruss, Mezzo Soprano

 

THE SERMON                     “Belonging for a Time Like This”                                Dr. Peay

 

HYMN RESPONSE [back cover]     When Love Is Found                                               verse 5           

 

THE CALL TO PRAYER and SILENT MEDITATION

 

THE PRAYER OF MINISTER AND PEOPLE

 

THE CHORAL RESPONSE TO PRAYER

 

THE OFFERTORY

                 

THE ANTHEM                             Rise, Crowned With Light                                          Willan

                 

*THE DOXOLOGY

 

*THE PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND DEDICATION

 

*HYMN 195                            All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name

 

*THE CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

 

*THE CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE


Go now in peace. Never be afraid.

God will go with you each hour of every day.

Go now in faith, steadfast, strong and true.

Know He will guide you in all you do.

Go now in love, and show you believe.

Reach out to others so all the world can see.

God will be there, watching from above.

Go now in peace, in faith, and in love.

 

*THE POSTLUDE                               Trumpet Tune                                                    Linker

 

*The congregation is invited to stand, if able.

 

The Chancel flowers are given in loving memory of
 Albert Blank,

 born to life eternal October 8, 1996, from his family.

 

Worship Preview for Sunday, October 15, 2006 ~ 8:45 & 11:00 a.m.

Next week: Dr. Peay continues our October sermon series with,

“Listening for a Time Like This.”

A class based on the sermon theme will be offered at 10 a.m. Sunday

and on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Thomas Gregory is the organist.

Lee Jacobi directs the Pilgrim Choir at 8:45 and the Chancel Choir at 11:00 a.m.

Kimberly Williams directs the Jubilation Ringers at 8:45 a.m.

 

Pilgrim Choir Anthems

8:45 A.M.

Be Thou My Vision

arr. Fernando Ortega

 

Be Thou my Vision O Lord of my heart:

Naught by all else to me save that Thou art.

Thou my best thought, by day or by night,

Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.

 

Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;

I ever with Theee and Thou with me, Lord;

Thou my great Father, and I Thy true Son,

Thou in my dwelling, and I with Thee one.

 

Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise,

Thou mine inheritance, now and always;

Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,

High King of heaven, my Treasure Thou art.

 

High King of heaven, my victory won,

May I reach Heaven's joys, O bright Heav'n's Sun!

Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,

Still be my Vision; O Ruler of all.

Rise, Crowned with Light

Alexander Pope, 1712

 

Rise, crowned with light, imperial Salem, rise!

Exalt thy towering head, and lift thine eyes;

See heaven its sparkling portals wide display

And break upon thee in a flood of day.

 

See a long race thy spacious courts adorn;

See future sons and daughters, yet unborn,

In crowding ranks on every side arise,

Demanding life, impatient for the skies.

 

See barbarous nations at thy gates attend,

Walk in the light, and in thy temple bend;

See thy bright altars thronged with prostrate kings,

While every land its joyful tribute brings.

 

The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay,

Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away;

But fixed this Word, this saving power remains;

Thy realms shall last, thine own Messiah reigns. Amen.