AUGUST 3, 2008
MORNING WORSHIP 10:00 A.M.
The 12th Sunday after Pentecost

(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 fellowship in the Friendship Lounge.)

PRELUDE Fountain Reverie Fletcher

CHIMES AND TOWER BELLS

CALL TO WORSHIP Roxanne Trump-Miles

Liturgist: Sovereign God, so often we think we are abandoned.
People: Yet you show yourself face to face.
Liturgist: We wrestle with your call.
People: You pour out blessing.
Liturgist: We face the trial,
People: You preserve our lives and our hope.
ALL: You prevail against all that would separate us from you.

*HYMN 19 Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

*PRAYER OF THE DAY and THE LORD’S PRAYER (unison)

Gathering God, take now our hearts, our minds and our lives, and tune them to sing Thy grace. Through all the struggles of our lives and through all our struggles with you, may we yet find blessing from the fount of all blessing—Thou, our Creator, our Redeemer, our Sustainer. This we pray in the name of Jesus Christ, who taught us to pray:

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 (Hymn 558)

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen, Amen.

ANNOUNCEMENTS Rev. Samuel R. Schaal

OLD TESTAMENT LESSON Genesis 32:22-31 Bible, page 29 Children’s Bible, page 45

INVITATION TO SUNDAY SCHOOL Rev. Robert J. Brink

PSALMODY (responsively) Psalm 17:1-7, 15 Hymnal, no. 598

GOSPEL LESSON Matthew 14:13-21 Bible, page 891 Children’s Bible, page 1394

*HYMN 350 O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go

COMMUNION MEDITATION “Blessed, But Limping” Rev. Schaal

WORSHIP THROUGH MUSIC Crying Holy unto the Lord Traditional
Pike Creek Bluegrass Band

Crying Holy unto the Lord, I’ve been introduced to the Father and the Son
Crying Holy unto the Lord, Lord I ain’t no stranger now.
Lord if I could I surely would, stand on that rock where Moses stood ,
Sinners run and hide your face, sinners run and hide your face.

Lord I ain’t no stranger now,
sinners run to the Rock and hide your face,
Lord I ain’t no stranger now.
The Rock cried out, “No hiding place.”

CALL TO PRAYER and SILENT MEDITATION

PRAYER OF MINISTER AND PEOPLE

OFFERTORY

Minister: “Freely you have received, freely give” (Matthew 10:8). God has blessed us greatly. We now offer a portion of our supply for the ministries of our church.

OFFERTORY MUSIC Wafaring Stranger Traditional

I am a poor wafaring stranger, I know dark clouds will gather ‘round me,
While trav’lin through this world of woe. I know my way is rough and steep.

Yet there’s no sickness, toil or danger Yet beauteous fields lie just before me,
In that bright world to which I go. Where God’s redeemed their vigil keep.

I’m going there to see my father, I’m going there to see my mother,
I’m going there no more to roam. She says she’ll meet me when I come.

I’m only going over Jordan. I’m only going over Jordan,
I’m only going over home. I’m only going over home.

*DOXOLOGY (Hymn 563)

Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

SERVICE OF COMMUNION

Invitation

Prayer of Confession (unison)

Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo. Forgive what our lips tremble to name, what our hearts can no longer bear, and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgment. Set us free from a past that we cannot change. Open to us a future in which we can be changed. And grant us grace to grow more and more in your likeness and image, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Assurance of Pardon

Words of Institution

Blessing of the Elements

Sharing of the Gifts

Prayer

*HYMN 511 Hymn of Covenant

*CHARGE and BENEDICTION

*POSTLUDE Festival Toccata Fletcher

*Indicates where the congregation is asked to stand.

Today’s Chancel flowers are given in loving memory of Alex Barr by his family,
Betty, Richard & Linda, Betsy, and Bruce & Maggie.

CARE FOR CHILDREN

A nursery for infants and toddlers is available during the 10:00 a.m. service.
Summer Sunday School for children 3 years through entering 6th grade.

The Pike Creek Bluegrass Band has been entertaining audiences throughout Wisconsin for more than thirty years
(if the occasional glint of silver hair didn't give that secret away).
Mark Vitkus (guitar/mandolin/vocals) and Scott DeKok (bass/vocals) are charter members of the band. Chad Witty (banjo/vocals) and Jim Price (mandolin/guitar/vocals/bluegrass legend) have graced the band with their presence for several years,
and our special guest on the fiddle is Grafton's sweetheart, Emily Sommer.

Worship Preview for Sunday, August 10 10:00 A.M.

Rev. Steven Peay will offer the sermon entitled "The Courage to...SINK."
Nicolas Sluss-Rodionov is the organist.
Dale Porter, Baritone, presents the special music.