Morning Service
Welcome
*Call to Worship
The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
And also with you.
Our help is in the name of the Lord.
Who made heaven and earth.
Let us worship God.
*Hymn VU315 Holy, Holy, Holy
Prayer of Confession
Holy and redeeming Lord we come to you today admitting that we have not always remembered persons in the Armed Service who have gone before us. We admit that we have ignored the sacrifices many others have made. We acknowledge that because we may not agree on causes of the current war, we forget that many soldiers are paying the ultimate price. Help us, today, O Lord to remember our brothers, sisters, neighbors, and enemies. Help us to not forget the lives they have lived and duties they have performed. Help us to remember that even though we may be against warfare, these military persons and veterans are all your children. Help us to remember that in your eyes, they are no different from us, we are one creation.
Help us O Lord; Help us Saving Christ; Help us Eternal Spirit. Amen.
Assurance of Pardon
To all who turn from sin in sorrow, to all who turn to God in hope, this is God’s Word of grace; We are accepted, we are forgiven, we are loved. This gift we have from God.
Thanks be to God.
Anthem Give Me Jesus Traditional Spiritual Seminary Singers
Prayer of Illumination
Scripture
Communion Meditation “Remembering and Re-Remembering Our Veterans” Capt. Mike Morrison, Air Force Chaplain
Sacrament of Holy Communion
Invitation to the Lord’s Table
The Great Prayer of Thanksgiving
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Loving God, Source of all, we thank you and praise you with our lips and in our lives that, having created us, and all things through your Word, you welcome our prayer and praise. For the goodness of creation we praise you. For the law of holiness, inviting our obedience, and the call of prophets rebuking our disobedience, we praise you. With the faithful of every time and place, we join in this hymn of praise and thanksgiving:
We gratefully recall and remember the wonder of Jesus’ incarnation, his birth as one of us, his baptism for our sin, his compassion for our suffering, his intimacy with our frailty, his rebuke of our pride, his bearing of the cross with its death, and his rising from the tomb by the power of God. According to his commands and promise of presence, we affirm the mystery of faith.
Let Us Pray
Loving God, Creative Power, blessing your name, we seek your Spirit. Come to us and bless these gifts of bread and wine that they might be for us the body and blood of Christ, a sign and seal of our forgiveness in Christ and our adoption as children of God. As we eat and drink together, make us one with Christ and one in Christ, a sign of his eternal reign in all the world. This sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving we offer to you, loving God, through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God to ages of ages. Amen.
The Lord’s Prayer
Words of Institution
*Communion of the People
Prayer after Communion
*Charge and Blessing
*Passing of the Peace
Participants in Worship:
Capt. Mike Morrison , Preacher
Ms. Sharon LaTour , Liturgist
Rev. Dr. Jana Childers, Dean, Co-Celebrant
Ms. Annamae Taubeneck, Reader
Dr. Robert Coote, Communion Server
Dr. Polly Coote, Communion Server
Ms. Dorothy Crockett, Communion Server
Mr. Aric Clark, Communion Server
Mr. Scott Clark, Communion Server
Dr. Daniel Hoggatt, Musician
Stephanie Croom, Musician
Mr. Joshua Dunham, Chaplain’s Assistant
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