1. GATHERING
Choral Prelude & Multilingual Exsultet/Easter Proclamation
Hymn: VU 155 “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today”
Welcome, Announcements & Territorial Acknowledgement
Opening Prayer
Hymn: VU 176 “Who Is There on This Easter Morning?”
WORD 
John 20:1-18
Musical Offering
John 21:1-13
Sermon: Ralph Carl Wushke
Prayers of the People
TABLE
Invitation & Peace
Presentation Hymn: VU 468 “Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ”
GOING FORTH 
Blessing of the Graduands
Hymn: VU 420“Go to the World”
Blessing & Sending Forth
Choral Postlude: El cielo canta alegria! 

2. Choral Prelude: TST Choir “Although I speak with angel's tongue”
GATHERING
Choral Prelude: TST Choir
“Although I speak with angel's tongue” 
Newfoundland Folk Melody,
arr. Peter Merrick
Multilingual Easter Proclamation

3. Multilingual Exsultet/Easter Proclamation
based on an ancient prayer
from the 4th century sung before
The lighting of the Pascal Candle
Christ is Risen!
Christ is Risen, indeed! Hallelujah!

4. in Arabic
Let the whole earth rejoice!
Let us rejoice in the shining splendor
of Christ’s incredible love for us all!
Christ is victorious!
Darkness is no more!
Let this place resound with joy,
let us sing the song of all God’s people!

5. Response

6. in Spanish Together we join our hearts and
minds and voices to praise the unseen God,
the Ancient One who holds all things in balance.
Together, we praise Jesus Christ,
the visible symbol of God’s
forgiving love and compassion for us all.
Together, we praise the Holy Spirit,
who works in us, and through us,
encircling all creation.

7. Response

8. in German
Today we celebrate that Jesus Christ
freed us from the fear of death,
through his resurrection from the grave!
Today we are freed from all guilt,
freed from our broken lives
freed for the work
of healing our broken world.
Today, we are given new life and new hope!

9. Response

10. in Korean
Therefore, Ever-living God,
be present with us now
and shine your light upon us.
May your light and your love
dispel the darkness of our world.
Through Christ’s resurrection,
may the fire of your love forever
burn in our hearts!

11. Response

12. Hymn: VU 155 “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today”

13. Welcome & Announcements
Territorial Acknowledgement
Opening Prayer

14. Hymn: VU 176
“Who Is There on This Easter Morning?”

15. WORD
John 20:1-18

16. Musical Offering: “Christ Lag in Todesbanden
Christ Lay in Death’s Bonds
A hymn by Martin Luther
Offered as a gift to our preacher,
Ralph Carl Wushke,
on the occasion of his retirement.

17. WORD John 21:1-13 Thanks be to God.
Hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.
Thanks be to God.

18. Sermon: Ralph Carl Wushke
“In the Midst of Death: We Live”
. . . silent reflection

19. Prayers of the People

20. TABLE
Invitation & Peace
The Peace of Christ be with you all.
And also with you.
Presentation Hymn: VU 468
“Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ”

21. The Great Thanksgiving
Christ is Risen!
Christ is Risen, indeed!
Lift up your hearts!
We lift them up to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God.
It is right to give God thanks and praise!

27. Great is the mystery of faith: Christ has died. Christ is risen
Great is the mystery of faith: Christ has died! Christ is risen! Christ will come again! all glory is yours, God most holy, now and forever. Amen

28. The Saviour’s Prayer:
Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker,
Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be,
Father and Mother of us all,
Loving God, in whom is heaven:
. . .

29. The hallowing of your name echo through the universe
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe! May the way of your justice be followed by the peoples of the world! Your heavenly will be done by all created beings! Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth

30. With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another,
forgive us.
In times of temptation and test,
strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power
that is love,
now and forever.
Amen.

31. Breaking the Bread and Filling the Cup
The bread which we break
is our sharing in the life of Christ.
The cup for which we give thanks

32. Music during Communion:

33. VU 179
“Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Give Thanks”

34. “God Welcomes All”
Traditional, South African as sung at the Sunrise Hospice, Themba

35. Prayer after Communion
We give you thanks, O God, for this table.
We have been fed by your love;
we have been strengthened by your life.
Send us forth into this world
to live your way and share your joy.
Send us forth to:
feed as we have been fed,
forgive as we have been forgiven,
love as we have been loved.
Thanks be to God. Amen.

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Blessing of the Graduands  
Hymn: VU 420 “Go To the World”  
Blessing and Sending Forth 
Postlude: “El cielo canta alegria!” 
Pablo Sosa, arr. Roger Bergs,
Sung by the TST Choir
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