1. Welcome to New Hope United Methodist Church
May 27, 2018

2. Announcements Today, Young Adults, 11:15am, RM2
Cherubs Choir, 11:15am, RM11
Youth, 5:30pm, Upstairs
Tuesday, James Bible Study, 11am, RM2
Wednesday, Bring Joy Bible Study, 10am, FBC RM C214
Community Meal at Christ Lutheran
Softball Game, 6:30 & 7:30, Duff
Friday, Softball Game, 6:30 & 7:30, Melcher’s Complex
Wednesday, 5/30, Community Meal, Christ Lutheran
Softball: 6/1, 6/6 & 6/15
Monday, 6/4, Trustees
Sunday, 6/10, Nominations Meeting

3. Bringing in the Light of Christ
Musical Prelude
Bringing in the Light of Christ

4. Come, Join the Dance of Trinity
Introit
Come, Join the Dance of Trinity
Choir

5. *Call to Worship
One: Come into our midst Almighty God, God of Creation and Power!
Many: Come into our midst Jesus, Savior and God of Salvation!
All: Come into our midst, Holy Spirit, God of Wind and Flame,
Comforter and Guide!

6. O Worship the King (Verse 1)
*O Worship the King WORDS: Robert Grant, 1833 (Ps. 104) 73
1. O worship the King, all glorious above, O gratefully sing God’s power and God’s love;

7. our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days, pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise.

8. O Worship the King (Verse 2)
2. O tell of God’s might, O sing of God’s grace, whose robe is the light, whose canopy space,

9. whose chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form, and dark is God’s path on the wings of the storm.

10. O Worship the King (Verse 3)
3. The earth with its store of wonders untold, Almighty, thy power hath founded of old;

11. hath stablished it fast by a changeless decree, and round it hath cast, like a mantle, the sea.

12. O Worship the King (Verse 4)
4. Thy bountiful care, what tongue can recite? It breathes in the air, it shines in the light;

13. it streams from the hills, it descends to the plain, and sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.

14. O Worship the King (Verse 5)
5. Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, in thee do we trust, nor find thee to fail;

15. thy mercies, how tender, how firm to the end, our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend.

16. Taylor Burton-Edwards
*Opening Prayer
Taylor Burton-Edwards
Almighty God, the people on the earth are shaking every day. Jesus, the children on earth are quaking from shootings and starvation, war and E-bola, unrest and injustice. Holy Spirit, the waters above the earth, and on the earth, and beneath the earth are churning: volcanos erupt, lava flows,and floods come. Many must move or face destruction.

17. Father, Son and Holy Spirit, pour out refreshing waters on the dry places, Feed your people, all people, through the floods -- not of water, but floods of kindness. Let kindness roll, an ever-flowing stream. Turn the shaking of the earth, Great Maker, the quaking of your body, Jesus, the rousing of your people, Spirit, into the dance of love in which you live, in which all life resides, from which it flows, and to which it returns: in you, One and Holy, now and ever. Amen.

18. Children’s Time

19. (C. Tomlin/J. Reeves/E. Cash)
Anthem
How Great is Our God
(C. Tomlin/J. Reeves/E. Cash)
Choir

20. Offering Our Gifts to God

21. Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow94
WORDS: Thomas Ken, 1674; adapt. by Gilbert H. Vieira, 1978
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below: Alleluia! Alleluia!

22. Praise God, the source of all our gifts
Praise God, the source of all our gifts! Praise Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts! Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

23. WORDS: Karen Lafferty, 1972 (Mt. 6:33; 7:7)
Seek Ye First (Verse 1)
*Seek Ye First
405
WORDS: Karen Lafferty, 1972 (Mt. 6:33; 7:7)
1. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. Allelu, alleluia!
© 1972 Maranatha! Music

24. Seek Ye First (Verse 2)
2. Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek and ye shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened unto you. Allelu, alleluia!

25. Seek Ye First (Verse 1 with antiphon)
Al le Seek ye first the
lu – ia, kingdom of God
Al – le – lu – ia, and his righteousness,

26. Al - le - and all these things lu - ia, shall be added unto you.
Al le lu - ia! Allelu, alleluia!

27. Joys and Concerns
Pastoral Prayer

28. Hymnal #895
Used By Permission. CCLI License #

29. 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 trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass
against us.

30. but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom,
And lead us not
into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
forever.
Amen.

31. Scripture Reading Acts 16:11-15
11 We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the following day to Neapolis, 12 and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this city for some days. 13 On the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered there. 

32. 14 A certain woman named Lydia, a worshiper of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly to what was said by Paul. 15 When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.” And she prevailed upon us.

33. The Message
Seeking 101: Led by Lydia

34. The Gift of Love (Verse 1)
408
WORDS: Hal Hopson, 1972 (1 Cor. 13:1-3)
1. Though I may speak with bravest fire, and have the gift to all inspire,
© 1972 Hope Publishing Co.

35. and have not love, my words are vain, as sounding brass, and hopeless gain.

36. The Gift of Love (Verse 2)
2. Though I may give all I possess, and striving so my love profess,

37. but not be given by love within, the profit soon turns strangely thin.

38. The Gift of Love (Verse 3)
3. Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control, our spirits long to be made whole.

39. Let inward love guide every deed; by this we worship, and are freed.

40. *Blessing
Please join us for food and fellowship in the Hospitality Room following the service.