PRELUDE: Elegy by George Thalben-Ball
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
CALL TO WORSHIP
HYMN: Our God, our Help in Ages Past (Psalm 90) [St. Anne]
PRAYER OF PRAISE
INTROIT-DUET: Laudamus te (from “Gloria”) by Antonio Vivaldi; Maria Schafer and Andria Cabrera, sopranos
Sung in Latin, Translation: We praise Thee, Lord. We give blessings to Thee. We adore Thee. We glorify Thee.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
SONG OF GRATITUDE: Jesus, Jesus, O What a Wonderful Child
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE LESSON: Philippians 3:10-14
ANTHEM: I Want to See My Jesus Someday Trad. Caribbean/arr. by Glen L. Jones
I’ve got my mind made up, and I won’t turn back, ‘cause I want to see my Jesus someday! I am pressing on the upward way, new heights I’m gaining every day, still praying as I onward bound, ‘cause I want to see my Jesus someday!
SERMON: “Forgetting the Past, Embracing the Future”
HYMN: In the Bulb There is a Flower [Promise]
PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION
HYMN: May the God of Hope Go with Us [Argentina]
BENEDICTION
CHORAL RESPONSE: Hymn of Promise by Natalie Sleeth
In our end is our beginning; in our time, infinity, in our doubt, there is believing; in our life, eternity. In our death, a resurrection; at the last, a victory, unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see.
POSTLUDE: Trumpet Tune in D Major by David N. Johnson
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