Apr. 21, 2021

Fourth Sunday of Easter

April 25, 2021

Traditional Service

GATHERING AND PRAISE

Greeting

Ministry Moment

Compassion Sunday

David Smothers

Call to Worship

Be Still, My Soul

arr Cindy Berry

Kelly Irons, Pianist

Hymn

God of Grace and God of Glory

Apostles’ Creed

Gloria Patri

Special Music

Great Is The Lord 

arr Douglas E. Wagner

Glory Bells

Young Disciples Moment

Children’s Church

Children ages 3 years—3rd grade are welcome to go into the

narthex to meet for Children’s Church.

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

Joys and Concerns

Pastoral Prayer

Lord’s Prayer

Hymn

Here I Am, Lord

Proclamation

Scripture Reading

Matthew 28:16-20

Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Acts 1:6-11a

So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them, “It is not for you to know imes or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaen? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

Message

The Last Instructions

Rev. Richard C. Vaughan

Sending Forth

Hymn

Go, Make of All Disciples

Offertory Prayer

Benediction

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The Altar Flowers are Given to

the Glory of God and

In loving memory of my wife, Barbara, on her birthday

- David Kennedy