Evangelism:
Transforming Congregations – Engaging Communities
Evening Worship
Friday, November 4th – 7 PM
Silent Meditation
Out of faith, we reach out to your world. We
have made mistakes, but we have learned. Out
of our passion, we extend ourselves. We have
sown seeds of justice, love and peace. God of
hope and promise, continue to use us as Your
instruments with eyes of wisdom.
Keep us grounded in mission and
blooming in faith.
Gathering Music
• Rev. Yvette Flunder and Gideon Lawson
Love Divine All Love Excelling
Love divine, all loves excelling,
Joy of heaven on earth be found;
Fix in us a humble dwelling;
All your faithful mercies crown!
Jesus, you are all compassion,
Pure unbounded love impart;
Visit us with your salvation;
Enter every trembling heart.
Love Divine All Love Excelling
Breathe, O breathe your loving Spirit,
Into every troubled breast!
Let us all in you inherit;
Let us find your promised rest.
Take away our love of sinning;
Alpha and Omega be;
End of faith, as its Beginning,
Set our hearts at liberty.
Love Divine All Love Excelling
Come, Almighty to deliver,
Let us all your life receive;
Suddenly return and never,
Never more your temples leave.
You we would be always blessing,
Love you as your angels love,
Pray and praise for your unfailing,
wounded arms outstretched above.
Love Divine All Love Excelling
Finish, then, your new creation;
Pure and spotless me we prove.
Let us see your great salvation
Perfectly restored in you;
Changed from glory into glory,
'Til in heaven we take our place,
Crowned as saints, we ever shall be
lost in wonder, love, and praise.
Call to Worship
• Leader: Hallelujah, my brothers and sisters,
God is our everything! Will you be a witness?
• Congregation: Yes, Lord, we will be witnesses.
We will celebrate the goodness and mercy of our
God, Hallelujah!
• Leader: We will seek peace, mercy and justice
and be sources of them. We will tell our sons
and daughters what God has
done through the ages.
Will you be a witness?
Call to Worship
• Congregation: Yes, Lord, we will be witnesses.
We will shout from the rooftops that our God
is a rock in a weary land, a shelter in the time
of storm. We will worship you and be your
instruments in the world.
• Leader: Hallelujah, we are witnesses for a
God of mercy and love. Let us worship and
live like children of royalty and grace.
Hallelujah!
• Invocation and Lord’s Prayer
• Words of Welcome
• Worship in song –
Fellowship Chapel Choir
• Mime - Children
Responsive Reading
• Leader: We come before you this day, O God…
• Congregation: Mindful of our ancestors in the
faith who sought to respond to your invitation
to take your healing love and Christ’s ministry to
our communities and around the world.
•
Leader: We come before you this day, O God…
•
Responsive Reading
• Congregation: Thankful for the privilege of
serving you today and the responsibility to seek
to discern your will for our work in Your name
throughout the world.
• Leader: We come before you this day, O God …
• Congregation: Committing ourselves to
discovering and sharing exciting new ways to
share the story of your love in Christ Jesus.
•
Responsive Reading
•
• Leader: We come before you this day, O God
• All: Gathered in worship to celebrate Your
Spirit alive today in us and in the world.
Gospel Scripture
• 1 John 4:7-12
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from
God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows
God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for
God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this
way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we
might live through him. In this is love, not that we
loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be
the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God
loved us so much, we also ought to love one another.
No one has
ever seen God; if we love one another, God
lives
in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Sermon Hymn
Fellowship Chapel UCC
Sermon
The Pelican and the Grasshopper
Rev. DaVita McCallister
Associate Conference Minister for
Youth and Young Adult Ministry
Connecticut Conference UCC
They Will Know We Are Christians
by Our Love
We are one in the Spirit,
we are one in the Lord,
We are one in the Spirit
we are one in the Lord,
And we pray that all unity
may one day be restored:
They Will Know We Are Christians
by Our Love
And they'll know we are Christians
By our love, by our love,
Yes, they'll know we are Christians
By our love.
They Will Know We Are Christians
by Our Love
We will walk with each other
we will walk hand in hand
We will walk with each other
we will walk hand in hand
and together we'll spread the
news that God is in our land:
They Will Know We Are Christians
by Our Love
And they'll know we are Christians
By our love, by our love,
Yes, they'll know we are Christians
By our love.
They Will Know We Are Christians
by Our Love
We will work with each other
we will work side by side
We will work with each other
We will work side by side
And we'll guard each one's
dignity and save each one's pride:
They Will Know We Are Christians
by Our Love
And they'll know we are Christians
By our love, by our love,
Yes, they'll know we are Christians
By our love.
They Will Know We Are Christians
by Our Love
All Praise to our Creator
from whom all things come,
And all praise to Christ Jesus
God’s only Son,
and all praise to the Spirit
who makes us all one:
They Will Know We Are Christians
by Our Love
And they'll know we are Christians
By our love, by our love,
Yes, they'll know we are Christians
By our love.
Tonight’s MISSION:1 Offering
Ben Guess
Tonight’s Offering is going to
Gleaners Headquarters & Distribution Center
Detroit, MI
UCOM (United Church Outreach Ministry)
Grand Rapids
and
African Drought Relief
I Love to Tell the Story
I love to tell the story of unseen things above, of
Jesus’ radiant glory, of Jesus’ endless love.
I love to tell the story, because I know it’s true;
it satisfies my longings as nothing else can do.
I love to tell the story, and when I am in glory,
I’ll tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.
I Love to Tell the Story
I love to tell the story; more wonderful it seems
than all the golden visions of all our golden
dreams. I love to tell the story, I tell it now to
you because I want to share it, because I know
it’s true.
I love to tell the story, and when I am in glory,
I’ll tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.
I Love to Tell the Story
I love to tell the story; it’s pleasant to repeat
what seems, each time I tell it, more
wonderfully sweet. I love to tell the story, for
some have never heard the message of salvation
from God's own holy Word.
I love to tell the story, and when I am in glory,
I’ll tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.
I Love to Tell the Story
I love to tell the story, for those who know it
best seem hungering and thirsting to hear it like
the rest. And when, I sing in glory, I know the
new, new song, will be the old, old story that I
have loved so long.
I love to tell the story, and when I am in glory,
I’ll tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.
Benediction
Saturday Morning
Schedule
• 7:45 AM – 8:15 AM Transportation from the
Hilton to Fellowship Chapel. (You will be
responsible for your own transportation if you
are not on board the bus before 8:15 AM.)
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM Prayer and praise
Sanctuary – Rev. Yvette Flunder and Mr.
Gideon Lawson
•
8:45 AM – 9: 15 AM
Bible Study
Sanctuary – Rev. Alice Hunt