Crandall United Methodist Church

Worship Guide

May 12, 2024

Ascension Sunday

Mother's Day

Creating Disciples of Jesus who Transform the World

ENTRANCE WITH PRAISE

Greetings:

Minister: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you!

People: And also with you!

Mother’s Day Celebration

Special Music: Charles

Centering Words:

Why stare at the heavens to find God? Look within, for God’s Spirit is there. Look around, for Christ’s disciples are all around.

*Call to Worship:

Leader:    Clap your hands and sing for joy!

People:   Christ is in our midst and in our lives.

Leader:    Clap your hands and sing for joy!

People:   Christ calls us to worship and praise.

Leader:    Let us worship together as we pray.

ALL: Risen Christ, be present in our lives and in our worship. Help us recognize and celebrate your presence. Grant us the power of your Holy Spirit, that we may answer the call to be your disciples and bring your message of love to the world. Amen

Hymn: “Lead Me, Guide Me”

Lead me, guide me, along the way,

for if you lead me, I cannot stray.

Lord, let me walk each day with there.

Lead me, O Lord, lead me.

Lead me, guide me, along the way,

for if you lead me, I cannot stray.

Lord, let me walk each day with there.

Lead me, O Lord, lead me.

PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD

Words of Assurance

In Christ’s love, we are loved.

In Christ’s glory, we are glorified.

In Christ’s grace, we are saved.

Amen

*New Testament Reading: 1 John 5:9-13

⁹ If we receive human testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified to his Son. ¹⁰ Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts. Those who do not believe in God have made him a liar by not believing in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. ¹¹ And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

¹³ I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Leader:    This is the Word of God for the people of God

People:   Thanks be to God.

WORD AND RESPONSE

Time with Young Friends:  “Jesus Loves Me”

Children’s Message: “Siri, Call God”

Hymn: “Thy Word”

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet

and a light unto my path.

When I feel afraid,

think I've lost my way,

still you're there right beside me,

and nothing will I fear

as long as your are near.

Please be near me to the end.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet

and a light unto my path.

Now I will not forget

your love for me and yet

my heart forever is wandering.

Jesus, be my guide

and hold me to your side,

and I will love you to the end.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet

and a light unto my path.

Sermon: “We Share Christ” John 17:6-19

⁶ “I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. ⁷ Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; ⁸ for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. ⁹ I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. ¹⁰ All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. ¹¹ And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. ¹² While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³ But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. ¹⁴ I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. ¹⁵ I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. ¹⁶ They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. ¹⁷ Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. ¹⁸ As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. ¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

 RESPONSE TO THE WORD  

Special Music: “Mother’s Prayer” Stefanie

Psalter: Psalm 1

¹    Blessed are those who do not walk in the counsel of the wicked;

or stand in the way of sinners, or sit in the seat of scoffers;

²    but their delight is in the law of the Lord,

and on God's law they meditate day and night.

³    They are like trees planted by streams of water that yield their fruit in season, and their leaves do not wither.

In all that they do, they prosper.

⁴    The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away.

⁵    Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment; nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;

⁶    for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,

but the way of the wicked will perish.

Gloria Patri

Glory be to the Father and to the Son

and to the Holy Ghost;

as it was in the beginning,

is now, and ever shall be,

world without end.

Amen. Amen.

Prayers of the People: Joys and concerns

   Silent Prayer, Pastoral Prayer

SENDING FORTH

Hymn: “To God Be the Glory”

To God be the glory, great things he has done!

So loved he the world that he gave us his Son,

who yielded his life an atonement for sin,

and opened the life-gate that all may go in.

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

let the earth hear his voice!

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

let the people rejoice!

O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son,

and give him the glory, great things he has done.

O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood,

to every believer the promise of God;

the vilest offender who truly believes,

that moment from Jesus a pardon receives.

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

let the earth hear his voice!

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

let the people rejoice!

O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son,

and give him the glory, great things he has done.

Great things he has taught us, great things he has done,

and great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son;

but purer, and higher, and greater will be

our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see.

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

let the earth hear his voice!

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

let the people rejoice!

O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son,

and give him the glory, great things he has done.

Benediction