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Online Worship January 24, 2021

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Order of Worship follows the link

 

  • WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS – Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • OPENING WORSHIP – “10,000 Reasons” – Praise team
  • MODERN AFFIRMATION – Dr. Joel Muro
  • OFFERTORY PRAYER – Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • OFFERTORY – “Our God” – Michael and Rebecca Burris
  • CHILDREN’S MOMENT – Denise Davis (Children’s Minister)
  • SCRIPTURE READING – John 2:1-12 – Dr. Joel Muro
1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
2 Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
3 When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”
4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come.”
5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6 Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.
8 He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.” So they took it.
9 When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom
10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.”
11 Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
12 After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they remained there a few days.
  • SERMON – “The Wedding in Cana” – Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • CLOSING HYMNS – “‘As Man and Woman We Were Made” & “I Love To Tell The Story”- Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist) & Tawny Rybowicz (Music Minister)
  • BENEDICTION – Rev. Dyan Dietz
  • POSTLUDE – Wonderful Words of Life by Joel Raney – Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist)

Online Worship January 17, 2021

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Order of Worship follows the link

Order of Worship

  • PRELUDE – “How Can I Keep From Singing” by Mark Hayes – Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist)
  • WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS – Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • OPENING WORSHIP – “Holy Spirit” – Praise team
  • AFFIRMATION OF FAITH – Tawny Rybowicz (Music Minister)
  • OFFERTORY PRAYER – Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • OFFERTORY – “They Shall Soar Like Eagles” by Laura Manzo – Trinity Virtual Choir
  • SCRIPTURE READING – Luke 4:14-30 – Marie Snider
14 Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him
spread through all the surrounding country.
15 He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone.
16 When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on
the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read,
17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the
place where it was written:
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the
poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to
let the oppressed go free,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
20 And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in
the synagogue were fixed on him.
21 Then he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
22 All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.
They said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?”
23 He said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘Doctor, cure yourself!’ And
you will say, ‘Do here also in your hometown the things that we have heard you did at
Capernaum.’”
24 And he said, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet’s hometown.
25 But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven
was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land;
26 yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.
27 There were also many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them
was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”
28 When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage.
29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their
town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff.
30 But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.
  • SERMON – “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: Jesus in Nazareth” – Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • CLOSING HYMNS – “‘Spirit Of God Descend Upon My Heart” & “Spirit Song”- Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist) & Tawny Rybowicz (Music Minister)
  • BENEDICTION – Rev. Dyan Dietz
  • POSTLUDE – Joy In My Soul by Mark Hayes – Dr. Marcin Parys (Organ

Online Worship January 10, 2021

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Order of Worship follows the link

 

  • PRELUDE– Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist)
  • WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS– Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • OPENING WORSHIP– “When Jesus Came to Jordan” – Tawny Rybowicz (Music Minister) and Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist)
  • AFFIRMATION OF FAITH & GLORIA PATRI– Tawny Rybowicz (Music Minister) and Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist)
  • CHILDREN’S MOMENT– Denise Davis (Children’s Minister)
  • SCRIPTURE READING: MATTHEW 3:1-17 – Rev. Dyan Dietz

1 In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” 3 This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said, “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.’” 4 Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then the people of Jerusalem and all Judea were going out to him, and all the region along the Jordan, 6 and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. 7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Bear fruit worthy of repentance. 9 Do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham. 10 Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 11 “I baptize you with water for repentance, but one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with[c] the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” 13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. 14 John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” 15 But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now; for it is proper for us in this way to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented. 16 And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, the Beloved,[d] with whom I am well pleased.”

  • SERMON- “This is my Son: Jesus’ Baptism” – Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • CLOSING HYMN– “‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus”- Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist) & Tawny Rybowicz (Music Minister)
  • BENEDICTION– Rev. Dyan Dietz
  • POSTLUDE– Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist)

Online Worship January 3, 2020

Join us for Epiphany Sunday

Order of worship follows the link

https://youtu.be/4dWHT7rGQSc

 

  • PRELUDE & ACOLYTE– Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist) and Niko Steinmetz & Chloe O’Donnell (Acolytes)
  • WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS– Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • OPENING WORSHIP– “Away in a Manger” – Marlene Meernik (Youth Member)
  • AFFIRMATION OF FAITH & GLORIA PATRI– Tawny Rybowicz (Music Minister) and Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist)
  • CHILDREN’S MOMENT- Denise Davis (Children’s Minister)
  • SCRIPTURE READING: MATTHEW 2:1-23 – Rev. Dyan Dietz
  • 1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”  3 When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born. 5 “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written: 6 “ ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.’” 7 Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. 8 He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.” 9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. 10 When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. 11 On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. 12 And having been warned in a dreami not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route. 13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” 14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. 17 Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: 18 “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”19 After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt 20 and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.”21 So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, 23 and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.
  • SERMON- “We Saw His Star at it’s Rising: The Magi” – Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • COMMUNION- Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • Please join us this morning from 11-11:30am at the front of the church for a drive-through communion.
  • CLOSING HYMNS– “The First Noel” & “We Three Kings of Orient”- Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist) & Tawny Rybowicz (Music Minister)
  • BENEDICTION– Rev. Dyan Dietz
  • POSTLUDE & ACOLYTE– Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist) & Niko Steinmetz and Chloe O’Donnell (Acolytes)

Online Worship December 27, 2020

Join us on YouTube for Worship!

Order of Worship follows the link

https://youtu.be/aSaCCGqGl9w

  • PRELUDE– Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist)
  • WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS– Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • OPENING HYMN & AFFIRMATION OF FAITH- “Joy To The World” – Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist) & Tawny Rybowicz (Music Minister)
  • PASTORAL PRAYER– Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • CHILDREN’S MOMENT– Denise Davis (Children’s Minister)
  • SERMON– Bishop McKee
  • CLOSING HYMNS– “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” & “Go Tell It On The Mountain “- Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist) & Tawny Rybowicz (Music Minister)
  • BENEDICTION- Rev. Dyan Dietz
  • POSTLUDE– Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist)

Online Worship December 20, 2020

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP, AS WE CELEBRATE THE 4TH SUNDAY OF ADVENT

ORDER OF WORSHIP FOLLOWS THE LINK

  • WELCOME & AFFIRMATION OF FAITH– Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • OPENING WORSHIP– “O Come O Come Emmanuel” – Paul & Vinny Thomas (Members)
  • ADVENT CANDLE LIGHTING– Rybowicz Family
  • “LIGHT ONE CANDLE” – Children’s & Chancel Virtual Choir
  • CHILDREN’S MOMENT– Denise Davis (Children’s Minister)
  • SCRIPTURE READING: LUKE 2:1-20 – Rev. Dyan Dietz
  • In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to their own town to register. 4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them. 8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” 13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, 14 “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” 15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.” 16 So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. 17 When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, 18 and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. 19 But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. 20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
  • SERMON- “I Bring You Good News: The Shepherds’ Story” – Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • CLOSING HYMNS– “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks” & “Sing We Now Of Christmas”- Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist) & Tawny Rybowicz (Music Minister)
  • BENEDICTION– Rev. Dyan Dietz
  • POSTLUDE & ACOLYTE– Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist) & Niko Steinmetz and Chloe O’Donnell (Acolytes)

Online Worship November 22, 2020

Give Thanks

 

Trinity UMC Denton TX Online Worship November 22, 2020 Give Thanks – YouTube

Order of Worship

  • WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS– Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • AFFIRMATION OF FAITH– Vinny Thomas (Member)
  • Leader: There is one God and there is one mediator, Christ Jesus, who came as a ransom for all, to whom we testify:
  • People: This saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance: that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, and was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among nations, believed in throughout the world, taken up in glory. Great indeed is the mystery of the gospel. Amen.
  • OPENING WORSHIP– “Forever” – Refuel
  • CHILDREN’S MOMENT– Denise Davis (Children’s Minister)
  • SCRIPTURE READING: PSALM 138:1-8 Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • 1 I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart; before the “gods” I will sing your praise. 2 I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your unfailing love and your faithfulness, for you have so exalted your solemn decree that it surpasses your fame. 3 When I called, you answered me; you greatly emboldened me.4 May all the kings of the earth praise you, Lord, when they hear what you have decreed. 5 May they sing of the ways of the Lord, for the glory of the Lord is great. 6 Though the Lord is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly; though lofty, he sees them from afar. 7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes; with your right hand you save me. 8 The Lord will vindicate me; your love, Lord, endures forever—do not abandon the works of your hands.
  • THE LORD’S PRAYER
  • 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. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
  • SERMON- “Give Thanks!” – Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • CLOSING HYMNS– “Praise To The Lord Almighty” & “Give Thanks” – Tawny Rybowicz (Music Minister) and Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist)
  • BENEDICTION– Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • POSTLUDE & ACOLYTE– Marcin Parys (Organist) & Niko Steinmetz – Chloe O’Donnell (Acolytes)
  • A LETTER FROM THE BISHOP– Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)

Outdoor Worship September 27, 2020

Hey, Trinity Family!

It was great to see so many of us at this morning’s Outdoor Worship Service!

If you weren’t able to attend or join us remotely on Facebook, the worship service is now posted to YouTube.

Online Worship August 23, 2020

JOIN US FOR ONLINE WORSHIP

Order of Worship follows the video

  • PRELUDE & ACOLYTE– Marcin Parys (Organist) & Morgan Mathney (Acolyte)
  • WELCOME- Kailey MacAllister (Youth Minister)
  • OPENING WORSHIP– “Oceans” – Praise Team
  • AFFIRMATION OF FAITH- Apostles’ Creed – Kimi King (Member)
  • I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth; And in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried;* the third day he rose from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic** church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
  • CHILDREN’S MOMENT– Denise Davis (Children’s Minister)
  • OFFERTORY PRAYER– Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • The August Offering will go to First Meal, which is held at First United Methodist Church every Sunday, feeding breakfast to those who are hungry. Several members of our church buy and prepare breakfast for around 30 people needing help. The cost is about $170 per Sunday and TUMC serves one Sunday each month. Please help our church to be the hands and feet of Jesus in action in our community. You may donate online, by mail, or drop your offering by the office.
  • W.S. Ryan is requesting just a few supplies this year. They are needing composition books, primary composition books which have a blank area at the top and then lines for writing on the lower half, all sizes and colors of dry erase markers, and Clorox wipes. If you are able to help, these students will benefit. Please bring these to the church. Thank you!
  • OFFERTORY– Rosie Alexander (Member)
  • SCRIPTURE READING: GENESIS 6:9-22 – Alicia Mathney (Member)
  • 9 This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Sham, Ham and Japheth. 11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.” 22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
  • SERMON– “Preparing For The Flood” – Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • THE LORD’S PRAYER
  • 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. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
  • CLOSING HYMN– “Forth in Thy Name, O Lord” – Tawny Rybowicz (Music Minister) and Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist)
  • BENEDICTION– Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • POSTLUDE & ACOLYTE– Marcin Parys (Organist) & Morgan Mathney (Acolyte)

Online Worship August 16, 2020

Join Trinity UMC Denton for ONLINE WORSHIP

Order of Worship follows the video

  • PRELUDE & ACOLYTE– Marcin Parys (Organist) & Niko Steinmetz and Chloe O’Donnell (Acolytes)
  • WELCOME– Kailey MacAllister (Youth Minister)
  • OPENING HYMN– “This is My Father’s World” – Tawny Rybowicz (Music Minister) & Marcin Parys (Organist)
  • AFFIRMATION OF FAITH- Apostles’ Creed
  • I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth; And in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried;* the third day he rose from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic** church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
  • CHILDREN’S MOMENT– Denise Davis (Children’s Minister)
  • OFFERTORY PRAYER– Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • The August Offering will go to First Meal, which is held at First United Methodist Church every Sunday, feeding breakfast to those who are hungry. Several members of our church buy and prepare breakfast for around 30 people needing help. The cost is about $170 per Sunday and TUMC serves one Sunday each month. Please help our church to be the hands and feet of Jesus in action in our community. You may donate online, by mail, or drop your offering by the office.
  • W.S. Ryan is requesting just a few supplies this year. They are needing composition books, primary composition books which have a blank area at the top and then lines for writing on the lower half, all sizes and colors of dry erase markers, and Clorox wipes. If you are able to help, these students will benefit. Please bring these to the church. Thank you!
  • OFFERTORY– “Good, Good Father” – Marlene Meernik (Youth Member
  • SCRIPTURE READING: GENESIS 3:1-24– Patty Clark (Member)
  • 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say, “You shall not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden. 3 but God said, “You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.'” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die; 5 for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves. 8 They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” 11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.” 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.” 14 The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.” 16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” 17 And to the man he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, “You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” 20 The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living. 21 And the Lord God made garments of skins for the man and for his wife, and clothed them. 22 Then the Lord God said, “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— 23 therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life.
  • SERMON- “Life Outside The Garden” – Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • SONG OF REFLECTION– “Don’t Take My Breath Away” – Written by Rev. Vanessa Sims – Sung by Rev. Anthony Sims
  • THE LORD’S PRAYER
  • 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. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
  • CLOSING WORSHIP– “Spirit of The Living God” – Praise Team
  • BENEDICTION– Rev. Dyan Dietz (Pastor)
  • POSTLUDE- Dr. Marcin Parys (Organist)