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Order of Worship
Prelude : “Pastorale” (Sammartini) Dr. Marcin Parys
Welcome and Announcements : Rev Dyan Dietz
Report on Annual Conference : Dr. Herman Totten
Congregational Hymn : “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise”
Affirmation of Faith/Apostle’s Creed : Tawny Rybowicz
Gloria Patri
Offertory Prayer : Rev Dyan Dietz
Offertory Music : “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” (Chisholm/Runyan) Rosie Alexander
Doxology
Children’s Moment : Marcy Mathis
Scripture Reading : Acts 17:16-28
16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply distressed to see that the city was full of idols. 17 So he argued in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and also in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. 18 Also some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign divinities.” (This was because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.) 19 So they took him and brought him to the Areopagus and asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? 20 It sounds rather strange to us, so we would like to know what it means.” 21 Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there would spend their time in nothing but telling or hearing something new. 22 Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. 23 For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. 26 From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, 27 so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. 28 For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’
Sermon : “Paul in Athens” Rev Dyan Dietz
Service of Holy Communion
Communion Music : “Praludium D” (Fuhrer) Dr. Marcin Parys
Pastoral Prayer/The Lord’s Prayer : Rev Dyan Dietz
Consecration of U.M. ARMY Volunteers
Rev Dyan Dietz
Congregational Hymn : “In Christ There Is No East or West”
Benediction : Rev Dyan Dietz