Evangelism: Transforming Congregations

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EvangelismTransforming Congregations Engaging
Communities

• Vesper Service
• Thursday, November 3 540 PM

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Silent Meditation

• Jesus said, Simon son of John, do you love me.
  Peter answered yes Lord you know I love you.
  Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep.
• John 21 16

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Gathering Music

• Rev. Yvette Flunder and Gideon Lawson

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Call to Worship

• Leader Jesus reaches toward us, calling us to
  be disciples, gathering us
  together as church.
• Congregation We are one people,
  all members of Gods family.
• Leader Jesus reaches toward others beyond us,
  with love and caring that knows
  no boundary.
• Congregation We are one people,
  all members of Gods family.
• Leader Let us worship God, and be as Christ in
  welcoming, loving, and caring for all who come in
  faith seeking the Savior.
• Congregation We are one people,
  all members of
  Gods family.

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Invocation

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Through All The World a Hungry Christ

• Through all the world, a hungry Christmust
  scavenge for his daily bread,must beg the rich
  for crumb and crustwe are the rich, the daily
  fed.
• Beyond the Church, a leper Christtakes the
  untouchable by hand,gives hope to those who have
  no trust,whose stigma is our social brand.

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Through All The World a Hungry Christ

• In torture cell, a prisoner Christfor justice
  and for truth must cryto free the innocent
  oppressedwhile we at liberty pass by.
• We do not know you, beggar Christ,we do not
  recognize your sores,we do not see, for we are
  blindforgive us, touch us, make us yours.

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MISSION1Responsive Reading

• One Hungry God, we ask you to pour your spirit
  into all of those who are empty today Fill the
  hearts of the troubled. Fill the minds of the
  confused.
• Fill the stomachs of the hungry. Fill the souls
  of the lost. Fill the lives of all who need you.
  Fill us with compassion and
  hope.

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MISSION1Responsive Reading

• One Forgive us when we fail to see those
  bearing the yoke of hunger in our world. Forgive
  us when we refuse to believe that hunger can end
  in our time. May your spirit fill us to
  overflowing, Sustaining God.
• Let us write the letters and stock the food
  pantries shelves of our community, but let us do
  more! May we dare to act on in your promise that
  there will be no more empty hearts, minds,
  stomachs or souls.
• May we dare to break the yoke of
  hunger in our world.

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Gospel Scripture

• John 141-6a 
• Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in
  God, believe also in me. In my Fathers house
  there are many dwelling-places. If it were not
  so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a
  place for you? And if I go and prepare a place
  for you, I will come again and will take you to
  myself, so that where I am, there you may be
  also. And you know the way to the place where I
  am going. Thomas said to him, Lord, we do not
  know where you are going. How can we know the
  way? Jesus said to him,
  I am the way, and the truth, and the life.
  No one comes to the Father except
  through me.

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Gospel Scripture

• Matthew 9 35 38
•  Then Jesus went about all the cities and
  villages, teaching in their synagogues, and
  proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and
  curing every disease and every sickness. When he
  saw the crowds, he had compassion for them,
  because they were harassed and helpless, like
  sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his
  disciples, The harvest is plentiful, but the
  laborers are few therefore ask the
  Lord of the harvest to send out
  laborers into his harvest.

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Sermon

• Entrepreneurial Oneness
• Rev. J. Bennett GuessExecutive MinisterLocal
  Church Ministries
• Collegium
• United Church of Christ

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MISSION1 Offering of Letters
Please address and sign the letters in your event
bag. Address envelopes and put letters in
them. Bring your letters forward and
we will mail them.
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Wont You Let Me Be Your Servant

• Wont you let me be your servant, let me be
  as Christ to you?Pray that I might have the
  grace to let you be my servant, too.
• We are pilgrims on a journey, we are
  travelers on the road. We are here
  to help each other walk the
  mile and bear the load.

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Wont You Let Me Be Your Servant

• I will hold the Christ-light for you in
  the shadow of your fear.I will hold my hand out
  to you, speak the peace you long to hear.
• I will weep when you are weeping, when
  you laugh I'll laugh with you. I
  will share your joy and sorrow
  till we've seen this journey through.

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Wont You Let Me Be Your Servant

• When we sing to God in heaven, we shall
  find such harmony,born of all we've known
  together of Christ's love and agony.
• Wont you let me be your servant, let
  me be as Christ to you? Pray that
  I might have the grace to
  let you be my servant, too.

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Benediction
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Friday Morning Schedule

• 745 AM 815 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 815 AM.)
• 830 AM 845 AM Prayer and Praise Sanctuary
  Rev. Yvette Flunder and Mr. Gideon Lawson
• 845 AM 9 15 AM Bible Study
  Sanctuary Rev. Alice Hunt

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