AUGUST 2018 5

WORSHIP NAVIGATE SERVE ENGAGE

Authentic Reverence • Vibrant Tradition • Passionate Grace • Active Faith • Catalytic Generosity

GROWING CHRIST-CENTERED COMMUNITY IN A DISTRACTING WORLD

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“God’s Powerful Love” Order of Worship, August 5, 2018

Hearing assistance devices are available ▲ Please stand if you are comfortable

Pre-Service “Let Us Break Bread Together” African American Spiritual

“O How He Loves You and Me” Kaiser

“Heart of Worship” Redman

Jazz To Go Linda Davidson, flute; Judy Green, piano; Colin Deuble, bass

Authentic Reverence Welcome Prelude “On Eagle’s Wings”

Michael Joncas Jazz To Go

▲Call To Worship Jesus feeds the multitudes. We come to be nourished by God’s love. Jesus brings us hope. We gather to be strengthened by God’s Spirit. Jesus gathers the lost and the scattered. Welcomed in love and grace, we come to worship. ▲Hymn of Preparation

O Spirit of the Living God Hymnal, 539

▲Opening Prayer The Lord be with you And also with you Let us pray: Faithful One, help us place our trust in you this day. May your living water of grace, flow through our lives and through our worship, that we might sense your presence and trust the abundance of your love. In faith and hope, we pray. Amen. Central to Life Central to Life Passing of the Peace Fill My Cup, Lord

Hymnal, 641 Vibrant Tradition New Testament Lesson Ephesians 3:14-21 ▲Scripture Hymn How Can We Name a Love

Hymnal, 111 (vs. 1-3) Sermon “God’s Powerful Love” Rev. Greg Kennedy Musical Response Pues Si Vivimos

Hymnal, 356 (vs. 1)

Invitation to Communion Prayer of Confession God of our hopes and dreams, we are empty, and long to be filled; we are hungry, and long to be fed; we are lost, and long to be found. Gather us into your love, and pick up the pieces of our lives, just as Jesus gathered up the fragments of the five loaves and two fish, after feeding the five thousand. Call us anew to eat our fill and to find our true nourishment in Jesus, the bread of heaven. Amen. Absolution Fed by the bread of life, we are renewed and made whole. Catalytic Generosity Invitation to Catalytic Generosity Offertory “Meditation”

Methany/Mayx Jazz To Go

▲Offertory Response

Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow Hymnal, 94

Passionate Grace Great Thanksgiving The Lord’s Prayer Receiving of Bread and Cup Communion Music “Lamb of God”

Paris “Spirit Song”

Wimbe Jazz To Go

Active Faith ▲Invitation to Active Faith

▲Hymn to Engage the World

Called as Partners in Christ’s Service

▲Benediction

▲Postlude “Shine, Jesus Shine/Faith, Hope, and the Blues”

Kendrick/Ahrend Jazz To Go

Please note: Church 4 Kids! is on hiatus until August 12th

Childcare is available for ages 0-8 during Worship Services and Sunday School

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

Altar Flowers are given in memory of Jane Walton and Grace Faulhaber,

by their kids, Donna & George Faulhaber

Our Prayers Are With...

Friends and Family: Names will appear on this list for two weeks.

Mary-Therese Morris (John & Gayle Denslow)

Tom Panowski (Daryl Lopez)

Bob Thompson (Bill & Sandra Thompson)

Terry Weeks (Tom & Joy Hayes)

Teresa Bell (Dee & Trigg Lawson)

Norman McDowell (Schifani Family)

Shannon Cole (Mike & Debbie Tixier)

Rhonda Gonzales (Rhonda Townes)

DeeLynn Ybarra (Rhonda Townes)

Billy Foreman (Charlie Ford)

Mickey Drake (CUMC & YMCA Staff)

Strebeck Family (Mike & Debbie Tixier)

Hope Atencio (Betty Richards)

Rita Vaught (Don & Evelyn Bourland)

Jan Holland (Cindy Kennedy)

Arletta Nicholson (Tom & Joy Hayes)

Christopher Jones (Merrill & Fran Jones)

Kristin Salazar (Mike & Debbie Tixier)

Cheri Green (Mel & Lorene Legg)

Nathan Lopez Brody and Family(Daryl Lopez)

Unique Amore Wanda Andersen Peggy Arensdorf Susan Bradley Doris Brooks Mark & Jennifer Coats Ruth Cook Rubina Daniel Leslie Elmore-Stenger Stephen Elmore Mary Fletcher

Jean & Jim Franchell Dorothy & Byfield Gordon Sandra Graves Sandra Harris Bettye Hoover BJ James Merrill Jones Marion Jordan Feroza Jussawalla Glenn Kirk Mel Legg

Marilynn Looney Elizabeth Mixon Gloria Nelson Virginia Nymeyer Wanda O’Nan Carolyn Palmer Betty Richards Stephen Ministry Care Receivers Stephen Ministers Anna Swanson

Vivienne Swanton Bob Turner Mary Turner Sue Wasson Cleo Westmark Ilsa Westmark Anne Weydert Mary Williamson

Members of our Church Family:

Friends/Family deployed, or may be otherwise in harm’s way:

Kyle Cassidy Logan Dow

Brian Hernandez Haley Janke

Daniel Murtagh

Jared McManus

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Church Staff Rev. Greg Kennedy, Senior Pastor

Rev. Kelly Brooks, Executive Pastor

Michele Humes, Office Administrator

Kathy Gough, Office Assistant

Jesus Valdez, Media Coordinator

Dr. Karen Marrolli, Director of Music

Dr. Daniel Cummings, Accompanist

Ronselle Harrison, Audio Tech

Alesha Bird, ASL Interpreter

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Lowell Elementary

School Uniform Drive—Partnering with the Assistance League of Albuquerque’s Operation School Bell to provide school uniforms for students at Lowell Elementary.

Mobile Food Pantry

Mighty Milers running program

Contact Claudia Ryan at cdryan65@gmail.com

Helping Hands Is a ministry whose mission is to assist people who walk in seeking help to meet

their immediate short-term needs. For more information please call Cynthia Kaiser at (505) 249-9117.

United Methodist Women Purpose: “To know God and to experience freedom as whole persons through Jesus Christ; to develop a creative, supportive fellowship; and to expand concepts of mission through participation in the global ministries of the church.” For information contact Kathy Duncan at kduncan9@comcast.net Central United Methodist Men UMM meet for breakfast on the third Saturday of each month for fellowship and a program. Proceeds from their fundraising projects benefit various ministries and mission projects. For more information contact Ed Vigil at (505) 221-0041.