Morning Worship at Plymouth Church | Second Sunday of Easter | April 24, 2022 | 11 A.M.

Let us know you're here! https://bit.ly/Plymouth-Online ONLINE BULLETIN: https://www.plymouthchurch.com/worshi... PRAYER & CARE REQUEST: https://bit.ly/PlymouthPrayerCare ONLINE GIVING: https://www.plymouthchurch.com/give/ === GATHERING | Chimes indicate the beginning of worship. Rushing Kimball “No matter who you are, or where you are on life’s journey, you are always welcome here!” WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS | “Growing in love of God and neighbor” OPENING VOLUNTARY Carl Gravander, organist Partita on hyfrydol | Daniel Gawthrop 1. Chorale 3. Adagio INTROIT | “Hallelujah” (from Musicks Empire) | Lloyd Pfautsch Chancel Choir +CALL TO WORSHIP | Taken from Psalm 118:24 & 51:15 Leader: Today is the day that God has made. People: Let us rejoice and be glad in it! Leader: O Lord, open our lips. All: And our mouths shall proclaim your praise! +HYMN 67 | God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens | hyfrydol +OPENING PRAYER | Unison LeAnn Stubbs God of new life, imaginative creator and order of the universe: you opened the tomb and conquered the power of death with the strength of perfect love. Hallowed be your name. We confess that we have failed to be faithful to you. We have not loved you with our whole heart. We have not loved our neighbor as ourselves. In your compassion, forgive us for the things we have done, and the things we have not done. As we gather to worship together, teach us to love more perfectly that we would be a new creation. Renew us and shape us into a people who know you and love you. In your name we pray, Amen. +ASSURANCE OF GOD’S LOVE | SHARING THE PEACE OF CHRIST Let us offer one another signs of reconciliation and love: The Peace of Christ be with you. And also with you. +SUNG RESPONSE | O God We Hear Your Call | plymouth | Janet Davis PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD STORY FOR ALL AGES HANDBELL VOLUNTARY | Do Lord | Sondra Tucker, arr. |Plymouth Bells | Jenn Hawkins, director CALL TO PRAYER The Spirit of God be with you. And also with you. Let us pray. PASTORAL PRAYER | Begins with silent prayer. After each petition, please respond: God, in your mercy. Hear our prayer. THE LORD’S PRAYER | Using debts 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 debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. +HYMN 66 | O How Glorious, Full of Wonder | in babilone SCRIPTURE LESSON | John 20:19-31 NRSVue 19When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors were locked where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” 20After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” 22When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” 24 But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.” 26 A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.” 28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.” 30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not written in this book. 31 But these are written so that you may continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name. SERMON Jared Wortman RESPONSE CALL TO SHARING | To give online, use the included QR code in the sidebar. OFFERTORY ANTHEM | Earth Song | Frank Ticheli Chancel Choir +DOXOLOGY | lasst uns erfreuen | All are invited to sing. +PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING SENDING FORTH +HYMN 63 | All Things Bright and Beautiful | royal oak +BENEDICTION +SUNG BENEDICTION | May the Lord Be Always With You | Ben Allaway CLOSING VOLUNTARY | Trumpet Tune in F | Aaron David Miller Carl Gravander, organist