Morning Worship at Plymouth Church | Tenth Sunday After Pentecost | August 14, 2022 | 10 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. LeAnn Stubbs “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” LeAnn Stubbs PARTNER IN ARTISTRY PRESENTATION | Sandy Miller, Artistic Director, Heartland Youth Choir OPENING VOLUNTARY | Rhapsody on English Hymntunes | Charles Callahan Ada Fender, flute | Christopher Goodson, clarinet | Carl Gravander, organ +CALL TO WORSHIP | Taken from Psalm 118:24 & 51:15 LeAnn Stubbs 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 250 | Here in this Place | gather us in +OPENING PRAYER | Unison Peter Strobel God of perfect love, to know you is to know love. You created us to live in community one with another: Help us to see and know our neighbor so that we might better love them, even as you love us. 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 left undone. As we gather to worship together, 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 Peter Strobel Let us offer one another signs of reconciliation and love: The Peace of Christ be with you. And also with you. +SUNG RESPONSE | Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty | nicaea Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee. Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty, God in three persons, blessed Trinity! PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD STORY FOR ALL AGES Jared Wortman SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Jared Wortman Introduction Covenant of the Parents & Sponsors Covenant of the Congregation Prayer over the Water Presentation of the Candidate Baptism of Dax Lensmeyer, child of Jenica Jane Lensmeyer & Brandon Lee Lensmeyer. Presentation of the Child & Song of Welcome (Text by Rev. Faith Ferré) CALL TO PRAYER Peter Strobel 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 ANTHEM | Lord of the Small | Dan Forrest Mackenzie Stern, soloist Praise to the Lord of the small, broken things, who sees the poor sparrow that cannot take wing, who loves the lame child, and the wretch in the street, who comforts, their sorrows and washes their feet. Praise to the Lord of the faint and afraid, Who girds them with courage and lends them His aid; He pours out His Spirit on vessels so weak That the timid can serve and the silent can speak. Praise to the Lord of the frail and the ill, Who heals their afflictions or carries them till They leave this tired frame and to paradise fly, To never be sick, and never to die. Praise Him, O praise Him, all ye who yet live, Who’ve been given so much and can so little give, Our frail, lisping praise God will never despise: He sees His dear children through mercy-filled eyes. -Johanna Anderson SCRIPTURE LESSON | Matthew 19:13-15 Jared Wortman SERMON Jared Wortman RESPONSE CALL TO SHARING LeAnn Stubbs To give online, use the included QR code in the sidebar. Please sign and pass the red friendship pads. Green half sheets are available to communicate care concerns & prayer requests to the staff. Place the sheets in the offering plates or hand to a Deacon. OFFERTORY ANTHEM | It Is Well With My Soul | John Ness Beck Summer Choir When peace, like a river attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea billows roll — Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul. It is well with my soul, it is well, it is well with my soul. My sin — o the joy of this glorious thought— my sin, not in part, but the whole Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more: Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul! It is well with my soul, it is well, it is well with my soul. And, Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight, the clouds be rolled back as a scroll: The trumpet shall sound and the Lord shall descend, “Even so”— it is well with my soul! It is well with my soul, it is well, it is well with my soul. +DOXOLOGY | old hundredth | All are invited to sing. +PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING LeAnn Stubbs SENDING FORTH +HYMN 101 | Surely No One Can Be Safer | tryggare kan ingen vara +BENEDICTION Jared Wortman +SUNG BENEDICTION | May the Lord Be Always With You | Ben Allaway CLOSING VOLUNTARY | A Final Piece | Gilbert M. Martin Carl Gravander, organist