Worship Service -- January 30, 2022

CLICK ON "SHOW MORE" TO SEE MINUTE-MARKER DELINEATIONS. The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany The Rev. Dr. Charles Alkula welcomes everyone connecting via Zoom. Pianists serving during this service are Suzanne Polacek, Carol Revier, and Hannah Gu. Liturgist is Joey Vander Vorste. At 0:08 minute marker (mm) - Prelude begins. Pianists Suzanne Polacek and Carol Revier offer this musical offering: "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee." At 3:34 mm -- Pastor Charles and the Liturgist Joey Vander Vorste lead the congregation in the Call to Worship. At 4:42 mm -- Don Berlin leads the congregation in singing the Hymn: "Great is Thy Faithfulness." At 6:52 mm -- Pastor Charles and Liturgist Joey lead the congregation in the recitation of the "Prayer of Confession." At 8:36 mm -- After a time when the congregation shares "Joys and Concerns," Pastor Charles shares the pastoral prayer and leads the congregation in the recitation of "The Lord's Prayer." At 11:39 mm -- Liturgist Joey reads the First Lesson: Jeremiah 1:4-10. At 12:49 mm -- Special musical offering by the Jubilante Ringers: "Walk as a Child of the Light." At 16:42 mm -- Pastor Charles introduces the practice of Lectio Divina (Latin for "Divine Reading"). He reads this Epistle Lesson three times, using different translations, versions of it: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13.. Sermon is titled "The greatest of these." At 44:42 mm -- The Alpha & Omega lead the congregation in singing the Hymn: "The Gift of Love." At 46:23 mm -- Pastor Charles shares "Words for the Journey." At 46:48 mm -- Postlude: Musical offering by Pianist Hannah Gu, "God of Grace and God of Glory."