Welcome to Worship at Epworth UMC!
Today's bulletin
October 5, 2025
Welcome/announcements/passing of the peace
Prelude/lighting the candles Jeanene Craig and Eli Alvarez del Castillo
Call to Worship Jennifer Portele
One: Come, all who rejoice and all who mourn, to meet at the table.
All: We come to taste and see that the Lord is good, to feast on grace, to believe again in belonging.
One: Around the world, across languages and landscapes, a holy table is set.
All: We come not because we are worthy, but because Christ calls us in love.
One: Come, let us worship…
All: …the one who welcomes, the one who remembers, the one who feeds the whole world with hope and peace.
Opening hymn -- "Christ For The World We Sing," UMH 568, verses 1-3
Affirmation of Faith – A Statement of Faith UMH#883
The Lord's Prayer -- from the First Nation’s Version of the Bible –Beverly Bennett
Offering/Doxology
Hymn -- "Help Us Accept Each Other," UMH 560, verses 1-3
Pastoral Prayer/Concerns and celebrations
Special Music -- "Make Me a Channel of Your Peace," Chancel Choir
Scripture reading – Isaiah 2:1-5; Romans 12:14-18 Liturgist Sydne Sommers
Message –Prayers of Peace Rev. Brandie Spletzer
Confession/Great Thanksgiving/Lord’s Prayer
Invitation to Epworth
Hymn-- "Let There Be Peace on Earth," UMH 431
Benediction
Postlude Jeanene Craig
Lord’s Prayer from The First Nation’s Bible
O Great Spirit, our Father from above,
we honor your name as sacred and holy.
Bring your good road to us,
where the beauty of your ways in the spirit-world above
is reflected in the earth below.
Provide for us day by day--
the elk, the buffalo, and the salmon.
The corn, the , and the wild rice.
All the things we need for each day.
Release us from the things we have done wrong,
in the same way we release others for the things done wrong to us.
Guide us away from the things that tempt us to stray from your good road,
and set us free from the evil one and his worthless ways.
Aho! May it be so!
Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi (Prayer for Peace)
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Prelude/lighting the candles Jeanene Craig and Eli Alvarez del Castillo
Call to Worship Jennifer Portele
One: Come, all who rejoice and all who mourn, to meet at the table.
All: We come to taste and see that the Lord is good, to feast on grace, to believe again in belonging.
One: Around the world, across languages and landscapes, a holy table is set.
All: We come not because we are worthy, but because Christ calls us in love.
One: Come, let us worship…
All: …the one who welcomes, the one who remembers, the one who feeds the whole world with hope and peace.
Opening hymn -- "Christ For The World We Sing," UMH 568, verses 1-3
Affirmation of Faith – A Statement of Faith UMH#883
The Lord's Prayer -- from the First Nation’s Version of the Bible –Beverly Bennett
Offering/Doxology
Hymn -- "Help Us Accept Each Other," UMH 560, verses 1-3
Pastoral Prayer/Concerns and celebrations
Special Music -- "Make Me a Channel of Your Peace," Chancel Choir
Scripture reading – Isaiah 2:1-5; Romans 12:14-18 Liturgist Sydne Sommers
Message –Prayers of Peace Rev. Brandie Spletzer
Confession/Great Thanksgiving/Lord’s Prayer
Invitation to Epworth
Hymn-- "Let There Be Peace on Earth," UMH 431
Benediction
Postlude Jeanene Craig
Lord’s Prayer from The First Nation’s Bible
O Great Spirit, our Father from above,
we honor your name as sacred and holy.
Bring your good road to us,
where the beauty of your ways in the spirit-world above
is reflected in the earth below.
Provide for us day by day--
the elk, the buffalo, and the salmon.
The corn, the , and the wild rice.
All the things we need for each day.
Release us from the things we have done wrong,
in the same way we release others for the things done wrong to us.
Guide us away from the things that tempt us to stray from your good road,
and set us free from the evil one and his worthless ways.
Aho! May it be so!
Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi (Prayer for Peace)
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
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