ANNOUNCEMENTS
Today: Thank you to Mabel Cahoon for the reading of the scriptures.
Palm Sunday Cantata. 4 p.m. Wolcott FUMC,
7 p.m. North Rose UMC
Thursday, April 17: 6 p.m. Seder Meal at the First Baptist Church
Friday, April 18: 7 p.m. Good Friday Service at the Huron Presbyterian Church
Sunday, April 20: 7 a.m. Council of Churches Easter service in Northup Park
10:30 a.m. Easter Sunday service
Sunday, April 27: Choir Anthem will be #115: “Come, Ye
Raise The Strain”.
If you wish to have memorial flowers for Easter Sunday, we will need the information for the bulletin and also the money if you desire the church to purchase BY TODAY. Forms are available on the table outside the sanctuary.
Happy birthday this week to: Jackie VanDeusen today, Noah Gingerich and Madison VanFleet tomorrow, Kayla DeMay and Dan Smith on Tuesday, and Evie LaDue on Thursday.
Please keep the family of William Rothaug in your prayers. Bill passed away on April 5. There will be a service here on Saturday, April 26, at 1 p.m. No reception or calling hours.
PRAYER LIST: Kayla DeMay, Will Cahoon, Dolores Gingerich, Rosie Wright, Jamie Lyman Gingerich, Ellen Elwell, Val Mills, Paula DeMass, Bob Stell, Mike & Linda Douglass, Mary Ann Sparnon, Carol Merrell, Shirley Bishop, Tom Johnson, Jordan Lockwood, Arlene Youngman, Maxine Pankratz, and All MILITARY PERSONNEL SERVING OUR COUNTRY
Pastor Walter’s contact info: 585-217-6030
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Prelude: “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” Bach
Prelude: “Hosanna!” Dubois
Announcements
Passing of the Peace
The Peace of Christ be with you
…And Also with you.
Call to worship (from Psalm 118)
Leader: O give thanks to the Lord, for God is good;
People: God’s steadfast love endures forever!
Leader: The stone that the builders rejected
People: Has become the chief cornerstone.
Leader: This is the day that the Lord has made;
People: Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Leader: Save us, we beseech you, O Lord!
People: Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.
Leader: O give thanks to the Lord, for God is good;
People: God’s steadfast love endures forever! Let us worship God.
*Hymn: #88 “All Glory, Laud, and Honor”
Unison Prayer of Confession
Have mercy on us, O God, for we are broken vessels. You call us to follow you, but we deny, abandon and betray. You call us to pursue justice and righteousness, but we stick to the status quo. You invite us into the hope of your Spirit, but we make despair our daily bread. You lead us to the cross, but in our discomfort, we try to skip to the empty tomb. Transform us, O God. Pour out your Holy Spirit upon all our brokenness, that your grace may fill in the cracks of our broken places and make us whole. Amen.
Silent Prayer of Confession
Assurance of Pardon (GtG #215)
Leader: What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss To bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul?
*Gloria Patri Hymn #579
Young at Heart
*Hymn: #91 “Ride On! Ride On in Majesty!”
Scriptures: Reading by Mabel Cahoon
Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29 (OT Pages 565-566)
Luke 19:28-40 (NT Page 83)
Sermon: “Lift Up the Gates” Rev. Walter Stuber
*Hymn: #92 “Beneath the Cross of Jesus”
Joys and Concerns
Pastoral Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer
Offertory Call
Offertory: “Ave Verum Corpus”
*Doxology Hymn #592
*Unison Prayer of Dedication
God, giver of all good gifts, we thank you for all that
you have graciously poured out on us. As we begin
Holy Week and walk the final steps to the cross, we
give you thanks for the greatest of all gifts — the gift
of yourself to your people, through Jesus Christ
our Lord. Amen
*Hymn: #89 “Hosanna, Loud Hosanna”
*Charge and Benediction
“Go Now in Peace”
Postlude: “Hosanna, Loud Hosanna” Broughton
*Please stand if you are able.