ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tomorrow, April 29: 3-5 p.m. Calling hours for Scott Kelley at the Norton Funeral Home in Wolcott. A memorial service will follow at 5 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial will follow in the Huron Evergreen Cemetery.
Thursday-Saturday, May 2-4 Spring Rummage Sale
Thursday, May 2: National Day of Prayer – Noon – Wolcott Northup Park
The Quilting Group will resume meeting on May 9.
Happy birthday this week to: Chantel Lockwood today, Lee Bastian on Wednesday, and Gene Beavers on Thursday.
PRAYER LIST: Bill Cahoon, Cricky Gilbert, Ellen Elwell, Val Mills, Verne Mills, Paula DeMass, Bob Stell, Mike & Linda Douglass, Rosie Wright, Mary Ann Sparnon, Eleanor Stevenson, Carol Merrell, Edith Hutchings, Shirley Bishop, Tom Johnson, Pete Douglass, Alice Youngman, Jordan Lockwood, Arlene Youngman, Maxine Pankratz, and
ALL MILITARY PERSONNEL SERVING OUR COUNTRY
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Pastor Walter’s contact info: 585-217-6030
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Prelude: “In The Sanctuary” Handel
Announcements
Passing of the Peace
The Peace of Christ be with you
…And Also with you.
Call to Worship
Leader: I will praise you, O God, for you have lifted me
up and have given my enemies no cause to rejoice.
All: Hearing my cries for help, you healed me;
Leader: bringing me from the very depths of hell, you
restored my life.
All: Let all faithful people give thanks and praise
God’s holy name.
Leader: O God, your anger lasts but a moment, while
your graciousness lasts a lifetime.
All: Weeping lingers for a night, but joy comes with
the morning.
Leader: You have turned my mourning into dancing
All: removing my sackcloth, you clothe me with joy.
May our praise never be silenced as we give thanks
and praise God forever and ever.
*Hymn: #481 “Praise the Lord, God’s Glories Show”
Call to Confession
Leader: Our Lord Jesus said: “‘You shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and
with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first
commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love
your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments
hang all the law and the prophets.” As God has instructed
us in these great commandments, and because we have
not lived in full obedience, let us now confess our sins to
God, trusting Christ as our Savior and Lord.
Unison Prayer of Confession
Lord Jesus Christ, we want to serve you faithfully and to follow you wholeheartedly and sometimes we make promises and fail to keep them. We pray for your forgiveness...for the words left unspoken in your name…for people not visited... for prejudices still not broken down...for reconciliation not pursued ....for our neglect of those who suffer from hunger and poverty...for leaving sick and lonely people with needs unmet…for our lack of interest or involvement in passing faith on to young people. Lord Jesus Christ, our failures are laid out before you in the belief that you know and understand and forgive our weaknesses. Help us to remain faithful in the midst of the priorities thrust upon us by work and school, health and mobility, family and friends. This we pray in your name. Amen.
Silent Prayer of Confession
Assurance of Forgiveness
Leader: God turns our mourning into dancing and clothes us with joy through Jesus Christ, the Lamb who was slaughtered and by whose blood we were ransomed. So - hear and believe the good news: In Jesus Christ we are understood, we are loved, we are forgiven.
All: In Jesus Christ we are forgiven!
*Gloria Patri Hymn #579
Young at Heart
*Hymn: #417 “Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation”
Scripture Readings: Acts 8:26-40 (NT Page 127)
1 John 4:7-21 (NT Page 241)
John 15:1-8 (NT Page 109)
Sermon: “God, Jesus and Love” Rev. Walter Stuber
*Hymn: #261 “God of Compassion, in Mercy
Befriend Us”
Joys and Concerns
Pastoral Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer
Offertory Call
Offertory: “Interlude” Boely
*Doxology Hymn #592
*Unison Prayer of Dedication
Jesus, Savior and Lord, we thank you for strengthening us in faith by feeding and nourishing us with your risen life. Bless these gifts which we offer in response to your sacrificial giving of yourself to us. Bless each of our lives as we respond to your challenge to follow you, sharing your love and life with others. Amen.
*Hymn: #422 “God, Whose Giving Knows No Ending”
*Charge and Benediction
Postlude: “O That I Had A Thousand Voices” Reger