Welcome to Worship
Sunday Bulletin
April 28, 2024
Chimes
Prelude
FCCO Band
All Who Are Thirsty
By Brenton Brown and Glenn Robertson
All Who Are Thirsty - Lyrics
All who are thirsty, all who are weak,
Come to the fountain.
Dip your heart in the stream of life.
Let the pain and the sorrow
Be washed away
In the waves of His mercy
As deep cries out to deep
We sing come Lord Jesus come.
Come Lord Jesus come.
Come Lord Jesus come.
Come Lord Jesus come.
All who are thirsty, all who are weak,
Come to the fountain.
Dip your heart in the stream of life.
Let the pain and the sorrow
Be washed away
In the waves of His mercy
As deep cries out to deep
We sing come Lord Jesus come.
Come Lord Jesus come.
Come, Lord Jesus, come.
Come, Lord Jesus, come.
Holy Spirit, come.
Holy Spirit, come.
Holy Spirit, come.
Holy Spirit, come.
As deep cries out to deep,
As deep cries out to deep,
As deep cries out to deep we sing
Come, Lord Jesus, come.
Come, Lord Jesus, come.
*Come, Lord Jesus, come.
Come, Lord Jesus, come.
Call to Worship
L: This is the day the Lord has made!
P: Let us rejoice and be glad in it!
Welcome
Please take this time to fill out the Celebrations and Concerns cards from the pew pockets.
Cards will be collected during Passing the Peace.
Gathering Song
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing - Lyrics
Come, thou fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing your grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it,
Mount of God’s unfailing love.
Here I raise to thee an altar,
giving thanks for having come,
Come to trust, at every turning,
God will guide me safely home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God,
Came to rescue me from danger,
Blessed body, precious love.
O to grace how great a savior
Daily I am drawn anew!
Let that goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to you.
Prone to wander, I can feel it,
Wander from the love I’ve known.
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for your very own.
Opening Prayer & Passing the Peace
Passing of the Peace
Please Join in Singing
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for your very own.
Peace be yours
May the Lord be with you
as we gather now and
your whole life through
Blessing and mercy
and wholeness, too
May God’s peace
be yours
Celebrations & Concerns
Pastoral Prayer
The Lord's Prayer
Our God in heaven, and among us, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will bedone, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliverus from evil, for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Special Music
FCCO Chancel Choir
I Walk a Stranger on This Land
By Dale Wood
I Walk a Stranger on This Land - Lyrics
I Walk a Stranger on This Land
By Dale Wood
I walk a stranger on this land
And weary have I grown,
But with the setting sun there comes
A peace that I have known;
For though I walk a narrow road
I do not walk alone.
So many strangers pass my way;
Some speak and disappear.
They walk in shadow toward the night
In loneliness and fear.
The words of hope I longed to share
Were words they would not hear.
Regret and sorrow know this road.
At times they walk along,
To bring a tear into my eye
And sadness to my song.
They say what should be is not
And that which is is wrong.
I do not walk a lonely road
Or take a lonely stand.
The steps I follow do not make
Impressions in the sand.
Yes in the word I hear God’s voice
And know God’s guiding hand.
Scripture
Acts 8:26-40
Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, ‘Get up and go towards the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah. Then the Spirit said to Philip, ‘Go over to this chariot and join it.’ So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked, ‘Do you understand what you are reading?’ He replied, ‘How can I, unless someone guides me?’ And he invited Philip to get in and sit beside him. Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this:
‘Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter,
and like a lamb silent before its shearer,
so he does not open his mouth.
In his humiliation justice was denied him.
Who can describe his generation?
For his life is taken away from the earth.’
The eunuch asked Philip, ‘About whom, may I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?’ Then Philip began to speak, and starting with this scripture, he proclaimed to him the good news about Jesus. As they were going along the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, ‘Look, here is water! What is to prevent me from being baptized?’ He commanded the chariot to stop, and both of them, Philip and the eunuch, went down into the water, and Philip baptized him. When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing. But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he was passing through the region, he proclaimed the good news to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.
Message
The Wilderness Road
Rev. Dr. Dayna Kinkade
Communion Song
One Bread, One Body - Lyrics
One Bread, One Body
By John Foley
One bread, one body, one Lord of all
one cup of blessing which we bless
And we, though many throughout the earth
we are one body in this one Lord
Gentile or Jew, servant or free,
woman or man, no more
One bread, one body, one Lord of all
one cup of blessing which we bless
And we, though many throughout the earth
we are one body in this one Lord
Many the gifts, many the works
one in the Lord of all
One bread, one body, one Lord of all
one cup of blessing which we bless
And we, though many throughout the earth
we are one body in this one Lord
Grain for the fields, scattered and grown
gathered to one for all
*One bread, one body, one Lord of all
one cup of blessing which we bless
And we, though many throughout the earth
we are one body in this one Lord
Communion Invitation & Elder’s Prayer
Communion
All are welcome to take communion.
All bread is gluten free.
Communion Meditation
FCCO Orange Pealers
Gratitude
By Alex Gubert
Invitation to Stewardship
Offertory
Doxology
Doxology Lyrics
Praise God from whom
All blessings flow;
Praise God all creatures
Here below; Praise God with
all the hosts above,
Praise God
With wonder, joy, and love. Amen.
Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow,
Thomas Ken (adapted by FCCO), 1674; Louise Bourgeois,
1551, ‘Amen’ by David Crowder, © 2004 sixsteps Music, CCLI #4255578
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Announcements
Closing Song
The Same Love - Lyrics
The Same Love
By Paul Boloche
You choose the humble
and raise them high
You choose the weak
and make them strong
You heal our brokenness inside
And give us life
The same love that set the captives free
The same love that opened eyes to see
Is calling us all by name
You are calling us all by name
The same God that spread the heavens wide
The same God that was crucified
Is calling us all by name
You are calling us all by name
You take the faithless one aside
And speak the words you are Mine
You call the cynic and the proud
Come to Me now
The same love that set the captives free
The same love that opened eyes to see
Is calling us all by name
You are calling us all by name
The same God that spread the heavens wide
The same God that was crucified
Is calling us all by name
You are calling us all by name
You’re calling You’re calling
You’re calling us to the way
You’re calling You’re calling
You’re calling us to your love
You’re calling You’re calling
You’re calling us to the way
You’re calling You’re calling
You’re calling us to your love
The same love that set the captives free
The same love that opened eyes to see
Is calling us all by name
You are calling us all by name
The same God that spread the heavens wide
The same God that was crucified
Is calling us all by name
You are calling us all by name
Benediction
Postlude
The Same Love
Prayers for our Community & the World:
Music Credits
FCCO CCLI License #3183571
All Who Are Thirsty, by Brenton Brown and Glenn Robert, © 1998 Vinyard Songs CCLI #
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing, NETTLETON, 1813, Robert Robinson (adapt. FCCO), New Century Hymnal #459
I Walk a Stranger on this Land, by Dale Wood, text by Stephen Lazicki, © 1970 At Master’s Studios
One Bread, One Body, by John B. Foley, © 1978 John B. Foley, S.J. and New Dawn Music, Chalice Hymnal #393
The Same Love, by Michael Rossback and Paul Balouche, © 2011 Integrity Worship Music, CCLI #6180933