We held virtual worship on Sunday, February 7, 2021 at 10:00am. You can watch a recording on Facebook by clicking here, or you may watch below.
WELCOME Katie Blunt
CALL TO WORSHIP
Come, flock of voices, sing!
We raise our voices in praise!
Come and sound your praises to our God!
We raise our voices in praise!
Come, mount the wings of exaltation!
We raise our voices in praise!
Come, fledgling choir, and fly!
We raise our voices in praise!
OPENING TO GOD Psalm 139:1-12
Lord, You have probed me and You know.
You know when I sit and when I stand.
You discern my yelling from afar.
You sift through my life path and my resting patterns.
You have intimate knowledge of all my ways . . .
You encompass me, front and back….
Where can I run away from Your presence?
Where can I flee from Your Face?
If I go up to heaven, You are there.
If I descend below, You are there too.
If I fly with wings to the east,
if I dwell on the western horizon, there, too,
Your hand will guide me, Your right hand will grasp me.
If I say, “Let darkness envelope me and night be light for me,”
even darkness cannot be dark for You,
night will light up as the day,
darkness and light are the same. trans. Blumenthal
YOUNG PEOPLE’S MESSAGE Recharging Our Batteries Danielle Sturgeon & family
HEBREW SCRIPTURE Isaiah 40:28-31 Leif Johnsen
Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
The Lord does not faint or grow weary;
God’s understanding is unsearchable.
God gives power to the faint,
and strengthens the powerless.
Even youths will faint and be weary,
and the young will fall exhausted;
but those who wait for the Lord
shall renew their strength,
they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,
they shall walk and not faint.
GOSPEL Mark 1:32-39
As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once. He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. Then the fever left her, and she began to serve them.
That evening, at sunset, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed with demons. And the whole city was gathered around the door. And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.
In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed. And Simon and his companions hunted for him. When they found him, they said to him, “Everyone is searching for you.”
He answered, “Let us go on to the neighboring towns, so that I may proclaim the message there also; for that is what I came out to do.” And he went throughout Galilee, proclaiming the message in their synagogues and casting out demons.
REFLECTION Letting Go of the Ground Mitchell & Barb
REAL WORLD EPIPHANIES Narda Carlson
MUSIC O Wondrous Food, O Cup that Heals Music & photos by Kathryn Parker
PRAYER FOR THE WEEK
Holy Spirit, we are broken, our Earth and her Peoples call for healing.
This day we call from around the World in our mother tongues.
Fill us, Holy Spirit, with your blessings that we may follow the mission of the apostles.
Holy Spirit, we are broken, our Earth and her Peoples call for healing.
We are living a pandemic intersection of health crisis, personal and political chaos.
Many have died—help us live.
Many have lost family, home, job and country;
every illness, death, anger, destruction and discrimination fill our eyes and ears.
Holy Spirit, we are broken, our Earth and her Peoples call for healing.
Send your Dove of Peace to descend upon our hearts.
May She fill us with peace, kindness, grace and love
so we may work and act with justice to include all your peoples.
Holy Spirit, we are broken,
our Earth and her Peoples cry for your healing. by Barbara J. Middleton
SHARING PRAYERS & LORD’S PRAYER
COMMUNION
ANNOUNCEMENTS
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE Drop Kick Me Jesus music & photos
by Kathryn Parker
