25th Sunday After

Pentecost​​​​​​​​

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We Gather as the

Body of Christ

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PRELUDE      Mindi Hu

WELCOME      Pastor Sungmin

ANNOUNCEMENTS      Donna McCoy

CALL TO WORSHIP  (responsive reading)

Donna McCoy

With our whole being—heart, mind, soul, and strength-let us love and praise God!

With all of our being, we will love and praise God! For God is faithful forever,

helping, freeing, loving, protecting!

 

Let us sing praises to our God as long as we live!

Praise the maker of heaven and earth! Praise God who is faithful forever!

 

PRAISES

Maker, in Whom We Live

UMC Hymnal    #88

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Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

UMC Hymnal    #400

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There’s Spirit of Love in This Place

Worship & Song Hymnal    #3148

 

OUR PRAYERS      Pastor Sungmin

 

GOSPEL

Mark 12: 38-44      Donna McCoy

CHILDREN’S TIME with MaryAnn
   

LORD’S PRAYER      Pastor Sungmin

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We Attend to the Word

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INVITATION to the OFFERING

​Pastor Sungmin

Called to live in hope, let us share

the blessings we have so richly

received from God.

 

OFFERTORY      Mindi Hu

 

DOXOLOGY

Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow

UMC Hymnal    #94

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PRAYER of GRATITUDE – Unison

Pastor Sungmin

God of abundance, you offer us rich food and fine wines; you bless us with all the bounty of your heavenly banquet. May the gifts we offer this day, provide food and drink to those who go without, that all may come to know the blessings of your table in this world and in the world to come. Amen.

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SCRIPTURE      Ruth 3: 1-5, 4: 13-17

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​SERMON

A Gift of Community (Part 1)

Pastor Sungmin​​​

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We Are Sent in Ministry

to the World

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HYMN      Blest Be the Tie That Binds

UMC Hymnal    #557

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DISMISSAL with BLESSING

Pastor Sungmin

POSTLUDE      Mindi Hu

**Worship Liturgy is taken from the

Abingdon Worship Annual 2024.​