ORDER OF SERVICE

September 20, 2026

Setting 8  |  Seasons of Creation week 2

Worship Assistant: Kenneth

Communion:  Kenneth & TBD

Ushers:  Alan & Charles

Readers:  Bob & Debbie

Kitchen:  Liz

Closing:  Brenda

PPT:  Crystal

Audio:  Hans

Livestream:  Peter

WELCOME

LINKS TO BULLETIN & TRANSLATION

TLC e-NEWSLETTER

ANNOUNCEMENTS - Separate Slideshow

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

CALL TO WORSHIP

GATHERING SONG: ELW 583

Take My Life, That I May Be

Take my life, that I may be

consecrated, Lord, to thee;

take my moments and my days;

let them flow in ceaseless praise.

Take my hands and let them move

at the impulse of thy love;

take my feet and let them be

swift and beautiful for thee. 

Take my life, that I may be

consecrated, Lord, to thee;

take my moments and my days;

let them flow in ceaseless praise.

Take my silver and my gold,

not a mite would I withhold;

take my intellect and use

ev'ry pow'r as thou shalt choose.

Take my life, that I may be

consecrated, Lord, to thee;

take my moments and my days;

let them flow in ceaseless praise.

Take my voice and let me sing

always, only for my King;

take my lips and let them be

filled with messages from thee.

Take my life, that I may be

consecrated, Lord, to thee;

take my moments and my days;

let them flow in ceaseless praise.

Take my will and make it thine;

it shall be no longer mine;

take my heart, it is thine own;

it shall be thy royal throne. 

Take my life, that I may be

consecrated, Lord, to thee;

take my moments and my days;

let them flow in ceaseless praise.

Text: Frances R. Havergal, 1836-1879

CONFESSION

ABSOLUTION SONG: ELW 801

Change My Heart, O God

Change my heart, O God;

make it ever true.

Change my heart, O God;

may I be like you.

You are the potter;

I am the clay.

Mould me and make me;

this is what I pray.

Change my heart, O God;

make it ever true.

Change my heart, O God;

may I be like you.

Text: Eddie Espinosa, b. 1953

Text © 1982 Mercy/Vineyard Publishing, admin. Music Services

GREETING

KYRIE ELESION  (p. 184)

PRAYER OF THE DAY

GENESIS 3:14-19; 4:8-16 (Bob & Debbie)

CHILDREN’S MESSAGE

PSALM 139:7-12 (Tone GP-2)

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION  (p 188)

MATTHEW 20:1-16

MESSAGE: Pastor Jennifer

OFFERING

SONG OF THE DAY: ELW 739

Touch the Earth Lightly

Touch the earth lightly,

use the earth gently,

nourish the life of the world in our care:

gift of great wonder,

ours to surrender,

trust for the children tomorrow will bear.

We who endanger,

who create hunger,

agents of death for all creatures that live,

we who would foster

clouds of disaster—

God of our planet, forestall and forgive!

Let there be greening,

birth from the burning,

water that blesses, and air that is sweet,

health in God's garden,

hope in God's children,

regeneration that peace will complete.

God of all living,

God of all loving,

God of the seedling, the snow, and the sun,

teach us, deflect us,

Christ reconnect us,

using us gently, and making us one.

Text: Shirley Erena Murray, b. 1931

Text © 1992 Hope Publishing Company

OFFERTORY PRAYER

AFFIRMATION OF FAITH

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

THE GREAT THANKSGIVING

SANCTUS (p 190)

Holy, holy, holy Lord,

God of love and life,

heaven and earth are full of your glory

full of your glory.

Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in the highest.

Blessed is he who comes

in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in the highest.

WORDS OF INSTITUTION

WE PROCLAIM THE MYSTERY OF OUR FAITH

THE LORD’S PRAYER (Nez Perce)

INVITATION TO COMMUNION

LAMB OF GOD (page 191)

COMMNION SONG 1: ELW 483

Here Is Bread Here Is Wine

Here is bread here is wine

Christ is with us He is with us

Break the bread drink the wine

Christ is with us here

In this bread there is healing

In this cup there's life forever

In this moment by the Spirit

Christ is with us here

Here is grace here is peace

Christ is with us He is with us

Know His grace find His peace

Feast on Jesus here

In this bread there is healing

In this cup there's life forever

In this moment by the Spirit

Christ is with us here

Here we are joined in one

Christ is with us He is with us

We'll proclaim 'til He comes

Jesus crucified

In this bread there is healing

In this cup there's life forever

In this moment by the Spirit

Christ is with us here

Graham Kendrick CCLI Song #983717 © 1991 Make Way Music

COMMUNION SONG 2: ACS 1084

God, Be the Love to Search and Keep Me

God, be the love to search and keep me;

God, be the prayer to move my voice;

God, be the strength to now uphold me:

O Christ, surround me;

O Christ, surround me.

Bind to myself the name of Holy,

great cloud of witnesses enfold;

prophets, apostles, angels witness:

O Christ, surround me;

O Christ, surround me.

Brightness of sun and glow of moonlight,

flashing of lightning, strength of wind,

depth of the sea to soil of planet:

O Christ, surround me;

O Christ, surround me.

Walking behind to hem my journey,

going ahead to light my way,

and from beneath, above, and all ways:

O Christ, surround me;

O Christ, surround me.

Christ in the eyes of all who see me,

Christ in the ears that hear my voice,

Christ in the hearts of all who know me:

O Christ, surround me;

O Christ, surround me.

Text: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan, b. 1967

Text © 2004 This Here Music, admin. Augsburg Fortress

POST COMMUNION PRAYER

SENDING SONG: ELW 881
Let All Things Now Living

Let all things now living

a song of thanksgiving

to God the creator triumphantly raise,

who fashioned and made us,

protected and stayed us,

who still guides us on to the end of our days.

God's banners are o'er us,

God's light goes before us,

a pillar of fire shining forth in the night,

till shadows have vanished

and darkness is banished,

as forward we travel from light into light.

God rules all the forces:

the stars in their courses

and sun in its orbit obediently shine;

the hills and the mountains,

the rivers and fountains,

the deeps of the ocean proclaim God divine.

We too should be voicing

our love and rejoicing;

with glad adoration a song let us raise

till all things now living

unite in thanksgiving:

"To God in the highest, hosanna and praise!"

Text: Katherine K. Davis, 1892-1980, alt.

Text © 1939, 1966 E.C. Schirmer Music Company

BLESSING

SONG:

Song of Peace

Peace to the children of Israel.

Peace to the children of Ishmael.

Peace to the children of all the world

All the world shall live in peace.

Shalom. Salaam. Shalom. Salaam. Shalom. Salaam.

All the world shall live in peace.

SENDING

SHARING THE PEACE

ORDER OF SERVICE

September 13, 2026

SETTING 6  |  Season of Creation — Week 1

Worship Assistant: Aiden

Communion: Rita & Chichi

Ushers: Charles & Olive

Reader: Olive

Kitchen: Lisa

Closing: Brenda

PPT: Barry

Audio: Aiden

Livestream: Hans

WELCOME

LINKS TO BULLETIN & TRANSLATION

TLC e-NEWSLETTER INFORMATION

SEASONS OF CREATION: Living Water

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

CALL TO WORSHIP

GATHERING SONG: ELW 556

Morning has Broken

Morning has broken like the first morning;

blackbird has spoken like the first bird.

Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning!

Praise for them, springing fresh from the Word!

Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven,

like the first dewfall on the first grass.

Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden,

sprung in completeness where God's feet pass.

Mine is the sunlight! Mine is the morning,

born of the one light Eden saw play!

Praise with elation, praise ev'ry morning,

God's recreation of the new day!

Text: Eleanor Farjeon, 1881-1965

Text © Miss E. Farjeon Will Trust, by permission of David Higham

LAMENT AND ABSOLUTION

CANTICLE OF PRAISE (p. 169-70)

GREETING

PRAYER OF THE DAY

GENESIS 2:4a-9,15-22, 3:1-8 (Olive)

PSALM 139:13-16 (Tone GP-2)

ACTS 17:22-28 (Olive)

CHILDREN’S MESSAGE

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION  (p. 171)

MATTHEW 18:21-35

MESSAGE: We are all Interconnected

(Pastor Jennifer Wilson)

OFFERING

SONG OF THE DAY: ELW 482

I Come with Joy

I come with joy, a child of God,

forgiven, loved, and free,

the life of Jesus to recall

in love laid down for me,

in love laid down for me.

I come with Christians far and near

to find, as all are fed,

the new community of love

in Christ's communion bread,

in Christ's communion bread.

As Christ breaks bread and bids us share,

each proud division ends.

The love that made us, makes us one,

and strangers now are friends,

and strangers now are friends.

The Spirit of the risen Christ,

unseen, but ever near,

is in such friendship better known,

alive among us here,

alive among us here.

Together met, together bound

by all that God has done,

we'll go with joy, to give the world

the love that makes us one,

the love that makes us one.

Text: Brian A. Wren, b. 1936

Text © 1971, rev. 1995 Hope Publishing Company

OFFERTORY PRAYER

AN AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (Seasons of Creation)

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

THE GREAT THANKSGIVING

SANCTUS  (p 173)

Holy, holy, holy Lord,

Lord God of love and life,

heaven and earth are full of your glory.

Hosanna in the highest.

Blessed is he who comes

in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna in the highest.

WORDS OF INSTITUTION

WE PROCLAIM THE MYSTERY OF OUR FAITH

THE LORD’S PRAYER (Sung)

INVITATION TO COMMUNION

LAMB OF GOD (p 174)

COMMUNION SONG 1: ACS 1049

Before the Waters Nourished Earth

Before the waters nourished earth

or night imagined morning,

a Love conceived the universe

and revelled in its forming.

This Love remained as time revealed

the loss of Eden's glory

and, grieving, holds in memory

each tragic human story.

Despair, so deep it bears no name,

or sorrows paralyzing

cannot revoke Love's faithful claim

to dwell within our dying.

The Love that called creation good

all goodness still is bringing.

This Love turns death again to life

and silence into singing.

Text: Jeannette M. Lindholm, b. 1961

Text © 1996 Jeannette M. Lindholm

COMMUNION SONG 2: ELW 639

When We Are Living

When we are living, it is in Christ Jesus,

and when we’re dying, it is in the Lord.

Both in our living and in our dying,

we belong to God, we belong to God.

’Mid times of sorrow and in times of pain,

when sensing beauty or in love’s embrace,

whether we suffer, or sing rejoicing,

we belong to God, we belong to God.

Across this wide world, we shall always find

those who are crying with no peace of mind;

and when we help them, or when we feed them,

we belong to God, we belong to God.

Text: st. 1, based on Romans 14:8; tr. Elise S. Eslinger, b. 1942

 st. 2-3, Roberto Escamilla, b. 1931; tr. George Lockwood, b. 1946

POST COMMUNION PRAYER

SENDING SONG:

10,000 Reasons

Bless the Lord O my soul

O my soul

Worship your holy name

Sing like never before

O my soul

I'll worship Your holy name

The sun comes up

It's a new day dawning

It's time to sing Your song again

Whatever may pass

and whatever lies before me

Let me be singing

when the evening comes

Bless the Lord O my soul

O my soul

Worship your holy name

Sing like never before

O my soul

I'll worship Your holy name

You're rich in love

and You're slow to anger

Your name is great

and Your heart is kind

For all Your goodness

I will keep on singing

10,000 reasons for my heart to find

Bless the Lord O my soul

O my soul

Worship your holy name

Sing like never before

O my soul

I'll worship Your holy name

And on that day

when my strength is failing

The end draws near

and my time has come

Still my soul will sing

Your praise unending

10,000 years and then forever more

Bless the Lord O my soul

O my soul

Worship your holy name

Sing like never before

O my soul

I'll worship Your holy name

Bless the Lord O my soul

O my soul

Worship your holy name

Sing like never before

O my soul

I'll worship Your holy name

I'll worship Your holy name

I'll worship Your holy name

CCLI Song # 6016351

Jonas Myrin | Matt Redman

© 2011 Atlas Mountain Songs (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing)

BLESSING

SONG: Song of Peace

Peace to the children of Israel.

Peace to the children of Ishmael.

Peace to the children of all the world

All the world shall live in peace.

Shalom. Salaam. Shalom. Salaam. Shalom. Salaam.

All the world shall live in peace.

SENDING

SHARING THE PEACE

ORDER OF SERVICE

September 6, 2026

Setting 10  |  15 Pentecost

Message: Brenda  |  WA: Sarah  |  LW: Kenneth

Communion: none

Ushers:   Larry & Nirmal

Reader:   Wendy

Kitchen:  Wendy

Closing:   Brenda

PPT: Barry

Audio: Hans

Livestream: Aiden

WELCOME

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

CALL TO WORSHIP

GATHERING SONG 1: ELW 522

As We Gather at Your Table

As we gather at your table,

as we listen to your word,

help us know, O God, your presence;

let our hearts and minds be stirred.

Nourish us with sacred story

till we claim it as our own;

teach us through this holy banquet

how to make Love's vict'ry known.

Turn our worship into witness

in the sacrament of life;

send us forth to love and serve you,

bringing peace where there is strife.

Give us, Christ, your great compassion

to forgive as you forgave;

may we still behold your image

in the world you died to save.

Gracious Spirit, help us summon

other guests to share that feast

where triumphant Love will welcome

those who had been last and least.

There no more will envy blind us

nor will pride our peace destroy,

as we join with saints and angels

to repeat the sounding joy.

Text: Carl P. Daw Jr., b. 1944  © 1989 Hope Publishing Company

CONFESSION& FORGIVENESS

GREETING

KYRIE  (p 203)

CANTICLE OF PRAISE  (p 204)

PRAYER OF THE DAY

GENESIS 50:15-21 (Wendy)

PSALM 119:33-40  (tone GP-2)

CHILDREN’S MESSAGE

ROMANS 13:8-14 (Wendy)

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (p 205)

MATTHEW 18:15-20

MESSAGE: Brenda

OFFERING

SONG OF THE DAY: ELW 603

God, When Human Bonds are Broken

God, when human bonds are broken

and we lack the love or skill

to restore the hope of healing,

give us grace and make us still.

Through that stillness, with your Spirit

come into our world of stress,

for the sake of Christ forgiving

all the failures we confess.

You in us are bruised and broken:

hear us as we seek release

from the pain of earlier living;

set us free and grant us peace.

Send us, God of new beginnings,

humbly hopeful into life.

Use us as a means of blessing:

make us stronger, give us faith.

Give us faith to be more faithful,

give us hope to be more true,

give us love to go on learning:

God, encourage and renew!

Text: Fred Kaan, b. 1929  Text © 1989 Hope Publishing Company

OFFERTORY PRAYER

CONTEMPORARY CREED

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

THE LORD’S PRAYER (contemporary)

SENDING SONG: ACS 1004

Faith Begins by Letting Go

Faith begins by letting go,

giving up what had seemed sure,

taking risks and pressing on,

though the way feels less secure:

pilgrimage both right and odd,

trusting all our life to God.

Faith endures by holding on,

keeping mem'ry's roots alive

so that hope may bear its fruit;

promise-fed, our souls will thrive,

not through merit we possess

but by God's great faithfulness.

Faith matures by reaching out,

stretching minds, enlarging hearts,

sharing struggles, living prayer,

binding up the broken parts;

till we find the commonplace

ripe with witness to God's grace.

Text: Carl P. Daw Jr., b. 1944

Text © 1996 Hope Publishing Company

BLESSING

SONG OF PEACE

Peace to the children of Israel.

Peace to the children of Ishmael.

Peace to the children of all the world

All the world shall live in peace.

Shalom. Salaam. Shalom. Salaam.
Shalom. Salaam.

All the world shall live in peace.

SENDING

SHARING THE PEACE