The Order of Worship – May 10th, 2026

This is the 130th Day of 2026.
There are 235 more days remaining in 2025.

Filled with the Holy Spirit,
we are a people of prayer
committed to love one another
and equipped to share Christ’s love throughout the world.

Mother’s Day

Prelude:

Welcome & Announcements:
This month’s mission focus is Marghum for a new well.
Bible Study is all new at afaithtalk.com on Tuesday!
Call to Worship: Near to the Heart of God…#472 (D)

Responsive Reading:  Psalm 66:8-20
Be joyful in God, all you lands

⁸ Bless our God, O peoples, let the sound of his praise be heard,
⁹ who has kept us among the living, and has not let our feet slip.

¹⁰ For you, O God, have tested us; 
you have tried us as silver is tried.

¹¹ You brought us into the net; 
you laid burdens on our backs;

¹² you let people ride over our heads; 
we went through fire and through water; 
yet you have brought us out to a spacious place.

¹³ I will come into your house with burnt offerings; 
I will pay you my vows,

¹⁴ those that my lips uttered and my 
mouth promised when I was in trouble.

¹⁵ I will offer to you burnt offerings of fatlings, 
with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams; 
I will make an offering of bulls and goats.

¹⁶ Come and hear, all you who fear God, 

and I will tell what he has done for me.

¹⁷ I cried aloud to him, 
and he was extolled with my tongue.
¹⁸ If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, 
the Lord would not have listened.

¹⁹ But truly God has listened; 

he has given heed to the words of my prayer.

²⁰ Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer 

or removed his steadfast love from me.
 Praise the LORD!

Opening Hymn:
All Creatures of Our God and King (D)

All creatures of our God and King
lift up your voice and with us sing
O praise Him alleluia

Thou burning sun with golden beam
thou silver moon with softer gleam
O praise Him

O praise Him
Alle-luia, alle-luia, alle-lu-ia

Thou rushing wind that art so strong
ye clouds that sail in Heav’n along
O praise Him alleluia

Thou rising morn in praise rejoice
ye lights of evening find a voice
O praise Him

O praise Him
Alle-luia alle-luia alle-lu-ia

Let all things their Creator bless
and worship Him in humbleness
O praise Him alleluia

Praise praise the Father praise the Son
and praise the Spirit
three in One
O praise Him
O praise Him
Alle-luia alle-luia alle-lu-ia

Affirmation of Faith:
The Apostle’s Creed..No. 881

I believe in God the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth;
and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord:
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified,
dead,
and buried;
the third day he rose from the dead;
he ascended into heaven,
and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from thence he shall come to judge
the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.

Gloria Patri…Page 70

Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen. Amen.

Praise Song: Blessed Be Your Name

Blessed be your name in the land that is plentiful
Where your streams of abundance flow,
Blessed be your name.
Blessed be Your name
when I’m found in the desert place
though I walk through the wilderness,
Blessed be your name.
Every blessing you pour out I’ll
turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord,
Still I will say
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your glorious name
Blessed be your name
When the sun’s shining down on me
When the world’s all as it should be,
Blessed be your Name
Blessed be your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there’s pain in the offering,
Blessed be your name
Every blessing you pour out I’ll
turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord,
Still I will say
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your glorious name
You give and take away,
You give and take away
still My heart will choose to say,
Blessed be your name
You give and take away,
You give and take away
still My heart will choose to say,
Blessed be your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your glorious name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your glorious name

Pastoral Prayer
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The Lord’s Prayer:

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.
Thy Kingdom come,
Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,
forever. Amen.

Anthem: A Mother’s Prayer (Eb)

Offertory

Doxology:

Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly hosts;
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen

Children’s Moment
Children’s Song (Jesus Loves Me Alleluia)

Verse 1:

Jesus loves me this I know.
For the Bible tells me so. 
Little ones to him belong.
They are weak but he is strong.

Chorus:

Boys: Alleluia. Girls: Alleluia, allelu.
Boys: Alleluia. Girls: Alleluia, alleluia
Boys: Alleluia. Girls: Alleluia, allelu.
Boys: Alleluia. Girls: Alleluia, allelu.
All: Alleluia.

Verse 2:

Amazing grace how sweet the sound,
that saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now I’m found,
was blind but now I see.

Chorus:

Boys: Alleluia. Girls: Alleluia, allelu.
Boys: Alleluia. Girls: Alleluia, alleluia
Boys: Alleluia. Girls: Alleluia, allelu.
Boys: Alleluia. Girls: Alleluia, allelu.
All: Alleluia.

Verse 3:

Jesus loves me, he who died,
heaven’s gates to open wide.
He will wash away my sin.
let his little child come in.

Chorus:

Boys: Alleluia. Girls: Alleluia, allelu.
Boys: Alleluia. Girls: Alleluia, alleluia
Boys: Alleluia. Girls: Alleluia, allelu.
Boys: Alleluia. Girls: Alleluia, allelu.
All: Alleluia.

Prayer for Illumination
Lord, open our hearts and minds by the power of your Holy Spirit, that as the Scriptures are read and your Word is proclaimed, we may hear with joy what you say to us today. Amen.

Gospel Reading: John 14:15-21
Christ our advocate

¹⁵ “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever.

¹⁷ This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him because he abides with you, and he will be in you.

¹⁸ “I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you.

¹⁹ In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. ²⁰ On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

²¹ They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me, and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”

Leader: The Word of God for the people of God
All: Thanks be to God

New Testament  Reading:  1 Peter 3:13-22
The days of Noah, a sign of baptism

¹³ Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good? ¹⁴ But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated, ¹⁵ but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you; ¹⁶ yet do it with gentleness and reverence. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame.

¹⁷ For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil. ¹⁸ For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, ¹⁹ in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, ²⁰ who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.

²¹ And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you–not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, ²² who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.

Leader: The Word of God for the people of God
All: Thanks be to God 

Sermon Text: Acts 17:22-31
Paul’s message to the Athenians

²² Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely spiritual you are in every way. ²³ For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

²⁴ The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, ²⁵ nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things.

²⁶ From one ancestor he made all people to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, ²⁷ so that they would search for God and perhaps fumble about for him and find him–though indeed he is not far from each one of us.

²⁸ For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we, too, are his offspring.’

²⁹ “Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals.

³⁰ While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he  commands all people everywhere to repent, ³¹ because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

Leader: This is the Word of God for the people of God
All: Thanks be to God

Sermon:  “Sermon at the Areopagus – Who is This Agnostos Theos?”

Closing Hymn: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling…#384 (Bb)

Verse 1

Love divine, all loves excelling,
joy of heaven to earth come down;
fix in us thy humble dwelling,
all thy faithful mercies crown!
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
pure un-bounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation,
enter every trembling heart.

Verse 4

Finish, then, thy new creation; pure and spotless let us be.
Let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee;
changed from glory into glory,
till in heaven we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder, love and praise. 

Filled Up and Poured Out

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