February 19, 2012 - Transfiguration Sunday
Piano “Hymn Improvisations” - various arrangers
Organ “Gently Raise the Sacred Strain” - by T.C. Griggs
Welcome and Announcements
Choral Introit ”When Morning Gilds the Skies” 339 VU
Call to Worship
L: Today is Transfiguration Sunday. It is a day in which we listen to the story where Jesus and some of his friends went up a mountain to spend some special time with God.
P: We come here to church and Sunday school to spend time with our friends and to remember that we are in God’s presence.
L: Let us worship God.
**Hymn: “We Have Come at Christ’s Own Bidding” 104 VU
Bible Story
Prayer:
L: Jesus went to the mountain and was changed. Transformed.
P: but change is hard for us.
L: You call us, O God, to change our lives.
P: But change is hard for us.
L: You call us, O God to change our hearts.
P: But change is hard for us.
L: You call us, O God, to change our thinking.
P: But change is hard for us.
L: Open our lives, our hearts, our thinking.
P: Open us, O God, to your loving changes.
**Hymn: “Sing a Happy Hallelujah” 224 VU
(Children come to the front)
Thought For Young At Heart
Prayer of Confession
Assurance of God’s Love
Epistle Lesson: 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Harold DeVenne
Anthem “If You Search With All Your Heart” - by Craig Courtney
Gospel Lesson: Mark 9: 2-9 Michele Mousley
**Hymn: “Fairest Lord Jesus” 341 VU
Sermon
Offering and Offertory “Just a Closer Walk With Thee”
arr. R.W. Thygerson
Sung Dedication: Grant us, God, the grace of giving,
with a spirit large and free,
that ourselves and all our living
we may offer faithfully.
**Prayer of Dedication
Prayers of the People
**Hymn: “How Good, Lord, to Be Here” (tune 382) 103 VU
**Commissioning and Benediction
**Choral Amen
Organ ”As the Dew from Heaven Distilling” - J.J. Daynes arr. A. Schreiner
** Please stand as able