Worship Roadmap - May 25, 2025
Updated: Monday, May 19, 2025 4:19:26pm
(Roadmap version: Draft
Pastor: Rev. Shirley Macemon
Lay Reader: Larry Edson, Song Leader: TBD
Lectionary Scripture: Acts 16:9-15; Psalm 67; Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5; John 14:23-29 or John 5:1-9;)
PTZ1 - select Closeup Ruth/Janet view
PTZ2 - select Song Leader View
Start Zoom Recording at 9:59:30
Prelude
"TBD"
by whoDunnit
Used under One License.net A-726183
PTZ1 Select Closeup Lectern view
Song: "TBD"
Song Leader: Our Gathering Hymn is "TBD".
You may remain seated.
TBD
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Lay Reader: Announcements
Welcome to Campbell United Church of Christ!
We are an Open and Affirming congregation and
no matter where you are on your spiritual journey,
you are welcome here.
(raise Bulletin)
Please take the Bulletin insert home with you to remind you of upcoming events.
(highlight next week special events if any)
Lay Reader: Other Announcements
Lay Reader: Are there any other announcements?
Lay Reader: Call to Worship
Lay Reader: Please rise as you are able and join me in our responsive Call to Worship:
Lay Reader: Responsive Call to Worship
One: God, strengthen our faith
ALL: by firing up our imaginations
One: Because we know the Holy Creator works through us
ALL: So we can begin to stitch back together our community!
One: Powerful images are not empty or without meaning
ALL: but true symbols that guide us to probe this war-filled world.
One: Isn’t this why God gave us an imagination anyway?
ALL: So we can look with the eyes of faith beyond surface impressions
One: to see what is really going on in our world
ALL: in order to recreate new worlds of flourishing for all!
Song Leader: Prayer of Invocation
Song Leader: Liberating God,
the imagination for what you want out of your people has been found
and sprinkled throughout our Holy Scriptures and experienced in our own lives.
The hard message of a clear lesson in this book
is that God has searching eyes on corruption
and those who openly participate.
Let us rest in that.
Give us wisdom to allow the creative symbolism and storytelling
of our scripture to guide us in what needs to be done to discern
the presence of this harm and then
to remember joy and to embody love, peace and gratitude
on this day and all the hard days ahead.
Amen.
Song Leader: Please be seated.
Song: "TBD"
TBD
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Lay Reader: Prayer for Transformation and New Life
Lay Reader: God of the Other, we say to you that we cannot remember the last time we
listened, truly listened to the Other and sought understanding,
let alone see the childlike glory in another’s spirit.
We come forward to say that starting today,
we change by becoming more present in our interactions
with all of your creation
and we hold no judgement and cast no shame
on someone trying to exist in this cold, complicated, and beautiful world.
(Brief pause for silence and self examination)
Lay Reader: Words of Grace
Lay Reader: We are indeed a Beloved Community capable of working towards collective
flourishing for it is bright as crystal flowing from the throne of God.
We are the light and let us shine brightly as we accompany others to
abundance and collective freedom.
Pastor: Passing of the Peace-Invitation
Pastor: With the reassurance of God’s love and forgiveness, let us pass God’s blessings of peace among one another.
Pastor: Passing of the Peace
One: May the peace and joy of Christ be with you.
ALL: And also with you.
Wait to advance to this slide until speaking is concluded.
Pastor: Passing of the Peace
Share a wave, elbow bump, or hug as you are mutually comfortable
Song: "TBD"
Song Leader: Please remain standing or rise as you are able and sing.
TBD
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Song Leader: Please be seated.
Lay Reader: Scripture
John 5:1-9
(NRSV)
Lay Reader: Scripture Reading: John 5:1–9 (NRSV)
After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes.
In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”
The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.”
Jesus said to him, “Stand up, take your mat and walk.” At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath.
Lay Reader: Scripture Response
One: This is God’s self-revealing through the stories of our people.
All: Praise be to God.
Pastor: Message
"Excuses, Excuses"
Rev. Shirley Macemon
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Choir: Anthem
"TBD"
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(Pastor: wait for A/V techs to return to A/V booth and the Offering slide to appear before proceeding)
PTZ2 - select Song Leader view
Pastor: Offering
Pastor: We honor the many ways your book guides us to be witnesses in the world towards justice.
Let us give generously with our time and our resources
so that through our relationships with all we can become a new world and a new people.
While we do not pass the plates for our Offering,
we do have offering plates at the back rows of chairs as you enter the sanctuary.
Please feel free to place your offerings there.
We also have a secure way to give online by using our webpage at campbellucc.com/donate
Let us pause and reflect as you give your offerings.
(Ruth plays a short interlude)
Still speaking God, we are witness to who Jesus is – from antiquity to modernity.
Faithfully, we experience a grace that renews and enlivens us.
Bless our offerings so others can be witness to the ways we live
into your word so that our communities may be refreshed and restored.
Now let us stand and sing our thanks for our blessings.
Song: "Doxology"
Praise God from whom
all blessings flow;
Praise God
all creatures here below;
Praise God above
you heavenly host;
Creator, Christ and
Holy Ghost. Amen.
Thomas Ken; Word adaptations reprinted from Book of Worship, © 1986. Used by permission of the United Church of Christ Office for Church Life and Leadership
Song: "TBD"
Song Leader: Our song is "TBD".
TBD
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Pastor: Prayers of the People
You are invited to share prayers of joy or concern. So that the people online may hear, please wait for the microphone to be brought to you before sharing your joy or concern.
Online people are invited to unmute and offer your prayers. You can also email your prayers for our community to prayerchain@campbellucc.org
Please let us know if you would NOT like your spoken prayer to be distributed on the Prayer Chain email.
(Wait for prayers to conclude, then Pastor may re-voice offered prayers or proceed to Silent Meditation)
Pastor: Silent Meditation
Pastor: Let us keep those and our unvoiced prayers in mind as we listen for God in the silence that follows the ringing of the singing bowl.
(The singing bowl is rung.)
Pastor: Pastoral Prayer
Pastor: (use your own or embellish this)
Holy God, hear the prayers we have voiced and those that remain unvoiced in our hearts.
Bless us this day with lives filled with love, caring, generosity, and deep, abiding hope.
We pray that your kingdom will dwell among all people, and that we may be instruments of your love and your grace.
Holy Spirit, open our hearts with the joy of healing a world filled with brokenness and pain.
In the name of the one who taught us the ways of light and love, be in our very lives.
Amen.
Pastor: Let us now pray together the prayer that Jesus taught us:
Pastor: The Lord's Prayer
ALL: Our Father (God/Mother/Creator),
who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
ALL: Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
ALL: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us (sins/debts)
ALL: Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
ALL: For thine is the kingdom, and the power,
and the glory forever.
Amen.
(Pastor and Lay Reader move to the Communion table.)
PTZ1 - Select Communion view
Song: "TBD"
TBD
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Pastor: Communion Invitation
Pastor: Please join me in our responsive Communion.
Pastor: Responsive Communion
One: The table is set, O God,
All: the bread freshly baked, the cup brim-full.
One: Your people are assembled, our hunger is great.
All: Look with love on us, your own, the apple of your eye.
One: Remember us, as we remember you and praise you for your love:
All: your mighty deeds, your faithfulness, your kindness without end.
One: Remember us now, as with grateful hearts we remember Jesus, the greatest of all your gifts to us.
We remember that he was laid in a grave.
All: A great stone sealed his tomb.
One: We remember that the women came
early in the morning, the third day.
All: They did not find him among the dead.
One: We remember that disciples met him,
a stranger on the road.
All: He explained the scriptures to them:
their hearts were ablaze.
One: They said to him, “Stay with us, for it is evening.”
All: He went in with them and sat at their table.
One: There he took bread and gave thanks for it.
He broke it and gave it to them.
All: They knew him when he broke the bread.
One: Now, most gracious God,
send your Spirit to bless this bread and cup,
signs of his body and poured-out life.
Make them for us, reconciling food and drink.
All: Bless us also, who share this meal so that, overjoyed by his presence, and nourished by his life,
All: we may become servants of his peace until the New Day of justice comes,
and every creature beholds it.
Lay Reader: Communion
Lay Reader: Friends, there are a lot of tables in this world, but there is none like this one.
We have a seat saved for you.
As you come forward, please use the hand sanitizer station.
We have both regular and gluten-free elements for you to use.
If you would prefer to be served in your seat, stay seated and we will come to you.
The Table is ready, Please come.
Wait to advance to this slide until the speaking is concluded.
Communion
(The elements are shared.
Lay Reader returns to seat after all are served.)
Pastor: Communion Blessing
Pastor: God of the mountain,
the valley, and every step in between,
may this meal be a fresh start.
May this moment,
where all are fed and all are welcomed,
be the start of something new.
Show us how to carry the love we experience here
from the walls of this church into the world we encounter in the days ahead.
Show us how to leave breadcrumbs of good news along our path and everywhere in between.
With deep hope we pray,
Amen.
PTZ1 - Select Closeup Lectern view
Song: "TBD"
Song Leader: Please rise as you are able and sing our closing song.
TBD
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Pastor: Benediction
Pastor: Let us go forth knowing that our spiritual and religious journey as Christians
begins with one word, one name, one person: Jesus.
Now let us be an example of what that means
so others can witness our compassion and solidarity
to the weeping, to the joyful, and to those we don’t share common ideologies
so that all might be refreshed in body and in spirit.
Amen.
PTZ2 - select Closeup Ruth/Janet view
Postlude
"TBD"
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Used under OneLicense.net A-726183
Advance to next slide after Postlude is concluded.
Remaining slides will auto-advance to the post-service loop.
Credits (Note: Credits slide will Advance after 5 seconds)
Pastor: Rev. Shirley Macemon
Lay Reader: Larry Edson
Song Leader: TBD
Music Director: Ruth Huber
AV tech: Ken True
Slides production: Ken True
Copyright (Note: Copyright slide will Advance after 5 seconds)
This Video © Copyright 2025,
Campbell UCC. All rights reserved.
Permission to podcast/stream the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726183 and/or from CCLI with streaming license #21189255.
All rights reserved.
UNMUTE CD Player and Play CD music.
Stop Zoom meeting.
Wait for Zoom video to process on CUCC-AV2 system
Turn off Projectors/ Rear TV/ Lobby TV and put away mics in A/V closet.
Goodbye (Note: Goodbye slide will Advance after 5 seconds)
Liturgy adapted from: "A Sabbath": Service Prayers for the Sixth Sunday of Easter was written by Rev. ellie hutchinson, who serves as the Minister for Congregational and Community Engagement for the United Church of Christ.
https://www.ucc.org/worship-way/easter-6c-may-25/
Communion liturgy adapted from
https://www.ucc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Eastertide-Communion-Prayer.pdf
Permission to podcast/stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-726183 and/or from CCLI with CCLI Streaming Plus License™ #21189255. All rights reserved.
Unless otherwise noted, the New Revised Standard Version of biblical translation is used.