Worship Roadmap - February 09, 2025
Updated: Saturday, February 08, 2025 5:14:16am
(Roadmap version: Final
Pastor: Rev. Shirley Macemon
Lay Reader: Sandy Holloway, Song Leader: Laurann Golden
Lectionary Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-8, (9-13); Psalm 138; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Luke 5:1-11;
Used Scripture: Isaiah 40:1, 3-5)
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Start Zoom Recording at 9:59:30
Prelude
"Isaiah the Prophet , NCH#108"
arr. by Sydney Carter
Used under One License.net A-726183
PTZ1 Select Closeup Lectern view
Song: "God Is Here! As We Your People Meet" (NCH#70)
Song Leader: Our Gathering Hymn is "God Is Here! As We Your People Meet".
You may remain seated.
God is here! As we your people,
meet to offer praise and prayer,
May we find in fuller measure
what it is in Christ we share.
Here, as in the world around us,
all our varied skills and arts
wait the coming of the Spirit
into open minds and hearts.
Here are symbols to remind us
of our lifelong need of grace;
Here are table, font, and pulpit,
here the cross has central place.
Here in honesty of preaching,
here in silence, as in speech,
here, in newness and renewal,
God the Spirit comes to each.
Sovereign God, of earth and heaven,
in an age of change and doubt,
Keep us faithful to the gospel,
help us work your purpose out.
Here, in this day's celebration,
all we have to give, receive:
we, who cannot live without you,
we adore you! We believe!
Fred Pratt Green,Cyril V Taylor; Words: © 1979 Hope Publishing Co. Music: © 1942, renewed 1970 by Hope Publishing Co. Reprinted under OneLicense.net A-726183.
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: There is a good word for you if you are weary.
All: It is the Word of Love, deeper than every despair.
One: There is a good word if you have ever felt unworthy.
All: It is the Word of Hope, “Do not be afraid!”
One: There is a good word that needs to be heard.
All: It is the Word of Life, that raises up abundant blessings.
Song Leader: Prayer of Invocation
Song Leader: Loving God, gather us anew into your net of love.
Interrupt whatever overwhelms us with the gift of your renewing grace.
Plumb every depth and reveal Your holy abundance.
Let it awaken us to what you make possible
when we risk answering your invitation to begin again.
Gift us with the courage to trust the command of Christ
to put out into the deep, even when it doesn’t seem to make sense.
Answer our trust with Your promised presence, which reveals an ever-new rising.
Bless us with this of You as we gather in the name of Jesus.
Amen.
Song Leader: Please be seated.
Song: "Rain Down"
Rain down, rain down,
rain down your
love on your people.
Rain down, rain down,
rain down your love,
God of life.
Faithful and true is
the word of our God.
All of God's works are
so worthy of trust.
God's mercy falls on
the just and the right;
full of God's love
is the earth.
Rain down, rain down,
rain down your
love on your people.
Rain down, rain down,
rain down your love,
God of life.
We who revere and
find hope in our God
live in the kindness
and joy of God's wing.
God will protect us
from darkness and death;
God will not leave
us to starve.
Rain down, rain down,
rain down your
love on your people.
Rain down, rain down,
rain down your love,
God of life.
Jaime Cortez; © 1991, Jaime Cortez. Published by OCP Publications. All rights reserved. Reprinted under One License.net A-726183
Lay Reader: Prayer for Transformation and New Life
Lay Reader: Holy One, it is easy to succumb to weariness
when our work has seemed to yield little goodness.
Hope-crushing night can seem so long.
Yet You call us to keep putting out into the deep,
facing the reality of our emptiness.
Sometimes it is of our own making.
At other times, pressures beyond have submerged us
to the point of losing our breath.
So we release everything to you.
We pray that Your promised forgiveness will continue
to be trustworthy and true.
Let it raise us up for some work of abundance
made possible by your grace.
We pray this in the name of the one
You raised to life, Jesus the Christ.
Amen.
(Brief pause for silence and self examination)
Lay Reader: Words of Grace
Lay Reader: Friends, hear the words of Jesus, “Do not be afraid!”
There is nothing in our past that matters more
than what God can do, beginning now.
We are forgiven by the one who has endured the depths of death
and has risen to ever-new life.
This is the Good News!
You can trust it with your life.
Thanks be to God!
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.
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Pastor: Passing of the Peace
Share a wave, elbow bump, or hug as you are mutually comfortable
Song: "Comfort, Comfort O My People" (NCH#101)
Song Leader: Please remain standing or rise as you are able and sing.
"Comfort, comfort
O my people,
tell of peace,"
thus says our God;
Comfort those whose
hearts are shrouded,
mourning under
sorrow’s load.
Speak unto Jerusalem
of the peace that
waits for them;
Tell them that
their sins I cover,
and their warfare
now is over.
For the herald’s
voice is calling
in the desert
far and near,
Bidding us to
make repentance
since the realm of
God is here.
Oh, that warning cry obey!
Now prepare
for God a way;
Let the valleys
rise in meeting
and the hills
bow down in greeting.
Straight shall be what
long was crooked,
and the rougher
places plain!
Let your hearts be
true and humble,
for Messiah's holy reign.
For God's glory evermore
shall be known
o'er all the world;
And all flesh shall
see the token
that God's word
is never broken.
Johannes Olearius,Catherine Winkworth; Public Domain
Song Leader: Please be seated.
Lay Reader: Scripture
Isaiah 40:1-5
(NRSV)
Lay Reader: Scripture Reading: Isaiah 40:1–5 (NRSV)
Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God.
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.
A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.
Then the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all people shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
Lay Reader: Scripture Response
One: This is God’s self-revealing through the stories of our people.
All: Praise be to God.
Pastor: Message
"Isaiah and Our Times"
Rev. Dr. Senator Raphael Warnock
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Pastor: This morning we have a guest preacher – one that you have all heard of, but probably never expected to hear.
Coming to us by the miracle of internet, recording technologies,
Rev. Dr. Senator Raphael Warnock.
Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock 01_22_23 [Note: will auto advance to next slide at end of video]
[Manual play of Video 'Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock 01_22_23.mp4' (00:28:34)]
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Choir: Anthem
"Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel"
by Ralph Hunter
Used under OneLicense.net A-726183
(Pastor: wait for A/V techs to return to A/V booth and the Offering slide to appear before proceeding)
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Pastor: Offering
Pastor: As forgiven and reconciled people, let us offer ourselves and our gifts to God
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)
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: "O Lord, Hear My Prayer"
Song Leader: Our song is "O Lord, Hear My Prayer".
O Lord, hear my prayer.
O Lord, hear my prayer.
When I call, answer me.
O Lord, hear my prayer.
O Lord, hear my prayer.
Come and listen to me.
O Lord, hear my prayer.
O Lord, hear my prayer.
When I call, answer me.
O Lord, hear my prayer.
O Lord, hear my prayer.
Come and listen to me.
Jacques Berthier; Words and Music by Jacques Berthier, © 1982, Les Presses de Taizé, GIA Publications, Inc., agent, Reprinted under OneLicense.net A-726183.
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)
Loving God, empty us in order to fill us.
Empty our opinions
And fill us with your wisdom…
Empty our worry
And fill us with new faith…
Empty our despair
And fill us with your hope…
Empty our fear
And fill us with your love…
Yes, O Love of Life,
Empty us, in order to fill us anew.
Pastor: Let us now pray together the prayer that Jesus taught us with this version translated from the Aramaic by Neil Douglas-Klotz PhD
Pastor: The Lord's Prayer
All: O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos, you create all that moves in light.
All: Focus your light within us — make it useful: as the rays of a beacon show the way.
All: Unite our “I can” to yours, so that we walk as kings and queens with every creature.
All: Create in me a divine cooperation — from many selves, one voice, one action.
All: Grant what we need each day in bread and insight.
All: Forgive our hidden past, the secret shames, as we consistently forgive what others hide.
All: Deceived neither by the outer nor the inner — free us to walk your path with joy.
All: From you is born all ruling will, the power and life to do, the song that beautifies all from age to age it renews. Amen.
(Pastor and Lay Reader move to the Communion table.)
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Song: "Let Us Be Bread"
Let us be bread,
blessed by the Lord,
Broken and shared,
life for the world.
Let us be wine,
love freely poured.
Let us be one
in the Lord.
Let us be bread,
blessed by the Lord,
Broken and shared,
life for the world.
Let us be wine,
love freely poured.
Let us be one
in the Lord.
Thomas J. Porter; © 1990, GIA Publications, Inc. Reprinted under OneLicense.net A-726183.
Pastor: Communion Invitation
Pastor: Brothers, Sisters, and Siblings, this is the mighty feast,
the joyful feast, the holy feast of and for the people of God.
This table represents a level of welcome, inclusion, and imagery
that can only be experienced through the power of the Holy Spirit.
We have come from all walks of life.
The one thing we all share at this table is that we come.
Our prayer is that we come together because we are invited
not by the church or the leaders but by Jesus Christ himself.
This is the Lord’s table, Our Savior invites all who trust him to come.
Pastpr: Responsive Communion
One: The Lord be with you.
All: And also with you.
One: Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
One: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God
All: It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Pastor: Communion
Pastor: It is truly right and our greatest joy to give you thanks, God of majesty and mercy.
You have called forth the creation and raised us from dust by your ruach.
We bless you for the beauty and bounty by which each of us was wonderfully made in your image.
Above all, we give thanks for the gift of Jesus, your son and our Savior.
Pastor: Responsive Communion
All: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
All: Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.
All: Hosanna in the highest,
Hosanna in the highest!
Pastor: Communion
Pastor: Christ was born fully human and fully divine.
He shares in our joys and sorrows.
We bless you, O God, for the Holy Spirit's presence and power.
That Holy Spirit leads us into truth, fights for justice and equality,
continues to gather us as believers
even in the face of adversity, and moves us to be empowered by your love.
It is the movement of the Holy Spirit
that allows us to
trust in the life, death, and resurrection which reconciles us to you.
Pastor: Responsive Communion
All: Dying you destroyed our death,
Rising, you restored our life.
Lord Jesus, come in glory.
Pastor: Communion
Pastor: Come, Holy Spirit to to bless this bread and this cup as we remember you, your gifts,
and your mystery that we might recognize the risen Christ
in our midst, in each other and in all the world.
Great is the mystery of faith.
On the night that he was wrongfully incarcerated,
Jesus took bread, and after giving thanks to God,
He gave it to his disciples, saying,
“Take and eat.
This is my body, given for you.
Do this in remembrance of me.”
In the same way, Jesus lifted the cup in thanks saying,
“This cup is the new covenant, shed for you for the forgiveness of sins.
Whenever you drink it, do this in remembrance of me.”
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.
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Communion
(The elements are shared.
Lay Reader returns to seat after all are served.)
Pastor: Communion Blessing
Pastor: O God, with gratitude and praise
you have blessed and fed us in this sacrament,
united us with Christ, and given us hope in the face of turmoil,
to remind us that in you, everything is already alright.
Send us from this place with purpose and in your power,
blessed, transformed and bent toward the arc of justice
for the sake of Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Amen
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Song: "Guide My Feet" (TFWS#2208)
Song Leader: Please rise as you are able and sing our closing song.
Guide my feet
while I run this race.
Guide my feet
while I run this race.
Guide my feet
while I run this race,
for I don’t want
to run this race in vain!
Hold my hand
while I run this race.
Hold my hand
while I run this race.
Hold my hand
while I run this race.
for I don’t want
to run this race in vain!
Stand by me
while I run this race.
Stand by me
while I run this race.
Stand by me
while I run this race.
for I don’t want
to run this race in vain!
For I don't want
to run this race in vain!
Anonymous, Wendell Whalum; African American Spiritual, Public Domain. Harmony © Estate of Wendell Whalum, used under OneLicense.net A-726183.
Pastor: Benediction
Pastor: May the blessing of the Holy One who has plumbed every depth,
continually raise you up.
May God’s ridiculous abundance stretch wide your heart.
And may God gift you with a boldness to bless others,
awakening them to their beloved identity.
Amen and Amen!
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Postlude
"Canticle of the Turning"
by Rory Cooney and John Ferguson
Used under OneLicense.net A-726183
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Credits (Note: Credits slide will Advance after 5 seconds)
Pastor: Rev. Shirley Macemon
Lay Reader: Sandy Holloway
Song Leader: Laurann Golden
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: Into the deep: Service Prayers for the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany Year C was written by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins, Conference Minister of the Heartland Conference of the United Church of Christ.
https://www.ucc.org/worship-way/after-epiphany-5c-february-9/
Communion Liturgy adapted by Shirley Macemon from Black History Month Communion Liturgy
Written by Rev. Amantha Barbee, Oakhurst Presbyterian Church USA, Decatur, GA and
Rev. Dr. Kelle Brown, Plymouth United Church of Christ, Seattle, WA.
Copyright © 2020 A. Barbee/K. Brown. All Rights Reserved.
https://mlp.org/document/black-history-month-communion-liturgy/
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.