Worship Roadmap - March 23, 2025
Updated: Saturday, March 08, 2025 10:57:01am
(Roadmap version: Draft (Lent 3)
Pastor: Rev. Shirley Macemon
Lay Reader: George King, Song Leader: TBD
Lectionary Scripture: Isaiah 55:1-9; Psalm 63:1-8; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; Luke 13:1-9;
Used Scripture: Luke 13:6-9)
PTZ1 - select Closeup Ruth/Janet view
PTZ2 - select Song Leader View
Start Zoom Recording at 9:59:30
Prelude
"TBD"
by whoDunnit
PTZ1 Select Closeup Lectern view
Song: "TBD"
Song Leader: Our Gathering Hymn is "TBD",
you may remain seated.
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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: Worship is a place to rest.
All: We breathe deeply here.
One: We still our aching bones.
All: We sit in the quiet.
One: We surround ourselves with music.
All: Worship is a place to rest.
One: Worship is a place to grow.
All: We listen for God’s word.
One: We invite it to challenge us.
All: We lean in with curiosity.
One: We ask questions.
All: Worship is a place to grow.
One: So come into this space.
Come rest and grow here.
All: For where two or more are gathered, God is always there.
One: Let us worship our gracious God.
Lay Reader: Prayer for Illumination
Lay Reader: Creator God,
Your Word is like soil,
something we can root ourselves in.
Your Word is like the sun,
big enough to touch everything with its warmth.
And your Word is like a gardener,
a love that prunes and encourages,
waters and delights,
seeds and tends.
So as we turn to your text today,
warm our bones,
tend to our broken pieces,
and show us how to grow.
With hope we pray,
Amen.
Song: "TBD"
Song Leader: Our Opening Hymn is "TBD".
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Lay Reader: Call to Transformation and New Life
Lay Reader: Please be seated.
Lay Reader: Friends, we carve out time for confession in worship because it is not enough to hear about God’s
grace once. We need that reminder again, and again, and again.
So join me in speaking the truth of our lives, and join me in receiving God’s grace again.
Lay Reader: Responsive Prayer
One: Holy God, There are days when we fail to rest.
All: We stretch ourselves too thin.
We say “yes” to every invitation.
All: We run a million miles a minute.
We ignore your command to rest.
One: There are also days when we fail to act.
All: We wait for someone else.
We take the easy road.
All: We find excuses and justify our inaction.
One: God, forgive our imbalance.
All: Remind us that birds rest, and they also fly.
All: Show us how to do the same.
Amen.
(Brief Pause)
Lay Reader: Words of Forgiveness
Lay Reader: Family of faith, I have good news!
Our God does not keep score.
Our God does not hold grudges.
Our God does not assume the worst about us.
No, our God offers grace, and endless second chances, and boundless love.
So join me in proclaiming the good news of the
gospel:
Lay Reader: Responsive Words of Forgiveness
All: God’s grace is deeper than the ocean.
God’s love is wider than the sky.
All: We are seen.
We are claimed.
We are forgiven.
All: May this realization change and inspire us.
Thanks be to God! Amen.
Pastor: Passing of the Peace-Invitation
Pastor: Let us pass God’s blessing 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 to sing our Hymn of preparation "TBD"
TBD
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Song Leader: Please be seated.
Lay Reader: Scripture
Luke 13:6-9
(NRSV)
Lay Reader: Scripture Reading: Luke 13:6–9 (NRSV)
Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.
So he said to the gardener, ‘See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?’
He replied, ‘Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it. If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’ ”
Lay Reader: Scripture Response
One: This is God’s self-revealing through the stories of our people.
All: Praise be to God.
Start 15 min Confidence Timer
Pastor: Message
"TBD"
Rev.Shirley Macemon
Stop Confidence Timer
Pastor: Affirmation of Faith
Pastor: Please join me in the Affirmation of Faith
Pastor: Responsive Affirmation of Faith
All: We believe in a God who loves and tends to us like a gardener.
All: We believe that like the trees, some seasons are for growth, and some seasons are for rest.
All: Some days require pruning, and some require planting.
All: Fortunately, we believe that our green-thumbed God sees us and cultivates the sweetest fruit.
All: So may we plant roots, reach for the sky, grow where we can, and rest when we need,
All: for we believe there is holiness in the pruning and in the planting.
All: And we do not grow alone.
Thanks be to God,
Amen.
PTZ2 - select Choir view
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:
While we do not pass the plates for our Offering,
we do have offering plates behind 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: "TBD"
TBD
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Pastor: Prayers of the People
Please be seated.
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"
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Pastor: Communion Invitation
Pastor: He was always the guest
In the homes of Peter and Jarius, Martha and Mary,
he was always the guest
At the meal tables of the wealthy where he pled the case of the poor,
Upsetting polite company, befriending isolated people,
welcoming the stranger, he was always the guest.
But here, at this table, he is the host.
Those who wish to serve him must first be served by him.
Those who want to follow him must first be fed by him,
Those who would wash his feet must first let him make them clean.
For this is the table where God intends us to be nourished.
This is the time when Christ can make us new.
So come, you who hunger and thirst for a deeper faith,
for a better life, for a fairer world.
Jesus Christ, who has sat at our tables now invites us to be guests at his.
Pastor: Communion Setting (Preface) (TFWS#2257-a)
One: The Lord be with you.
All: And also with you.
One: Lift up your hearts.
All: We lift them up
to the Lord.
One: Let us give thanks
to the Lord our God.
All: It is right
to give thanks
and praise.
Pastor: Communion
Pastor: It is indeed right, for you made us, and before us, you made the world,
and before the world, you made the eternal home in which,
through Christ, we have a place.
And grateful as we are we particularly praise You,
whom eternity cannot contain,
for coming to earth and entering time in Jesus.
For his life which informs our living,
for his compassion which changes our hearts,
for his clear speaking which contradicts our harmless generalities,
for his disturbing presence,
his innocent suffering, his awful dying,
his rising to life breathing forgiveness,
we praise you and worship him.
Here too our gratitude rises for the promise of the Holy Spirit,
who even now, confronts us with your claims and attracts us to your goodness.
Therefore we gladly join our voices to the song of the Church on earth and in heaven:
Song: "Holy, Holy, Holy (Sanctus)" (TFWS#2257-b)
Holy, holy, holy Lord;
God of power and might.
Heaven and earth
are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna in the highest!
Blest is the one
who comes
in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna in the highest!
Mark A Miller; Words: United Methodist Hymnal © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing Co.; Tune: Mark A Miller, © 2000 Abingdon Press; Used under OneLicense.net A-726183.;
Pastor: Communion
Pastor: What we do here, we do in imitation of what Christ first did.
To his followers in every age, Jesus gave an example,
rooted in the experience he shared with his disciples in an upstairs room in Jerusalem.
(Taking and breaking bread)
Among friends, gathered round a table, Jesus took bread,
Thanked God, and broke it, and said, `This is my body - broken for you.'
(Holding up a cup of wine)
Later he took a cup of wine and after giving thanks, said,
'This is the new relationship with God made possible because of my death.
Take it, to remember me.'
So now we do as Jesus did.
We take this bread and this wine,
the produce of the earth and fruit of human labor.
In these, Jesus has promised to be present;
Through these, Christ can make us whole.
In this spirit, we proclaim the mystery of faith:
Song: "Christ has died, Christ is risen (Memorial Acclamation)" (TFWS#2257-c)
Christ has died,
Christ is risen,
Christ will come again.
Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna in the highest!
Mark A Miller; Words: United Methodist Hymnal © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing Co.; Tune: Mark A Miller, © 2000 Abingdon Press; Used under OneLicense.net A-726183.;
Pastor: Communion
Pastor: Let us pray:
A Merciful God, send now, in kindness,
your Holy Spirit to settle on this bread and wine
and fill them with the fullness of Jesus.
And let that same Spirit rest on us,
converting us from the patterns of this passing world,
until we conform to the shape of him whose food we now share.
Song: "Amen (Great Amen)" (TFWS#2257-d)
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna in the highest!
Mark A Miller; Words: United Methodist Hymnal © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing Co.; Tune: Mark A Miller, © 2000 Abingdon Press; Used under OneLicense.net A-726183.;
Pastor: Communion
Pastor: He whom the universe could not contain, is present to us in this bread.
He who redeemed us and called us by name now meets us in this cup.
So take this bread and this wine.
In them God comes to us so that we may come to God.
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: Let us pray.
In deep gratitude for this moment, this meal, these people,
we give ourselves to you.
Take us out, to live as changed people
because we have shared the Living Bread and cannot remain the same.
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: As you leave this place,
may you find God in every messy middle.
May you know that the world is bigger than two sides.
May you trust that you are made in the image of God,
and therefore, you contain multitudes.
So may you move through this world with an open heart,
with a curious mind, and with the confidence that you do not go alone.
God is with you in the mountains,
in the valleys,
and everywhere in between.
Believe that good news, and go in peace.
Amen.
PTZ2 - select Closeup Ruth/Janet view
Postlude
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Credits (Note: Credits slide will Advance after 5 seconds)
Pastor: Rev. Shirley Macemon
Lay Reader: George King
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.
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Liturgy adapted from: Everything In Between - Words For Worship Lenten Series by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed | A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.org.
Slide backgrounds, logos and liturgy Copyright 2025 a sanctified art, used by permission.
Liturgy for Holy Communion from Wee Worship Book, p 84, Wild Goose Worship Group. Used with permission.
Sung communion liturgy from The Faith We Sing, 2257-a through 2257-d with words from the UMC Hymnal and music by Mark A. Miller. Used with permission under OneLicense.net A-726183.
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.