Part Two:
6th Sunday of
Easter
10:30 am Holy Communion Service
Grace Evangelical Lutheran, San
Francisco
Welcome
to worship at Grace! Welcome to long-time
Lutherans, Christians from every tradition, and people new to faith. Welcome to
all who have no church home, want to follow Christ, have doubts, or do not
believe. Welcome to new visitors and old friends. Welcome to people of every
age and size, color and culture, every sexual orientation and gender identity,
socio-economic status, marital status, ability and challenge. Welcome to
believers and questioners, and to questioning believers. This is a place where
you are welcome to celebrate and sorrow, rejoice and recover. This is a place where lives are made new.
Special
Welcome to Newcomers Welcome
to our small community of faith. While
we are small in numbers, we have big hearts and a desire to grow. In order to help you follow along, we have
included all the materials you need for worship in this bulletin.
Please join us for worship any Sunday at 10:30am
that you are able. If you cannot join us
in person, you can also join us online via live stream or by watching the
archives of our worship and Bible Study that Doesn’t Suck anytime during the
week at our website (www.gracesf.com), or on our mobile phone app, Bible Study that Doesn’t Suck, is
available on Google Play and ITunes.
If you have any questions about the service
or about Grace, you can fill out the form in pew to let our pastor know you’d
like to chat. Or you can contact Pastor
Megan Rohrer at pastor@gracesf.com.
Prelude
Greeting
Pastor: Alleluia! Christ is risen!
Congregation: Christ
is risen indeed! Alleluia!
The joy of the resurrection fills us with hope,
promises us new life, and draws
us together as one. We cannot keep this good news
to ourselves. Let us begin
our worship by turning to fellow worshipers and
greeting them with the words,
“Christ is risen!”
Worshipers
greet one another by saying, “Christ is risen!” or “Alleluia!” along with
introducing themselves to others they may not have yet met.
Gathering Hymn Verses
1-3
Prayer of the Day
Loving
God, help us to forgive ourselves as often as you have forgiven us. Help us to love and stubbornly as you love
us. And, remind us again and again that
even when we have forgotten, you will never forget us. Amen.
Welcome
First Reading Acts 10:44-48
44While
Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word. 45The
circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of
the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles, 46for they
heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter said, 47“Can
anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy
Spirit just as we have?” 48So he ordered them to be baptized in the
name of Jesus Christ. Then they invited him to stay for several days.
Word of hope, word of life. Thanks
be to God
Psalm 98 (read responsively)
1O sing to
the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things.
His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory. 2The Lord has made known his victory; he has revealed his
vindication in the sight of the nations. 3He has remembered his
steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth
have seen the victory of our God.
4Make a
joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into
joyous song and sing praises.
5Sing
praises to the Lord with the lyre, with the lyre and the
sound of melody.
6With
trumpets and the sound of the horn make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord.
7Let the
sea roar, and all that fills it; the world and those who live in it.
8Let the
floods clap their hands; let the hills sing together for joy
9at the
presence of the Lord, for he is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
Second Reading 1 John 5:1-6
5Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God,
and everyone who loves the parent loves the child. 2By this we know
that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3For
the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments
are not burdensome, 4for whatever is born of God conquers the world.
And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith. 5Who is
it that conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of
God?
6This
is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only
but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one that testifies, for
the Spirit is the truth.
Word of hope, word of
life. Thanks
be to God
Special Music Lift Every Voice and Sing LBW 562 Grace Choir
Gospel Reading John
15:9-17
9As
the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. 10If
you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my
Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11I have said these
things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. 12“This
is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13No
one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14You
are my friends if you do what I command you. 15I do not call you
servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is
doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you
everything that I have heard from my Father. 16You did not choose me
but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will
last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. 17I
am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
The
gospel of the Lord. Praise
to you, O Christ.
Sermon
Silence for reflection follows the sermon. The assembly stands to proclaim the word of
God in song.
Hymn of the Day Verses
1, 3 and 4
Prayers of Intercession
A During this season of Easter, we pray for
all who long for a new start, experience health and love beyond their expectations
and for the church, the world and all people in their need. A brief
silence.
Creating God, help us repair
broken relationships, to clean up our messes and debts and to ask for help when
we need it. God in your mercy, hear our
prayer.
Parent God, bless all who are
parents, the family and staff of the Grace
Infant Care
Center and all who have
created families. Help us to become
better at loving and receiving love from others. God in your mercy, hear our prayer.
God, you are the highest
authority. Help our civic leaders to
bring peace to a war torn world and to care for those who are vulnerable. Be with our bishops Elizabeth and Mark, our
pastor Megan and all the staff and leaders of our congregation. Help us to support the work and hobbies of
all who worship with us, so that we may draw closer to God in all that we do at
work and at home. God in your mercy, hear our prayer.
Loving God, help us to have
patience, compassion and listening ears for those who differ from us. Provide healing and hope for those whose minds,
bodies or spirits are in need of care. We
pray especially for those who care for the sick and support those who are aging.
Help us to live and experience as much
as we can while we await the day we will be reunited with those we have
lost. God in your mercy, hear our prayer.
For whom and what else do the
people of Grace pray?
(Please offer - silently or aloud- petitions to God. End spoken petitions with “God in your mercy.”)
P Our prayers rise like
incense and are held by a loving God who yearns for us to be our best. May we sleep well, worry less and live
convinced that God’s is on our side. Amen.
Offering
An offering is gathered for the mission of the church,
including the care of those in need. After
the offering is gathered, the assembly stands.
Offering Prayer
A Let us pray. God,
bless the all that we have to offer. May our financial support match the
generosity of our lives. Help us to be good
stewards of our financial and emotional investments. Amen.
Communion
P
It is indeed right, our duty and our
joy, that we should at all times and in all places give thanks and praise . . .
we praise your name and join their unending hymn:
On the night
in which he was betrayed, our Lord Jesus took bread, and gave thanks; broke it,
and gave it to his disciples, saying: Take and eat; this is my body, given for
you. Do this for the remembrance of me.
Again, after
supper, he took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it for all to drink, saying: This
cup is the new covenant in my blood, shed for you and for all people for the
forgiveness of sin. Do this for the remembrance of me.
The
Lord’s Prayer
C
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your
will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us
our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial
and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now
and forever. Amen
Blessing
Announcements
Sending Hymn Verses
1, 2 and 5
Dismissal
A: Go in peace and serve our God.
C: Thanks be to God.
Postlude
Please join us for coffee and
refreshments downstairs in the Fellowship Hall.
To get to the Fellowship Hall, exit to
the right of the communion railing at the front of the church.
Scripture in this
service is adapted from The Inclusive Bible: The First Egalitarian
Translation, by Priests for Equality.
2009, Sheed & Ward. Kindle Edition.
The traditional
Lutheran liturgy is from Sundays and Seasons.com. Copyright 2014 Augsburg
Fortress. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License
#28429.
Hymns used with permission for worship and podcast under
OneLicense.net #A-723548.
The Stars Come Out Talent Show/Fundraiser for the Friendship Line, Sunday, June 14, 2015 3:30-5:30 p.m. Heritage Hall, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1111 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco. Come join the fun and help to raise funds for the Friendship Line. We have a tap dancer, dog act, wonderful pianist, clown, singer and possibly even you! And, of course, everyone needs an audience. Purchase tickets for $20 and donate at:
https://starscomeouttalentshow.eventbrite.com.
Institute on Aging’s Friendship Line reaches out to older and disabled adults offering emotional support, reassurance, crisis intervention, elder abuse prevention, well-being checks, and information and referral via phone as a lifeline of hope. Thrivent Financial provided seed money for this event. Please contact Judith Dancer at 415-437-7370 x117 or Judith.dancer@thrivent.com to be exhibit your talents—serious or funny!
Santa Maria y Martha and
Grace Evangelical Lutheran
Churches
Invite you to join us for
Las Inglesias Lutheranas Santa Maria y Santa Marta junto con Grace
Evangelical los invita a que se unan con nosotros para
The Flight of the Lutheran Kids
May 22, 2015, 6:-9:30pm
3201 Ulloa
St (at 33rd
Ave)
El Vuelo de los ninos Lutheranos
Vienes 22 de Mayo
2015, 6-9:30 pm
3201
Ulloa St (en la 33 avenida)
A fundraising dinner to to
help the youth at Sts. Maria y Martha attend the ELCA youth gathering in Detroit.
Se trata de una cena para recaudar fondos
para ayudar a los jóvenes miembros de los Santos María y Marta que
asistirán al evento juvenil ELCA en Detroit.
$10 Admisión General
$25 Santo
$100 Profeta
$150 Tabla de 8 patrocinador
$500 Angel
$1,000 Milagro
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