Worship Bulletin

FIRST PARISH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF SACO
April 28, 2024 FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER 10:00 AM
We extend a warm welcome to all who gather here.
We pray that the service will offer you peace, comfort, and substance to feed your soul.
The Community Gathers
Meditation “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and
it comes time for God to judge us, [God] will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done
      in your life?’ rather [God] will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?’”
                                                           ~ Mother Teresa
Prelude
Welcome and Announcements
Introit
Call to Worship
Leader: Come one, come all. Gather together in God’s Presence.
People: We are united in God’s amazing grace and woven together in joy.
Leader: We are embraced by love and knitted together in God’s wonderful peace.
People: We are bound by kindness and sprinkled with God’s life-giving water.
Leader: We are made new in forgiveness. We have been set free for loving service.
People: We are filled with gladness and uplifted by praise.
Leader: Come one, come all! Let us worship God together!
*Opening Hymn “There’s a Spirit of Love in This Place” (see insert)
Prayer of Invocation and Lords’s Prayer (unison)
O God, light of the hearts that see you, life of the souls that love you, strength of the thoughts that seek you, we gather in this place waiting to hear your voice. We are listening; we await your Word. Speak to us, O God, then help us to both see and to do what we have seen and heard. We ask all of this in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, and we offer the words that he taught us to use when we pray:
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy
will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and
forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory
forever. Amen.
The Baptism of Mackenzie Grace Kibler
Parents: Christina and Chris Kibler
Godparents: Katharine Khademi and Amanda Remie
A Message for Children and Youth
The Word of God to Us
The Reading of Scripture 1 John 4:7-21 (NT, p. 213)
The Message “Perfect Love” Rev. Scott W. Cousineau
Anthem “City Called ‘Heaven’” by Josephine Poelinitz
                                     Solo: William Sawyer, Piano: Malinda Hasslet
We Respond to God’s Word
The Community at Prayer
Sharing our Prayers
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
Prayer Response “When I Pray” by Daniel Nahmod
When I pray, I feel my heart go deeper, my heart go deeper into my God.
When I pray, I feel my heart go deeper, my heart go deeper into my God.
Right here, right now, right where I am, I pray.
Right here, right now, right where I am, I pray.
Offering Our Gifts to God
        Invitation
Offertory
*Doxology
                Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise God all creatures here below.
Praise God above ye heavenly hosts, Creator, Christ, and Holy Ghost.
*Prayer of Dedication
*Closing Hymn “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” #404
*Benediction
*Postlude
*Indicates to please stand if you are able.

Our altar flowers this morning are given by Jeff Chaffee in loving memory of
Marilyn Chaffee. Her birthday is May 2.

The prayer shawls in the sanctuary are here to be shared. They have been blessed
in their making and in our worship. If you know someone that is in need of comfort and prayer, please share a shawl with them.

Our sanctuary is equipped with a bi-polar ionization system which cleans germs and bacteria from the air as it circulates. If you are a little chilly because of the breeze blowing on you,
please know that it is warmer up in the balcony.

Rev. Scott Cousineau, Senior Minister
Kris Galasyn, Director of Christian Education
Jacqueline Savage, Director of Music
William Sawyer, Pianist
Peter Galasyn, Acolyte
Mary Coyne, Nursery Care Provider

Congregational Church
UCC, SACO MAINE
12 BEACH STREET | SACO, ME 04072
207-283-3771

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