2. Prelude

3. Call to Worship

4. We gather in the presence of our Creator and Mysterious God, Orbiter of Planets,
Universes and more.
We are guided here, to this place, just as our hearts are guided to love.
Come, All!
Let us worship this Creator, Loving and Mysterious God together!

5. Processional Hymn
NCH #273
Praise With Joy the World's Creator

6. Praise with joy the world’s Creator,
God of justice, love, and peace,
Source and end of human knowledge,
grace bestowing without cease.
Celebrate the Maker’s glory,
power to rescue and release.

7. Praise to Christ who feeds the hungry,
frees the captive, finds the lost,
Heals the sick, upsets religion,
fearless both of fate and cost.
Celebrate Christ’s constant presence –
Friend and Stranger, Guest and Host.

8. Praise the Spirit sent among us,
liberating truth from pride,
Forging bonds where race or gender,
age or nation dare divide.
Celebrate the Spirit’s treasure – foolishness none dare deride..

9. Praise the Maker, Christ, and Spirit,
one God in Community,
Calling Christians to embody
oneness and diversity.
Thus the world shall yet believe
when shown Christ’s vibrant unity.

10. Please be seated

11. Unison Prayer

12. We pray to the One in whom all
authority in heaven and on earth resides.
We realize this God in many ways:
as Creator, Begotten One and Spirit –
and more. We are filled with soul-fired
warmth in knowing how much we are loved by God; so much so that even when we forget or wonder how God could care or be present in the midst of great sorrow

13. – even then, as our human condition fails us,
God’s love is steadfast, generous, kind
and patient. We pray for this God’s help
to remember the commands to love and
serve in God’s name, and to recall Jesus’ words,
“And know that I am with you always,
even until the end of the world.” Help us to
remember, always that you are with us –
always, beyond all worlds, times and space.

14. Assurance of Pardon

15. Passing of the Peace

16. Please be seated

17. First Reading
Genesis 1:1-24a

18. Gospel Reading
Matthew 28:16-20

19. Musical Praise

20. Message for all Gathered
Reverse Engineering!

21. Hymn
NCH #278
Creator God,Creating Still

22. Creator God, creating still,
by will and word and deed,
Create a new humanity
to meet the present need.
Redeemer God, redeeming still,
with overflowing grace,
Pour out your love on, through us,
make this a holy place.

23. Sustainer God, sustaining still,
with strength for every day,
Empower us now to do your will.
Correct us when we stray.
Great Triune God, for this new day
we need your presence still.
Create, redeem, sustain us now
to do your work and will.

24. Please be seated

25. Prayer for Others
and Ourselves

26. The Lord’s Prayer/
The Prayer of Jesus

27. Musical Praise

28. Invitation to Give

29. Offertory

30. We praise thee, O God,
our Redeemer, Creator;
in grateful devotion,
our tribute we bring.
We lay it before thee,
we come and adore thee,
We bless thy holy name,
glad praises we sing.
Amen

31. Closing Hymn
NCH #277
Holy, Holy, Holy

32. Holy, holy, holy, God the Almighty!
Holy, holy, holy, God the Almighty!
Early in the morning we praise your majesty.
Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty!
God in three persons, blessed Trinity!
Holy, holy, holy! Saints adore you truly,
Casting down their golden crowns
around the glassy sea;
Cherubim and seraphim
bow before you only,
From the beginning, God eternally.

33. Holy, holy, holy! Though we know but dimly,
Though the eyes of human kind
your glory may not see,
You alone are holy, you alone are worthy,
Perfect in power, in love and purity.
Holy, holy, holy, God the Almighty!
All your works shall praise your name
in earth and sky and sea.
Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty!
God in three persons, blessed Trinity!

34. Please be seated

35. Benediction
and
Sending Forth

36. Brief Announcements

37. Postlude