Claybanks United Methodist Church
Sunday, August 17, 2025
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Outdoor Old Time Worship
Church Family Picnic
Welcome and Announcements
Prelude
A Call to Holy Silence
*Call to Worship and Praise
Minister: O come, let us sing unto the Lord……For with Him is the fountain of life, and in Him shall we see light.
Leader: O Lord, open Thou our lips.
All: And our mouth shall show forth Thy praise.
Leader: Praise ye the Lord.
All: The Lord’s name be praised.
*Call to Prayer
*Hymn
”Bringing in the Sheaves”………………. (insert)
Invocation
Prayer of Confession
Words of Assurance and Promises of Pardon
Affirmation of Faith
The Minister: Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is the one true church, Apostolic and Universal, whose Holy Faith let us now reverently and sincerely declare:
The Minister and People: We believe in God the Father, infinite in wisdom, power and love, whose mercy is overall. His works, and whose will is ever directed to His children’s good.
We believe in Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of man, the gift of the Father’s unfailing grace, the ground of our hope and the promise of our deliverance from sin and death.
We believe in the Holy Spirit as the Divine Presence in our lives, whereby we are kept in perpetual remembrance of the truth of Christ and find strength and help in time of need.
We believe that this faith should manifest itself in the service of love as set forth in the example of our blessed Lord, to the end that the Kingdom of God may come upon the earth. Amen.
*Hymn
”It is Well with My Soul”……….….…” (insert)
Collection
The Offering of our Gifts and Ourselves
Doxology
Offertory Sentences
*Hymn
”Let the Lower Lights Be Burning”..………. (insert)
The Lesson From Holy Scripture
Old Testament Reading
Isaiah 5:1-7
New Testament Reading
Luke 12:49-56
Message by Pastor Gary Peterson
“The Farmer’s Almanac”
Prayer
*Hymn
”All Things Bright and Beautiful”……….(insert)
Meal Grace
Benediction
Postlude – Please be seated
Pianist – Suzanne Bellrichard
Liturgist – Ellen Zimmerman
Ministers – All People As We Live The Good News
