Sunday worship plan

We Gather in God’s Name

Welcome Guests!

Creation Calls Us to Worship

Greeting by Elder Gayle Trautwein

Leader: The peace of the risen Christ be with you.

People: And also with you.

The Life of the Church

Prelude: “The Music of the Jungle”

*Call to Worship (Perry Chang)

Leader: The mountains shelter the oasis. The sun and rain nourish your creation. The lake and fields feed your people. And the animals cry out your name.

People: Alleluia! God is here!

*Hymn #472 PH “Cantad al Señor/O Sing to the Lord” (Sing the first verse in Spanish and all others in English)

*Prayer of Confession (Soni Castleberry)

Leader: Creator Dios, you made the heavens and the earth, el sol and la luna. You formed the sky above and the aqua below. You let the waters separate into seas, rivers and lagos.

People: You made the tierra that emerged rich for growing all kinds of plantas to meet our daily needs. You created stars to give luz to this world and to provide direction and structure for our time.

Leader: You filled your creation with fish, birds and other living creatures. And finally, you created an hombre and a mujer in your own image and with dominion over themselves and all you had made. You proclaimed it all — excellente!

People: Dear God, we confess that we take for granted your amazing creaciónes. We abuse the land, waters, air and creatures that inhabit them. We abuse each other and ourselves too.

Leader: We forget you created each of us as único, equal beings meant to be interdependent. Instead, we become uncomfortable when others do not seem like us. We forget those diferencias are just other images of you in them.

People: You created us to work in partnership. Instead, we fear reaching out to form conexiónes or do not trust that you will make a way to allow us to experience things we did not believe we could.

Leader: Help us, Dios, to be more willing to step out of our comfort zones. Help us escuchar to you and act on what we hear. Help us to believe the verdad that you are always with us—here at home, in Guatemala, wherever we are.

People: In the name of Christ, we offer ourselves for forgiveness yet again.

(Silence for examination of conscience and personal prayers of confession)

*Pouring of the Baptismal Water

*Hymn #2007 SF “Santa, Santo, Santo”

(Doug Yeager will play, then Luiz Kemmerle will sing a cappella, then congregation will be invited to join in singing)

Santo, santo, santo,
mi corazón te adora!
Mi corazón te sabe decir:
Santo eres, Dios!

*Declaration of Forgiveness

Leader: God forgives us:

People: God makes peace within us and among us.

Leader: Let us claim this healing, in faith and hope.

*Sung Response: “Bienvenido!”

Bienvenido! Bienvenido!
Los hermanos hoy aquí
nos gozamos endecir;
Bienvenido! Bienvenido!
Al volvernos a reunir,
Bienvenido!

(Loose translation: Welcome! We have great joy in saying Welcome! Until we meet again, Welcome!)

*The Peace in Q´eqchi´

Leader: Lix tuktuil rusilal li kawa chi cuank eeriki ut kukin.
People: Lix tuktuil rusilal li kawa chi cuank eeriki ut kukin.

(Translation: May the peace of Christ be with you.)

(Greet one another with signs of Christ’s peace.)

*Sung Response: “Peace, Salaam, Shalom”

Peace, Salaam, Shalom,
Peace, Salaam, Shalom,
Peace, Salaam, Shalom,
Peace, Salaam, Shalom.

*Litany of Parting

Congregation: May God be with you there.
Children: May God be with you here.


We Hear and Proclaim God’s Word

Prayer for Illumination

The Message Through Scripture and Reflection

Genesis 1#26-27 (Doug Yeager)

John 1#1-5, 14 (Luiz Kemmerle)
Reflection (Peter Kemmerle)

Romans 1#8-12 (Vince Mathews)
Reflection (Stephanie Gregory)
Reflection (Douglass Yeager)

Deuteronomy 31#7-8 (Ginny Brown)
Reflection (Ginny Brown)


We Respond to God’s Word

*Hymn: “Unidos” (Sing first in English, then in Spanish)

Together, together, in your name, we gather.
Together, together, in your name, we gather.
Then we’ll have in this world peace and love around us.
Then we’ll have in this world peace and love around us.
Together we’re united; we hold hands as we struggle;
we walk into the world singing God’s song of love.
The glory of our Lord, resplendent ever will shine.
The whole world will be joyful with love and peace.

Unidos, unidos, en tu nombre unidos.
Unidos, unidos, en tu nombre unidos.
Pues en esté mundo paz y amor tendremos,
Pues en esté mundo paz y amor tendremos.
Unidos, siempre unidos, toman donos las manos
iremos por el mundo cantando al amor.
La Gloria de Jesus, al fin resplandecera
Y el mundo llenara de amor y de paz.

Gathering the Prayers of the People (Ginny Brown)

Minute for Mission (Amanda Craft)

The Offering (Perry Chang)

Offertory: “Raul’s Song”

*Sung Response #2184 SF “Sent Out in Jesus’ Name” (Sing in either English or Spanish)

English: Sent out in Jesus’ name, our hands are ready now
to make the earth the place in which the kingdom comes.
Sent out in Jesus’ name, our hands are ready now
to make the earth the place in which the kingdom comes.
The angels cannot change a world of hurt and pain
into a world of love, of justice and of peace.
The task is ours to do, to set it really free,
O help us to obey and carry out your will.

Spanish: Enviado soy de Dios, mi mano lista está
para construir con El un mundo fraternal.
Enviado soy de Dios, mi mano lista está
para construir con El un mundo fraternal.
Los ángeles no son enviados a cambiar
un mundo de dolor por un mundo de paz.
Me ha tocadoa mí hacerlo realidad; ayúdame, Señor, a hacer tu voluntad.


We Give Thanks to God

*Prayer of Thanksgiving

Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People: It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Leader: Take what we and our brothers and sisters in Christ offer
People: and blend it into a heavenly concoction that unites us in praise, service, and thanksgiving to You.


We Go in God’s Name

*Hymn #432 PH “Song of Hope” (Sing first in Spanish, then in English)

*Charge and Blessing (Jane Larsen-Wigger)

All: *Alleluia! Amen!