March 23, 2025
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Preacher: Rev. John Magisano
Please use this Order of Service to easily follow the service online.
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Prelude: Martha Kato
Chalice Lighting: Into Many Coming Years - By Mary Shelden
We cannot know what all the year may bring,and would we heed the prophecy if we could?Bright flame, awake! Send forth your shining lightbeyond this year into the many coming—Show us the ways of love and help and care,of justice, mercy, and equality—Illuminate unto the generations—Show to the world a beacon of safe harbor—Help us to find the kindred warmth within usand among us to help make it so.
Opening Hymn: There’s a Wideness in Your Mercy – SLT #213
Welcome & Announcements
Call to Worship: - Justice Is Our Prayer - By Rebekah Savage
We gather together today with sacred intention to declare that Justice is our prayer.We affirm in covenant with the Beloved Community that is possible.
Not here, not quite yet.
The seeds have been planted time and again, and we remember all those who went before us who made Beloved Community a dream that could be realized.
Justice is our prayer.
May our time of worship/service together continue to water the budding trees of our diverse interdependence.
May our time of worship give air and nourishment to the parts of our collective spiritsthat need to grow and thrive; that embrace equity as a known way of being.
Justice is our prayer.
We affirm in covenant with the Beloved Community that is possible.
May it be so.
Let us worship together.
Prayer of Invocation
First Sacred Reading: Isaiah 55:1-9
Passing of the Peace
Sharing of Our Joys & Concerns/Pastoral Prayer
Offering & Doxology: We Give You But Your Own - NCH 785
We give you but your own
Whatever gift may be,
All that we have is yours alone
We give it gratefully
Second Sacred Reading: Luke 13:1-9
Hymn of Reflection: What Wondrous Love Is This – SLT #18
Sermon: Expectations – Rev. John Magisano
Closing Hymn: Sovereign and Transforming Grace – SLT #33
Benediction: Rev. John Magisano
Postlude: Martha Kato
All Souls Bethlehem Church
An Open and Affirming Congregation
Pastor: Rev. Dr. Boon Lin Ngeo
Ministers: All Members of ASBC
Minister Emeritus: Rev. Bill Nye
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and be our guest at the gathering following the service!
Interested in “Official” Church Membership?
Please speak with Council President Raquel Irizarry about our next New Member gathering!
An All-inclusive, Welcoming Community of Faith
born from the traditions of the:
Disciples of Christ - www.Disciples.org
United Church of Christ - www.UCC.org
Unitarian Universalist Association - www.UUA.org
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