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Yes. [laughter] Um this Wednesday's Lenton soup dinner which is at six o'clock in the fellowship hall and this is followed by uh the Lenton midweek service at 7:00 p.m. These are both a wonderful way to worship with God and community in the middle of this Lenton season week.

Looking ahead, um it's amazing. Holy Week and uh Easter Sunday are right around the corner. We do have one more Sunday in Lent uh this coming Sunday, March 22nd.

Um also of note that on that Sunday, our Easter baskets of joy are due to be brought back uh to wor to um grace. And I noticed on the wall in the fellowship hall. There are a few more uh Easter eggs of joy left uh for uh for someone to pick up and fill with an Easter basket of joy.

Holy Week will begin. Um we have Palm Sunday on March 29th. It's going to continue with our Monday, Thursday, and Good Friday services.

And in addition to the evening Monday, Thursday, and Good Friday services, Pastors Setsler and Han will offer abbreviated noon time services here at Grace on Monday, Thursday, April 2nd, and Good Friday, April 3rd. For those who aren't able to attend the the evening worship at Grace or Epiphany Lutheran Churches, they're going to team up and we will have a noon time opportunity on both those days this year. So, please spread the word to anyone who might be interested.

Uh council will meet today at 12:30 p.m. in room 107. And now at this time I direct you to either your memory or the worship bulletin on that first page as we speak our mission statement together.

We share God's grace by welcoming all people growing together in faith and joining God's work in our community. >> Our worship preparation time continues as we listen to the prelude. Down.

Down here. Shepherd me, oh Beyond my beyond my fears from [singing] death is my shall [singing] I rest in the meadow of faithfulness and love. I walk by the quiet waters of peace.

Shepherd me, oh God, beyond [singing] my beyond my fears, from death into I invite you to stand as you're able and join me for the confession. We are gathered to worship in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. >> Amen.

Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid, cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you and worthily magnify your holy name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Let us confess our sin in the presence of God and of one another.

Most merciful God, we confess that we are captive to sin and cannot free ourselves. We have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed. By what we have done and by what we have left undone.

We have not loved you with our whole heart. We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. For the sake of your son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us, forgive us, renew us, and lead us so that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways to the glory of your holy name.

Amen. In the mercy of Almighty God, Jesus Christ was given to die for us and for his sake, God forgives us all our sins. As a called and ordained minister of the church of Christ and by his authority, I therefore declare to you the entire forgiveness of all your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen. >> [singing and music] >> The cross of Christ our glory. [singing] [music] [singing] [singing and music] When the walls [singing] of life fortake me, hopes deceive and fears, [singing] never shall the cross forsake me, though its peace and [singing and music] joy.

When the sun of this is light and love my way from the crossing for [singing] the day [music and singing] and blessing and pleasure Measure by [music] the cross [singing] our sanctified. Peace is [singing] there that no measure. Joy that through all time.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. >> And also with you. >> [music] >> Lord, Christ have mercy.

Lord have mercy. The Lord be with you. >> And also with you.

>> Let us pray together. Bend your ear to our prayers, Lord Christ, and come among us. By your gracious life and death for us, bring light into the darkness of our hearts and anoint us with your spirit.

for you live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. Please be seated.

I invite children to visit with me for a minute. I'm glad you're here. Are you glad you're here?

Yes. Thank you. You You responded to me, but you also really responded to God.

It was God who wants you to know. And I want you to know, and we all want you to know this is a holy place, and you're one of God's special children. the the Bible today, the lessons that we're going to hear from the scripture, particularly one of them, the the first one, oh my goodness, it happened oh nearly a thousand years even before Jesus was born.

Yeah, I my mind can't think that big in terms of time. And part of the problem is going to be this guy named Samuel. You ever heard of anybody named Samuel?

Yeah, Samuel is a pretty popular name. And Samuel gets his name from that guy very long time ago. He had a job to go find a special person that God had decided would be the next king of God's people.

And had to find this person, but he had to be careful because um some people weren't going to be happy knowing that. So, he had to figure out who is this person that God wants to be the next king. And when you find that person, you have to pour oil on them.

That's not motor oil like a car, but it's oil that kind of say says, "You're very special. You're very special." So, he goes to this guy's house and he's going to have to say, "Um, let me see your sons. I'm sorry that you know the he was looking for a king, not a a queen." So, he had to look for guys and everybody that comes in front of him, oh, that must be the one he look because that guy's really tall.

This guy's really smart. this guy's really big and muscles, all these kind of things. But God said, "Wait a minute.

Don't ever I have something I want you to know, and I don't ever want you to forget it. I don't want anybody to forget it." God doesn't look at the outside of a person. God looks at the inside of a person.

Think about that. What in the world does that mean? God doesn't look at your outside.

God looks at your inside. So, what if you're the most beautiful woman in the world? Is that great?

But what if you're not the most beautiful woman in the world? Does that make God not love you? No.

Because that's true. God's not looking at the way we spend so much time trying to be perfect. I want to be the best athlete.

I want to be the best football player. I want to be the best whatever. I want to be the best dancer.

I want to be the most popular person. And please don't forget all your lifelong a very very long time ago, God said, "No, let me tell you how it really is. I don't care how you look on the outside.

I don't care the color of your skin. I don't care if you're a boy or a girl. I care about what your heart is.

I care about if you're a kind person, if you love me, if you help people. God doesn't see us on the outside. God sees us on the inside.

always. Let's pray. Thank you, God.

>> Thank you, God. >> You made me >> You made me very special. >> And what really matters really >> is what you put in my heart.

>> Thank you. >> In Jesus name. >> Amen.

Thank you so much for coming. Pastor Jan just explained the whole first lesson, but here we go. A reading from the book, the first book of Samuel.

The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and set out.

I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons." Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears of it, he will kill me." And the Lord said, Take a heer with you and say, "I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do, and you shall anoint for me the one whom I name to you." Samuel did what the Lord commanded and came to Bethlehem.

The elders of the city came to meet him, trembling, and said, "Do you come peaceibly?" He said peaceibly, "I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice." And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. When they came, he looked on Elab and thought, "Surely his anointed is now before the Lord." But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature because I have rejected him.

For the Lord does not see as mortals see. They look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart." Then Jesse called up and made him pass before Samuel. He said, "Neither has the Lord chosen this one." Then Joseph made Shama pass by and he said, "Neither has the Lord chosen this one." Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel.

And Samuel said to Jesse, "The Lord has not chosen any of these." Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your sons here?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, but he is keeping the sheep." Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him. We will not sit down until he comes here. He sent and brought him in.

Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. The Lord said, "Rise and anoint him, for this is the one." And Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers. And the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward.

Samuel then sent out and went to Rama. The word of the Lord. >> Thanks be to God.

>> Who's joined in the psalm? You have [singing] anointed my head with oil. You have an oil.

>> The Lord [singing] is my shepherd. I shall not be in. [singing] The Lord makes me lie down in greenures and leads [singing and music] me.

beside still waters. You restore my soul, oh Lord, [music] and guide me [singing] along rightath. [music] [singing] Your bride and your staff they comfort me.

You have anointed my head with youare in the presence of my [singing] enemies. You anoint [music] my head with oil and my cup is [singing] running over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me [singing] all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of [singing] the Lord forever.

[music] A reading from the letter of Paul to the Ephesians. Once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.

Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful work works of darkness. Rather, expose them.

For it is shameful even to mention what people do secretly. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible. For everything that becomes visible is light.

Therefore, it says, "Sleeper, awake, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. [singing] [music] >> [music] >> The Holy Gospel according to St.

John the 9th chapter. >> Glory to you, Lord. >> As Jesus walked along, he saw a man born blind, his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned?" this man or his parents that he was born blind.

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned." He was born blind so that God's works might be revealed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me. While it is day, night is coming when no one can work.

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with it lava and spread the mud on the man's eyes, saying to him, "Go wash in the pool of Salom," which means scent. Then he went and washed and came back able to see.

But neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?" Some were saying, "It is he." Others were saying, "No, but it's someone like him." He kept saying, "I am he." But they kept asking him, "Then how were your eyes opened?" He answered, "The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, "Go to Salom and wash." Then I went and washed and received my sight. They said to him, "Where is he?" He said, "I do not know." They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. Now it was the Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

Then the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes. Then I washed and now I see." Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not observe the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?" And they were divided.

So they said again to the blind man, "What do you say about him? It was your eyes he opened." He said, "He is a prophet." The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight and asked them, "Is this your son who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?" His parents answered, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind, but we do not know how it is now that he sees, nor do we know who opened his eyes.

Ask him. He is of age. He will speak for himself." His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews.

But the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed to Jesus to be the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. Therefore, his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him." Now for the second time they called the man who had been blind, and they said to him, "Give glory to God.

We know that this man is a sinner." He answered, "I do not know whether he is a sinner, one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see." They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" He answered them, "I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again?

Do you also want to become his disciples? Then they reviled him, saying, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from." The man answered, "Here is an astonishing thing.

You do not know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners, but he does listen to one who worships him and obeys his will. Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind.

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing. They answered him, "You were born entirely in sin, and are you trying to teach us?" And they drove him out. Jesus heard that they had driven him out.

And when he found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?" He answered, "And who is he, sir? Tell me so that I may believe in him." Jesus said to him, "You have seen him, and the one speaking with you is he." He said, "Lord, I believe." And he worshiped him. Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind." Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and said to him, "Surely we are not blind, are we?" Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would not have sinned.

But now that you say we see your sin remains. The gospel of the Lord. >> Praise to you Christ.

>> Please be seated. A Queen's New York City mother had just stepped out of a social security office. when with she and her husband were applying to get out of a shelter and into their own apartment to grab a cup of coffee when she was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver.

her daughter said. Suzanne Schmider, 58, had just arrived at the Social Security Administration building in Jamaica, Queens about 3:00 on Wednesday afternoon when she told her husband, Joseph Lopez, that she was going to grab a cup of coffee nearby. Suzanne was crossing Jamaica Avenue when a driver of a darkcoled sedan struck her and sped off.

Cops said the driver has not yet been caught. Suzanne and her husband had been living in a queen's shelter for about two months after being evicted from their apartment. They were in the process of trying to get rental voucher from the social security.

She was a good person. Her daughter said she had her troubles in life. Sydney continued, "She was tough.

She would fight so hard for anyone she cared for. I just hope she's at peace." Who sinned? this woman or her parents that this tragedy should befall her.

There must be a reason for this tragedy that it should happen to her suggests to some religious people that this was the consequence of somebody's sin, hers or someone else. That assumption has deep roots. It's reflected in this incident that St.

John reports as today's gospel. Rabbi, the first words out of Jesus disciples mouth when they see a man with a congenital birth defect of blindness ask him so who sinned this man or his parents that he was born blind. Old Testament law, you see, affirmed a correlation between sin and suffering.

That's how you could tell who was acceptable to God and who was not acceptable. It's still in practice today. Jesus response is not what any religious person expected to hear.

Neither, he said. In essence, you can't always assume pain and suffering is a consequence of sin. His condition will be an opportunity for God's mighty acts is really what Jesus said.

In one affirmative statement, Jesus reversed over 500 years of misunderstanding of how God works in this world. This misunderstanding prevalent in the time resulted in the blind man's isolation from the community. You see, you separate those kinds of people.

His lack of eyesight in a world where survival was marginal at best for the fully sighted makes this incident even more poignant. Why should Jesus have even noticed him as Jesus and the disciples passed by? He's marginalized.

He's isolated. The negative reactions and responses of the people around him reflect the lack of understanding of how God works in this world. So, we shouldn't be surprised by what we see.

This man doesn't make his way to Jesus. Well-meing family or friends don't find Jesus and bring him to the blind man. Jesus goes to him.

The blind man doesn't ask Jesus for help. In fact, we are halfway through John's report before he even opens his mouth. And then it creates all kinds of pressures and problems for him within this community.

We don't even know how he felt about his disability. Did he accept the religious belief that he was being punished for something he or his parents had done? For reasons known only to God, this man with a congenital defect resulting in blindness is suddenly given something he has never had.

His eyesight. As a consequence, he receives something he's never had. The focus and the attention of the religious leaders in that community.

The problem you see is not that this man's isolating condition is corrected and now has the opportunity to become a fully functioning member of this community. The sin is that he was healed on the Sabbath. In order for this miracle to occur, Jesus worked making the mud he put on the man's eyes.

And these self-righteous hypocrites, as Jesus will later call them, who themselves would never dare violate Sabbath restrictions, must now find that lawb breaker. John's report is a drama on many levels with irony and satire and a marvelous reversal. A blind man who can't see can see and sees people who can see but won't see.

Eyesight and insight blend together in a marvelous message for those with eyes to see. The frequency of the verb to know is remarkable. At least seven verses of the report address in one way or another who knows how they know and what they know or don't know.

The blind man readily admits his lack of knowledge. He clings to his experience. That's the one thing he does know.

The religious leaders don't know and demand to know. The man's parents are completely in the dark. They know nothing and they are afraid to admit anything for fear of condemnation from this religious witch hunt that's swirling around their once blind, nowsighted son.

We don't know, they quickly admit. Ask him. All this takes place in Jerusalem.

Jesus and his disciples are in the city now for the feast of tabernacles, the festival that celebrates the mighty act of God who had led their ancestors through the darkness of the years of wandering in the wilderness to the light of the promised land. Now over a thousand years later, it's a kind of annual homecoming when Hebrews return to Jerusalem. In the context of this festival that celebrates God's mighty acts of deliverance from darkness to light, a profound question eludes them all.

Who is he really? This is perhaps the most tightlyknit story of the New Testament. For 90% of this narrative, Jesus has disappeared.

Yet, he's the central figure. The healing miracle is the focus of all of this, but its meaning escapes them. Just before this incident, Jesus had identified himself as the light of the world.

I suspect as the sign that he is who he said he was, he gives sight to a man who had been born blind. The process is the message. It's the movement of a person from a physically limited and isolated world of darkness who is given the ability to see his world as he has never been able to see.

And for him that process goes even further. Eyesight leads to insight and insight eventually leads him through probing penetrating questions not by religious leaders but by Jesus to belief. A growing understanding, a growing faith leads to confession.

Lord, I believe. What makes this incident even more wonderful is that it doesn't happen inside the city. It doesn't happen inside that inner circle of religious leaders.

It doesn't happen when he's inside the synagogue. It happens to an outsider outside. when they've cast him out of the synagogue when religious people have cast him out of their circle of inclusion and acceptance.

After 34 verses of tight drama, of irony and satire, John told us it all came to an abrupt end and they drove him out. The former blind, newly sighted man was a living embodiment of something they really didn't want to accept. Maybe God was acting in ways they didn't think God should act.

They're trying to live by the rules they created to determine who's acceptable and who's not acceptable to God. and something happens that contradicts what they've come to believe. God may not be where we thought God should be.

God may be doing things we didn't think God should do. God may care for people we didn't think God should. The bishop over Catholic churches in Charlotte and western North Carolina was interviewed last month by Ryan Oley.

What he said echoes the gospel truth in this incident. The church has to be a voice that proclaims the dignity of every human being. He said, "I say that not glibly because to proclaim and to defend the dignity of every human person is hard." I ask this question all the time.

Bishop Michael Martin said, "Are you seeing the world through the lens of your faith or the lens of your politics?" He continued, "Jesus calls us to really engage the culture, not to be engaged by it. To make a difference in the culture, not to be changed by it." That's gospel truth. The religious folk that day simply couldn't accept.

God in wondrous acts of grace does as God has always done. Makes outsiders insiders in the kingdom of God. From humankind's earliest story in Genesis 3 of the man and the woman put outside the Garden of Eden.

It's God who comes to humankind, to you and to me outside. In our times of loneliness, our feelings of isolation, God comes to us who feel ourselves outsiders, outcasts, or failures or disabled or dispirited or desparing. A nationwide survey discovered that there are now 100 million Americans in that group.

They are the ones on national surveys who declare themselves nuns. No religious affiliation, no religious commitment. When Jesus found him, John reported Jesus asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?" While we were yet sinners, in the mercy of Almighty God, we hear regularly in worship, Jesus Christ died for us.

Gospel truth, folks. God makes outsiders insiders in the kingdom of God. Will you live like you believe it?

Amen. Amazing. How sweet the [singing] sound and safe.

[music] I [singing] was lost, but now I'm found. [singing] But now I see grace that [music] my heart to hear and grace [music] my pray. How precious that grace appear [music and singing] I believe through many dangerous stoes I have [music] already has brought me safe and grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promised [music] good to me. Praise our shield and portion as long [music] as we Thousand years bright shining as the song we know [singing] to sing [music] God's praise. >> [singing] [music] >> With the whole church, let us confess our faith using the words of the Apostles Creed.

I believe in God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontious Pilot, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead.

>> On the third day, he rose again. He ascended into he is seated at the right hand of the father and he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.

Amen. >> Reconciled by God's mercy and sustained by God's presence, let us pray for the world and its needs. God our shepherd, we pray that you guide the church.

Lead Christians in our and across the globe in right paths for your name's sake. Hear us, oh God. >> God, our provider, we cry out for this planet and the life it holds, rescue endangered animals and plants, preserve threatened ecosystems, and save creatures from natural disasters.

Hear us, oh God. God our sovereign, we plead for your peace on earth. Bring an end to war and violence and raise up leaders in governments, courts, businesses, schools, and community organizations who seek goodness and mercy.

Hear us, oh God. >> God, our healer, we call to you in our need. Uplift all who are made to important and transform the hearts of all infected by bigotry and prejudice.

Care for all in special need this day, especially those we live before you now, whether silently or aloud. Hear us, oh God. God our friend, we praise you for the diversity of people among us.

Awaken us to share and receive the gifts we each possess and stir up a spirit of understanding, celebration, and welcome for all. Hear us, oh God. >> God, our home, we thank you for all who have died and completed their baptismal journeys.

Grant us faith to live until we who dwell in your house forever. Hear us, oh God. >> Receive our prayers, oh God.

Jesus Christ, our strength and salvation. Amen. Amazing [singing] grace, how sweet the sound [music] like me.

I once [singing] was lost but now was blind but [singing and music] now I see. Was grace [music] that taught my [singing] heart to fear and grace my fears relieved. [music] How precious [singing] [music] did that grace appear.

The hour I [singing] first [music] believed my chains are gone. [singing] [music] I' been set free. My God, my [singing] [music] [singing] His mercy, unending [singing and music] love, amazing grace.

The Lord has promised good to me. His word, [music and singing] my hopeures, [singing and music] he will my shield and [music] me as long [singing] as [music] my chains are gone. I've been set free.

My God, my [singing and music] Savior has rested me. And like a [music] cloud, his mercy reigns. Unending [music] love.

Amazing grace. dissolve like snow for shine. But God has [singing] called me below forever.

Will be [singing and music] forever. My chains [singing] are gone. I've been [music] set free.

My God, my [singing] Savior has ransomed me and like [singing] his mercy reigns. Unending love. Amazing grace.

My chains are gone. I've been set free. My God, [singing and music] my s Savior has ransomed me and like [singing] a flood his mercy reigns.

[music] Unending love. Amazing grace. >> Unending [singing] love.

Amazing graord and to the A cup of blessing [music] from the seeds that were the bread of [music and singing] life. the hopes and the dreams of all. Unite [music] them with the prayers we raise our table [singing] with your presence and give us a taste [music] of [singing] God.

All creation uses Jesus. The Lord be with you. >> And also with you.

>> Lift up your hearts. >> We lift them to the Lord. >> Let us go.

>> It is right to give our thanks and praise God. to the fullness of holy, holy, [music] holy. [singing] God of heaven and earth are full [singing] of your gloryana in the highest.

[singing] Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosana [music and singing] in the highestana [singing] [music] in the highest. Blessed are you.

Blessed are you. Blessed are you. My God for you.

for you and for all the forgiveness of sul Christ This cupless All praise and glory are power and forever. Amen. Father us temptation us.

power and the glory forever. >> Lamb of God, [singing and music] you take the s of the world, have mercy on [singing] us. Lamb of God, you take away the s of the world, have mercy on us.

Lamb of God, you take away the s of the world, grant us peace, grant us peace. >> [snorts] >> Shepherd, oh [singing] God, beyond [music] my wants, beyond [singing] my fears, from death into [singing] my shall I rest in [singing] the meadow. of faithfulness and love and walk [music] through the quieters of peace.

Shepherd me, oh God, [singing] beyond my [music] wants, beyond my fears, from death into [singing] me [music] and my weary soul of truth. My shall sing the [singing and music] music of your name. Shepherd me, [singing and music] oh God, beyond my beyond [singing and music] my fears from death into the valley [singing] of death and fear no evil for you at my side.

and comfort of my home. Beyond my warms, [singing] beyond my fears, from [music] death into life. You have set me a banquet above in the face [singing and music] of hatred.

ing me with love beyond my power to hold. Shepherd me, [singing and music] oh God, beyond my wants, beyond my fears, from death into [singing] [music] surely goodness and mercy follow [singing] the days of my life. I will dwell in [music and singing] the house of my God forever.

Shepherd beyond [singing and music] my beyond my fears from death to Jesus Christ you keep you in his grace. Let us pray together Jesus. Jesus Christ our savior and lordless things now.

Amen. >> [singing and music] >> Vision Lord of my heart. Not [music and singing] all else to be sing [singing] and thy waking [music and singing] sleeping.

my presence, my light. Be thou my wisdom and thou my true word. I am with thee and thou [singing] with me.

Lord, thou my shelter and [singing] thou my hand and work. Oh power of my power riches [singing and music] I he not nor empty now my inheritance now and always [singing and music] the first in my heart. Great God of heaven, my [music] treasure thou art.

Light of my soul [music] after [singing] victory be I reach [music and singing] heaven's joy and song of my own heart whatever [singing] still be my [singing] vision oh [music] Thanks be to God. >> [applause]