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Hallelujah. Holy Spirit. on us.

U Jesus name on us. on us. We gather here in Jesus name.

I invite you to stand as you're able and join me as we give thanks for baptism. Allelujah. Christ is risen.

>> Christ is indeed. >> Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb. >> Let us give thanks for the gifts of baptism.

Merciful God, you are the one who was, who is, and who is to come. You lead us beside still waters. We thank you for the waters of creation.

Morning dew, gentle rain, roaring waves. We thank you for the waters that nourish us. Blessed are you.

>> Jesus Christ. You are the faithful witness who accompanies us on our journeys. We give you thanks for your lifegiving death and resurrection.

We praise you for joining us in joy and sorrow. Blessed are you. >> Holy Spirit, you anoint our head with oil and our cup overflows.

Break down barriers that divide us. Fill us with a breath of peace. Blessed are you, >> Holy One.

We thank you for the gifts and grace of baptism and for making us a new creation. We join with saints and angels, giving you honor and praise now and forever. Amen.

Th mighty king. Help us thy name to sing. Help us to praise.

Father of glorious, for all victorious, come and rever us ancient of days. Come in word of my mighty sword. our prayer attention.

Thy saint thm mighty heart now rule in every heart and the spirit of power to the great one in three eternal praisees be ever more thy sovereign majesty may be in glory sing and to eternity adore. >> The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Glory to you.

Yours is the promise, the blessing, the birth ofj. Be the glory, oh God, yours. Glory to you, God.

For yours is the earth. Your hosana dying rebirth of nature. The thanksgiving to your holy name.

Be the great be the glory of God alone. Glory to you God who uses the earth. The anointing the radant works of rejoice for spirits of the thanksgiving to your holy name.

Be the strength. is the glor. >> The Lord be with you.

>> Let us pray together. Almighty and everliving God, you hold together all things in heaven and on earth. In your great mercy, receive the prayers of all your children and give to all the world the spirit of your truth and peace.

Through Jesus Christ, our savior and lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. Please be seated.

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

Yep. That's my job. The first thing I have to do and I hope I never forget it wherever I go.

Um, this is a special day. Any any idea what makes this particular? Yes.

Yes. Everybody, you can speak together. Yep.

Mother's Day, you can speak together. It's also another special day. It's a special day for It's something you don't even think about.

Most of us don't even think about it. It's God's children's day. all God's children, not just mothers and daddies and little children and big children.

Because I want you to listen carefully to the first reading. This is a guy who once upon a time in early in his life thought it was his job to to punish anybody that loved Jesus. because he thought that was a bad thing.

That was a really bad thing. But he had an experience that really changed his heart and changed his mind and put him going in a different direction. And he understood something he had never understood before.

And you're going to hear him talk about it. He's in Athens, Greece. a very big prominent place and he's talking to people who have no idea this new thing he's talking about.

He has something about image and children. Has anybody ever said to to you, you look like your mama? Yeah.

Well, maybe you know you look like your mama. What about if does anybody ever said to you, "Well, do you look like your daddy?" I bet somewhere every one of us out here has said that to somebody little, but everybody out here, including me, has had somebody say that to me during my life. What in the world does that mean to say you look like your mama or you look like your daddy?

Guess what it means? You have a mama and you have a daddy. Now some of us, my mom and my dad have long been gone for a very long time and the people who knew them don't even aren't around.

But that's a very special thing because that means we really are a child of somebody that we are real. If I touch you, you're real. I can feel if you touch me, I'm here.

I'm real. Yeah, I'm real. I really am.

And because you know what? Not only am I a child of a mama and a daddy, I'm a child of God. And and very very very long ago in Athens, Greece, for the first time, Paul told the Paul told these people what's really true.

We are God's offspring. You are the offspring, the child of a mama and a daddy. But you are an offspring of God.

You are a child of God. I'm a child of God. How did that happen?

And that thing over there in holy baptism. You know, I don't think God has brown eyes or blue eyes or green eyes. I don't think God has brown hair or white hair or dark hair, whatever.

I don't think God has a big nose or a little nose. I think God is perfect. And to be God's offspring isn't about how you look and how God looks, but about how you are in your heart.

God is love. And when you became a child of God, when God adopted you in baptism and made you God's child, too. God's love was put in your heart.

And the person you grow up to be as the person we have grown up to be, I hope shows the world not that God looks like me or God looks like you, but that I act like a child of God who cares for other people, who takes care of God's world, who's kind to others. It's a very special day, Mother's Day, but it's all every day is a special day for God's offspring. Welcome to the family of God.

Let's pray. Dear God, >> Dear God, >> thank you. >> Thank you.

>> You made every day special. >> You made special >> with your love for me. >> With your love for me >> and this whole world.

>> And this whole world. Let the world see you in me >> in Jesus name. >> In Jesus name.

>> Amen. >> Thank you so much. A reading from the book of Acts of the Apostles.

Paul stood in front of the Aropagos and said, "Athenians, I see how extremely spiritual you are in every way. For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription to an unknown god. What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth does not live in shrines made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands as though he needed anything. Since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things, from one ancestor he made all to inhabit the whole earth. And he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live so that they would search for God and perhaps fumble about for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from each one of us.

For in him we live and move and have our being. And even some of your own poets have said, "For we are his offspring. Since we are God's offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals.

While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed. And of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead. The word of the Lord.

>> Thanks be to God. >> We continue with the song. >> Let the sound of praise be heard.

Bless our God, you peoples. Let the sound of praise be. Our God has kept us among the living and not allowed our feet to bless you.

For you, oh God, have tested us. You have tried us. >> You let people ride over our heads.

We went through fire and water, but you brought us into a place of refreshment. >> I will enter your house with you. I will offer you burnt offerings of themselves and I will tell you what God has done for me.

I praise the Lord. In truth, God has heard me and attended to the My pray. >> Blessed be God who has not rejected my pray withheld unfailing love from me.

Bless you. Listen to the words from the first letter of Peter. Now, who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good.

But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear and do not be intimidated, but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you and accounting for the hope that is in you.

Yet do it with gentleness and respect. Maintain a good conscience so that when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God's will, than to suffer for doing evil.

For God also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is eight lives, were saved through water, and baptism, which this prefigured now saves you, not as a rem the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels, authorities and powers made subject to him. The word of the Lord.

>> Thanks be to God. >> Hallelujah. Hallelu to whom shall we go?

You have the words of eternal life. Halleluah. Halleluah.

Hallelu. >> The Holy Gospel according to St. John the 14th chapter.

>> Glory to you, Lord. >> Jesus said to the disciples, if you love me, you will keep my commandments, and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to be with you forever. This is the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him.

You know him because he abides with you and he will be in you. I will not leave you orphaned. I am coming to you.

In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you.

They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me. And those who love me will be loved by my father and I will love them and reveal myself to them. The gospel of the Lord.

>> Praise to you Christ. >> Please be seated. Diane Sawyer of ABC World News and Television fame recalled, "I was 17 years old, a high school senior in Louisville, Kentucky, representing my state in the 1963 America's Junior Miss Competition in Mobile, Alabama.

In the midst of all there, there was one person who stood at the center, at least my psychological center. She was someone I viewed as an island in an ocean of anxiety. She was one of the judges, a well-known writer, a woman whose sea gray eyes focused on you with laser penetration.

Her name was Katherine Marshall. The older ones among us may associate her name with that of her late h first husband, the Reverend Peter Marshall, or with the publication she direct guidepost. During the rehearsal on the last day of the pageant, so you recall, several of us were waiting backstage when a pageant official said Katherine Marshall wanted to speak with us.

We gathered around. Most of us were expecting a lastm minute pep talk, but we were surprised. She fixed her eyes upon us.

You have set your goals for yourselves. I've heard some of them, she said. But I don't think you've set them high enough.

You have a talent and intelligence and a chance. I think you should take those goals and expand them. Think of the most you could do with your lives.

Make what you do matter. Listen to our Lord Jesus Christ. That last night of his earthly life, his farewell discourses, as they are called, continue where we left off last Sunday.

Speaking to his followers gathered with him for that last supper and for you and me today, Jesus said what was uppermost on his mind and in his heart. It began with a bold command. If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

Don't be confused. Jesus is not talking about the ten commandments. The only commandment from our Lord is the one he gave us earlier in John 13.

A new commandment I give unto you. He told all of us that you love one another as I have loved you. If you love me, Jesus said, then you will obey everything I taught you.

Matthew will report Jesus great commission as his very last words on earth. Go into all the world and baptize all nations, teaching them to obey everything I taught you. Jesus began with a command.

not a suggestion. This is not optional. Jesus declaration that our obedience to all that he taught us is evidence that we truly love him.

Make what you do matter, the teacher told us. In other words, and he empowers our obedience with several great promises in John 14. I will ask the father and he will give you another advocate to be with you forever.

I will not leave you orphaned. I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me.

Because I live, you also will live. In the days and weeks following Easter, it seemed clear to his earliest followers that Jesus had been talking about his death and resurrection, especially the promise that they would see him when the world would not. Had not our Lord appeared to them that first Easter evening?

Had not the followers seen the risen Lord for these 40 days from Easter to his ascension? Only late in the first century did the church really understand Jesus final words. more than eyesight.

Jesus was talking about faith, about those who come to faith in the risen Lord Jesus without ever having seen him in the flesh. He's talking about resurrection, his resurrection and ours. Because I live, you also will live.

Resurrection life begins now and is brought to completion in the age to come. By the time John's gospel appeared, this is a church in the power of the Holy Spirit. This is the church that had come to believe that the Holy Spirit is the spirit of the risen Christ and of God Almighty.

That's what Jesus meant when he talked about being in the father and the father being in him and believers being in him and in the father. It's gospel truth, folks. By your baptism into Christ Jesus, you were given a new life.

Now make it matter. It's St. Paul's testimony to people in the marketplace in Athens about 20 years after Easter, the one who had devoted his life to trying to destroy the church is now Christianity's leading missionary missionary.

Apostle Paul has taken the good news of God's saving love in Jesus Christ into Europe. In today's first reading, we learn that Paul is in Athens waiting for Silas and Timothy to catch up. Harassment by a crowd of Jews from Thessalonia had forced Paul to flee Berea.

And Paul spent his time walking the city of Athens, observing the Athenian shrines to a multitude of gods. Athens then sounds like America today. We have a multitude of shrines.

Evidence that many today, like them, worship the stuff our hands make. Look at all that I've accomplished. I live the good life.

I deserve it. Rich in things, we truly are. Poor in soul, we truly are.

As Fostic's great hymn suggests, many today, like Athenians then, are searching. Something's missing. We don't know what it really is.

We don't know exactly what we're looking for. We don't know exactly what we're lacking. But it's evidenced by the emptiness in many Americans today.

am the shrine to an unknown god in Athens. Paul speaks to that hunger in so many. Many in Athens were listening.

May we know what this new teaching is that you're preaching? They asked as the context for our first reading today. This I proclaim to you, Paul answered, standing in front of the Aropagus.

The God who made the world and everything in it. He who is Lord of heaven and earth does not live in shrines made with human hands. Nor is he served by human hands as though he needed anything.

since he himself gives to all mortals the life and breath and all things. Put away the false gods you serve. He said, "The idols of gold and silver will not save you," Paul told all of us.

And this is bold faithful witness. Paul did as Jesus had commanded. In so doing, he demonstrated before the world that he truly loved his Lord and Savior.

He obeyed Jesus great commandment, the Jesus great commission and be taught these strangers in Athens everything that he himself had been taught. By your baptism into Christ Jesus, you were given a new life. Now, make it matter.

Late in the first century, Peter's letters appeared about the same time that John's gospel appeared, both to a church that was persecuted both by Jews and by the Roman Empire. Christians are orphans, followers of the risen Lord Jesus. They've been cast out of the synagogue.

In other words, Jewish Christians are expelled now from their ancient roots in Judaism. They were persecuted for their faith in Jesus Christ, but they were not abandoned in his death and resurrection, in his ascension to glory to come later this week. Jesus did not abandon the church.

It was just as he told them. The spirit of the risen Christ was present in the church. That's the suffering Peter is talking about.

But even if you suffer for doing what is right, Peter writes, "You are blessed, do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated, but let your heart sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands an accounting of the hope that is in you. By your baptism into Christ, you were given a new life.

Now make it matter. This isn't a lesson in biblical history today, folks. Their stories are our stories.

Jesus words to his followers that last night were meant for us too. If you love me, you will obey everything that I commanded you. You will live by my teaching.

And Jesus is saying, "You will make my teachings the center of your way of life, to your understanding of what it means to be my follower. In the loving way you treat your fellow believers in the community of faith, others will know that you are truly my disciple." Do they can others hear till by the way you act by the way you speak by the way you treat others in this congregation that you truly love Jesus? Is your life a living testimony to all the teachings that the master taught us?

In holy baptism we were given a new life. the new life made possible in Jesus resurrection. Our resurrection began the day we were baptized.

Resurrection is not just something that happens after death. It's a reality we entered through the sacrament of holy baptism. We were baptized into Christ Jesus into his death and into his resurrection.

The world doesn't understand that truth. Ours is a culture of death. Amass all you can.

Enjoy it while you can. All good things must come to an end is the mantra of daily life by which so many in the first world live these days. But not the baptized people of God.

We were raised to new life, commanded to live the life our resurrected Lord taught us and so proved to be his disciples. We will all die. Death will bring an end to this physical world in which we body, in which we live, and through which we serve God in this world.

But the new life that is ours in Christ Jesus will be brought to completion in the age to come. Looking back over nearly 50 years to that encounter with Katherine Marshall, Diane Sawyer shared, "It was not so much an instruction she gave us that day as it was a dare. I felt stunned.

This woman I admired so much was disappointed in us. Not by what we were, but by the little we aspired to be. Today, Sawyer wrote, "When I go out into the world, I can almost hear a wonderful woman proddding me with her fiery challenge to stretch further." God, she seems to be saying, can forgive failure, but not failing to try.

By your baptism into Christ Jesus, you were given a new life. Now make it matter. Amen.

My God, I hear awesome. The wonder consider all the words I am. I see the stars.

I hear the mighty wonder you ever display and my soul myior How great thou art my soul. I see your good. How great the word every Sing out and hear the feelings, myior God to thee.

How great thou art. How great thou art my soul. My savior God to thee.

How great thou art. How great thou art. When I was set to die, I scarce my gladly.

He bled and died to take away my sings my soul myavior to thee. How great thou art. How great thou art and s my soul.

My Savior God to thee. How great thou break down and take me home. Joy shall fill my heart.

I shall bow with the adoration and there my God I'll bring things my soul my savior come to thee how great thou art how great thou heart and s my soul my savior to thee. How great thou great th with the whole church. Let us confess our faith using the words of the Apostles Creed.

>> I believe >> 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 heaven. >> 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.

Trusting in the power of Christ's resurrection to heal and redeem our broken world, let us pray for the needs of all creation. God of new life, you called us through the waters of baptism to be in relationship with you and one another. Guide the church and its leaders to proclaim Christ's righteousness throughout the world.

Merciful God, >> receive our pray. >> You create the world all that is in it. Shelter budding plants and young animals.

Provide unpolluted habitats and clean water and raise up stewards for the environment. Merciful God, >> our pray, >> you set civil servants in the places where we live. Instill truth and equity among judges and lawyers, gentleness and courage among first responders, and peace among leaders of towns and nations.

God, >> receive our pray. You provide comfort in times of trouble, heal those who are sick, shelter any who are unhoused, feed those undernourished, and accompany and console all who are lonely, ber, anxious, or ill, especially those who live before you now, whether silently or aloud. >> Lides.

Mercul God, >> receive our prayer. >> You are love and you desire that we love one another. As a mother cares for her chicks, bless all who provide motherly care in our lives and inspire us to care for one another.

Merciful God, >> receive our pray. >> God of new life, your steadfast love endures forever. Inspire us by the example of the faithful departed who clung to your promises of life, forgiveness of sins and salvation.

Merciful God, >> receive our prayer. >> God of resurrection power, use us in these prayers to proclaim the good news of new life to all the world through Jesus Christ our risen savior. >> Amen.

The peace of the Lord be with you always. >> As you are comfortable, share a sign of God's peace. There's no love.

There's no peace. There's no amazing grace. Take me in with your spread wide.

Take me in like an or my side. I am holding on to you. I am holding on to you in the middle of the storm.

My holy God, I am love like this. Oh my God to find. I can overwhelm.

What a joy divine. Love this sets our hearts on fire. I am holding on to you.

I am holding on to you. In the middle of the storm, my longing on I am My resurrection song. This is my hallelujah.

This is my IAL. This is why it's love. There's no place where we can find peace.

There's no way to absolutely I am holding on to you in the middle of the storm. I'm holding on. I am in the middle of the storm.

I'm holding on. I am Let the vineyard be fruitful and blessed that we may be fed with the bread of life. the hopes and the dreams of all them we prescul accept the fruits of our labor gathered to give you glory.

You have set a table before us, a glimpse of the great day when we will hunger and thirst no more. Nourish us with the body and blood of Jesus that goodness and mercy may follow us and bless the world you love. In the name of Jesus, amen.

>> The Lord be with you. Lift up your hearts. >> We lift them to the Lord.

>> Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. >> It is right to give our thanks and praise. >> It is indeed right, our duty and our joy that we should at all times and in all places give thanks and praise to you, Almighty and merciful God.

through our Savior Jesus Christ, you called your people to cleanse their hearts and prepare with joy for the pascal feast that renewed in the gift of baptism, we may come to the fullness of your grace. And so with all the choirs of angels, with the church on earth and the host of heaven, we praise your name and join their unending hymn. Holy, holy, God of heaven and earth are full of your glory.

Hosana in the highest. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosana.

Hosana in the highest. Hosana. Hosana in the highest.

>> Blessed are you, oh God of the universe. Your mercy is everlasting and your faithfulness endures from age to age. Praise to you for creating the heavens and the earth.

Praise to you for saving the earth from the waters of the flood. Praise to you for bringing the Israelites safely through the sea. Praise to you for leading your people through the wilderness to the land of milk and honey.

Praise to you for the words and deeds of Jesus, your anointed one. Praise to you for the death and resurrection of Christ. Praise to you for your spirit poured out on all nations.

In the night in which he was betrayed, our Lord Jesus took bread, gave thanks, broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take and eat. This is my body given for you. Do this for the remembrance of me.

Again, after supper, he took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it for all to drink, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, shed for you and for all people, for the forgiveness of sin. Do this for the remembrance of me. With this bread and cup, we remember our Lord's Passover from death to life as we proclaim the mystery of faith.

Christ has died. Christ is risen. >> Christen, >> oh God of resurrection and new life.

Pour out your Holy Spirit on us and on these gifts of bread and wine. Bless this feast. Grace our table with your presence.

>> Reveal yourself to us in the breaking of the bread. Raise us up as the body of Christ for the world. Breathe new life into us.

Send us forth burning with justice, peace, and love. Holy Spirit, >> with your holy ones of all times and places, with the earth and all its creatures, with sun and moon and stars, we praise you, oh God, blessed and holy Trinity, now and forever. Lord, remember us in your kingdom and teach us to pray.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. >> Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever. Amen. Come to the table of new life.

Receive the risen Lord. Lamb of God, you take away the s of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of God, you take the s of the world, have mercy on us.

Lamb of God, you take the s of the world. Grant us peace. Grant us peace.

I see the words of our God. All that you are so overwhel I hear the sound of your voice at a gentle and thundering noise. All that you are so I delight myself in you.

Captivated by your beauty. I'm overwhelmed. I'm overwhelmed by you.

God, I arms of I'm overwhelmed. I'm overwhelmed by you. I know the power of the cross.

Forever you'll be my God. All that you so overwhel I delight myself in you. In the glory of your presence I'm overwhelmed.

I'm overwhelmed. by you brought into your arms. I'm ashamed because of mercy.

I'm overwhelmed. I'm overwhelmed by you. You are beautiful.

You are beautiful. Oh God, there is no one more beautiful. You are beautiful.

God, you are the most beautiful. >> You are wonderful. You are wonderful, oh God.

There is no more wonderful. You are wonderful. God, you're the most wonderful.

You are glorious. You are glorious. Oh God, there is no one more glor You are glorious.

God the most glorious. I delight myself in you. Captivated by your presence.

I'm overwhelmed. I'm overwhelmed by you, God. I brought it to your arms.

I'm ashamed because of your mercy. I'm overwhelmed. I'm overwhelmed by you.

I'm overwhelmed. I'm overwhelmed by you. Amen.

Send us now. to bring your healing to the nations in the name of Jesus. >> Amen.

God Almighty who is the beginning and the end. Jesus Christ the firstborn of the dead and the spirit our advocate and peace bless you now and forever. Amen.

All exel joy of heaven to earth come down in us thy humble dwelling all thy faithful mercy's ground Jesus thou Thou art all compassion pure unbounded love. th us with thy salvless. the let us find our pro take away our s our hearts and Liberty come mighty to deliver.

Let us all find suddenly return and never more thy temples. Thee we would be blessing serve thee as thy host. Praise and praise thee.

without ceasing. Glory in thy perfect love. New creation pure and spotless.

Let us be. Let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee. Change from glory into glory.

Till in heaven we take our place. Till we cast our cross before thee, lost in wonder, love and praise. Lost in wonder, love.

the morning's announcements. Today, we're thankful for all who have worshiped together here in person and online today. Next Sunday on May 17th, the mission site profile task force requests your presence in the fellowship hall directly after the 8:30 a.m.

service to share your feedback about your experiences, thoughts, and hopes for grace. That will be important to creating the document that will provide prospective pastors their first look at Grace Church during the search process. This will be the last meeting opportunity, but the questionnaires we ask you to fill out anonymously with your input can be dropped off in the fellowship box office until May 24th.

And please see Teresa Miller or Mary Changes are due today. We are still in need of volunteers for hosting family promise this week May 10th through 17th. Please consult this past week's grace notes for more details about this service opportunity and other important events opportunities and information.

Now let us share our mission statement together. We share God's grace by welcoming all people together in faith and joining God's work in our community. Thanks be to God.

>> Hallelujah.