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our Lenton soup dinner uh here in the fellowship hall and then followed by at 7 o'clock our Lenton midweek service. And I'll have to tell you that I'm unable to get there at 7 because I work until 7 on Wednesdays, but I looked at it online and it's a wonderful prayerful time. So if you can't make it, perhaps you can look at it afterwards.

Um and then a wonderful celebratory announcement um after the each service and between the service after the services I don'tbody said that after this service um let's welcome pastor Jan with a wonderful uh reception in the fellowship hall and uh con uh connected with that uh a reminder to if at all possible wear your name tags because this is a time of getting to know each other and those name tags will really be helpful and frankly There's probably some people that we don't know either, so we can sneak a peek uh at those name tags as well and get to know people that we don't know by name yet. Um, and I hear that we have one more announcement by >> Good morning. Uh once again this year we're uh helping sponsor the Easter baskets for of joy for the York County Council on Aging.

So out in the fellowship hall as in past years you'll see a bunch of 50 Easter eggs. Actually the numbers gone down a few people taking them already. So, there's Easter eggs with a name on the front and then on the back of the eggs there's a list of recommended items, toiletry items, [snorts] um, candies, things that some of the the elderly in our community need.

Um, so if you could take an egg, bundle up those items in a basket, we ask that you wrap the basket in cellophane or something to keep all the items in the basket when they're being transported. And then place a name tag. And you'll see on the the name tags on the Easter eggs, there's a name tag name and a route number.

If you just put that name and route number on the tag on the basket and have them back here by March 24th, I believe the date is it'll be in the e news, but the Easter eggs are out there. Please feel free to take one, take two, take as many as you like. >> Thank you.

And now let us uh read and proclaim our mission statement which is found at the top of your bulletin underneath the announcements. Together we speak these words of mission. We share God's grace by welcoming all people, growing together in faith, and joining God's work in our community.

Thank you. Above all [singing] powers, [music] above all kings, above all [singing] nature and all created [music] things above [singing] all wisdom [music] and all the ways of man. [singing] You were here before [music] the world began.

Above all [singing] kingoms, [music] above all thrones, above [singing] all wonderers [music] the world has ever known. Above all [singing and music] wealth and trees of the earth, there's [singing and music] no way to measure what you're worth. Crucified, [singing] made behind the storm.

You live [singing] to die. Rejected [music] alone like a [singing] rose trampled on the ground. He took [singing and music] the phone and thought of me [music and singing] about like [singing] a romp on the ground.

You took the [singing] phone and thought of me. >> [music] >> confession. We are gathered to worship in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

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 one another and of God.

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] >> Now is the time to worship. Come [singing and music] now is the time to give your [singing] heart. Come just as you are to worship.

Come [singing] just as you are [music] before your [singing] God. One day every tongue [singing and music] will confess you are God. One day every knee will [singing] bow.

Still the greatest treasure remains for those [singing and music] who gladly choose you. Now come. Now is the [singing and music] time to worship.

Come. [singing] Now is the time to give [music] your [singing] heart. Come.

Just as you are [singing and music] to worship, come just as you are [singing and music] before your Lord come [singing] [music] to our lives. Willingly our knees will bow. [music and singing] With all our hearts, oh mind, and strength, [music] we gladly choose you.

[singing] Now come. Now is the time [music and singing] to worship. Come, now is the [music] time to give your [singing] heart.

Come just as you [singing and music] are to work. worship. Come just as you are [singing and music] before your God.

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

Christ [music] have mercy. [singing] [music] [singing] Lord have mercy. >> The Lord be with you.

also with you. >> Let us pray together. Oh God, our leader and guide, in the waters of baptism, you bring us to new birth to live as your children.

strengthen our faith in your promise that by your spirit we may lift up your life to all the world through your son 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 invite children to visit with me for a few Good morning. I'm glad you're here. Are you glad you're here?

Yep. And you know those words are that came out of my mouth, but that's God's message especially for you and for you and for all God's children. Um, today is a very special day for us because we're going to hear Jesus talk about something unusual but but very real.

Do you have a mom? Do you you you have a mom? Each of you?

Do you do you have a dad? Yeah. And guess what that means?

Do you think you were born? If you have a mom and a dad, you must have been born, right? Yeah.

Well, there's going to be I have a mom and a dad, but my mom and and dad aren't living anymore. But I'm real. You can touch me.

You're real. I can touch you. We were born.

And that's a gift of the people who birthed us, you know, who made us. But now there's a that means I have a family. That means you have a family.

You have a family. Every one of us in here has some family because we were born into that family. But I also have a second family and it came through that baptism font not here but a very very long time ago because they're two families.

You're right. This man will come to Jesus during a very very long time ago and he'll say, "So, what do I have to do to be part of this family that you're talking about?" And he was a he was a church man, but he didn't know. And Jesus says, "You have to be born again." And it's like, "Oh, you mean I have to get back in my mother's tummy again?

That would be scary, wouldn't it?" That really wouldn't. By the time you get big like me. That would scare my mother if she were around.

So, how do we get born? We are born into a real family. But God says, "I want you in my family, too." How do we get born into God's family?

Through baptism. And a font like that. That's the That's the sacrament.

You may have seen other now that you're big, you may have seen other babies. You may have seen adults in some bapt in some font like that somewhere in baptism. A few drops of water or put on your head.

It doesn't you can actually go in the river. You can do a few drops. It doesn't matter.

But that's the way that we became part of a second family that's much much bigger than the family we were born into. When I say to you God has a message for you, it's because you're a child of your mom and your dad and you're a child of your heavenly father who will be with you forever. That makes you very very special.

That's a special gift of God. You've been in holy baptism. We were born again.

Born again. Let's pray. Thank you, God.

>> You made us >> You made us >> You gave us parents. >> You gave us parents >> to care for us. >> Care for us.

>> You called us. us >> to be your child >> to be your child. >> And you offered us baptism.

>> You offered us baptism >> as the way you adopted us. >> Thank you, Jesus. >> Thank you, Jesus.

>> Amen. >> Thank you so much for coming. A reading from the book of Genesis.

The Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great. so that you will be a blessing.

I bless I will bless those who bless you and the one who curses you I will curse and in all in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. So Abram went as the Lord had told him and Lot went with him. The word of the Lord.

We continue with the song. I [singing and music] to the hills. My help [singing] comes from the Lord.

I lift up [music] my eyes to the hills. [singing] My help comes from the Lord. I lift up my eyes [singing] to the hills.

From where is my help to come? [singing] My help of heaven and earth [singing] [singing] will fall asleep. Behold [singing] the nei [singing] [singing] [music] [singing] [singing] shade and your right hand.

[singing] >> The [singing] moon by night. The Lord will preserve you from all evil [singing] and will keep your life. The Lord [singing] will watch over your time forever.

[singing] I lift up [singing and music] my eyes to the hills. My help comes from the [music and singing] Lord. Hear the words from the letter of Paul to the Romans.

What then are we to say was gained by Abraham, our ancestor, according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the scripture say?

Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. Now, To one who works, wages are not reckoned as a gift, but as something due. But to one who does not work, but trusts him who justifies the ungodly.

Such faith is reckoned as righteousness. For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For it is the adherence of the law who are to be the heirs.

For if it is the adherence of the law who are to be heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law, neither is their transgression. For this reason, the promise depends on faith in order that it may rest on grace, so that it may be guaranteed to call his descendants not only to the adherence of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham who is the father of all of us as it is written I have made you the father of many nations in the presence of the God in whom he believed who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist the word of the Lord Nothing [singing and music] in all creation us.

[singing and music] [singing] [music] >> The Holy Gospel according to St. John the 3 chapter. Glory to you, Lord.

>> Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with that person." >> [clears throat] >> Jesus answered him, "Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above." Nicodemus said to him, "How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born?" Jesus answered, [clears throat] "Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and spirit.

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the spirit is spirit. Do not be astonished that I said to you, you must be born from above. The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it's coming from or where it goes.

So it is with everyone who is born of the spirit. Nicodemus said to him, "How can these things be?" Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things? Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen, yet you do not receive our testimony.

If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only son so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. Indeed, God did not send the son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him. The gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you Christ. Mark Jackson was fatally shot inside a 711 at the corner of West 39th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan on February the 12th. He was a father of three who had only recently fallen on hard times.

The heartbroken family said Mark was known to regularly hold open the door for change at the 71. According to locals, when a fight over turf broke out recently between Jackson, age 43, and a rival panhandler about 10:25 a.m. on February 12th, his rival pulled a gun and fatally shot him in the neck inside the store.

He was trying to rebuild his life. Sometimes that in and of itself can be a struggle. The victim's 44year-old brother said he's just a guy who fell on hard times.

A relationship didn't work out and he had to try to find his way. Jetton had been homeless off and on for only about a year before being killed holding the door. It was a time of sleeping in city shelters and friends couches and that they say is what apparently led him to resort to holding the door at the 711 for spare change.

But that was a coveted position and panhandlers wared over control of that spot. Customers told the New York Daily News, "He died at the scene. His killer has not been caught." The New York Daily News report this week was a tragic end to one of the countless numbers of people who have lost their way through this life and as Jackson's brother said are simply trying to find the way.

Was that true of this couple who was reported from today's Old Testament reading? I really don't know. Only God knew some 4,000 years ago when that encounter occurred.

That encounter takes us all the way back to the beginnings of recorded biblical history to an ancient land of the Chaldes it was called. We got there through the same throne room we passed last week to the time of the great King David. to the time when the ancient oral tradition was being committed to writing to listen with King David and his people to the stories of our origins.

Last Sunday we heard the story of our origins and their origins. A story of creation it was and then the story of creation going on. Now, the ancient storyteller brings us forward through a great expanse of time to the historical moment when a god he does not yet know comes to a wandering nomad named Abram.

For reasons known only to this God, Abram is given a command and a promise. Go and I will make. Amazingly, the storyteller relates in a short stunning summary.

Abram went as the Lord had said. That's great. Abram appears to be a man of amazing faith.

He's obviously the spotlight figure here. The message seems clear. Follow Abram's example.

Have great faith. Take great risks. There's a great opportunity out there just waiting for those who have the courage to go for it.

At least that's how television and social media might play out that drama today. It would certainly make great copy for campaign ads. Except we missed a simple factual statement.

The storyteller casually dropped as the story developed. It was the conclusion to the preceding chapter that we didn't hear. There after the story of the Tower of Babel, we're given this long narration of genealogy.

We follow one generation after another through the shadowy pages of dateless history to that historic moment when the light begins to break in ancient history to set the stage for this encounter that we heard today. Few personal details were offered as the narrator ran down generation after generation. Just a simple summary at the end.

Terara was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Heron. Abram and Nahor took wives, the narrator recorded. And the name of Abram's wife was Sarah.

Now Sarai was barren. She had no child. What?

The family tree of Abram progressed generation after generation down to him. But the progression will now end. It will end in baronness.

The storyteller makes no inference of the cause of the end coming to this extended family. There is no hint of a curse or a punishment. It's a simple report that this family and with it the whole human family of Genesis 1 through 11 will have played out its future.

There is no foreseeable future. It's Genesis 3 all over again. It's the story of New York City panhandler Mark Jackson and countless others.

A family line so full of promise and potential approaches and abrupt sad end. There is no human power then. There is no human power today to invent or create a future that has closed.

This is the context into which God suddenly speaks in Genesis 12:1. God the creator speaks the creative word once again into the context of baroness and a potential future emerges. Those gathered with King David in the room that day know what gradually dawns upon us that this is Genesis 2 all over again.

It's the primal story of creation all over again. Remember Genesis 2, the world there is a waterless barren desert unable to produce anything. There is no one to till it.

then announced the general storyteller. The Lord God formed and a future began. Creation is the story of a future where there is no future.

Genesis 12 is the recreation story of a future where there was no future. The good news today, folks, God always and vites to a future people who have no future. The good news is that baroness is the arena of God's great lifegiving activity.

It has been so since the creation story of Genesis 2. The brokenness of Genesis 3 repeated again and again throughout those first 11 chapters of Genesis is the theme of my life and of your life and the life of all humankind. The spotlight is not really on Abraham, the name change that will later be given by God.

We've assumed it to be. In all of hope of Hebrew scripture, there are no human heroes. They are ordinary people who find themselves with extraordinary opportunities which they did not create, which they cannot create because the only he hero in all of holy scripture is God.

A God, scripture reminds us, whose actions, whose plans and purpose don't depend upon any potential whatsoever. And those to whom God's awesome, lifecreating, future forming, almighty word comes in Genesis 2. God creates in Genesis 12.

God creates a new God takes a family with no future and through them creates a future for humankind. The future which Abram and Sarahi received, which the nation of Israel receives nearly a thousand years later, which we receive today in the sacrament of holy baptism, is not achievement, not accomplishment for anyone. It is always God's marvelous, wondrous, amazing gift of grace.

Think about it. Baroness is the story of humankind. It was Abraham's fle story in Hebrew scripture again and again.

Think for of Rebecca in Genesis 25 or Rachel in Genesis 29 or Hannah in 1 Samuel 1. The God who creates the world is the God who recreates a family without a future. This ancient story is not just about the forming of the present day nation of Israel.

It's really the creator's intent to reform creation to transform this world. It's pure speculation to ask if this is the only family God called. But it's unmistakably clear that this family responded obedient to the command, though not all not often without numerous failings and stumbling along the journey.

But it's the promise that stands at the center of all of this. I will make the almighty promises. It's that promise that stands between a family with no future in Genesis 11:30 and the responsive family with the future that God provides in Genesis 12:4.

Again and again throughout history, the Lord God invites to a future people who have no future. And history records again and again those who have trusted the promise maker to be the promiseke keeper and ventured forth howsoever timidly into the future toward which God Almighty calls. St.

Paul pro points back to this moment in Jewish history in his letter to the church at Rome. finding there the good news of God's continuous work bringing life out of death in the presence of the God in whom Abram believed we heard today who gives life to the dead and calls into existence things that do not exist. God invites to a future people who have no future.

We don't know what prompted Abram's response. We are simply told he did what God told him to do. It's a different story in this third chapter of John's gospel.

Now it's no wandering nomad without a future, but it's a religious leader some 1800 years later of status and standing among a pious group of Jewish leaders called Pharisees in Jesus day. God came to Abram in Genesis 12. Nicodemus came to Jesus in John 3.

Jesus early ministry apparently caused Nicodemus to wonder about him. What he has heard and what he has seen drove him under the cover of darkness to this conversation with Jesus. Nicodemus sought more information.

Jesus spoke divine truth directly to his soul. Abram's encounter with the Lord set Abram in motion. Abram went as the Lord told him.

We heard in Genesis. Nicodemus encounter with Jesus, God Almighty in the flesh, ended now in disbelief. How can these things be?

Heard the good news. of God's promises and intent. Abram heard God's divine intent that he and the nation to come from them be the means by which God's blessings would reach all people.

Through Nicodemus, we heard the good news of our salvation. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but have everlasting life. Indeed, Jesus declared God's intent was not to send the son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him.

The risen Lord Jesus provides each of us in the sacrament of holy baptism the future that God intends for us and through us for this congregation. If you've experienced dead end moments in life and you're open to God's intent for you hear the good news. Your life can be different through you and this congregation as God did so long ago in Abram.

God intends his blessings to reach all God's children everywhere. Go. God promises.

And I will make of you a blessing. Amen. Ally [singing and music] for mercy.

All who are thirsty for love. [singing] All [music] who are thirsty for love for mercy. Come to [singing] the water of love.

>> [singing] >> are thirsty for healing. All who are thirsty for touch. [music] All who are thirsty [singing] for touch, for healing, come to [singing and music] the love.

All who [singing] are thirsting for beauty. All who are thirsting for truth. All who [singing and music] are thirsty for truth.

For beauty. Come. Come to [singing and music] the water of life.

All who [singing and music] are thirsty for justice. All who are thirsty for peace. All who are thirsty for [singing and music] peace, for justice, come to [singing] the water of life.

>> 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. Faithful one, you renew us by grace as you have inspired faith through the work of church artists and hymnwriters throughout the ages. Give your church the means to praise your beauty today.

Hear us, oh God. >> Living You delight in this world. The sun and moon, the wind and the water declare your goodness.

Preserve this earth and protect conser conservationists, scientists, and all who labor in service to creation. Hear us, oh God. >> Ruling one, you bless us to be a blessing.

Open the hearts of all leaders to seek the flourishing of every person and lend your help to all who wait for justice, deliverance, and peace. Hear us, oh God. >> Compassionate one, you send your son to save.

Declare your word of acceptance to all who feel condemned and lift up any brought low by hatred and exclusion. tend to all who are struggling with illness or loss, especially those we lift before you now, whether silently or aloud. Hear us, oh God.

>> Guiding one, you watch over our going out and coming in. Bless newcomers and new members in this assembly and accompany those who have recently left this community to journey elsewhere. Hear us, oh God.

>> Eternal one, you neither slumber nor sleep. Be our keeper in life and in death. Thank you for our beloved who have died and for your promise which saves this whole world by your love.

Hear us, oh God. >> Receive our prayers, oh God, through Jesus Christ, our strength and salvation. >> Amen.

The peace of the Lord be with you always. >> Also with you. >> As you're comfortable, please share a sign of God's peace with others.

[clears throat] to you. Come all [singing] you all you [music] thirsty [singing] that never runs dry. Drink of the water.

[music and singing] Come and thirst no more. Come [singing and music] all you sinners, come find his mercy. Come to the table.

He will satisfy. [music and singing] Taste of his goodness. Find what you're looking for.

[singing and music] For God [singing] so loved the world that he [music] gave us his only son [singing] to save [music] us who will live [singing] forever. Bring all your [singing and music] failures. Bring your addictions.

Come >> [singing] >> lay them down at the [music] foot of the cross. Jesus [singing] is waiting there with open arms. For God so loved [singing] the world that he gave [music] us his one and only son to save us.

Whoever [singing] [music] believes in him will live forever. [music] The power of [singing] hell forever defeated now. It is [singing and music] well I'm walking in freedom for God [singing and music] so loved God so loved the world.

[singing] >> Praise God. Praise [singing] God. whom all blessings [singing and music] flow.

Praise him. Praise him [singing] for the wonders of his [music] love. Praise God.

[singing] Praise God from [singing] whom all [music] blessings flow. Praise [singing] him. Praise him for the [singing] wonders of his love his [singing] love.

For God so loved the world that [singing] he [music] gave us his one and only son to save. For God [singing] so [music] loved the world that he gave us his one and only son to save [singing] us. [music] Whoever believes in him will [singing and music] live forever.

The power [singing] of hell forever [music] defeated. Now it is well. [singing] I'm walking in freedom for God so loved God so [singing] loved the world.

Bring all your [singing and music] failures. Bring your lay [singing] down at the foot of the cross. Jesus [singing] is waiting.

I so [music] love the world to [music and singing] bless the seeds [singing] that were sown that we may [music] be fed with the bread of >> [singing] >> the hopes and the dreams of all them we offer. [singing] Grace our table with your presence and give [singing] us a forast of the feast to come. [singing and music] >> Let us pray together.

Oh God, maker of heaven and earth. Your steadfast love embraces all creation, you send rain and sunshine to nourish the earth and bring forth its bounty. Through these gifts of bread and wine, draw us into the death and life of your son who calls us to bear witness to his saving work.

We ask this in Jesus name. Amen. The Lord be with you.

>> And also with you. >> Lift up your hearts. >> We lift them up 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, [singing] holy, Lord God of power and God of might.

Heaven [singing and music] and earth are full of your gloryana [singing] in the [music] highest. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the [singing] Lordana in the highest. >> [singing] >> in the [music] highest.

Holy one, the beginning and the end, the giver of life. Blessed are you for the birth of creation. Blessed are you in the darkness and in the light.

Blessed are you for your promise to your people. Blessed are you in the prophet's hopes and dreams. Blessed are you for Mary's openness to your will.

Blessed are you for your son Jesus, the word made flesh. 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." Let us proclaim the mystery of faith.

Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.

With this bread and cup, we remember your word dwelling among us. Full of grace and truth. We remember our new birth in his death and resurrection.

We look with hope for his coming. Jesus. >> Holy God, we long for your spirit.

Come among us. Bless this meal. May your word take flesh in us.

Awaken your people. Fill us with your light. Bring the gift of peace on earth.

>> Spirit. >> All praise and glory are yours. Holy one of Israel.

Word of God incarnate. power of the most high, one God, now and forever. Amen.

>> 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. Feast on God's goodness and mercy.

You take away [music and singing] the sin of the world, have mercy [singing] on us. Lamb of God, you take the s of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of God, you take away us of the world.

Grant [singing] us peace. Grant us peace. Hallelujah.

Above all [singing] powers, above all kings, above [singing] all [music] nature and all created things. >> [music] >> above all [singing] wisdom and all the ways of man. You [music] were here [singing] before the world began.

Above all [singing] kingoms, above all thrones, above [singing] all wonderers the world has ever known. Above all [singing and music] wealth and trees of the earth, there's [singing and music] no way to measure what you're worth. Crucified, [singing] laid behind the stone, you live to die, [singing] rejected [music] and alone.

like a [singing] rose trampled on the ground. [singing] They took [music] the phone and thought of me. [singing] Above [singing] all powers, above all kings, [singing] above all nature and all created things, [music] above all [singing] wisdom and all the ways [music] of man, you were [singing] here before the world began.

Above [singing] all kingoms, above all thrones, above [singing] all wonderers [music] the world has ever known. Above all wealth and trees [singing and music] of the earth, there's [music and singing] no way to measure what you're worth. Crucified, [singing] laid [music] behind the stone, you live [singing] to die, rejected and [music] alone.

like a rose trampled on the ground. [music] [singing] You took the phone and thought of me above [music and singing] all [singing and music] laid behind the stone. He live to die.

[singing] Rejected and alone like a rose trampled [singing] on the ground. [music] You took the phone and thought of me [music] above like a rose [singing] trampled on the ground. >> [singing] >> You took the phone and thought of me.

[singing] [music] Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ strengthen you and keep you in his grace. >> Amen. >> Let us pray together.

God of our salvation, we give you thanks for this meal that restores our souls, reconciles us to you and strengthens us for the journey through the body and blood of your son. May we become Christ's body in the world, bearing witness to your love for all creation through Jesus Christ, our savior and lord. Amen.

It is a holy privilege now for us to extend this table of grace with several who deliver communion to the homebound. Will you come forward? Let's pray.

Gracious God, loving all your family with a mother's tender care, as you sent the angel to feed Elijah with heavenly bread, assist us in this ministry on which we set forth. In your love and care, nourish and strengthen those to whom we bring this sacrament, that through the body and blood of your son, we all may know the comfort of your abiding presence. Amen.

receive the blessing of the Holy Trinity, God who calls all things into existence, Jesus Christ who redeems us, and the Holy Spirit whose breath sustains creation. Bless you now and always. Amen.

>> [singing and music] >> us. Oh, what a [singing and music] foraste of glory divine salvation, [singing and music] purchase of God, born of his [music] [singing] in his blood. This is [music] my story.

[singing] This is my song. Praising my savior all the day [singing and music] long. This is my story.

This is [singing and music] my song. Praising myior all the [music] day long. Perfect submission, [singing] perfect delight.

[music] Visions of rapure never burst on my sight. [singing] Angels descending [music] pray from above. Echo [singing and music] of mercy, whispers of love.

This is my [singing and music] story. This is my song. Praising [singing and music] myior all the day long.

This is my story. [singing] This is [music] my song. Praising my savior all the [singing and music] day long.

Perfect submission [singing] is at rest. I [music] in myior [singing] am happy and blessed. watching and waiting, looking [singing and music] above, filled with his goodness, [music] lost in his love.

This [singing] is my story. This is [music] my song. Praising myior [singing] all the day long.

This is my story. This [singing and music] is my song. Praising my Savior [singing and music] all the day long.

[music] Thank you.