South Church in Andover
United Church of Christ

THE WORSHIP OF GOD
ORDER FOR THE SERVICE

May 11, 2008
Pentecost Sunday
Mother’s Day

 PRELUDE    Andante from String Quartet in A minor,“Rosamunde”                   Franz Shubert

WELCOME     
     Introduction of Visitors and Guests
     Announcements      
     Exchange of Peace

     The peace of Jesus Christ be with you.
         And also with you.

INTROIT     Ave Maria   Franz Shubert

CALL TO WORSHIP      Psalm 149

Praise the Lord! Sing to God a new song in all the congregation.

Let the children of God be glad and rejoice in the One who creates and loves all that is.

Let God’s name be praised with dancing and with melody.

Let the faithful exult in glory; let us sing for joy and praise our God!

* HYMN  When in Our Music God is Glorified    # 264 Red
              verses 1, 2 & 4

PRAYER OF INVOCATION AND LORD'S PRAYER  Rev. Drury

SCRIPTURE     Psalm 104: 24 – 34, 35b    (in bulletin)

SACRAMENT OF CHRISTIAN BAPTISM

Statement of Faith of the United Church of Christ

Colin Malcolm MacLean, son of Donna and Mark MacLean.

Congregational Response:

On behalf of the whole Christian Church, we now receive Colin into our care.  We promise to uphold him and his parents in the fulfillment of their vows and to be a Christian community which teaches love for God and neighbor, and nurtures in their spiritual life a Christ centered faith, hope and joy.

RESPONSE   Yonder Come Day     Judith Cook Tucker
               Treble Choir

SCRIPTURE   Acts 2: 1 - 4   (in bulletin)

LET THE CHILDREN COME        Rev. Stedman

Children in grades K-8 may remain to enjoy the special music offered today
 or move to their church school classrooms.
Parents of children up to age 7, please go to your child’s classroom after worship.

* HYMN  Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart   # 232 Blue
              verses 1, 2, & 5

SCRIPTURE   I Corinthians 12: 4 - 13 (in bulletin)

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE          Rev. Stedman

OFFERING OF OUR GIFTS IN THANKSGIVING

Invitation
Offertory  Impromptu in E Flat Major, Opus 90, D. 899  Franz Schubert
             Marianna Jordan

*Doxology and Dedication Prayer

THE OFFERING OF CHOIR, AND ORCHESTRA
               Mass #2 in G Major, D. 167     Franz Shubert

BENEDICTION      

* CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE  
                          How Can I Keep From Singing? (insert)
                                                verse 1

POSTLUDE     Marche Militaire     Franz Shubert

Participating in Today’s Service:
Acolytes: Rachel Cronin and MacKenzie Gray
Greeters: The Reppucci Family
Deacon: Tom Jones
Youth: Sarah Crockett
Head Usher: Greg Galat
Soprano: Heather Bond

Scriptures For This Day         New Revised Standard Version

Psalm 104: 24 – 34, 35b

O Lord, how manifold are your works!
In wisdom you have made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
Yonder is the sea, great and wide,
creeping things innumerable are there,
living things both small and great.
There go the ships, and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.

These all look to you to give them their food in due season;
when you give to them, they gather it up;
when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.
When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
when you take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
When you send forth your spirit,^* they are created;
and you renew the face of the ground.

May the glory of the Lord endure for ever;
 may the Lord rejoice in all creation —
who looks on the earth and it trembles,
who touches the mountains and they smoke.
I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
May my meditation be pleasing to the Lord, in whom I rejoice.
Bless the Lord, O my soul.
Praise the Lord!

Acts 2: 1 - 4

When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. ²And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. ³Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. ⁴All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.

I Corinthians 12: 4 - 13

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; ⁵and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; ⁶and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. ⁷To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. ⁸To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, ⁹to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, ¹⁰to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. ¹³For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body —  Jews or Greeks, slaves or free —  and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.