September 8, 2024 | 10:30am - Membership / Baptism Sunday

Piano prelude: Welcome Back! Bruce Nasmith
*Hymn: Who made the earth and the heavens No. 339
Welcome, Announcements & Worship Theme
CALL TO WORSHIP:
We have come to worship to find a place and space where we can listen for God.
We have come to worship as those who must contend with lots of noise in our lives.
There are voices that distract us, frustrate us, discourage us, scare us, exhaust us, confuse us and won’t allow us to stop and think and pray for clarity, direction, courage and resolve.
We come to find the silence within to hear God speak to us, to discern our way in our lives in this time we are living them.
Speak to us, O God, clear the noise from our minds and hearts and open us to the silence we need so we can hear what you have to tell us.
ALL: Let us worship God, together!
*Hymn: God of the sparrow, God of the whale No. 307
Prayer of Approach, Confession & The Lord’s Prayer
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,
the power and the glory, forever. Amen.
The Peace of Christ be with you all;
And also with you.
Welcoming new Members by Baptism & Profession of Faith:
Zahra Rekee (Sefede)
Fatemeh Dehghan (Mahin)
Mohammad Sadegh Pour Abbasi
Shirin Haghayegh
Hana Pour Abbasi
Jennifer Orbanic
Janet Lam
Choir: Dona nobis pacem W. A. Mozart
Scripture Readings: 1 Kings 19: 1-16 Wanda Fischer
Sermon: THE SOUND OF SILENCE
Rev. Dr. Harris Athanasiadis
(Silent Meditation)
Duet: The sound of silence Paul Simon
Soloists Bruce Nasmith & Erin Stone
Prayers of Thanksgiving & Pastoral Concern
*Hymn: Dear Father, Lord of humankind No. 451
Benediction
Threefold Amen
Organ Postlude: Time to say goodbye Andrea Bocelli