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WELCOME
Greeting & Announcements
Prelude - Reverie, Gordon Young (1919-1998)
Call to Worship
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?
I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
I am the vine; you are the branches.
Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.
And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what really matters
so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.
+ Hymn 619 - Praise, My Soul, the God of Heaven
+ Call to Confession
+ A Prayer of Confession
Merciful and loving God, you have called us to be your people and claimed us for the service of Jesus Christ. We confess that we have not lived up to our calling to proclaim the good news in word and deed. We are quick to speak when we ought to listen and remain silent when it is time to speak. We put too much faith in our own actions and fail to trust the strength of your Spirit. O God, forgive our foolish and sinful ways. Strengthen us anew to follow Christ’s way in the world. By your Holy Spirit, give us the grace we need to be faithful disciples and fulfill our common calling; through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Hear now our silent prayers of confession…
• Assurance of Pardon
• Response to Forgiveness: Hymn 581 Gloria Patri
Passing of the Peace
Children’s Message
Prayer for Openness
Saving God, source of our calling, your Word is full of power and glory. Pour out your Holy Spirit upon us so that we may receive your grace and live as your beloved children; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Scripture Reading - Isaiah 43.1-7 (OT pg. 672)
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. Because you are precious in my sight and honored and I love you, I give people in return for you, nations in exchange for your life. Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you; I will say to the north, “Give them up,” and to the south, “Do not withhold; bring my sons from far away and my daughters from the end of the earth— everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
This is the written testimony to the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God
ANTHEM - Gracious Spirit, Dwell With Me, K. Lee Scott, Chancel Choir
Scripture Reading - John 15.1-17 (NT pg. 109)
Sermon - Love Overflows - Rev. Matt FalcoWeek 1: Love Overflows
Statement of Faith - From the PC(USA) Brief Statement of Faith
In gratitude to God, empowered by the Spirit, we strive to serve Christ in our daily tasks and to live holy and joyful lives, even as we watch for God’s new heaven and new earth, praying, “Come, Lord Jesus!” With believers in every time and place, we rejoice that nothing in life or in death can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.
+ HYMN 688 - Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart
ORDINATION AND INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS
SENTENCES OF SCRIPTURE & ORDINATION/INSTALLATION QUESTIONS
There are varieties of gifts, but it is the same Spirit who gives them. 1 Cor. 12:4–7, 27
There are different ways of serving God, but it is the same Lord who is served.
God works through each person in a unique way, but it is God’s purpose that is accomplished.
To each is given a gift of the Spirit to be used for the common good.
Together we are the body of Christ, and individually members of it.
Representing the one holy catholic and apostolic church, the session of Maxwell Street Presbyterian
Church now ordains Katherine Bullock, Jeff Ehlert, Jim Olive, Elizabeth Tremoulis, and Zane Kercsmar to ministry as deacons, and ordains Vanessa Keith, Lyle Watt, and Rob Wethington to ministry as ruling elders, and installs them to active service in this congregation.
The session also installs to active service those who have been previously ordained as
ruling elders: Tracy Bruno, Julia Linscott, and Helen Richardson.
Do we, the members of the church, accept these individuals to be this congregations ruling elders
and deacons chosen by God through the voice of this congregation to lead us in the way of
Jesus Christ? We do.
Do we agree to pray for them, to encourage them, to respect their decisions, and to follow as
they guide us, serving Jesus Christ, who alone is Head of the Church? We do.
PRAYER OF ORDINATION AND INSTALLATION
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
WELCOMING THE NEWLY ORDAINED AND INSTALLED
Prayers of the People & THE LORD’s PRAYER (Debts/Debtors - Hymnal pg. 35)
Offering
• INVITATION
• Offertory - Meditation in B, Raymond H. Haan (b. 1938)
• Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessing flow Praise Christ the Word in flesh born low;
Praise Holy Spirit evermore; One God, Triune, whom we adore. Amen.
• Prayer of Dedication
+ HYMN 697 - Take My Life
Charge and Benediction
Benediction Response - Hymn 475 Come Thou Font of Every Blessing vs 1
Come, thou Fount of every blessing; tune my heart to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above;
praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it, mount of God’s unchanging love!
Postlude - Marche-Sortie, Théodore Dubois (1837-1924)
Greeting & Announcements
Prelude - Reverie, Gordon Young (1919-1998)
Call to Worship
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?
I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
I am the vine; you are the branches.
Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.
And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what really matters
so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.
+ Hymn 619 - Praise, My Soul, the God of Heaven
+ Call to Confession
+ A Prayer of Confession
Merciful and loving God, you have called us to be your people and claimed us for the service of Jesus Christ. We confess that we have not lived up to our calling to proclaim the good news in word and deed. We are quick to speak when we ought to listen and remain silent when it is time to speak. We put too much faith in our own actions and fail to trust the strength of your Spirit. O God, forgive our foolish and sinful ways. Strengthen us anew to follow Christ’s way in the world. By your Holy Spirit, give us the grace we need to be faithful disciples and fulfill our common calling; through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Hear now our silent prayers of confession…
• Assurance of Pardon
• Response to Forgiveness: Hymn 581 Gloria Patri
Passing of the Peace
Children’s Message
Prayer for Openness
Saving God, source of our calling, your Word is full of power and glory. Pour out your Holy Spirit upon us so that we may receive your grace and live as your beloved children; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Scripture Reading - Isaiah 43.1-7 (OT pg. 672)
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. Because you are precious in my sight and honored and I love you, I give people in return for you, nations in exchange for your life. Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you; I will say to the north, “Give them up,” and to the south, “Do not withhold; bring my sons from far away and my daughters from the end of the earth— everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
This is the written testimony to the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God
ANTHEM - Gracious Spirit, Dwell With Me, K. Lee Scott, Chancel Choir
Scripture Reading - John 15.1-17 (NT pg. 109)
Sermon - Love Overflows - Rev. Matt FalcoWeek 1: Love Overflows
Statement of Faith - From the PC(USA) Brief Statement of Faith
In gratitude to God, empowered by the Spirit, we strive to serve Christ in our daily tasks and to live holy and joyful lives, even as we watch for God’s new heaven and new earth, praying, “Come, Lord Jesus!” With believers in every time and place, we rejoice that nothing in life or in death can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.
+ HYMN 688 - Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart
ORDINATION AND INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS
SENTENCES OF SCRIPTURE & ORDINATION/INSTALLATION QUESTIONS
There are varieties of gifts, but it is the same Spirit who gives them. 1 Cor. 12:4–7, 27
There are different ways of serving God, but it is the same Lord who is served.
God works through each person in a unique way, but it is God’s purpose that is accomplished.
To each is given a gift of the Spirit to be used for the common good.
Together we are the body of Christ, and individually members of it.
Representing the one holy catholic and apostolic church, the session of Maxwell Street Presbyterian
Church now ordains Katherine Bullock, Jeff Ehlert, Jim Olive, Elizabeth Tremoulis, and Zane Kercsmar to ministry as deacons, and ordains Vanessa Keith, Lyle Watt, and Rob Wethington to ministry as ruling elders, and installs them to active service in this congregation.
The session also installs to active service those who have been previously ordained as
ruling elders: Tracy Bruno, Julia Linscott, and Helen Richardson.
Do we, the members of the church, accept these individuals to be this congregations ruling elders
and deacons chosen by God through the voice of this congregation to lead us in the way of
Jesus Christ? We do.
Do we agree to pray for them, to encourage them, to respect their decisions, and to follow as
they guide us, serving Jesus Christ, who alone is Head of the Church? We do.
PRAYER OF ORDINATION AND INSTALLATION
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
WELCOMING THE NEWLY ORDAINED AND INSTALLED
Prayers of the People & THE LORD’s PRAYER (Debts/Debtors - Hymnal pg. 35)
Offering
• INVITATION
• Offertory - Meditation in B, Raymond H. Haan (b. 1938)
• Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessing flow Praise Christ the Word in flesh born low;
Praise Holy Spirit evermore; One God, Triune, whom we adore. Amen.
• Prayer of Dedication
+ HYMN 697 - Take My Life
Charge and Benediction
Benediction Response - Hymn 475 Come Thou Font of Every Blessing vs 1
Come, thou Fount of every blessing; tune my heart to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above;
praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it, mount of God’s unchanging love!
Postlude - Marche-Sortie, Théodore Dubois (1837-1924)