North/West Lower Michigan Synod Assembly 2017

Closing Worship May 23, 2017 - 11:00 a.m.

Comfort Inn, Mount Pleasant, MI

Assembly Guide

B: Bishop A: Assisting Minister L: Lector C: Congregation

GATHERING GATHERING SONG ELW #576 We All Are One In Mission

GREETING B: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. C: And also with you. KYRIE

PRAYER OF THE DAY Word FIRST READING Acts 1:6-14 CHORAL ANTHEM My Shepherd Will Supply My Need Arr. By Mack Wilberg Keven Washburn, Director SECOND READING 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11 GOSPEL ACCLAMATION The assembly stands to welcome the gospel.

GOSPEL John 17:1-11 SERMON The Rev. Craig Alan Satterlee, Ph.D., Bishop North/West Lower Michigan Synod

HYMN OF THE DAY ELW #581 You Are Mine

SERVICE OF INSTALLATION The Rev. Chrysanne Timm, Assistant to the Bishop for Synod Life

PRESENTATION ADDRESS AND QUESTIONS The assembly stands. ACCLAMATION BY THE ASSEMBLY The bishop addresses the assembly and the assembly responds: B: …and a steward of the mysteries of God? C: We will, and we ask God to help us. B: …to live together in the peace and unity of Christ? C: We will, and we ask God to help us. BLESSING B: The God of peace… The bishop continues. …through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. C: Amen. PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION The assembly stands. Each prayer will end with this petition: A: Lord, in your mercy, C: receive our prayer. PEACE The people may greet one another with a sign of Christ’s peace, and may say, “Peace be with you,” or similar words. The assembly is seated. OFFERING Tonight’s offering will be added to the offering given at opening worship and Global Companion Support for Honduras and the North/West Lower Michigan Synod Disaster Relief Fund.

OFFERTORY HYMN ELW #878 Soli Deo Gloria The assembly stands on stanza #5.

OFFERING PRAYER A: Let us pray. Blessed are you, O God, ruler of heaven and earth. Day by day you shower us with blessings. As you have raised us to new life in Christ, give us glad and generous hearts, ready to praise you and to respond to those in need, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. C: Amen. GREAT THANKSGIVING DIALOGUE B: The Lord be with you. C: And also with you. B: Lift up your hearts. C: We lift them to the Lord. B: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. C: It is right to give our thanks and praise. PREFACE HOLY, HOLY, HOLY

THANKSGIVING AT THE TABLE B: Holy, mighty, and merciful Lord … The bishop continues.

… to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be all honor and glory, now and forever.

C: Amen. LORD’S PRAYER B: Remember us in your kingdom and teach us to pray: C: 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. LAMB OF GOD

COMMUNION HYMN ELW #479 We Come to the Hungry Feast

COMMUNION HYMN ELW #471 Let Us Break Bread Together

COMMUNION HYMN ELW #469 By Your Hand You Feed Your People

The assembly stands. PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION A: Let us pray. Life-giving God, in the mystery of Christ’s resurrection you send light to conquer darkness, water to give new life, and the bread of life to nourish your people. Send us forth as witnesses to your Son’s resurrection, that we may show your glory to all the world, through Jesus Christ, our risen Lord. C: Amen. BLESSING SENDING HYMN ELW #583 Take My Life

CLOSING OF ASSEMBLY B: Jesus said, “You will be my witnesses C: to the ends of the earth. B: I chose you and appointed you C: to bear fruit which abides. B: Lo, I will be with you always, C: to the end of time.” B: Let us pray: Direct us, O Lord, in all our doings with your most gracious favor and further us with your continual help, that in all our works, begun, continued, and ended in you, we may glorify your holy name and finally, by your mercy, obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. C: Amen. B: I now declare this assembly closed in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. C: Amen.

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