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Healing From Loss Experience (page 3)
Prayers of the People Rev. Denise Dugan
The Lord’s Prayer
Scripture & Message Rev. Dr. Chris Wilson
Psalm 137:1-6 | “Exilic Makeover”
Second Hymn “Peace is Flowing Like a River” (page 2)
Time & Talent Tell All
Al Hinrichs, Treasurer with the Finance Team
Gerald Hiller, with the Technology Team
Communion Meditation Rev. Denise Dugan
Communion Music
Thanksgiving Prayer Janey Pryor
Announcements Rev. Dr. Chris Wilson
Sending Song
Benediction Rev. Dr. Chris Wilson
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O Lord, hear my prayer; O Lord, hear my prayer.
When I call, an - swer me. O Lord, hear my prayer; O
Lord, hear my prayer; Come and lis - ten to me.
Saint Andrew Worship Service
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost | Aug. 22, 2021 | 9:30 am
Prelude
Welcome & Greeting Rev. Dr. Chris Wilson Music for Centering
Opening Hymn “By the Waters of Babylon” (page 2)
Passing of the Peace - via text Rev. Denise Dugan
Children’s Moment Rev. Denise Dugan
Call to Prayer
2 CCLI#317486
CCLI#317486
“Peace is Flowing Like a River”
“By the Water of Babylon”
Musicians:
Cindy Egger-Farris & Janice Rawlings (flute).
Vocalists:
Hal & Marti Johnson, Bonnie Burnside,
Shirley Dugan & Donna Helgeson
Livestream Production:
Jon Seitz & Gerald Hiller
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Healing From Loss Experience
Prayer Stations
There are three prayer stations located here in the sanctuary.
You will be invited to move to one or more of those stations
you feel would be a prayerful blessing to you. Be sure and
allow space for others to experience the station. Try to avoid
lines and find space to pray in the waiting between stations.
You can remain seated throughout this experience and reflect
on the invitation of what all three prayer stations offer in the
descriptions below.
• Exile Sand (use a twig for tracing a path)
Where are you on your journey today? You may be feeling
lost in the wilderness; dry, hungry, alone… Allow God to be
present with you in the desert wilderness. Trace a path in the
sand as you pray and reflect. Read the poem and scriptures.
Know that grief and loss is exhausting; pray for moments of
peace and rest. Let your path guide you closer to God’s
healing presence.
A Wilderness Prayer (Deuteronomy 8) © 2017 Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia;
Based on Deuteronomy 8:2-3; 14-16
God of the Ages
Our Deliverer and Provider
We bow in humility before your grace
You feed us with the divine
Your word
Your body
You quench our thirst with living water
A stream in the desert
You guide our feet through snares and snakes
You free us from slavery to sin and self and death
You lead us the long way to holiness and home
Test our hearts
Have we exalted ourselves?
Have we forgotten you?
Reveal the truth to us, O God
Exposed by your unrelenting light
Wiped clean with your wilderness wind
Grow in us wholehearted allegiance
that our blessing and devotion may never waver
that we may always recognize
and trust your desire to do us good
Amen
Isaiah 35:1-2a
The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad,
the desert shall rejoice and blossom;
like the crocus it shall blossom abundantly,
and rejoice with joy and singing.
Isaiah 41:17-18
The poor and needy search for water, but there is none;
their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the Lord will
answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs
within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of
waters, and the parched ground into springs…
Isaiah 51:3
For the Lord will comfort Zion;
he will comfort all her waste places,
and will make her wilderness like Eden,
her desert like the garden of the Lord;
joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and the voice of song.
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• Rock Altar (use a rock)
What memories in this space remind you of joy and hope?
Is there a symbol of hope you find in this sanctuary
(architecture, banner(s), light, bread and cup)? Hope is not
only something for us on our individual path, but a path for
us as a wider community of faith. Place a rock alongside
other rocks to form a rock altar to signify this place as a
collective holy place that grounds us in faith and in our time
through tough experiences and moments.
• Merging Waters (pour small portion of water)
“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and let the one who
believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, ‘Out of the
believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.’” (Luke 7:37-
38) Our prayers do not know the boundaries of time and
space – every prayer offered joins with other prayers so that
all become one. Each person’s joys are the joys of others;
each person’s concerns are our concerns as well. Pour
some water into the bowl to represent your prayers today.
Watch as they mix with the water added by others. Imagine
all our prayers becoming one voice of lament and love,
praise and gratitude to our God.
Litany Seeking Healing Jody Gyulay
One: Blessed One, we give thanks for our many gifts: our
race, class, sexual orientation, age, gender
identification, ability, thought and the sacramental
relationships that grow from these gifts.
Many: Holy One, we rejoice in the collective gifts that
offer healing to our stories and love to our
journey.
One: Comforting Creator, you know our hurts, our
frustrations, our experiences of injustice, and our
separation from loved ones in life and in death.
Many: Give us strength, being bound together with ties
that cannot be broken to honor all that you have
created to be made whole out of brokenness.
One: Help us remember and claim, Source of All Life, that
each life will move through periods of doubt, pain,
grief, and hardship.
Many: Remind us that the path of hope is not away from
but through those moments of challenge being
supported and surrounded by those we love and
those who love us.
One: Loving God, move us into encounters of healing.
Many: Hear us, Holy One, and surround us in your
wholeness and grace.
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