Sunday, April 19

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Announcements

Church Gardeners Needed: If you are able to plant and care for a portion of King Avenue UMC’s landscaping, please contact Office Manager Amy Ashburn, amy@kingave.org, to sign-up and be assigned a plot. Thank you for helping keep our church beautiful.

Looking ahead… We do not know yet when we will re-open for in-person worship services, but the staff is working on plans to do so safely when it is permitted. We do know that asking persons to wear cloth masks is likely to be part of the plan. We will need cloth masks to distribute. If you are able to help provide these, please respond through the welcome card.

We plan to honor graduating seniors from high school, undergraduate or graduate/professional programs. If you are graduating, and have not been contacted already, please email colleen@kingave.org so we can celebrate this significant event with you.

Current Monitor Slideshow

This Monday (4/20) at 7pm, we will be hosting a Zoom meeting for people to contemplate together upon the questions below. We will be taking advantage of the Breakout Room feature in Zoom to divide the larger group into smaller ones, then come back together as a whole group. Meeting ID: 861 1807 8732

What have you noticed this week that has been significant?
How is the "new normal" a way to accept that things will never be what they were but that they can become something else with a different kind of beauty and value?
How will the presence of God help you live into the new normal?

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Welcome and Gathering

Open Doors - Chris McManus

(Refrain) Open hearts, open minds, open doors,

we welcome all who seek to love the Lord.

Bring your joys, bring your burdens, all you rich and poor.

Open hearts, open minds, open hearts, open doors.

We gather here to praise and worship;

in our diversity we find a common ground.

We speak a language of one God, one love;

seek the Lord, sing God’s praise with joyful sound. (Refrain)

Open Doors

Opening Prayer

God of Resurrection, we continue to celebrate that the resurrection of Christ brings new life.

We acknowledge that new life means that it will not be our old life or the same old life.

Help us accept that things will never be what they were, but that they can become something else with a different kind of beauty and value.

God of Resurrection, we eagerly anticipate the exciting ways you repair our brokenness and heal our wounds.

It is in the name of the Risen Christ that we pray. Amen.

Special Music

Christus Resurrexit by Andrew Willis

Hymn – Christ the Lord is Risen, The Faith We Sing #2116

Witness - Garett Heysel

Thoughts in Solitude, by Thomas Merton

My Lord God,

I have no idea where I am going.

I do not see the road ahead of me.

I cannot know for certain where it will end.

Nor do I really know myself,

And the fact that I think that I am following your will

Does not mean that I am actually doing so.

But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.

I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.

And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road

Though I may know nothing about it.

Therefore will I trust you always

Though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.

I will not fear,

For you are ever with me,

And you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

Scripture Lesson 1

Acts 2:14a, 22-32

14 But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them:

22 ‘You that are Israelites, listen to what I have to say: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with deeds of power, wonders, and signs that God did through him among you, as you yourselves know— 23this man, handed over to you according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law. 24But God raised him up, having freed him from death, because it was impossible for him to be held in its power. 25For David says concerning him,

“I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken;

26 therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; moreover, my flesh will live in hope.

27 For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One experience corruption.

28 You have made known to me the ways of life; you will make me full of gladness with your presence.”

29 ‘Fellow Israelites, I may say to you confidently of our ancestor David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would put one of his descendants on his throne. 31Foreseeing this, David spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, saying,

“He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh experience corruption.”

32This Jesus God raised up, and of that all of us are witnesses.

Scripture Lesson 2

Psalm 16

1 Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge.

2 I say to the Lord, ‘You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.’

3 As for the holy ones in the land, they are the noble, in whom is all my delight.

4 Those who choose another god multiply their sorrows; their drink-offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names upon my lips.

5 The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot.

6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; I have a goodly heritage.

7 I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me.

8 I keep the Lord always before me; because the Lord is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices; my body also rests secure.

10 For you do not give me up to Sheol, or let your faithful one see the Pit.

11 You show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy; in your right hand are pleasures for evermore.

Pastoral Prayer

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, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

*May use Mother, Parent, Creator, Abba

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Children's Message

Family Reflection

Ms. Gwen says, “Hi, friends! Please don’t break any plates at home!”

I wonder how many plates (jobs or responsibilities) you are spinning every day.
I wonder what it looks like when you “break” your patience.
I wonder how God helps mend any brokenness in our lives.

Children's Bulletin

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Today's Message

Kinsugi Pottery

Sermon Reflections

Have you thought of the resurrection as God's being present with you now as well as after death?
Describe an experience of being redeemed. Did you see at as resurrection?
Are there "precious scars" of brokenness which have added a different kind of beauty to your life?
What beauty and value in this crisis do you want to keep with you? How will you do that?
Do you see God as an artist "repairing" you as a person of beauty and value?

Carillon Bells

Jeff Wyckoff, Carillonneur

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