Sunday, March 29

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Thank you for joining your faith family for worship! Please scroll through our worship service & listen, watch, sing, pray, reflect, share, and give. Thanks be to God for this faith family!

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Announcements

Just to clarify... All on-site events at King Avenue Church are CANCELED until further notice. Our closure includes Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter, and beyond. While King Avenue on-site events are canceled, we will endeavor to stay connected through our KING AVENUE CHURCH ONLINE worship opportunities and Zoom Video Conferencing for meetings, small groups, and faith formation. We look forward to the time when we can worship together again in person!

Virtual Meetings, Small Groups, and Faith Formation: ZOOM is our video/phone conferencing platform. We will be using ZOOM to virtually connect with each other for meetings, small groups, and faith formation classes. When you are part of one of those groups, you will be given information to join a ZOOM meeting. Some of you may be eager to connect with one another "unofficially." Small groups of friends can set up a time to get together, even if it's not an official church group. Think about a virtual way to do your Sunday brunch with friends, or just get families together for a virtual game night. LEARN HOW

ZOOM Coffee Hour! We will begin hosting a virtual coffee hour at 11:00 on Sundays through our Zoom Video Conferencing platform. Look for the Meeting ID in your email, grab a cup of coffee, and connect with your faith family... Zoom style!

24-Hour Prayer Vigil – April 9 & 10: Pray for the Church and World as Jesus invited his disciples to do. Sign-up to pray for 30 minutes during the Maundy Thursday/Good Friday prayer vigil. Persons who sign up will be emailed prayer helps and will participate by praying from home. Sign up by clicking the link below. SIGN UP FOR A PRAYER TIME

Holy Week Worship – April 9, 10, 12: We will worship, just not in person. But please do plan to join your faith family for worship Holy Week online at bit.ly/ka-church-online.

Maundy Thursday Worship – April 9 at 7pm (ONLINE)
Good Friday Worship – April 10 at 7pm (ONLINE)
Easter Worship – April 12 at 10am (ONLINE)

20/20 Vision Campaign – Please give by Sunday, April 5: Close the gap! Remember to make an additional donation/pledge to the 20/20 VISION FUND by Sunday, April 5th. You can make your donation on Realm by choosing the 20/20 VISION FUND or by writing 20/20 VISION FUND on your check and pledge envelope by Sunday, April 5th. LEARN MORE

Church Gardeners Needed: If you are willing to plant annuals in or weed and tend to a section of the church landscaping this year, please contact the church office, amy@kingave.org, It’s that time of the year!

Prayers and Sympathy: Our prayers and sympathy are with June Bibler and Pam Higgins, on the death of June’s father, Charles Bibler, on March 26th.

Daily Prayer Session: The Upper Room has a daily session of prayer at 10am through Facebook Live that any are welcome to join at https://www.facebook.com/UpperRoomCenter/

The Staff is still working: Although church offices are closed and staff is working from home as much as possible, pastors can still be reached by calling the church office and leaving messages. We will receive them from home and will return phone calls.

HOSPITALIZED? STRUGGLING? As you may know, healthcare facilities, senior living centers, and hospitals are all severely restricting patient visitors to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Your pastors may not be able to make hospital visits, but we certainly want to know if / when persons in this faith community become ill and hospitalized so that we can provide spiritual support. Call the church (614) 424-6050, Ext. 102 for Rev. John Keeny and Ext. 101 for Rev. Colleen Ogle.

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

Prayer of Confession

Parent God, you want us to become as children because they are still growing, they are still trying to become something more.

They practice growing.

Forgive us, for thinking we have grown up and have stopped growing.

We no longer improve. We have come to a full stop.

We think we have arrived.

In a way we think our life is done.

Create in us the spirit to continue growing in faith, hope, and love.

PRAYERS IN SILENCE

WORDS OF ASSURANCE

Hear the good news: Christ died for us while we were yet sinners. That proves God’s love toward us.

In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven!

Glory to God. Amen.

Special Music

How Great Thou Art, Andrew Willis

Together We Serve, TFWS 2175

Today's Scripture:

Ephesians 4:1-16

4 1-3 In light of all this, here’s what I want you to do. While I’m locked up here, a prisoner for the Master, I want you to get out there and walk—better yet, run!—on the road God called you to travel. I don’t want any of you sitting around on your hands. I don’t want anyone strolling off, down some path that goes nowhere. And mark that you do this with humility and discipline—not in fits and starts, but steadily, pouring yourselves out for each other in acts of love, alert at noticing differences and quick at mending fences.

4-6 You were all called to travel on the same road and in the same direction, so stay together, both outwardly and inwardly. You have one Master, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who rules over all, works through all, and is present in all. Everything you are and think and do is permeated with Oneness.

7-13 But that doesn’t mean you should all look and speak and act the same. Out of the generosity of Christ, each of us is given his own gift. He handed out gifts of apostle, prophet, evangelist, and pastor-teacher to train Christ’s followers in skilled servant work, working within Christ’s body, the church, until we’re all moving rhythmically and easily with each other, efficient and graceful in response to God’s Son, fully mature adults, fully developed within and without, fully alive like Christ.

14-16 No prolonged infancies among us, please. We’ll not tolerate babes in the woods, small children who are an easy mark for impostors. God wants us to grow up, to know the whole truth and tell it in love—like Christ in everything. We take our lead from Christ, who is the source of everything we do. He keeps us in step with each other. His very breath and blood flow through us, nourishing us so that we will grow up healthy in God, robust in love.

Mark 10:13-16

13-16 The people brought children to Jesus, hoping he might touch them. The disciples shooed them off. But Jesus was irate and let them know it: “Don’t push these children away. Don’t ever get between them and me. These children are at the very center of life in the kingdom. Mark this: Unless you accept God’s kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you’ll never get in.” Then, gathering the children up in his arms, he laid his hands of blessing on them.

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