{"id":2094,"date":"2021-03-28T02:59:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T02:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2021-03-28T02:59:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T02:59:55","slug":"worship-for-palm-sunday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/28\/worship-for-palm-sunday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship for Palm Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>First United Methodist Church of Schenectady<br \/>\nWorship for Palm Sunday<\/h1>\n<h2>March 28, 2021<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Page-2-Image-2-2.png\"><br \/>\nPhoto by Sue Learner<\/p>\n<h2>Getting Centered<\/h2>\n<p>It may help to center yourself into worship by lighting a candle, as a symbol of God&#8217;s presence with you during the time of worship.  You may also want to pay attention to lighting, the position of your body, and the availability of distractions.<\/p>\n<h3>Breath Prayer<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cGod of the Peoples, show us your ways.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Breath prayers involve breathing in the first phrase, and breathing out the second.<br \/>\nYou may wish to simply pray for a moment before starting, or you may wish to pray while listening to the prelude.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Prelude<\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u201cTrumpet Tune\u201d by Michael McCabe<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trumpet Tune -  Michael McCabe\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0h3EWqU6rdI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Call to Worship<\/h3>\n<p>One: Hosanna!<br \/>\n<strong>Many: Indeed, God saves!<\/strong><br \/>\nOne: In the midst of oppression,<br \/>\n<strong>Many: God acts to bring freedom.<\/strong><br \/>\nOne: In the midst of fear,<br \/>\n<strong>Many: God acts to bring courage.<\/strong><br \/>\nOne: In the midst of chaos,<br \/>\n<strong>Many: God shows us the way.<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Page-3-Image-3-3.png\"><\/p>\n<h3>Hymn #278: <em>Hosanna, Loud Hosanna<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hymn 278: Hosanna, Loud Hosanna\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JRv2c5piLNw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hymnary.org\/page\/fetch\/UMH\/279\/low\/278\"><\/p>\n<h2>Connecting in Prayer<\/h2>\n<h3>Shared Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nGod of Palm Trees and Protests,<br \/>\nIt is so difficult to live up to the model of Jesus.<br \/>\nHe was loving,<br \/>\nempowering,<br \/>\nself-less.<br \/>\nHe took risks because they mattered,<br \/>\nand he paid for them.<br \/>\nHelp us along the way, Dear One.<br \/>\nRemind us that at each moment you call us to be and do what we can do.<br \/>\nHelp us become more loving,<br \/>\nempowering,<br \/>\nself-less.<br \/>\nAnd help us find grace along the way,<br \/>\nfor ourselves and for others,<br \/>\nwhen we aren&#8217;t there yet.<br \/>\nAmen<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Silent Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Page-4-Image-4-3.png\"><\/p>\n<h3>Pastoral Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><em><br \/>\nGod of Holy Days and Holy Weeks,<br \/>\nOur Christian story this week confounds and discomfits us.<br \/>\nJesus was doing your work,<br \/>\nempowering the people,<br \/>\nloving the lost,<br \/>\nclaiming your reign,<br \/>\nand the people were enthralled.<br \/>\nThe powers of the day were not.<br \/>\nThis week we face the story of the powers of the day,<br \/>\ntheir punishments,<br \/>\ntheir end-of-life power,<br \/>\ntheir ability to break up connections,<br \/>\nand lead people to shiver in fear in dark rooms.<br \/>\nWe know the end of the story, and your powers,<br \/>\nbut those are next week&#8217;s narrative.<br \/>\nThis week we are called into the pain, the fear, the disempowerment.<br \/>\nIn remembering, we are called to notice where it is still happening.<br \/>\nAnd that, Dear One, is very hard work.<br \/>\nHelp us to do it anyway.<br \/>\nAmen<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>The Lord&#8217;s Prayer<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Our Father who art in heaven,<br \/>\nHallowed be thy name.<br \/>\nThy kingdom come.<br \/>\nThy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.<br \/>\nGive us this day our daily bread.<br \/>\nAnd forgive us our trespasses,<br \/>\nas we forgive those who trespass against us.<br \/>\nAnd lead us not into temptation,<br \/>\nbut deliver us from evil:<br \/>\nFor thine is the kingdom, and the power,<br \/>\nand the glory, for ever. Amen.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Page-5-Image-6.png\"><\/p>\n<h2>Word and Reflection<\/h2>\n<h3>Choir Anthem<\/h3>\n<p><em>Hosanna to the Son of David<\/em> by Dan Shutte<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hosanna to the Son of David\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9CiPOGj9pcY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Scripture: Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6iKj6FyHcWY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Mission Moment &#8211; Jan Huston<\/h3>\n<p><strong>United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Page-5-Image-5-3.png\"><br \/>\nThe official UMCOR Sunday was 2 weeks ago, but UMCOR is always somewhere in the world working to improve lives! After I had sent Linda my mission moment for UMCOR Sunday, I received an email from Belinda Forbes, our missionary in Nicaragua. She sent some links which she suggested using for UMCOR Sunday. I want to share them with you now.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Page-6-Image-8.png\"><br \/>\nThe first is a video showing how UMCOR is helping with recovery from the 2 severe hurricanes in Nicaragua. The voice on the video is Belinda\u2019s.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UMCOR Sunday 2021\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JX-tceVJLMM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nHer second reference is an <a href=\"https:\/\/umcmission.org\/february-2021\/central-america-stillreeling-from-devastating-2020-hurricanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article published by Global Ministries<\/a> about UMCOR-supported hurricane response in Central America and its importance. We are hearing about the large number of people coming to our southern border from Central America. The situations in their homelands were desperate even before the hurricanes in 2020.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Page-6-Image-7-2.png\"><br \/>\nIt is hoped that help from UMCOR and other agencies as well as, hopefully, other governments, might mitigate the need to flees from their countries. This article describes some of the effects of the hurricanes and some of UMCOR\u2019s efforts in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Honduras.<\/p>\n<h3>Children&#8217;s Time<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Children&#039;s Time: God&#039;s Steadfast Love Endures Forever\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ro6Rom97QQM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Passing of the Peace<\/h3>\n<p><em>If you are worshiping with others, please pass the Peace of Christ.<br \/>\nWhether you are alone or with others, please take a moment to find God&#8217;s peace within, and then to share it with the world. You may want to reach out to speak peace to another during this week.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Hymn #277: Tell Me the Stories of Jesus<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hymn 277: Tell Me the Stories of Jesus\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5DR93CN4x18?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hymnary.org\/page\/fetch\/UMH\/278\/low\/277\"><\/p>\n<h3>Scripture Reading &#8211; Mark 11:1-11<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mark 11:1-11\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ah0HOSJC3PA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Sermon: \u201cProtest Parade and State Sponsored Violence\u201d by Rev. Sara Baron<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Protest Parade and State Sponsored Violence\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T_EE9SPWl0k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Responding<\/h2>\n<h3>Offering<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Page-7-Image-8.png\"><br \/>\nPhoto by Alice Nash<br \/>\nIf you wish, you are welcome to use this time to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eservicepayments.com\/cgi-bin\/Vanco_ver3.vps?appver3=3_CMn6vY3gbXWj2GvkW32xVh5LubqSJdgKX6KHFre1VuMdS3Q8kj_eIJXGJN8RG-0gmHZvX_Lw1ha8ZXgn-54Krv7ImQMfM68o70RRXIZtDlvXRu7Icp8meYpri-7vHbdSHJK5fST8PKv5rD7H0pV4u2FYADh6CtWzBcTpjLo9qDxBXK0S3J8MPHZwZCFVXkDJkCUTrur4Wm694FEfvylg==&amp;ver=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">make a donation to the church online<\/a>, or to put a check in the mail.<br \/>\nThe time of offering is not only about our financial gifts to the church, it is about offering our lives to God and the building of the kindom. This is a time for reflection: What is being asked of us? What is being given to us? What are we able to offer? What do we need?<\/p>\n<h3>Offertory: 2020 Lenten Photo Show Slideshow, Presented also as an offering<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2020 Lenten Photo Show\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mBoJvBJNSLA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Prayer of Presentation<\/h3>\n<p>God who chooses the rejected stones for the cornerstone,<br \/>\nYou have astounded us time and time again,<br \/>\nwith your love,<br \/>\nand the ways you choose us and ask us to participate in building your kindom.<br \/>\nWe offer you our gifts,<br \/>\nand ask that they be blessed,<br \/>\nto be a blessing,<br \/>\nin service to your work.<br \/>\nAmen<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Page-7-Image-10.png\"><br \/>\nfrom 2020 Lenten Photo Show, Barbara Armstrong<\/p>\n<h3>Hymn #280: All Glory, Laud and Honor<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hymn 280: All Glory, Laud and Honor\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fukkulrBkxk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hymnary.org\/page\/fetch\/UMH\/282\/low\/280\"><\/p>\n<h3>Benediction<\/h3>\n<p>May God guide us, help us, show us the way,<br \/>\nand give us the courage we need to do the work we are called to. Amen<\/p>\n<h3>Postlude<\/h3>\n<p>Toccata on \u201cAll Glory, Laud and Honor\u201d by Michael Burkhardt<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Toccata on &quot;All Glory Laud and Honor&quot; -  Michael Burkhardt\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7v4mzsQh8HQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Page-8-Image-11.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First United Methodist Church of Schenectady Worship for Palm Sunday March 28, 2021 Photo by Sue Learner Getting Centered It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/28\/worship-for-palm-sunday-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Worship for Palm Sunday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-online-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions\/2095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}