{"id":2178,"date":"2021-05-09T02:40:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T02:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2021-05-09T02:40:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T02:40:28","slug":"worship-for-the-sixth-sunday-of-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/09\/worship-for-the-sixth-sunday-of-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship for the Sixth Sunday of Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>First United Methodist Church of Schenectady<br \/>\nWorship for the Sixth Sunday of Easter<\/h1>\n<h2>May 9, 2021<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Page-2-Image-2-3.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>\u201cLove and Comfort, guide us\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>\u201cFolktune\u201d by Charles Callahan<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Folktune -  Charles Callahan\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tyyHbGTLxyg?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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mothers Day Ritual during COVID 19 video\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MeFjDX1kiBs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Hymn #62: <em>All Creatures of Our God and King<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hymn 62: All Creatures of Our God and King\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GUR2XigorCo?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\/WAR2003\/27\/low\"><\/p>\n<h2>Connecting in Prayer<\/h2>\n<h3>Shared Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nGod of Love and Comfort,<br \/>\nin this sacred time set aside for<br \/>\nconnection to you,<br \/>\nwe offer our hearts to be filled.<br \/>\nWe wish to share love and<br \/>\ncomfort in your world,<br \/>\nand we know we need to<br \/>\nreceive to share.<br \/>\nMay we be blessed to give and<br \/>\nreceive your love and comfort,<br \/>\nwith you and others.<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\/05\/Page-3-Image-3.png\"><\/p>\n<h3>Pastoral Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><em><br \/>\nGod of Love and Comfort, (Mothering God Who Gives Us Birth).<br \/>\nIn this Season of Easter, we remember and attend to<br \/>\nYour power to bring Life,<br \/>\neven when it seems there is no Life,<br \/>\neven out of death.<br \/>\nWe as humans are especially vulnerable.<br \/>\nWe have especially needy baby-hoods,<br \/>\nand prolonged childhoods,<br \/>\nwhen we are dependent on the care of others to stay alive.<br \/>\nTo have life at all is dependent on others.<br \/>\nTo have life in abundance is dependent on the love and care we receive.<br \/>\nYet, not all who parent have the skills they need to offer love and care.<br \/>\nAnd we grief with and for them and their children.<br \/>\nNot all who have love and care to give have opportunity to parent.<br \/>\nAnd we grief with and for them.<br \/>\nFor all the place we have received love, care, and comfort, we give you thanks.<br \/>\nFor all the capacities in us to give love, care and comfort, we give thanks.<br \/>\nFor the chance to seek to be a community that grows in each other\u2019s capacity<br \/>\nfor love, care, and comfort, we give you thanks.<br \/>\nMay your nurturing Spirit live in us,<br \/>\ntransform us,<br \/>\nand along with us, nurture the world around us,<br \/>\nwhich aches for love and comfort.<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\/05\/Page-4-Image-4.png\"><\/p>\n<h2>Word and Reflection<\/h2>\n<h3>Choir Anthem<\/h3>\n<p><em>Love One Another<\/em> by Bob Dufford<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Love One Another\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1dIeXVcYpH4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Scripture: Acts 10:44-48<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Acts 10:44-48\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TUQvJC5VUwk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Mission Moment &#8211; Rev. Bob Long<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Reconciling Ministries Network New Statement<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Page-5-Image-5.png\"><br \/>\nFounded in 1984, Reconciling Ministries Network seeks to mobilize \u201cUnited Methodists of all sexual orientations and gender identities to transform the Church and world into the full expression of Christ\u2019s inclusive love. RMN envisions a renewed and vibrant Wesleyan movement that is biblically and theologically centered. As committed disciples of Jesus Christ, RMN strives to transform the world by living out the Gospel\u2019s teachings of grace, love, justice, and inclusion for all of God\u2019s children.\u201d <a href=\"rmnetwork.org\">rmnetwork.org<\/a><br \/>\nMuch has changed since the Reconciling Ministries Network established its first statement. Understanding. Experience. Research and implementation. Communication. Economic disparities. Ecumenical and Interfaith partnerships. International relationships. Processes of address and engagement. The political realm. And also, the movement of the Spirit.<br \/>\nToday we more fully understand that the dynamics that drive prejudice, exclusion and even hatred against any particular group are similar to those that target all groups. And so we network for effectiveness against these expressions no matter who they target .\u2026\u201cintersectional\u201d is the term for networking together in this manner.<br \/>\nMost recently Reconciling Ministries Network has established an updated statement to reflect a similar outlook.<br \/>\n<strong>Its new suggested statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We celebrate God\u2019s gift of diversity and value the wholeness made possible in community equally shared and shepherded by all. We welcome and affirm people of every gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation,<br \/>\nwho are also of every age, race, ethnicity, physical and mental ability, level of education, and family structure, and of every economic, immigration, marital, and social status, and so much more. We acknowledge that we live in a world of profound social, economic, and political inequities. As followers of Jesus, we commit ourselves to the pursuit of justice and pledge to stand in solidarity with all who are marginalized and oppressed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In recent years, First UMC has moved from \u201cworded\u201d statements of support for LGBTQ people to displaying of rainbows inside and outside our facilities to bring our expressions more up to date and more into the open. In the same way, First UMC places its own effective Reconciling statement against the backdrop of this suggested updated RMN statement, so that our statement may be seen more openly in the wider context.<br \/>\nI urge you to read this new RMN statement regularly to dialogue with it until its content becomes firmly fixed in your spirit.<\/p>\n<h3>Children&#8217;s Time: On the Day You Were Born<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"On the Day You Were Born\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SMu9MyCCU2s?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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Page-6-Image-6.png\"><br \/>\n<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 #1012 (UU Teal): When I Am Frightened<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Teal 1012 &quot;When I am Frightened&quot;\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FNhCMFXT7G8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Scripture Reading &#8211; John 15:9-17<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John 15:9-17\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lNFefLuum9g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Sermon: \u201cHumans: Needing Love and Comfort\u201d by Rev. Sara E. Baron and Rev. Lynn Gardner<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Humans: Need Love and Comfort\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PoxP6Sw5YR0?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: \u201cAll Things Bright and Beautiful\u201d by John Rutter<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"All Things Bright and Beautiful - John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ShpRCvU_bxM?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 of Love and Comfort,<br \/>\nYou are always close at hand.<br \/>\nWe can always reach out for you<br \/>\nand you are always there.<br \/>\nAs we offer our gifts of prayers, presence, tithes, offerings, service, and witness,<br \/>\nwe ask for your blessings on our gifts.<br \/>\nMay they be used for the building of your kindom,<br \/>\nand may our gratitude be given as we give these gifts to you.<br \/>\nAmen<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Page-7-Image-8.png\"><\/p>\n<h3>Hymn #2050: Mothering God, You Gave Me Birth<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hymn 2050: Mothering God, You Gave Me Birth\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tz4kUextyUo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Benediction<\/h3>\n<p>May you find the God of Love and Comfort who is close at hand,<br \/>\nfind God&#8217;s people who know how to love and offer comfort,<br \/>\nand find in yourself the gifts of love and comfort ready to share. Amen<\/p>\n<h3>Postlude<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cPrelude to a &#8216;Te Deum&#8217;\u201d by Marc Antoine Charpentier<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Prelude to a Te Deum  - M.A.  Charpentier\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZTGDxF2Bxj4?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\/05\/Page-8-Image-9.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First United Methodist Church of Schenectady Worship for the Sixth Sunday of Easter May 9, 2021 Photo by Sue Learner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/09\/worship-for-the-sixth-sunday-of-easter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Worship for the Sixth Sunday of Easter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2178","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\/2178","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=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}