{"id":2827,"date":"2022-06-19T01:23:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T01:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2022-06-19T01:23:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T01:23:53","slug":"worship-for-the-second-sunday-after-the-pentecost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/2022\/06\/19\/worship-for-the-second-sunday-after-the-pentecost\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship for the Second Sunday after the Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>First United Methodist Church of Schenectady<br \/>\nWorship for the Second Sunday after the Pentecost<\/h1>\n<h2>June 19, 2022<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-000-1.jpg\"><br \/>\nPhoto by Zach Long<\/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>\u201cGuide us, to freedom, now.\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>\u201cBreathe on Me\u201d Arranged by Fred Bock<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Breathe on Me&quot; (Prelude)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yxqOm98XjvY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen title=\"\"Breathe on Me\" (Prelude)\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Call to Worship<\/h3>\n<p>One: God is great.<br \/>\n<strong>Many: The Holy One is worthy of our praise.<\/strong><br \/>\nOne: Come; let us remember the great things God has done for us.<br \/>\n<strong>Many: Let us not neglect to teach our children the greatness of God.<\/strong><br \/>\nOne: Let us not forget our past and those who have gone before us.<br \/>\n<strong>Many: We remember our ancestors, our history, our Africa;<br \/>\nand we name our future.<\/strong><br \/>\nOne: Let us lift up our voices in song, lift our arms in praise,<br \/>\nand open our hearts in gratitude.<br \/>\n<strong>Many: Let us greet God with our hymn of praise.<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-001-1-rotated.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3>Hymn #603: \u201cLift Every Voice and Sing\u201d<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LIft Every Voice and Sing #519\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oh0Mrs19Nx0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Connecting in Prayer<\/h2>\n<h3>Unison Prayer: won&#8217;t you celebrate with me<\/h3>\n<p>by Lucille Clifton<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nwon&#8217;t you celebrate with me<br \/>\nwhat i have shaped into<br \/>\na kind of life? i had no model.<br \/>\nborn in babylon<br \/>\nboth nonwhite and woman<br \/>\nwhat did i see to be except myself?<br \/>\ni made it up<br \/>\nhere on this bridge between<br \/>\nstarshine and clay,<br \/>\nmy one hand holding tight<br \/>\nmy other hand; come celebrate<br \/>\nwith me that everyday<br \/>\nsomething has tried to kill me<br \/>\nand has failed.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Silent Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-003-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3>The Lord&#8217;s Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lord&#039;s Prayer\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tzll3qcy6Ns?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Our Father (Creator) who art in heaven,<br \/>\nHallowed be thy name.<br \/>\nThy kingdom come.<br \/>\nThy will be done on earth,<br \/>\nas it is in heaven.<br \/>\nGive us this day our daily bread.<br \/>\nAnd forgive us our trespasses,<br \/>\nas we forgive those who<br \/>\ntrespass against us.<br \/>\nAnd lead us not into temptation,<br \/>\nbut deliver us from evil:<br \/>\nFor thine is the kingdom,<br \/>\nand the power, and the glory, for ever.<br \/>\nAmen.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Word and Reflection<\/h2>\n<h3>Scripture Reading: Psalm 42 and Luke 8:26-39<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Psalm 42 and Luke 8:26-39\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y-NyaKScAwA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Time for Young People: \u201cJesus Responding to Pain\u201d<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Time with Young People: Jesus Responding to Pain\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VscckmAb32o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Hymn #2193: \u201cLord, Listen to Your Children Praying\u201d<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying #2193\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0cgR9LU-a2I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Mission Moment: Juneteenth<\/h3>\n<p>by Virgia Phoenix<br \/>\nJuneteenth is a national holiday celebrating the day that the enslaved in Texas learned of their freedom. This occurred on June 19, 1865, two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-002-1.jpg\"><br \/>\nCelebrations broke out immediately following the message about their freedom. Beginning on the first anniversary in 1866, June 19 was established as an important day of thanksgiving and remembrance. The celebrations included Church services, reading the Emancipation Proclamation, singing, speeches, festivals, family reunions, Barbecues, coronations and more.<br \/>\nJuneteenth is a combination of June and 19.<br \/>\nThe initiative to make June 19 a holiday can be credited to the advocacy of Al Edwards, resulting in it becoming a Texas state holiday in 1980. The activity to successfully make it a national holiday is the relentless effort of Opal Lee who gained wide attention for walking from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington DC. She walked two- and one-half miles a day to symbolize the number of years that it took for Texans to learn of their freedom.<br \/>\nTexas Congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee introduced a bill entitled Juneteenth National Independence Day Act. It was signed by President Joe Biden in 2021, the first year the day was Nationally observed.<br \/>\nThe Juneteenth Flag<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-004-e1655601080809.jpg\"><br \/>\nRed, white and blue represents the American flag &#8211; a reminder that slaves and descendants were and are Americans. The center star represents Texas; the \u201cburst\u201d around the star represents a new beginning; the arc (curve extending across the width) represents \u201ca new horizon\u201d opportunities and promise of the future.<\/p>\n<h3>Passing of the Peace<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Page-5-Image-6-2-e1630096883671.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>Sermon: \u201cTears for Food\u201d &#8211; Rev. Sara Baron<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tears for Food  (Sermon)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bxn1Oalx3MA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Responding<\/h2>\n<h3>Offertory: There Is a Balm in Gilead Arranged by Mark Hayes<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"There is a Balm in Gilead (Offertory)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zs6bi6BI-Mg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Offering<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Page-8-Image-10-1.png\"><br \/>\nPhoto by Larry McArthur<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>A Thirsting for Justice Prayer<\/h3>\n<p>Reverend Sterling Morse, coordinator for African American intercultural congregational support for the Presbyterian Church<br \/>\nThankfully we praise you, O God, for your liberating power that broke shackles of oppression and restored humanity to the<br \/>\ndisenfranchised.<br \/>\nMake us instruments of grace to resist slavery, in all manifestations,<br \/>\nthat no soul shall be denied the right to thrive and fully realize their divine purpose in you. Amen.<\/p>\n<h3>Hymn #533: \u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We Shall Overcome #533\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-6yieuoXeO8?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 God bless us with a thirst for justice, a yearning for healing, and the capacity to create both! Amen<\/p>\n<h3>Postlude<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWe Walk By Faith\u201d Arranged by Lloyd Larson<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We Walk by Faith (Postlude)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ay6dBBOn870?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\/2022\/06\/image-006-rotated.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First United Methodist Church of Schenectady Worship for the Second Sunday after the Pentecost June 19, 2022 Photo by Zach &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/2022\/06\/19\/worship-for-the-second-sunday-after-the-pentecost\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Worship for the Second Sunday after the Pentecost<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2827","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\/2827","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=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2829,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/2829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}