OPENING TO GOD Ted Loder
The human called out names for every herd-animal and
Quotes for Reflection:
Against every new outrage and every fresh horror
we shall put up one more piece of love and goodness,
drawing strength from within ourselves.
We may suffer, but we must not succumb . . .
It still all comes down to the same thing:
life is beautiful. And I believe in God.
Etty Hillesum, Jewish mystic,
killed in Nazi death camp
We Gather as God’s People
AN OLD SONG I Sing th’Almighty Power of God UMH 152
CALL TO WORSHIP
So many powers and principalities scream for our allegiance:
Nation, party, color, tribe, gender, orientation, brand.
They promise authentic selfhood,
but offer only a pale imitation.
We are not our own, we are bought with a price.
Empire is not our master; Caesar is not our Lord.
Jesus Christ is Lord!
We renounce powers that hold people in bondage
by fear, ignorance, or temptation.
Jesus Christ is Lord!
We reject the principalities that divide us
by our color, our class, our gender.
Jesus Christ is Lord!
Because the Kingdom we claim has no divisions, where
Paul wrote there is “no Jew or Greek, slave or free,
male or female, for all are one in Jesus Christ!”
Jesus Christ is Lord!
Because the kingdom and the power and the glory
belong to you, God, and to no other!
Jesus Christ is Lord! Amen.
A NEW SONG All My Days W&S 3011
SPIRITUAL In Christ There Is No East or West UMH 548
PASSING THE PEACE
YOUNG PEOPLE’S MESSAGE
name.
for the fowl of the heavens and for every living-thing of the
Now, O Lord,
calm me into a quietness field, but for ha-adam, there could be found no ezer kenegdo,
that heals and listens, no helper as its complement.
and molds my longings and passions,
my wounds and wonderings So Yahweh God caused a deep slumber to fall upon the
into a more holy human; then Yahweh God took one of its sides (tsela) and
and human shape.
 Yahweh God filled in the flesh in its place.
Yahweh God built the side that was taken from the human into
a woman and brought her to the human.
We Listen for God’s Word The human said:
PSALTER Genesis 2
This-time, she-is-it!
Bone from my bones, flesh from my flesh!
At the time when Yahweh God made earth and heaven there She shall be called Woman (Ish-sha),
was as yet no wild bush on the earth nor had any wild plant for from Man (Ish) she was taken!
yet sprung up, for Yahweh God had not sent rain on the earth,
nor was there any human to till the soil . . . Therefore Ish leaves his father and his mother and clings to
Ish-shah, and they become one flesh. And Ish and Ish-shah
Yahweh God shaped ha-adam, the human one, from ha- were naked and without shame.
adamah, the soil of the ground, and blew the breath of life
into its nostrils, and ha-adam became nephesh, a living thing.
We Respond to God’s Word
Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, which is in the east,
and put the human one there. REFLECTION Ish & Ish-shah: Not a Side-Issue
From the soil, Yahweh God caused to grow every kind of tree, HYMN Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life UMH 164
enticing to look at and good to eat, with the Tree of Life in the
middle of the garden, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE & THE LORD’S PRAYER
and Evil.
OFFERING & DOXOLOGY
Yahweh God put the human one in the garden of Eden to
cultivate and take care of it. Then Yahweh God gave ha-adam
this command, 'You are free to eat of all the trees in the garden. We Are Sent Into God’s World
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you are not to
eat; for the day you eat of that, you are doomed to die.' ANNOUNCEMENTS
Now Yahweh God said: It is not good for the human BENEDICTION
(ha’adam) to be alone; I will make the human a helper as its
complement (ezer kenegdo). RESPONSE Let There Be Peace on Earth UMH 431
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So out of the ground, ha-adamah, Yahweh God formed every
living-thing of the field and every fowl of the heavens, and
brought them to ha-adam to see what it would call them; and
whatever the human called every living creature, that was its
 Birthdays and Anniversaries Below are people, places, & concerns that folk have lifted up.
Please keep them in your prayers at home.
Sept 17 - Maameyaa Baah Please call or email the church office to add to the prayer list.
Sept 20 - Ken Sanders, Sean Hennessey
Genesis 2: Ish & Ish-shah
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Ongoing Prayers Ongoing Prayers, cont.
Arlitha Gordon Mitchinson
Callie Susan ‘Not a Side Issue’
Anne Kennison Tim
Calendar Mary Willard Don Canady
Tuesdays: Pastor Is In @ Nest Coffee Shop 10 am - 11:30 am Norma Strickland Joyce Moore
Office or Jericho Clergy Group 11:30-1:00 Judy & Diezel Dorothy & Alex
Mt Mansfield Bible Study 2 pm (starts 17 Sept)
Matthew C.
Thursdays: Church Office 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm Elissa & Leif Lifted Up Last Sunday
Greg Marilyn - for the family of Steve Day

j Paula DeMichele
Don Strickland
after his sudden passing
Bill - family of Tom Cosgrove, rapid
Sun, 15 Sep: Sunday School Spark Curriculum Begins! Ellie Uckele death after cancer diagnosis, leaves 7
Cole children
Worship: Narrative Lectionary Resumes Harley Brodie - Greg Mitchinson, whose cancer
Michael Parker has recurred
After-Church Discussion: Becoming Reconciling

Tue, 17 Sep: Mt. Mansfield Bible Study Begins, 2:00 pm

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Trustee Board, 7:00 pm

Wed, 18 Sep: Parlor Discussion: Becoming Reconciling 7 pm.

Thu, 19 Sep: Parlor Discussion: Becoming Reconciling 2 pm.

Anti-Racism Potluck, 6:30 pm, Good Shepherd Essex Center United Methodist Church
essex_umc@comcast.net tel. 878-8304
www.essexumc.com
Sun, 22 Sep: After-Church Discussion: Becoming Reconciling
Ministers: the entire congregation Lay Leader: Joshua Knox
Mon, 23 Sep: Monday Companions Begins, 7 pm Equipping Pastor: Rev. V. Mitchell Hay
cell/text: 881-3268 (feel free to call) mitchellhay@comcast.net
Tue, 24 Sep: Mt. Mansfield Bible Study, 2:00 pm
Office Manager: Elissa Johnsen
Trustee Board, 7:00 pm Sunday School Coordinator: Krista Rochefort
Organ: Kathryn Parker Piano: June Packard
Thu, 26 Sep: Thursday Companion begins, 2 pm in the Parlor Song Leader: Dana LaClair Projection: Bob McLane

Mon, 30 Sep: Cartoon Bible Study Begins, 7 pm. Nursery Helper Sally J
Parent Helper: Sarah K
Greeters: Pat M
Thu, 3 Oct: Mission Team Lunch Meeting
Ushers: Craig & Heidi E, Vickie C
next week: Gail G
next week: Elissa J Essex Center
Un-Tied Methodist Church
next week: Liz & David R
next week: Jan J & Sarah K

15 September 2019 14th Sunday after Pentecost

Thanks to Linda Deming for the Beautiful Altar Covering