GENERAL ASSEMBLY WORSHIP CELEBRATION OMNI GRAND BALLROOM

7 PM JULY 3, 2012 PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA

MEDITATION What would it mean to livein a city whose people were changingeach other's despair into hope?
--You yourself must change it. --what would it feel like to knowyour country was changing? --You yourself must change it. --Though your life felt arduousnew and unmapped and strange, what would it mean to stand on the firstpage of the end of despair? -from Dreams Before Waking by Adrienne Rich

PRELUDE INTROIT God Welcomes All

Themba Community, South Africa

Danny Morales Patrick Evans

* CALL TO WORSHIP One: All: One: All: One: All: One:

Susan Robertson and Danny Morales

We have come from North and South and East and West. God has welcomed us. Let us welcome each other. We have been the sojourner, the traveler, the weary and the lost. God has welcomed us. Let us welcome the stranger. Weve come this far by faith, morning by morning and day by day. God has welcomed us. Let us welcome those who journeyed before us. We have looked to the rainbow, the cloud and fiery pillar, and they have led us to rest here for the night. All: God has welcomed us. Let us trust in the One who created the mighty
* Those who are able may stand.

seas, calmed the fearful waves, and hovers over the waters of new life. Let us worship God. * HYMN Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
vss 1,2,4 Robert Robinson, 1757, alt. - vs. 3 Frederick Faber, 1854, alt. Mike Hegeman, flute Brenda Villard, cello Mieke Vandersall, violin NETTLETON

* LITANY OF CELEBRATION AND LAMENT We remember and celebrate. We remember and grieve. *KYRIE
Marilyn Haskel

Robin White and Nathan Sobers

Kyrie Eleison is an ancient prayer of the church, and means Lord, Have Mercy.

* WORDS OF ASSURANCE * PASSING OF THE PEACE WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Michael Adee

PRAYER OF ILLUMINATION

Open My Heart
Ana Hernandez

PSALM 147:1-11

Margaret Aymer Oget and Mike Hegeman

HEBREW SCRIPTURE

Isaiah 40:21-31

SERMON

Katie Ricks

*HYMN

We are Called
David Haas, alt.

Craig Rubano, cantor

A version of this hymn will appear in Glory To God: The Presbyterian Hymnal 2013

*PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE *THE PRAYER THAT JESUS TAUGHT OFFERING OURSELVES AND OUR GIFTS OFFERTORY *COMMISSIONING * SENDING SONG Walk Together, Children

Michael Kirby and Debra Avery Beth van Sickle

Eric Thomas, Myra McNeil African-American Spiritual, arr. Tony Leach and the MLP Choir Heidi Peterson and Michael Adee
Let Your Little Light Shine African-American Spiritual, arr. Pamela Warrick-Smith

* CHARGE AND BENEDICTION * POSTLUDE Danny Morales Please remain in the ballroom in order to attend the MLP Annual Members meeting immediately following the postlude.