Prelude: “For the Beauty of the Earth” by James Mansfield on the tune “Dix” by Conrad Kocher
Welcome and Announcements: Dorothy Berry
Call to Worship and Invocation
Praise and Worship with Chandru, Sugantha, Danny and Rachel “Psalm 23” by Stuart Townend, “Healer” by Mike Guglielmucci
Hymn: “This is my Father’s World”
1 This is my Father’s world, And to my listening ears
All nature sings, and round me rings
The music of the spheres. This is my Father’s world:
I rest me in the thought Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas–
His hand the wonders wrought.
2 This is my Father’s world: The birds their carols raise,
The morning light, the lily white,
Declare their Maker’s praise. This is my Father’s world:
He shines in all that’s fair; In the rustling grass, I hear Him pass,
He speaks to me everywhere.
3 This is my Father’s world: O let me ne’er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong,
God is the Ruler yet. This is my Father’s world:
Why should my heart be sad? The Lord is King: let the
heavens ring! God reigns; let earth be glad!
Moments of Prayer
Worship Through Giving
Offertory Anthem: “‘Tis the Church Triumphant Singing” by Stan Pethel
Choir Director: Richard Freeman
Scripture: Revelation 21:1-6
Sermon: “A New Earth” by Rev. Michael Harvey
Hymn: “Let All Things Now Living”
Let all things now living a song of thanksgiving
To God the creator triumphantly raise.
Who fashioned and made us, protected and stayed us,
Who still guides us on to the end of our days.
His banners are o’er us, His light goes before us,
A pillar of fire shining forth in the night.
Till shadows have vanished and darkness is banished
As forward we travel from light into light.
His law he enforces, the stars in their courses
And sun in its orbit obediently shine;
The hills and the mountains, the rivers and fountains,
The deeps of the ocean proclaim Him divine.
We too should be voicing our love and rejoicing;
With glad adoration a song let us raise
Till all things now living unite in thanksgiving:
“To God in the highest, Hosanna and praise!
Benediction
Postlude: “The Heavens Are Telling” from The Creation by Josef Haydn, arranged and abridged by Lani Smith
Organist: Marilyn Glover
We Welcome our Guest Preacher Rev. Michael Harvey. Rev. Harvey is the Executive Director Emeritus of the Conference of Baptist Ministers in Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Berea College in Kentucky and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois. He has been a pastor in rural Kentucky and urban Chicago. He is the author of a recent book of translations, poems and essays “Attempts at Light”. He is married to Paula and they have 3 grown children and two grandchildren.