Welcome! We hope this feels like a space you can take a deep breath in. You are loved, just as you are. Full stop. We breathe in. And out. God’s love is here. May we practice love so we can embody Jesus’ love in our daily lives, relationships & justice work.
A Quiet Room is available for anyone with sensory needs or young children. Ask an usher at the back of the sanctuary and they’ll point you toward the Quiet Room.(*) You are invited to rise in body or spirit
Altar: Anni Powell
Welcome | Community Life | Passing the Peace | Invitation to Centering
Prelude | Sharon Cooper
*Call to Worship | Anni Powell
Before thrones of power and through seasons of despair,
the presence of God nurtures life among us.
Through collective imagination and practices of repair...
By building new patterns of mutuality and justice...
Each time we trade individual gain for collective solidarity...
We encounter the eternal life of God - our beginning and our end.
There is no need to wait for the blessings of heaven. They already dwell among us.
Thanks be to God, who lifts the veil and makes known the glory of love.
*Vision of Faith
We are all God’s People! We are called by Christ to ministries of love, justice and reconciliation with our church, community and world!
*Song |Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
Red Book #384 Sharon Cooper
Receiving Into Membership
Song | This Is Where Children Belong
Black Book #2233 Sharon Cooper
Kids Connect | Pastor Jenny
Special Music | A Mother’s Love
Wesley Smith
Sacred Story | Acts 11:1-18 CEB
Anni Powell
Message | Pastor Jenny
Song |The Greatest of These
Joyful Noise
Joys + Concerns | Pastoral Prayer + Lord’s Prayer | Prayer Song |
Like a Rock Joyful Noise
Offering + Prayer
Beloved One, you came to dwell among us that we would all come to know life abundant. As we bring our offerings, we pray that we may confront the systems and powers that keep life from flourishing. Refusing to settle for evil’s justification of what is, bless our efforts to live differently and dream deeper of the possibilities among us. Amen.
*Song | You Are the Seed
Red Book #583 Sharon Cooper
*Benediction | Pastor Jenny
Postlude | Sharon Cooper
You’re invited to say hello after worship and enjoy coffee and snacks. Take a left and then a right as you leave the sanctuary to enter Herrmann Hall.
Community Notes
Children + Youth: All children & youth are invited to Sunday School following Kids Connect during the service. After worship, their adults can pick them up upstairs in the youth room.
Connect: When and if you feel ready to explore more, we’d love to hear more of your story and help you find a place to make friends and grow in faith. Contact Pastor Jenny!
morningsideumc.org | 503-364-5013 | Office is open Monday-Thursday from 9:00 – 2:00 pm
Pastor: jenny@morningsideumc.org
MusicCoordinator: sharon@morningsideumc.org
Faith Formation Coordinator: julie@morningsideumc.org
Office Manager: office@morningsideumc.org
Liturgist Coordinator: judithbither@gmail.com