a community creating for the relentless return of Sunday
One: Come Holy Spirit. Come.
All: Come Holy Spirit and move through the babble of our worship words.
One: Come Holy Spirit. Come.
All: Come Holy Spirit so that we might clearly hear your still speaking voice.
One: Come Holy Spirit. Come.
All: Come Holy Spirit and blow through our hearts today.
Submitted by Rev. Elsa Peters, First Congregational Church, South Portland ME.
I know, I know, Easter isn’t even over. But it’s time to start looking ahead to the next big day, especially as it presents some unique challenges!
Pentecost this year is May 27…Memorial Day Weekend. How might that affect your planning?
Many people celebrate confirmation on Pentecost–is that in your plan?
Here it’s also graduation weekend, which throws a wrench into anything we might want to do that involves families.
Not to mention the theme, decorating, and volunteer need potential!
Will you focus on wind? fire? languages? prophecy? preaching? conversion? baptism? a generic “holy spirit” idea? Some particular aspect of the story? the church’s-birthday?
What are you thinking about for this special day? How can we create worship that will help people experience the Holy, enter the story, and leave ready to be like Peter and the other apostles?
Ready, set, create!
Submitted by Rev. Scott Cervas, Meadowthorpe Presbyterian Church
Spirit of God,
you move around us and we wave you away
as if you are a fly getting too close to our heads.
You move among us, but we all have different ideas…
different ways of doing things…
and so your perfectly chilling harmonics
are drowned out by our chaotic dissonance.
You move within us,
but sometimes we just aren’t willing to risk our own reputations
to embrace your radical vision.
But, deep down, we know that we need to move beyond ourselves…
we know that the church needs to move beyond itself.
So keep moving…keep moving around us, among us, and within us…
keep moving us so that we can be creators of movment in the world…
Amen.
A call to worship based on the hymn “gather us in” (we used it when the theme worked but the hymn did not).
Submitted by Rev. Teri Peterson, Ridgefield-Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church
One: Here in this place, God’s light is streaming in.
All: We gather in God’s light, to be light for the world.
One: Here in this place, God’s wind is blowing.
All: We gather—young and old, rich and poor, strong and weak—
to be renewed by the breath of God.
One: Here in this place, God’s fire is burning.
All: We gather to be set on fire with God’s love.
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