Long Green Valley Church of the Brethren
Long Green & Kanes Rds., near Glen Arm, Md.
October 8, 2006
Worship 10:00 am, Sunday School 11:10 am

  Morning Praise (9:45 am)
  Announcements
  Prelude

  Responsive Call to Worship                                                                     812

*Hymn                         "O Lord, our Lord, how majestic"                          112

*Opening Prayer (C-9)

  Scripture                             Hebrews 2:5-12 (CEV)

*Praise Songs                 "Lord, I lift your name on high"                 (see insert)
                                              "Let the Redeemed"

  Giving glory to God (a testimony)

  Song                                         "Step by step"                              (see insert)

  Returning our Tithes and Offerings

  Offertory

  Sharing a joy, a concern, a word of testimony or praise

  Hymn                          "Breathe on me, breath of God"                            356
                          (Our younger children leave for bell practice & Sunday School)

  Pastoral Prayer

  Scripture                                   Mark 10:2-16

  Message                  "Commitment along the way"

  Invitation

*Hymn                                    "Savior of my soul"                                     549

*Benediction

*Postlude

#'s are from Hymnal: A Worship Book

Worship leaders - see basic guidelines

Responsive Call to Worship

                                            (Worship Leader prefaces with these words:)
         Please turn in the back of your hymnal to #812 and let’s read responsively Psalm 8 as our Call to Worship. Note that we will begin and end together with the words that are both in bold and italic script. My part is plain text, while yours is wherever the print is bold. As you read the line, "Yet you have made them a little lower than God..." please stand if you are able. And now, let’s begin our worship with God’s Word.

O Lord, our Sovereign,
        how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
        the moon and the stars that you have established;
        what are human beings that you are mindful of them,
                mortals that you care for them?
Yet you have made them a little lower than God,
                and crowned them with glory and honor.
You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
        you have put all things under their feet,
all sheep and oxen,
        and also the beasts of the field,
        the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
                whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Sovereign,
        how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Hymnal #812
New Revised Standard Version
   

Giving glory to God (a testimony)

         A second in a series of sharings by members of this congregation, reflecting upon their baptism and its effect upon their life. Today's "testimony" is from one of our college students. She quickly writes: 

Returning our Tithes and Offerings
(The Worship Leader reads all the text in italics, as well as the "Amen? ... Ushers?" at the end. A second voice reads side comments.)

         Have faith, step by step, even when you can’t see very far down the road.

         Don’t check your mind, your will-power, your self at the door.

         If you’re going to ‘lean’ against anything, make sure it’s solid.

         The older we get the more we realize we don’t know everything.

         Not just in some things, but in everything.

         That is, let God lead you, not the other way around.

         A promise is a promise.

         Aren’t you tired of moving all those obstacles in the way by yourself?

... Amen? (pause for echo of "Amen!") Ushers?

Pastoral Prayer

written closer to the time (if not at the moment)

Invitation

Benediction