WESTWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

May 23, 2021 _ __ _ 10:00 AM

PENTECOST SUNDAY

PRELUDE “Our Father in the Heaven Who Art” J.S. Bach

WELCOME

EASTER REFLECTION

GREETINGThis is the call! The flames of the Spirit are beckoning.We lift up our heads to meet the day.Our focus is on the future and what we might do together.We fortify our hearts with compassion and action.When rain comes again, we will open the umbrellas of joy and set out anyway.For we are called to dance again!

SONG“Every Time I Feel the Spirit”

GNJ Worship - Lan Wilson

OPENING PRAYER Holy One, Justice-Seeker, Lover of Creation – Praise to you for your indwelling Spiritthat moves within our lives. Come and dance with us, engage with us, as we seek you –so that we can be risen with Christ and in Christ. Be with us now, we pray. Amen.

PEACEThe peace of the risen Christ is with you.And also with you.Let us wave to one another as a sign of passing that peace to others.

DARE TO DANCE AGAIN

SCRIPTURE READINGSEzekiel 37:1-12, 14

Acts 2:1-21

This is a Word of God for the people of God.Thanks be to God!

MUSICAL PROCLAMATION“Breathe on Me, Breath of God”

E. Hatch/R. Jackson

SERMON“Spirit Poured Out: Dare to Dance Again”

Pastor Wayne

DANCE FOR ALL YOU’RE WORTH

GIVING OUR GIFTS We can give online at our website: www.umc-westwood.org,

or we can mail our gifts into the church office: 105 Fairview Ave. Westwood, NJ 07675)

OFFERTORY PRAYERHoly Spirit, come upon us this day. We feel your joy and delight as we celebrate this glorious day. With a sense of happiness and gratitude, we eagerly offer you these financial gifts for your ministry in this community and beyond. May all who call upon your name be saved from selfishness and filled with God-honoring habits of generous giving. All praise and glory be unto you. Amen

CALL TO PRAYER “Alleluia” (2 times) FWS 2014

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

THE LORD’S PRAYEROur Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

SONG“The River is Here”Song by Andy Park

BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE "Today God's Only-Gotten Son" J.S. Bach ANNOUNCEMENTS

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