Worship Plan for June 9, 2007 Grand Canyon Presbytery
Theme: Pentecost/Communal Discernment
Prelude Dr. Christopher Samuel, Director of Music, Orangewood P.C.
  "They'll Know We Are Christians by Our Love" arr. Edward Broughton
*Gathering Hymn: "We All Are One in Mission"....................................... #435 PH
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other Presbytery intros
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Call to Worship: Psalm 150 Reader: Henok Ysieni
from Psalms Anew: In Inclusive Language
by Nancy Schreck, OSF & Maureen Leach, OSF (1986), p. 200
[spoken by one of the readers, with instrumental "response" to each phrase]
Alleluia! [start soft music]
Praise to you, O God, in your sanctuary!
Praise to you in your mighty firmament! [one instrument swell a bit]
Praise to you for your mighty deeds; [instrument sound]
praise you for your sovereign majesty! [another instrument swell]
Praise to you, our God, with the blast of the trumpet, [trumpet flourish]
praise with lyre and harp! [guitar doodle]
Praise with timbrel and dance; [shake tambourine]
praise with strings and flute! [bass doodle]
Praise to you, great God, with resounding cymbals; [cymbals]
praise with loud clashing cymbals! [hi-hat]
Let everything that breathes praise God! [all instruments]
Alleluia! [all instruments; break into congregational music]
*Music of Praise & Adoration: Orangewood Fellowship Band leads singing
David Page - Director of Contemporary Music, keyboards & vocals; Doug Mann - guitar;
Brady Putzke - bass guitar; Paul Brymer - drums; Joe Garcia - percussion;
Ken Page - acoustic guitar, vocals; Toni Page & Cheryl Carlson - vocals
  "Come Now Is The Time To Worship" by Brian Doerksen
  Chorus:
Come now is the time to worship
Come now is the time to give your heart
Come just as you are to worship
Come just as you are before your God
Come

Verse:
One day every tongue
Will confess You are God
One day every knee will bow
Still the greatest treasure remains
For those who gladly choose You now
  CCLI Song No. 2430948
© 1998 Vineyard Songs (UK/Eire) (Admin. by Vineyard Music UK)
For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use.
All rights Reserved.
CCLI License No. 1206429
  "Let Everything That Has Breath" by Matt Redman
  Chorus:
Let ev'rything that
Ev'rything that
Ev'rything that has breath
Praise the Lord
Let ev'rything that
Ev'rything that
Ev'rything that has breath
Praise the Lord

Verse 1:
Praise You in the morning
Praise You in the evening
Praise You when I'm young
And when I'm old
Praise You when I'm laughing
Praise You when I'm grieving
Praise You ev'ry season of the soul

          BRIDGE:
          If we could see
          How much You're worth
          Your pow'r Your might
          Your endless love
          Then surely we would
          Never cease to praise

Verse 2:
Praise You in the heavens
Joining with the angels
Praising You forever and a day
Praise You on the earth now
Joining with creation
Calling all the nations to Your praise
  CCLI Song No. 2430979
© 1997 Thankyou Music (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing)
For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use.
All rights Reserved.
CCLI License No. 1206429
  "Lord I Lift Your Name On High" by Rick Founds
  Verse:
Lord I lift Your name on high
Lord I love to sing Your praises
I'm so glad You're in my life
I'm so glad You came to save us

Chorus:
You came from heaven to earth
To show the way
From the earth to the cross
My debt to pay
From the cross to the grave
From the grave to the sky
Lord I lift Your Name
Lord I lift Your Name
Lord I lift Your Name on high
  CCLI Song No. 117947
© 1989 Maranatha Praise, Inc. (Admin. by Music Services)
For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use.
All rights Reserved.
CCLI License No. 1206429
Opening Prayer Reader: Kaylee Begay
from the Middle East Council of Churches
in Gifts of Many Cultures: Worship Resources for the Global Community, p. 35 (last line modified)
Lord, hear us.
Awaken in us, O Lord, the desire for the unity of all Christians,
and convert our hearts.
Purify our faith, removing all merely human interpretations,
and make us open to your Word, entrusted to your Church.
Teach us, O Lord, to discern the ways which you are now opening up for us
to enable your Church to come together in fellowship.
Make us ready, O Lord, from now on, to be of one mind in Christ Jesus
by the power of the Holy Spirit,
that we may be a sign to the world of your new reality. Amen.
Special Music: Music of Ghana by Lawrence, Edwin & Vivian Blebu, Valley P.C.
Confession:
  Spoken: Psalm 51:1-9 Reader: Rev. Thomas C. Parker
  Have mercy on me, O God,
     according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy,
     blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
     and cleanse me from my sin.
For I know my transgressions,
     and my sin is ever before me.
Against you, you alone, have I sinned,
     and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you are justified in your sentence
     and blameless when you pass judgement.
Indeed, I was born guilty,
     a sinner when my mother conceived me.
You desire truth in the inward being;
     therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean,
     wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Let me hear joy and gladness;
     let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins,
     and blot out all my iniquities.
Sung: Psalm 51:10-12 [congregation with band]
  Create in me a clean heart, O God
And renew a right spirit within me! (repeat 1st 2 lines)
Cast me not away from your presence, O Lord,
And take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore unto me the joy of your salvation,
And renew a right spirit within me!
 (repeat 1st 2 lines twice)
  Assurance of Pardon: Reader: Allison Lewis
from The United Congregational Church of Southern Africa
in Gifts of Many Cultures: Worship Resources for the Global Community, p. 19
  Christ is our peace; those who are divided he has made one. He has broken down the barriers of separation by his death and he has built us up into one body, with God. To whoever repents and believes he has promised reconciliation. Therefore, live as people reconciled. Amen.
  *Response in Song: Camp Hallelujah
  Hallelu, hallelu, hallelu, hallelujah! Praise ye the Lord! (repeat)
Praise ye the Lord! Hallelujah! Praise ye the Lord! Hallelujah!
Praise ye the Lord! Hallelujah! Praise ye the Lord!
Special Music: Southminster Presbyterian Church
Interpretation: Rev. Cynthia Jennison
  (see separate reflection)
O.T. Lesson: Genesis 11:1-9 Reader: Will Zandler
  One reader reads the story (the tower of Babel); the others will stand together at beginning of story, then move apart as the story proceeds. By the end, all readers will be at diverse places on stage (but remain standing through musical interlude).
Reflection in Music: Orangewood Fellowship Band
  Music should be reflective, penitent. As the music progresses, each of the readers will find their way back to the center, all stand together (heads bowed).
"Before You" by Randy Butler
  Verse:
Is there any forgiveness for the things I've done?
Is there pardon for sinners? I know that I'm one,
Before You. Before You.

Would You take this heart of foulness and make it clean again?
Would You pour on me Your mercy as I confess my sin,
Before You? Before You.

Chorus:
Point my feet in the way they should go
Place Your Holy Spirit in me
Lead me in the ways everlasting
I long to have a heart that's pure
Before You. Before You.

© 1998 Mercy/Vineyard Music
CCLI #2678164
N.T. Lesson: Acts 2:1-12, 21
  Each verse will be read in a separate language by different readers (except the verses with all the names will be read in English by the same reader). The final verse will be read by all the readers at the same time in their own language. However, the entire passage will be given (at the same time as the oral readings) in American Sign Language. As they read, the readers will emerge from the clump, joining one another and visibly "acting out" the joy of the scripture, "being all together in one place." - Acts 2:1-12, 21 A Reading in Many Tongues
  Languages & Readers:
  American Sign Language: Lori Hartshorn, Sign Language Interpreter
Greek: Rev. Thomas C. Parker, Fuller Seminary
Navajo: Kaylee Begay, Trinity P.C. of Chinle, AZ
Amharic: Henok Ysieni, Ethiopian Fellowship of Phoenix
Hopi: Elder Allison Lewis, Central P.C. of Phoenix
French: Rev. Roland Rosson, Honorably Retired
English: Will Zandler, Orangewood P.C. of Phoenix
Spanish: Rev. G. Derney Ramos, Betania P.C. of Phoenix
*Hymn "Let us Talents & Tongues Employ"
Fred Kaan, 1975 		#514 Presbyterian Hymnal
Jamaican folk melody, Adapt. Doreen Potter, 1975
  By Orangewood Band and the Blebu family.
The Lord's Supper Co-Officiants:Rev. Ken Page , Orangewood Presbyterian Church
Rev. Victoria G. Curtiss, Director of Stirrings spiritual direction program
and Interim Co-pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Corvallis, Oregon
Music During Communion: "Hymn Medley" Eric Manuelito, Native American Flute
  [during procession to receive communion by intinction]
Prayer after communion from "Fair Food", a program of the PC(USA)
  [To be read by the Spanish language reader, in Spanish-prayer to be printed in both languages in bulletin] Reader: Rev. G. Derney Ramos
  En Español: Dios de vida, con manos de amor formaste este mundo y nos designaste como cuidadores de tu creación abundante, confiando en nosotros el poder de promover el bien-estar o la degradación. A través de Sara y Abraham estableciste tu convenio con nosotros y llamaste a nuestros ancestores a viajar con confianza a través de tierras inciertas. A través de Miriam y Moises retaste la soberanía de la esclavitud y de las naciones levantando a los esclavos más pobres y los dirigiste hacia la libertad. En tiempos cuando la riqueza y el poder han estado en las manos de pocos, tus profetas nos han recordado de nuestra promesa de vivir justamente contigo viviendo justamente entre nosotros. Y cuando el Imperio Romano domino el mundo, tu mandaste a tu hijo Jesus, un hombre pobre de madre pobre, para revivir la esperanza y mostrarnos como vivir en maneras que resisten la opresión y que construyen comunidad. Hoy, Dios liberador y de amor, te pedimos que permanezcas en esta mesa de promesa, esta mesa de abundancia, esta mesa de libertad. Danos la fuerza y la fé que necesitamos para avanzar tu convenio de dignidad y esperanza. Aunque seamos extraños; unénos como una familia a través de esta comida, haznos compañeros verdaderos en tu servicio. Te pedimos eso en el nombre de nuestro hermano Jesus, Amen.

English: Living God, with loving hands you formed this world and set us as stewards over your abundant creation, entrusting us with the power to foster well-being or degradation. Through Sarah and Abraham you established your covenant with us and called our ancestors to journey in trust through uncertain lands. Through Miriam and Moses you challenged the sovereignty of slavery and of nations by raising up the poorest slaves and leading them to freedom. In eras when wealth and power have been in the hands of a few, your prophets have reminded us of our covenant promise to live justly with you by living justly with each other. And when the Roman Empire dominated the known world, you sent your son Jesus, a poor man born of a poor mother, to revive hope and show us how to live in ways that resist oppression and build community. Today, loving, liberating God, we ask you to abide at this table of promise, this table of abundance, this table of freedom. Grant us the courage and faith we need to advance your covenant of dignity and hope. Though strangers to one another; unite us as one family through this meal, make us true partners in your service. We ask this in the name of our brother Jesus, Amen.
Postlude Dr. Christopher Samuel
"Jubilate""       Noel Rawsthorne




Pieces for inclusion at other times during the day/meeting:
To put immediately after Vicky's workshop, before lunch, right before the prayer for the meal:
Affirmation of Faith by Rev. Jose Luis Casal, General Missioner of
Tres Rios Presbytery (Synod of the Sun)
  I believe in Almighty God,
  who guided the people in exile and exodus, the God of Joseph in Egypt and Daniel in Babylon, the God of foreigners and immigrants.
  I believe in Jesus Christ,
  a displaced Galilean, who was born away from his peoples and his home, who fled his country with his parents when his life was in danger, and returning to his own country suffered the oppression of the tyrant Pontius Pilate (the servant of a foreign power), who was then persecuted, beaten and finally tortured, accused and condemned to death unjustly. But on the third day, this scorned Jesus rose from the dead, not as foreigner but to offer us citizenship in heaven.
  I believe in the Holy Spirit,
  the eternal immigrant from God's Kingdom among us, who speaks all languages, lives in all countries, and reunites all races.
  I believe that the church
  is the secure home for the foreigner and for all believers who constitute it, who speak the same language and have the same purpose.
  I believe that the Communion of the Saints
  begins when we accept the diversity of the saints.
  I believe in the forgiveness
  that makes us all equal and in the reconciliation that identifies us more than does race, language, or nationality.
  I believe that in the Resurrection
  God will unite us as one people in which all are distinct and all are alike at the same time. Beyond this world,
  I believe in life Eternal
  in which no one will be an immigrant, but all will be citizens of God's Kingdom which will never end.
  Amen!




To put at end of meeting:



Closing Hymn: "We Are One in the Spirit" p. 619-620, The Worshipbook
(Westminster Press: 3rd printing 1975)
 
  1. We are one in the Spirit, We are one in the Lord,
    We are one in the Spirit, We are one in the Lord,
    And we pray that all unity may one day be restored.
           And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love,
           Yes, they'll know we are Christians by our love.

  2. We will walk with each other, We will walk hand in hand,
    We will walk with each other, We will walk hand in hand,
    And together we'll spread the news that God is in our land,
           And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love,
           Yes, they'll know we are Christians by our love.

  3. We will work with each other, We will work side by side,
    We will work with each other, We will work side by side,
    And we'll guard each one's dignity and save each one's pride
           And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love,
           Yes, they'll know we are Christians by our love.

  4. All praise to the Father, From whom all things come,
    And all praise to Christ Jesus, His only Son,
    And all praise to the Spirit, who make us one,
           And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love,
           Yes, they'll know we are Christians by our love.
Benediction from a Navajo prayer tradition,
in Voices: Native American Hymns and Worship Resources, p. 73
  Leader: God is before us.
  People: God is behind us.
  Leader: God is above us.
  People: God is below us.
  Leader: God's words shall come from our mouths.
  People: For we are all God's children, a sign of God's love.
  Leader: All is finished in beauty.
  All: All is finished in beauty.