This weekly "digital liturgy" is designed to guide you through a complete service of worship. The more you participate in the various elements, the greater will be its impact. Communion is part of our service so have those items ready. The kids material can be accessed here:
This week's Vine School. If you click on the title of the first Vine School slide you can also access past Vine School material as well as the "Vine Camp" material that Kathie created.

Our liturgy has prayers, responses, and scriptures to be read aloud in addition to several video segments. Lisa has put together the music this week along with some help from Danny and Cameron. Sing along! If the song is unfamiliar, feel free to just listen. 

There is closed captioning available as well on several videos. 

By pastor Chris De Haan

Have someone read this prayer. 

If you are with others, you might do this as a responsive reading:

Bless the Lord at all times.

May God’s praise be continually in my mouth.

Magnify the Lord with me!

Let us exalt the name of the Lord together!

Seek the Lord and be filled.

For those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

Happy are those who take refuge in God.

Taste and see that the Lord is good!

Take a minute for silence and let your heart offer up a prayer of confession and thanksgiving and then have someone read this prayer:

Compassionate God, 

Whose dwelling is with the humble and contrite, 

hear Your children’s prayer, and grant us Your mercy. 

For unholy thoughts and words, for impure motives, 

for any scorn of goodness and indifference to beauty, 

for trifling with the truth

and being petty when we could be gracious, 

Have mercy

For the wrong we have done our neighbors, 

for silence in the face of violence, 

for neglect of generosity,

for ingratitude, 

for failure in pursuing justice, 

for ignoring others’ pain, 

Have mercy

For lack of love toward You, 

for doubt in Your goodness, 

for slowness of faith to follow Jesus, 

Have mercy

We gather now to worship and praise You

and we thank You for Your never-ending mercy and grace.

Almighty God, to You all hearts are open, 

all desires known, 

and from You no secrets are hidden. 

Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts

by the inspiration of Your Holy Spirit, 

that we may perfectly love You, 

and worthily magnify Your holy name, 

through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Dave & Cheryl Corsi & Pastor Chris De Haan

Read this aloud together in preparation for hearing the Word:

Open our ears

to hear Your word.     

Open our eyes             

to see Your presence.

Open our arms

to the embrace of community.

Open our minds

to the beauty of truth.

Open our hearts

to the joy of new life.

Have someone read the Scripture:

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

—Ephesians 2:13–21

"Characteristics of Community"

by Pastor Chris De Haan

1. Do you agree that we are a lonely nation? What has led to this? Share your own experience of loneliness.
2. Share a time when you experienced genuine community. What made it special and how could those things be brought into your present community?
3. What gets in the way of pursuing community? What might God be inviting you to do?

For those doing communion on your own, gather your communion elements and then have someone read the following:

The table is our weekly picture of God’s love for us.

He created us for relationship with Himself and relationship with one another; both of which were broken by sin.

Jesus went to the cross to restore those again and so the table pictures His death, His sacrifice—and in the one bread and one cup, there is also a picture of our one community.

We give thanks to God the Father that our Savior, Jesus Christ, before He suffered, gave us this memorial of His sacrifice, until He comes again.

At His last supper, the Lord Jesus took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me."

—Eat the bread—

In the same way, He took the cup after supper and said, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this in remembrance of Me." 

For whenever we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.

—Drink the cup—

Read this declaration aloud together:

Together we proclaim our faith:

Christ has died,

Christ is risen,

Christ will come again. 

Amen.

Ooh, ooh

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Verse 1

Teach us Your ways, teach us Your ways

As we learn from one another

Learn to love each other

Teach us Your ways

Verse 2

Teach us to give, teach us to give

Give ourselves for one another

Learn to love each other

Teach us to give

Verse 3

Teach us to weep, teach us to weep

Let us weep with one another

Learn to love each other

Teach us to weep

Verse 4

Hallelujah, hallelujah

Let us learn from one another

Learn to love each other

Teach us Your ways

Read this prayer:

Living God,

send Your Holy Spirit upon us;

nourish us with Your grace

so that we are strengthened

to follow Your ways and do Your work in the world.

Unite us with You so that we are renewed;

and join us with Your people in all places

so that all divisions will be healed.

May we gratefully and joyfully remember that Jesus

lived, died, and rose to give us new life

and make us new creations in Him.

May we live in the hope

we discover through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

Amen.

Have someone read this benediction:

As you are sent,

Rejoice,

Aim for restoration,

Comfort one another.

Agree with one another,

Live in peace,

And the God of love and peace will be with you.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ

And the love of God

And the fellowship of the Holy Spirit

Be with you all.

Amen

— based on 2 Corinthians 13:11–14