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CMC Worship in Place | Easter 2 | Creation Care | April 19

Sunday Meditation | Easter 2 | Creation Care | 19 April 2020

Special thanks to Elisa and Matthew Leahy for video production.

Welcome and Call to Worship | Cindy Fath

For many, even most of us, the past month has meant that we find a new way of life.  For me, it meant creating a workspace in a room at home from which to facilitate classes for my ESL students. I suspect we’ve all found a new rhythm in our routines all the way from our tinies to our seasoned citizens.

What you may be less aware of is that our earth has also found a new routine.  Our world has been forced into a rest, a pause.  Covid-19’s globe-zigzagging impact has reminded us that nothing happens in isolation, that what affects one part, also affects the other, just as in the Body of Christ.  We are truly all in this together.

Today is Earth Sunday and we hope to together learn more about what it means to care about and care for creation, all the while giving honor to our Creator.  After God brought our planet into being, God pronounced it as very good.  And don’t we resonate with...

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CMC Worship in Place | Easter | April 12

Easter

Special thanks to Elisa and Matthew Leahy for video production and Tom Blosser for music coordination.

The Cross and Resurrection

Prelude | In the bulb there is a flower, for quartet | Myers Family

Peace Candle | Al & Kathy Bauman, JoAnn and Paul Knapke

Opening Words | Jen Cartmel

Call to Worship | Inspired by Luke 1:78-79; John 1:4-5; John 11:25 | Cartmel/Plessinger Family

Leader:  Come to me, all you who sit in darkness
and in the shadow of death!

Everyone:  On you has the light shone!

Leader:  For Jesus Christ is the light of the world
and this is the story;

Everyone:  the light shines in the darkness
and the darkness could not put it out!

Leader:  Jesus said,
“I am the resurrection and the life.
I am the bright and morning star.”

Everyone:  We join with the angels in their hymns of praise;
Glory to God in the highest
and on earth peace,  Alleluia!

Leader:  Christ is risen! 

Everyone:  He is risen indeed!

— adapted from Carole Penner, and posted on her Leading in Worship blog.

Easter Greetings...

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Good Friday Service | 10 April 2020

Good Friday | 10 April 2020

Prelude | Ah, Holy Jesus,* Johann Cruger (1640)  Arr by John Carter (*HWB 254) | Tom Blosser

Welcome | Joel Miller

Call to Worship | Miller Family

On this night, as the shadows deepen,
We come to be present with Jesus.
With the glory of Palm Sunday behind us and the victory of Easter not yet come,
We will sit together, although apart, with our listening and breaking hearts.
In this world that is at once beautiful and tragic,
We seek to be present with all who suffer.
We will be present with ourselves
In the dark valleys of life, when sorrow threatens to overwhelm,
We long for a safe and sacred space to sit with our grief and our questions.
Jesus Christ, holy friend,
we know that you are here with us.
Let us be here with you. Amen.

Hymn | STJ 105 Don’t be afraid | Tom Blosser

Prayer of Confession (from Psalm 51) |  Mark Rupp

Have mercy on us, O God, according to your steadfast love.
According to your abundant mercy, blot out our transgressions.
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CMC Sunday Meditations | The Cross and Being a Witness | Lent 6 | Palm Sunday | April 5

The Cross and Being a Witness | Lent 6 | Palm Sunday | April 5

 

Opening Remarks | Joel Miller 

 

Peace Candle/Welcome | Jen Cartmel & Maya Plessinger 

As we meet today in spirit but not in person, we gather around these Sunday Meditations offered by members of the CMC community. Just as we light the Peace Candle to begin our worship, you are invited to light a candle for these Meditations. The flame joins us in spirit across distance, along with our sister church in Armenia, Colombia.

 

Call to Worship | Jen Cartmel 

 

Hymn | Hold me God | Katie Graber 

 

 

Children's Time | Debra Martin and family 

 

Hymn | Hosanna, Loud Hosanna | Katie Graber 

 

Prayers of the People (sent via email)

 

Pastoral Prayer | Mark Rupp 

God, you are the one who...

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CMC Sunday Meditations | The Cross and the Death Penalty | Lent 5 | March 29

CMC Sunday Meditations | 29 March 2020 | Lent 5
The Cross and the Death Penalty

 

 

Peace Candle Opening | Mark Rupp 

                                       

As we meet today in spirit but not in person, we gather around these Sunday Meditations offered by members of the CMC community. Just as we light the Peace Candle to begin our worship, you are invited to light a candle for these Meditations. The flame joins us in spirit across distance, along with our sister church in Armenia, Colombia.

Scripture Reading | John 8:2-11 Common English Bible (CEB) | Oliver Davey 

 2 Early in the morning he returned to the temple. All the people gathered around him, and he sat down and taught them. 3 The legal experts and Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery. Placing her in the center of the group, 4 they said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery. 5 In the Law, Moses commanded us to stone women...

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