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Order of Worship | Jonah series

Prelude

Welcome 

Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge we are gathering on land where Miami, Osage, Shawnee, and other Indigenous peoples have lived and labored, fought, and loved. We continue to work and pray for justice and conciliation.      

Call to Worship

Peace Candle

HWB 1 | What is this place | Martin Family

Children’s Time 

World Fellowship Sunday – Greetings from the Netherlands: Pastors Jannie Nijwening and Kok Klever; Greetings from Aremenai, Colombia 

Offering/Dedication Prayer  https://www.columbusmennonite.org/donateget-involved/donate

VT 685 | O Lord, hear my prayer | Martin Family

Scripture | Jonah 2

Sermon | Prayers from lockdown    *Manuscript below*

    HWB 353 | Lord, listen to your children praying | Jenny Campagna, Jacqui and Ryan Hoke, Phil Hart

Silent Reflection

HWB 367 | For the healing of the nations | Martin Family

Sharing of Joys and Concerns 

Pastoral Prayer 

Extinguishing the Peace Candle

Benediction 

Announcements 

Christian Education | 11:00 am

Thanks to everyone who helped lead today’s service

Sermon: Joel Miller         

Worship Leader: Chaska Yoder

Music coordination: Debra and Galen Martin

Children’s Time: Mark Rupp

Peace Candle: Meaghan Torres

Scripture Reading: Laura Steiner

Zoom Host: Elisa Leahy

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Sermon Manuscript

The book of Jonah has four chapters.  One of those chapters, chapter 2, a quarter of the book, takes place inside the belly of the big fish.  The entire chapter is a prayer.

The fish had made a sudden appearance in the story.  Jonah was intentionally sailing away from the city of Nineveh, where he had been called by the Lord to go and preach.  But a great storm came over the sea and threatened to break the ship apart.  When Jonah tells his ship mates to throw him overboard to calm to sea, there are no indications Jonah plans on surviving.  For his part, it’s some…

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Order of Worship

Prelude

Welcome 

Call to Worship

Peace Candle 

VT 6 | Let’s walk together

Children’s Time 

Mission Moment | Piecemakers

Offering/Dedication Prayer  https://www.columbusmennonite.org/donateget-involved/donate

HWB 580 | My life flows on

Scripture | Jonah 1: A dramatic reading

Sermon | When the ship is breaking apart    Manuscript below

Silent Reflection

VT 442 | From the waters I will rise

Sharing of Joys and Concerns

Pastoral Prayer 

Extinguishing the Peace Candle 

Benediction 

Announcements 

Christian Education | 11:00 am

Thanks to everyone who helped lead today’s service

Sermon: Joel Miller

Worship Leader: Kerry Strayer

Music coordination: Phil Yoder

Mission Moment: Judy Hartzler 

Children’s Time: Tim Stried

Peace Candle: TBA

Scripture Reading: Wyse Family

Zoom Host: Sarah Werner

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Sermon: When the ship is breaking apart

“But Yahweh hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a mighty storm came upon the sea that the ship threatened to break up”  Jonah 1:4

“Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate”   Leonard Cohen in his song “Democracy”

Early in the Christian movement, leaders began using the ship as a metaphor for the church.  The imagery goes back to Scripture.  The letter of 1 Peter makes a connection between the death and resurrection one experiences through the waters of baptism, and the ark of Noah and his family and the animals that brought them through the flood waters.    Before Genesis tells that story, it portrays the world as a watery chaos, similar to other Near Eastern creation myths.  “Now the earth was formless and void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from Elohim, the god, swept over the face of…

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Order of Worship | Epiphany Sunday

Prelude

Welcome 

Call to Worship

Peace Candle 

STS 30 | Arise, your light is come! | Paul Knapke

Children’s Time 

Offering/Dedication Prayer  https://www.columbusmennonite.org/donateget-involved/donate

Special Music | Mozart Piano Sonata 11 (excerpt) | Alexander Martin 

Scripture | Luke 2:21-40

Sermon | Life blessing life    (Manuscript below)

Silent Reflection

HWB 366 | God of Grace and God of glory | Fred and Marlene Suter, Julie and Phil Hart

Sharing of Joys and Concerns

Pastoral Prayer

Extinguishing the Peace Candle

Benediction 

Announcements 

Thanks to everyone who helped lead today’s service

Sermon: Joel Miller

Worship Leader: Sarah Werner

Music coordination: Paul Knapke

Children’s Time: Jon Lucas

Peace Candle: Shakita Kabicek

Scripture Reading: Shakita Kabicek

Zoom Host: Brent Miller

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Sermon Manuscript

The sociologist Elise Boulding suggests an expansive way of thinking about the present.  She calls it “the 200-year present.”  It’s a pretty simple concept.  You take the oldest person alive and include all their years of life experience and social connections, and you add to that the newborn child and include all the years ahead of them and everything their life will hold.  What we usually think of as the present moment is actually a touching point of 200 years of life – past, present, and future.

Elise Boulding didn’t just invent this as a thought exercise.  Along with being a sociologist, she’s a pioneer in peace research, a Quaker, and she offers the 200 year present as a way of thinking about peacemaking.  It encourages generational thinking and a long term commitment  to how past actions and patterns can be transformed over time.  The past is still present, and the future is already taking shape. 

I learned about this idea from the Mennonite peacemaker John Paul Lederach, who claims Boulding…

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Christmas Eve Worship Service December 24, 2020

The Prelude

Silent night, holy night | Henry Wyse, piano

Joy to the world | Reuben Wyse, piano

Angels we have heard on high | Nina Graber-Nofziger and Katie Graber, violin duet

Go tell it on the mountain | Addy Steiner, xylophone

The Play

Away in a manger | Debra Martin and CMC children, a cappella

O Holy Night | Mira Bixler, cello; Amy Bixler, piano

Christmas Eve Service

Welcome 

Candle Lighting

Call to Worship

HWB 212 | O come, all ye faithful | Congregational recording

First Reading | Isaiah 9:2-7 | Ivan Graber-Nofziger

HWB 206 | Infant holy, Infant lowly | Abbie Miller, vocalist; Joel Miller, guitar

Second Reading | Psalm 96 | Ivan Graber-Nofziger

HWB 191 |  O little town of Bethlehem | Congregational recording

Third Reading | Titus 2:11-14 | Shakita Kabicek

HWB 197 | Angels we have heard on high | Congregational recording

Fourth Reading | Luke 2:1-20 | Shakita Kabicek

Silence

HWB 199 | The first Noel | Congregational recording

Pastoral Prayer

HWB 193 | Silent night, holy night | Congregational recording; Alexander Martin, violin; Jim Myers, clarinet

Benediction and Sending

Thanks to those who led our service this evening

Children’s Play Directors | Debra Martin and Parents

Children’s Play Video Editor | Elisa Leahy

Music coordination | Phil Hart

Worship leader | Julie Hart

Zoom host | Elisa Leahy

Slides | Gwen Reiser

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Order of Worship | Christmas 1

Prelude: There’s a baby on my plate | Tom Blosser, accordion & vocals; Galen Martin, guitar & vocals

Welcome

Call to Worship

Peace Candle 

HWB 318 | Joy to the World | Galen, Debra, Sarah, & Elizabeth Martin, vocals

Children’s Time 

Offering/Dedication Prayer  https://www.columbusmennonite.org/donateget-involved/donate

Special Music | We Three Kings | Stella Bixler, flute and Amy Bixler, piano

Scripture | Isaiah 61:10-62:3, Galatians 4:4-7

HYMN | Awake | Written and accompanied on flute by Phil Hart. Vocals by many voices.

Meditation| Austin McCabe Juhnke 

Silent Reflection

Meditation | Shirley Miller

Silent Reflection

HYMN | Wake up, it’s Christmas morning | Sung by Becca Lachman; Michael Lachman, piano

Sharing of Joys and Concerns

Pastoral Prayer 

Extinguishing the Peace Candle 

Benediction 

Announcements 

Thanks to everyone who helped lead today’s service

Meditations: Austin McCabe Juhnke, Shirley Miller

Worship Leader: Jen Cartmel

Music coordination: Phil Hart

Children’s Time: Jen Cartmel, Bill and Maya Plessinger

Peace Candle: Jen Cartmel 

Scripture Reading: Gretchen Geyer

Zoom Host: Elisa Leahy

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