May 17, 2020 PRAYER LIST

Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayers.

Kay Reinhold, recovering from surgery on her leg. Meghan Petrofksy’s father, George GerminderTom and Shirley ClarkJeannie and Frank WeaverLorina Scheffler, Sharon Roger’s sister Wendy Cloutier, Dave and Mary Wharton’s daughter Bonnie MacGregor, Otto Szorenyl, friends of Bob and Lori Winter Bonnie and Gene Haskins Ed and Cookie Jackfert, Janice and Jody JackfertLinda McDonnell Eliza Meyer Joe, Laurie Palmer's friend The Smith family Bobby O'Neal, Dianne Wheeler's father Ken and Kay Spence, neighbors of Tim and Kay Reinhold Tom Stoffel, Hank and Deb Belusa's brother-in-law, healing after a heart transplant; and his wife, Ingrid, who has COVID-19. She is nurse who came into contact with a patient who had it. Greg Scott and Marcello Tulipano Joan Wilson, Nancy Scott's aunt

Let’s pray for each other using our membership/visitor roll:Sunday: Ann McCabeMonday: Linda McDonnellTuesday: Ed and Laurie PalmerWednesday: Meghan and John Petrofsky, Jack and LukeThursday: Fran PlantikowFriday: Tim and Kay ReinholdSaturday: Brad Reinhold

May 17, 2020

As a congregation, let’s send cards and notes to Gene Haskins, and Ed and Cookie Jackfert, who are living at Discovery Village:17470 Brookside Trace Ct,Tampa, 33647

The Sixth Sunday of Easter

Welcome and AnnouncementsPlease use the link in the email to take the simple congregational survey, “Returning to Church.” The Session will meet on May 27 and look at the results, and then communicate with you.

Kids, your art matters! Help your St Andrew family raise money for Beth-El Farmworker Ministry. Donate your favorite creation to be sold at our upcoming zoom charity art auction. Contact Stacey Quick for more details. We can’t wait to see your work!!  staceylquick@gmail.com

Tuesday, May 19; Prayer Ministry at 7:00 PM by Zoom Wednesday, May 20, Bible Study and discussion, 11:00 a.m.

Topic: The Ascension of the Lord (which is marked this Thursday, 5/21, 40 days after Easter) Scriptures: Acts 1:1-11, Luke 24:44-53, (Ephesians 1:15-23)

From Laurie:I will begin to hold more normal office hours this week; I’ll also

participate in an on-line continuing education event, The Festival of Homiletics (a conference on preaching).

We Worship God

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.   All things came into being through Him, and without Him not one thing came into being. What has come into being  in Him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

John 5:1-5

A Mighty Fortress is Our God (cello)

Opening Prayer Rev. Laurie PalmerGood Shepherd, seek me out, and bring me again to Your fold. Smile upon me with Your favor, that I may dwell in Your house all the days of my life, and praise Your name forevermore. Amen. Jerome 342-420

Call to Confession Rev. Dr. Heather HartsellConfession of SinMerciful God, save me from my sin and let Your Holy Spirit burn in me. Take away my heart of stone and give me a heart of flesh—to love You and adore You, to follow and enjoy You, to delight in You

forever; through Jesus Christ my Lord. Ambrose of Milan c339-397

~Silence for personal confession~That You for Your grace that never lets us go. We are Your grateful children. Amen.

Assurance of Pardon Rev. Dr. Heather Hartsell

F. Liszt: Consolation No.3, S. 172 (piano)

Sharing Faith with Young Disciples Paula Salter

Call to Offering Rev. Dr. Heather HartsellYou are a generous family of faith, St. Andrew! We have given $1,140 to Beth-El Farmworker Ministries for its Food Pantry this month. Thank you! We remember with gratitude the words of our Savior, “Whatever you do for the least of these in My family, you do for Me.” Matthew 25:40

Thank you for your kind sustenance of Christ’s body as we continue to minister in His name, and in this current season full of unknowns. But this we know: God is faithful still.

Let us pray. Rev. Laurie PalmerO God, full of compassion, I commit and commend myself to You, in whom I am, and live, and know. Augustine 354-430Lord, the gift of Your Word is a light for our path. Help us to study Your way and follow Your teaching until we know the true Light who has come into the world and will come again in glory: Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Jerome 342-420

The Word of GodScripture Lesson Acts 17:22-31 Rev. Laurie Palmer22Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. 23For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’

What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you: 24The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth,

does not live in shrines made by human hands, 25nor is the Lord served by human hands, as though God needed anything, since it is God who gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. 26From one ancestor God made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, 27so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for God and find God—though indeed the Lord is not far from each one of us. 28For ‘In God we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are God’s offspring.’ 29Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. 30While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now all people everywhere are commanded to repent, 31because God has fixed a day on which the world will be judged in righteousness by a Man who was appointed, and of this God has given assurance to all by raising Him from the dead.”

He is Risen! He is Risen indeed!

Communion Homily “Search, grope, find: live and move and have your being”

Rev. Laurie Palmer

The Lord’s SupperJesus Christ invites us to share the FeastGreat Prayer of Thanksgiving “Be Not Afraid” The Words of Institution and Sharing the Bread and the CupPrayer after Communion Paula SalterWe search for You, O God. Indeed, we grope for You in the circumstances of life—our individual life and our communal life. We find You and know that in You we live and move and have our being. By Your stripes, we are healed. We are grateful. And now let us live as Your children, taking into the world Your love, grace, mercy, and forgiveness. We lift our prayer in Christ’s name, who taught us how to pray,Our 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 debts as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil; for Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.

W.H. Doane: Take the Name of Jesus with You (piano)

Benediction Rev. Laurie PalmerPower of the Eternal Father, help me.Wisdom of the Son, enlighten the eye of my understanding.Tender mercy of the Holy Spirit, unit my heart to Yourself.Eternal God, restore health to the sick and life to the dead.Give us a voice, Your own voice, to cry out to You for mercy for the world. You, light, give us light.You, wisdom, give us wisdom.You, supreme strength, strengthen us. Catherine of Sienna 1347-1380 The peace of Christ be with you and may you go in His peace. Amen.