August 4, 2024

WE GATHER IN AWE AND PRAISE 

PRELUDE                                “Sabbath Sunrise”                            Delsa Richards

INTROIT                                 “God Welcomes All”                                              John Bell

WELCOME                                                                                                 Rev. Trip Porch

  One: This is the day that the Lord has made

  All: Let us rejoice and be glad in it                         

*CALL TO WORSHIP

One:  All you with grumbling stomachs, hungry for bread, nourishment, and flourishing:
All:  draw near to God.

One:  All you with dry throats, thirsting for water, wisdom, and justice:

All:  draw near to God.

One:  All you with empty arms, searching for a warm embrace, a meaningful life, and a loving community:

All:  draw near to God.

*HYMN 411 sung twice                        “God Is Here Today” (Dios está aqui)                   DIOS ESTÁ AQUI

*PRAYER OF CONFESSION   Rev. Richard J. Fairchild                                                       Olive Guinn

Most gracious and loving God,

we have tasted your goodness in days gone by and it has satisfied us, but now with this new day we turn to you again for the bread of life that you have prepared for us and for the wine of the Spirit that you pour out for your people. 

Help us Lord, to empty ourselves of that which hinders us from knowing the    fullness of your love and fill us instead with those things that tend to make us all that you want us to be. 

We need your presence Lord. We need your anointing.

Touch us, we pray, and make us whole. 

We ask it through Christ Jesus your Son. Amen                                                                            

*ASSURANCE OF PARDON

*RESPONSE OF PRAISE 205             “Ubi Caritas”                                                       UBI CARITAS

*PASSING OF THE PEACE                                       

       One:   The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all,

All: And also with you.

 WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD                           

MUSICAL OFFERING                            “Sympathy”                                                  Florence Price 

PRAYER OF ILLUMINATION                                                                                               

SCRIPTURE  John 6:24-35 Christ, the bread of life MSG

The next day, after Jesus fed the five thousand, the crowd that was left behind realized that there had been only one boat that left for Capernaum, and that Jesus had not gotten into it with his disciples. They had seen them go off without him. By now boats from Tiberias had pulled up near where they had eaten the bread blessed by the Master. So when the crowd realized he was gone and wasn’t coming back, they piled into the Tiberias boats and headed for Capernaum, looking for Jesus.

 When the crowd found him back across the sea, they said, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”

 Jesus answered, “You’ve come looking for me not because you saw God in my actions but because I fed you, filled your stomachs—and for free.

“Don’t waste your energy striving for perishable food like that. Work for the food that sticks with you, food that nourishes your lasting life, food the Son of Man provides. He and what he does are guaranteed by God the Father to last.”

To that they said, “Well, what do we do then to get in on God’s works?”

Jesus said, “Sign on with the One that God has sent. That kind of a commitment gets you in on God’s works.”

They waffled: “Why don’t you give us a clue about who you are, just a hint of what’s going on? When we see what’s up, we’ll commit ourselves. Show us what you can do. Moses fed our ancestors with bread in the desert. It says so in the Scriptures: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

Jesus responded, “The real significance of that Scripture is not that Moses gave you bread from heaven but that my Father is right now offering you bread from heaven, the real bread. The Bread of God came down out of heaven and is giving life to the world.”

They jumped at that: “Master, give us this bread, now and forever!”

Jesus said, “I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever.

Holy Wisdom, Holy Word

Thanks be to God

CHILDREN’S MESSAGE                                                                                          Mary Rebekah Fortman

SERMON        

WE RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD

*HYMN 509                              “All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly”                      HOLY MANNA

TIME OF OFFERING   online giving is available at  www. indianolapres.org/give 

OFFERTORY                           “Bread of Heaven”     French folk melody, arr. Sharon Wilson

COMMUNION

 INVITATION TO THE TABLE

  GREAT PRAYER

 SHARING THE BREAD AND CUP                  “Feed Us Lord”                                                  FEED US

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

Bread of life and manna from heaven, you provide for each of us and for all of us. You join every ligament, knitting us together, a whole body. May each of our parts promote our common growth as your love feeds us. As we leave your table, continue to nourish us, fill us, enliven us, so that we can feed each other and seek the good of each and all, both near and far. Amen.

*HYMN 65                              “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”                       CWM RHONDDA      

TIME OF COMUNITY SHARING

CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE                           “Break Thou the Bread of Life”                              William F. Sherwin

                                                                                                                                                                        arr. Matthew Zisi

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