November 2, 2025
WE GATHER IN AWE AND PRAISE
PRELUDE “Always” Lindy Kerby
INTROIT “Listen God is Calling” KENYAN HYMN
arr. Austin Lovelace
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: We come to listen again for the whisper of God.
Many: Not in the noise, not in the hurry but in the still, steady presence of love.
One: We come to remember the saints who walked this road before us.
Many: They listened. They trusted. They responded.
All: We join our voices with theirs: Holy God, speak, your people are listening.
*HYMN 326 “For All the Saints” SINE NOMINE
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION Jeremy Carroll
God of the still, small voice, we confess that we are far too often overwhelmed. We run in fear, we hide in worry, we sink into exhaustion, we forget that you are near. We confess the ways we try to carry more than we were meant to carry: the weight of our responsibilities, the weight of the world, the weight of thinking we must do it all alone.
Silent Confession is offered
O God,
Speak to us again, O God, not in the wind, not in the earthquake, not in the fire—but in the quiet that steadies us, in the whisper that calls us back to life. Give us rest where we are tired, bread where we are hungry, and companions for the journey. Amen.
*ASSURANCE OF PARDON Rev. Trip Porch
*RESPONSE OF PARDON 695 “Change My Heart, O God” CHANGE MY HEART
*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
ANTHEM "He Watching Over Israel" from Elijah Mendelssohn
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Dorothy Kyle
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE 1 Kings 19:1-18 CEB Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, how he had killed all Baal’s prophets with the sword. Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this message: “May the gods do whatever they want to me if by this time tomorrow I haven’t made your life like the life of one of them.”
Elijah was terrified. He got up and ran for his life. He arrived at Beer-sheba in Judah and left his assistant there. He himself went farther on into the desert a day’s journey. He finally sat down under a solitary broom bush. He longed for his own death: “It’s more than enough, Lord! Take my life because I’m no better than my ancestors.” He lay down and slept under the solitary broom bush.
Then suddenly a messenger tapped him and said to him, “Get up! Eat something!” Elijah opened his eyes and saw flatbread baked on glowing coals and a jar of water right by his head. He ate and drank, and then went back to sleep. The Lord’s messenger returned a second time and tapped him. “Get up!” the messenger said. “Eat something, because you have a difficult road ahead of you.” Elijah got up, ate and drank, and went refreshed by that food for forty days and nights until he arrived at Horeb, God’s mountain. There he went into a cave and spent the night.
The Lord’s word came to him and said, “Why are you here, Elijah?”
Elijah replied, “I’ve been very passionate for the Lord God of heavenly forces because the Israelites have abandoned your covenant. They have torn down your altars, and they have murdered your prophets with the sword. I’m the only one left, and now they want to take my life too!”
The Lord said, “Go out and stand at the mountain before the Lord. The Lord is passing by.” A very strong wind tore through the mountains and broke apart the stones before the Lord. But the Lord wasn’t in the wind. After the wind, there was an earthquake. But the Lord wasn’t in the earthquake. After the earthquake, there was a fire. But the Lord wasn’t in the fire. After the fire, there was a sound. Thin. Quiet. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his coat. He went out and stood at the cave’s entrance. A voice came to him and said, “Why are you here, Elijah?”
One: Holy wisdom, Holy Word,
All: Thanks be to God
SERMON Rev. Trip Porch
WE RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD
*HYMN 410 “God Is Calling through the Whisper” W ŻLOBIE LEŻY
TIME FO OFFERING Receiving Tithes and Estimates of Giving
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OFFERTORY “O Rest In the Lord” from Elijah Mendelssohn
Kya Angle, soloist
COMMUNION
INVITATION TO THE TABLE
GREAT PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING with Necrology Barb Mase, Bill Poteet
SHARING OF BREAD AND CUP # 501 “Feed Us, Lord” FEED US
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
God of all generations, We give you thanks for feeding us at your table, with a grace that spans the centuries, With a hope that does not fade, with a love that connects us to all your people. Send us out renewed by your Spirit: to listen for your whisper, to live as your people, and to continue your work in this time and place. Amen.
*HYMN 730 “I Sing a Song of the Saints of God” GRAND ISLE
TIME OF COMMUNITY SHARING
CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
CHORAL RESPONSE “God Be With You Till We Meet Again” William G. Tomer
POSTLUDE “For All the Saints” arr. Michael Bukhardt
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