11am “Traditional” Worship – 11-26-23

Prelude

Welcome & Announcements

Call to Worship – UMH #176 – “Majesty, Worship His Majesty”  

Opening Prayer – (Unison)
O Lord our God, you are always more ready to bestow your good gifts on us than we are to ask them, and are willing to give more than we desire or deserve.  Help us so to seek that we may truly find, so to ask that we may joyfully receive, so to knock that the door of your mercy may be opened to all of us, through Jesus Christ our Savior, Amen.     

Hymn UMH #79 (v. 1,2,4) – “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name”

First Scripture Reading – Psalm 78:1-7 (NRSV)

Hymn TFWS #2236 – “Gather Us In”  

Second Scripture Reading – Matthew 25:1-13 (NRSV)

Message – “Ready or Not…Here HE Comes!”- Rev. Ron White

Holy Communion

Offertory / Doxology – UMH #95 

Pastoral Prayer / Lord’s Prayer

Hymn UMH #327 – “Crown Him with Many Crowns” 

Benediction  

Postlude