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Welcome to the live stream of worship from Church of the Holy Cross for Sunday, May 12, 2024. You will find the service outline below, and you may download and print the PDF to follow more easily.
Service of Worship, May 12, 2024
Seventh Sunday of Easter
Mother’s Day
Rev. Eric S. Anderson, Pastor
WE GATHER TO WORSHIP GOD
Please note that audio and video of this service are being live streamed on the Internet and will be recorded. The right rear section of the sanctuary will not be captured by any cameras. Please be aware that in other sections you may be visible at times.
Prelude: Partita #1 in B minor Michael Russell
Lighting of the Candles
Ringing of the Bell
Welcome Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Moment of Concern
* Call to Worship: (based on 1 John 5:9-13) Jennifer Tanouye
Leader: We hear the testimony of human beings, but that of God is greater.
People: God has spoken to us of the grace and glory of Jesus Christ.
Leader: When we believe in Christ, we have God’s testimony in our hearts.
People: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in the Son.
Leader: May you always believe in the name of the Son of God.
People: May we always know that God has given us eternal life.
All: Let us worship God!
* Hymn #44: Beautiful Jesus (v. 1-4)
* Invocation: (based on Psalm 1) Jennifer Tanouye
Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or follow the paths of sinners, or learn their ways from scoffers. May our delight be in the law of the LORD, and on God’s directions may we meditate day and night. Then we shall be like trees that spring up by streams of water, bearing good fruit in our season, unwithered by the world. Watch over our ways, O God, and maintain us in the congregation of the righteous. Amen.
Please be seated
WE SHARE THE WORD OF GOD
Anthem: For the Beauty of the Earth Holy Cross Singers
Time with the Children
Scripture: Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 Jennifer Tanouye
In those days Peter stood up among the believers (together the crowd numbered about one hundred and twenty people) and said, ‘Friends, the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit through David foretold concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus— for he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry.’
So one of the men who have accompanied us throughout the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these must become a witness with us to his resurrection.’ So they proposed two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also known as Justus, and Matthias. Then they prayed and said, ‘Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which one of these two you have chosen to take the placein this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.’ And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles.
John 17:6-19
‘I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them in your name thatyou have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.
Sermon: In the World; In the Truth Rev. Eric S. Anderson
WE RESPOND IN WORD AND DEED
Pastoral Prayer Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Please join me in the Lord’s Prayer
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 and ever. Amen
* Hymn #469: O Grant Us Light (v. 1-4)
Call to Offering Jennifer Tanouye
We live in the world, and the world is our concern as well as our challenge. We do not have the power of God, but we have the power God gave us to make things change, make things better, make things new. Let our gifts today be part of that work. Whether you share your gift here in the church today, through a gift online, or via an envelope in the mail, let the offering now be received.
Offertory: Sonata #3 in C major Michael Russell
* Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Praise Him all creatures here below
Praise Him above ye heavenly host
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Amen
* Offertory Prayer Jennifer Tanouye
Accept our offerings today, O God, made in gratitude for the prayer of Jesus, and made in fulfillment of his guidance to us: that we love one another, and that we love the world. Bless these gifts and bless others through them in Jesus’ name. Amen.
* Hymn #584: I Am the Light of the World (v. 1-4)
Please be seated
Announcements Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Benediction Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Postlude: Partita #3 in E major Michael Russell
* Please stand if you are able.
Permissions
Partita #1 in B minor
J. S. Bach
Public Domain
Beautiful Jesus
Text from Munster Gesanguch, 1677
Trans by Madeleine Forell Marshall, 1993
Tune SCHONSTER HERR JESU Silesian folk melody
Harm. by Richard S. Willis, 1850
Streamed by permission ONELICENSE A-735890
For the Beauty of the Earth
Folliot Pierpont, Conrad Kocher
Tune: Music: Conrad Kocher, 1786-1872
Text: Folliot S. Perpont, 1835-1917
Streamed by permission ONELICENSE A-735890
O Grant Us Light
Text by Lawrence Tuttiett, 1864
Tune HESPERUS by Henry W. Baker, 1854
Public Domain
Sonata #3 in C major
J. S. Bach
Public Domain
I Am the Light of the World
Text by Jim Strathdee, 1969
© 1969 Desert Flower Music
Tune LIGHT OF THE WORLD by Jim Strathdee, 1969
© 1969 Desert Flower Music
Streamed by permission ONELICENSE A-735890
Partita #3 in E major
J S. Bach
Public Domain
Dates to Remember
Today—May 12: Mother’s Day
Today – May 12: Council Meeting after worship
Pastor Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Moderator Stefan Tanouye
Lay Reader Cindy Debus
Choir Accompanist Kanako Okita
Choir Director Doug Albertson
Organist Kayleen Yuda
Guest Organist Rick Mazurowski
Guest Violinist Michael Russell*
Hand Bell Director Anna Kennedy
Chapel Decorations Chris & Jeribie Tanouye
Projected Imagery Sue Smith
Web Master Ruth Niino-DuPonte
Videographers Eric Tanouye, Eli Yamaki
Ruth Niino-DuPonte, Bob Smith
* Mr. Russell is a professional orchestral musician, and before moving to Hilo was an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Idaho. From 2003-2008, he was the String Orchestra teacher at Kamehameha Schools, Hawaii. He has performed with the Honolulu Symphony, the Maui Chamber Orchestra, and the Britt Festival Orchestra. He currently maintains a studio of private string students.
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