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Welcome to the live stream of worship from Church of the Holy Cross for Sunday, May 19, 2024. You will find the service outline below, and you may download and print the PDF to follow more easily.
Service of Worship, May 19, 2024
Pentecost Sunday
Celebration of Graduates and Teachers
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: Brother James’ Air Kayleen Yuda
Lighting of the Candles
Ringing of the Bell
Welcome Rev. Eric S. Anderson
* Call to Worship: (based on Ezekiel 37:1-14) Bob Smith
Leader: In a vision, God showed the prophet a valley full of very dry bones.
People: “Can these bones live?” God asked, and with the prophet we reply, “O
God, you know.”
Leader: God told Ezekiel to speak to the bones, to tell them to draw together
enfleshed, and live.
People: The prophet spoke. The bones came together. The prophet spoke to the
breath, and the dead lived and breathed.
Leader: Now we are those who speak to those who think themselves dry bones.
People: Now we are the ones who assure the hopeless that they can, do, and will live.
All: Let us worship God!
* Hymn #270: Like the Murmur of the Dove’s Song (v. 1-3)
* Invocation (based on John 15:26-27; 16:4-15) Bob Smith
Send us the Advocate, O God. Send us the Spirit of Truth who comes from you. Guide us into all truth. Help us to anticipate what lies ahead. Fill our hearts. May we glorify you in the Holy Spirit as we worship today. Embrace us as your people, and rejoice in our praise. Amen.
Please be seated
WE SHARE THE WORD OF GOD
Anthem: Spring song Op. 62-6 Kanako Okita
Recognition of Graduates and Teachers
Time with the Children Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Scripture: Acts 2:1-21 Bob Smith
When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”
Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.”
Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
“‘In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.
Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.
I will show wonders in the heavens above
and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.
The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
And everyone who calls
on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
John 15:26-27; 16:4-15
“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.
I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: about sin, because people do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.
“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”
Sermon: Everyone Knows It’s Windy 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 #286: Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness (v. 1-4)
Call to Offering Bob Smith
The Holy Spirit gives us comfort and guidance. The Holy Spirit gives us strength and inspiration. The Holy Spirit summons us to be generous. 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: Hour of Worship Kayleen Yuda
* 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 Bob Smith
You have called us to share your blessings, O God, and so we do. We share your good news. We share your love. We share the things of this world that help others live, learn, and grow. Accept these gifts in the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.
* Hymn #272: On Pentecost They Gathered (v. 1-4)
Please be seated
Announcements Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Benediction Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Postlude: God’s Trumpet Call Kayleen Yuda
* Please stand if you are able.
Permissions
Brother James’ Air
James L. MacBeth Bain
Tune: © 2004, Oxford University Press
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Like the Murmur of the Dove’s Song
Text by Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1982
© 1982 Hope Publishing Company
Tune BRIDEGROOM by Peter Cutts, 1969
© 1969 Hope Publishing Company
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Spring Song Op. 62-6
Felix Mendelssohn
Public Domain
Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness
Text & Music (SPIRIT) by James K. Manley, 1978
© 1978 J. Manley Publishing
Arr. The New Century Hymnal, 1993
© 1993 The Pilgrim Press
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Hour of Worship
Roger C. Wilson
Tune: © 1955 Lorenz Publishing Company
a division of The Lorenz Corporation
(Admin. By Music Services)
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On Pentecost They Gathered
Text by Jane Parker Huber, 1981, rev. 1993
© 1981 Jane Parker Huber (admin. Westminster John Knox Press)
Tune MUNICH first pub. 1693
Public Domain
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God’s Trumpet Call
George Blake, Joseph W. Lerman
Tune: © 1978 Lorenz Publishing Company,
a division of The Lorenz Corporation
(Admin. by Music Services)
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Dates to Remember
Today – May 19: Dedication of Strengthen the Church
Today—May 19: Deacon’s Meeting after worship
Pastor Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Moderator Stefan Tanouye
Lay Reader Bob Smith
Choir Accompanist Kanako Okita
Choir Director Doug Albertson
Organist Kayleen Yuda
Hand Bell Director Anna Kennedy
Chapel Decorations Ann Kanahele
Projected Imagery Sue Smith
Web Master Ruth Niino-DuPonte
Videographers Eric Tanouye, Eli Yamaki
Ruth Niino-DuPonte, Bob Smith
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