THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT
YOUTH SUNDAY
8:30am and 11:00am
GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME
Prelude
Meditation on ’Somebody’s Knocking On Your Door’
arr. Adam Waite
Welcome
*Call to Worship
Leader: O come, let us worship and bow down;
People: let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker.
Leader: The hour is coming and is now here.
People: In spirit and truth, let us worship God.
*Opening Hymn
471 O Lord, Hear My Prayer (Hear My Prayer)
*Corporate Confession (Unison)
Lord, you know who we are.
You know everything we have done.
We thirst for things that will never satisfy.
We commit ourselves to things that will never last.
Still, you offer us your gift of living water.
Still, you offer us grace and mercy.
Forgive us, O Lord, and give us your living water.
Amen.
*Assurance of God’s Love
*Response
*Passing of the Peace
Anthem
Free
Michael Gungor (b.1980)
LISTENING FOR GOD’S WORD
Luke 4:1-13
(New Testament Pew Bible Page 53)
Sermon
Wilderness Wonderings
You Say
Lauren Daigle (b. 1991)
RESPONDING TO GOD’S GRACE
Offering
Making a financial gift makes Montview’s programs and ministries possible, including this worship service. You are invited to give generously at www.montview.org/giving or by texting a dollar amount to 720-452-6449. Offering plates are stationed at the exit for cash and checks. We’re grateful for your support.
God, you have so greatly loved us, long sought us, and mercifully redeemed us. Give us grace that in everything, we may yield ourselves, our wills and our works. A continual thank offering to you. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Prayers of the People and The Lord’s Prayer (Unison)
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. Amen.
*Closing Hymn
Draw the Circle Wide
Mark Miller
Draw the circle, draw the circle wide.
Draw the circle, draw the circle wide.
No one stands alone, we’ll stand side by side.
Draw the circle, draw the circle wide. (Repeat)
Draw the circle wide, draw it wider still.
Let this be our song: no one stands alone.
Standing side by side….
Draw the circle, draw the circle wide. (Repeat)
SENDING IN GOD’S LOVE
This Is Not The End
Michael Gungor (b. 1980)
UPCOMING EVENTS
Lenten Devotions
Tuesdays, March 22 – April 5 | 9-9:30am (on Zoom)
During Lent, the staff will be holding weekly Lenten Devotions live on Zoom. Devotions will be offered Tuesdays at 9am from March 22-April 5. A recording of each Devotion will be released for later viewing.
Go to www.montview.org for the Zoom link.
TODAY AT MONTVIEW
Worship Service
Location: Sanctuary
Childcare – Ages Birth-7 (masks optional)
Location: Preschool Floor
Enter and exit through Montview Blvd. door on north side of building.
Youth Bells
Grades 3-8
Location: Room 206B
9:30am
Wilderness Art: Forty Days and Forty Nights in Images
Session Three: Filling the Frame
Location: Sanctuary
Combined Cantate and Timbrel Choirs
Grades K-5
Location: Room 206B
Preschool-5th Grade
Location: Preschool and Second Floors
Enter and exit through Montview Blvd. door on north side of building.
Donut Social – YAM (6th-12th)
Location: Labyrinth
11:00am
Worship Service
Location: Sanctuary
Childcare – Ages Birth-7 (masks optional)
Location: Preschool Floor
Enter and exit through Montview Blvd. door on north side of building.
WORSHIP PARTICIPANTS
Senior Preachers:
Josh Wolfer, Caleb Meyerhoff, Allen Harder, Ellison Mucharsky O’Boyle
Liturgist: Eden Murphy
Jubilate Singers:
Connor Beardsley, Fiona Beardsley, Jayden Greicius, Adah Meyerhoff, Caleb Meyerhoff, Noah Meyerhoff, Ellison Mucharsky O’Boyle, Rosie Mucharsky O’Boyle, Stella Mullins, Audrey Price, Lindsay Price
Jubilate Singers Director: Adam Waite
Sound: Cate Thieme
Video: John Goerner
ABOUT THIS SERVICE
Masks are optional in the sanctuary.
Assistive listening devices are available in the sound booth in the back of the sanctuary.
Co-Pastors: The Rev. Clover Reuter Beal and The Rev. Ian Cummins
Minister of Music: Adam Waite
Minister of Children and Families: Sandy Prouty
Minister of Youth and Families: Amanda Osenga
Executive Director of Operations and Finance: Jason Hays
Director of Facilities: Bob Cloud
Director of Finance: Dan Gasser
Associate Minister of Music and Organist: Barbara Hulac
Administrative Coordinator: Beth Ellsworth
Membership Coordinator: Cindy Austin
Communications Coordinator: Christine Hofstad
Mission Life Coordinator: Jennifer Seward
Minister of Visitation: Peter Hulac
Sunday Morning Manager: Doug Easton
Sextons: Tony Johnson, Charles Johnson and Stewart Schoenthal
Prayer Tree
Linda Bofenkamp; Linda Chain; Dave Force; Dottie Harvey; Stacy Bush Henry, niece of Mary Jo Bush; Rick Lemmer; Linda Marrou-Cole; Margery Mullins; Mac Murphy; Betty Scherer; The Schuck Family and their young son, Cameron; Millie Steiner; Franklin Thompson, brother of Dolores Collins; Leroy Thompson, brother of Dolores Collins; Russ Wehner
Memorial Services
April 23 at 11am | Clif Flowers
May 22 at 2pm | Dana Wilbanks
May 28 at 11am | Ruth Noblett
June 4 at 2pm | Joseph B. Blake
June 18 at 2pm | Susan Parkhurst
STATEMENT OF MISSION
We believe that the love of God surrounds us. Our call is to nurture this love in ourselves and each other. Through prayer, worship, education, outreach and mission, we seek to foster spiritual fulfillment, community, tolerance, peace, non-violence and social justice. We dedicate ourselves and our church to follow the Spirit of Christ by word and deed.
We are happy that you are worshiping with us today and invite you to learn more about Montview. Please fill out one of the Welcome Guest Cards that are distributed in the pews and place it on a plate near the exits when finished. Feel free to contact our office at 303-355-1651 or email cindy@montview.org with questions. Please come again.
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WORSHIP SERVICE GREETERS
Greeters are needed for our 8:30 and 11am worship services each Sunday. Be a welcoming presence to congregants while handing out bulletins. Please arrive 15 minutes before each service. For more information, contact Cindy Austin at cindy@montview.org.
303.355.1651 | www.montview.org