Bulletin: May 1, 2022

Prayer of Blessing (Unison) (11am)
We give thanks for you and your important place in this community. Together we will seek to live into God’s kingdom, loving and challenging each other. May we all witness to God’s love for the world.

Scripture Lesson
John 21:1-19
(New Testament Pew Bible Page 101)

Sermon
Do you see me now?
Rev. Clover Reuter Beal

Musical Reflection
Chorale
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

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.

Prayer of Dedication (Unison)
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.

THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER

Invitation to the Lord’s Table

Great Thanksgiving
Leader: The Lord be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts.
People: We lift them to the Lord.
Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People: It is right to give God thanks and praise.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you, Gracious God, creator of heaven and earth. You formed us in your image and breathed into us the breath of life. When we turned away, and our love failed, your love remained steadfast. You have been faithful to us through all generations and continue to speak to us today. We praise you for this table of love you spread in the world as a sign of your love for all people. And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven, we praise your name and join in their unending song.

Eucharistic Prayer

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.

Words of Institution

Communion of the People
You are invited to come forward, offering your open palms to the communion server. Once you receive a piece of communion bread and juice, bring them back to your seat in the pews. A gluten-free option is offered from the server on the pulpit side of the aisle.

Communion Music
Trois Pieces: II. Sans vitesse et à l’aise (8:30am)
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)

A Communion Meditation (11am)
Ike Sturm & Adam Waite

*Prayer of Thanksgiving (Unison)  
Gracious God, you have made us one with all your people in heaven and earth. You have fed us with the bread of life and renewed us for your service. Help us, who have shared Christ’s body and received his cup, to be faithful disciples, so that our daily living may reflect your presence among us, and our love be your love, reaching out into the world; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

*Closing Hymn
529  Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether  (Union Seminary)

SENDING IN GOD’S LOVE

*Benediction Response
Love, cover me (11am)
Ike Sturm

Postlude
The Modal Trumpet
Frederic Karam (1926-1978)

 

TODAY AT MONTVIEW

8:30am
Worship Service
Location: Sanctuary

Childcare – Ages Birth-7 (masks optional)
Location: Preschool Floor
Enter via Montview Blvd. playground on north side of building.

8:45am
Youth Bells
Grades 3-8
Location: Room 206B

9:30am

A Conversation with Guest Musicians Ike Sturm and
Chanda Rule
Location: Sanctuary

Confirmation Class (masks optional)
Location: Fellowship Hall

Combined Cantate and Timbrel Choirs
Grades K-5
Location: Room 206B

Sunday School For Children (masks optional)
Preschool-5th Grade
Location: Preschool and Second Floors
Enter via Montview Blvd. playground on north side of building.

 

11:00am
Worship Service
Location: Sanctuary

Childcare – Ages Birth-7 (masks optional)
Location: Preschool Floor
Enter via Montview Blvd. playground on north side of building.

11:30am
Reception for Confirmands
Location: South Plaza

4:00pm
Spring Concert: “Let the River Flow”
Location: Sanctuary

Spring Concert: “Let the River Flow”
May 1 | 4:00pm (in the Sanctuary)

You are invited to the World Premiere of “Let the River Flow,” Sunday May 1 at 4:00pm. “Let the River Flow” is a new celebration and lament by Ike Sturm and Chandra Rule for choir, soloist, string orchestra and jazz chamber ensemble. The piece, made up of sixteen songs, was commissioned by Montview’s Westminster Choir and Minister of Music, Adam Waite.

When Time Is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene
May 8 | 9:30am (in the Sanctuary)
Dr. Tim Beal | Case Western Reserve University,Professor of Religion

With faith, hope, and compassion, Tim Beal, in his forthcoming book (July 11, 2022, Beacon Press) shows us how to navigate the inevitabilities of the climate crisis and the very real—and very near—possibility of human extinction. Join us for a challenging, yet inspiring conversation.

WORSHIP PARTICIPANTS

Preacher: The Rev. Clover Reuter Beal
Liturgist: Ian Cummins
Organ: Barbara Hulac
Piano and Conductor: Adam Waite (11am)
Cello: Katie Burns (8:30am)
Guitar: Russ Callison (8:30am)
Bass: Ike Sturm (11:00)
Reader: Kate Williams (8:30am)
Reader: George Moseley (11:00am)
Sound: Cate Thieme
Video: John Goerner 
Chorus: Westminster Choir (11:00am)

ABOUT THIS SERVICE
Masks are optional in the sanctuary.

Assistive listening devices are available in the sound booth in the back of the sanctuary.

 

 

MONTVIEW CHURCH STAFF
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
Sextons: Tony Johnson, Charles Johnson and Stewart Schoenthal
Sunday Morning Manager: Doug Easton

 

PARISH NEWS

Prayer Tree
Brad Bawmann, humanitarian work in Poland; Nikolas, son of Linda and Stephen Bibb, humanitarian worker in Ukraine; Missi Cage, sister of Cindy Austin; Marie Cross, sister-in-law of Richelle Force; Marty Flahive, husband of Diana Flahive; The Harvey family, mourning the death of Dottie Harvey; Linda Marrou-Cole; Margery Mullins; Mac Murphy; Linda Pruett; Betty Scherer; The Schuck Family and their young son, Cameron; Franklin Thompson, brother of Dolores Collins; Leroy Thompson, brother of Dolores Collins; Peggy Walker; Russ Wehner

Deaths
April 7 | Dorothy J. Harvey

Memorial Services
May 22 at 2pm | Dana Wilbanks 
May 28 at 11am | Ruth Noblett 
June 4 at 2pm | Joe Blake
June 18 at 10am | Dottie Harvey  
June 18 at 2pm | Susan Parkhurst

MONTVIEW BOULEVARD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

1980 Dahlia Street, Denver, CO 80220
303.355.1651 | www.montview.org

 

* Those who are able are invited to stand.