TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
ALL SAINTS’ SUNDAY
8:30am and 11:00am
GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME
Prelude
Little Toccata on “Land of Rest”
John Kuzma (1946-2021)
Welcome
*Call to Worship
Leader: We bring heart, mind and body
People: We share hope, struggle and joy
Leader: We bring our faith and our doubt
People: We share our stories and our compassion
All: With all that we are, and all that we have, we worship God together.
*Corporate Confession (Unison)
Almighty God, we enter your presence
confessing the things we try to conceal from you and
the things we try to conceal from others.
We confess the heartbreak, worry, and sorrow we have caused,
that make it difficult for others to forgive us,
the times we have made it easy for others to do wrong,
the harm we have done that makes it hard for us to forgive ourselves.
Lord have mercy and forgive us.
In Christ Jesus we pray, amen.
*Assurance of God’s Love
*Response Gloria
*Passing of the Peace
Anthem
Reverie and Chorale
John Kuzma
LISTENING FOR GOD’S WORD
Scripture Lesson
Acts 9:10-19a (NIV)
(New Testament Pew Bible Page 111)
Sermon
Unexpected Saints
Rev. Clover Reuter Beal
Musical Reflection
Con Moto from Three Pieces for Piano
John Kuzma
RESPONDING TO GOD’S GRACE
Kristin Weber
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.
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.
Eucharistic 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. Amen.
Words of Institution
Communion of the People
Communion Music
John Kuzma
John Kuzma
O sacred banquet!
326 For All the Saints, Verses 1 and 2 (Sine Nomine)
Worship Service
Location: Sanctuary
Location: Outdoor Playground
Location: Room 204A
Naming of the Saints
Location: Columbarium
Adult Faith Formation: Reimagining Well-Being
Location: Sanctuary
Sunday School For Children (masks requested)
Preschool-5th Grade
Location: Outdoor Playground
Confirmation
Location: Fellowship Hall
10:30am
Donut Social – YAM (6th-12th)
Location: Labyrinth
11:00am
Worship Service
Location: Sanctuary
Childcare – Ages 3-10
Location: Outdoor Playground
Childcare – Ages Birth-3
Location: Room 204A
12:00pm
Naming of the Saints
Location: Columbarium
Jubilate Singers
Location: Sanctuary
1:00pm
MOB (9th-12th)
Location: Off-Site
4:00pm
JAM (6th-8th) – Movie Night
Location: Outdoor Plaza
Congregational Meeting
November 14 | After the 11am Service
You are invited to attend Montview’s annual congregational meeting on November 14 to hear the report of the Nominating Committee. The Nominating Com- mittee is charged each year with calling the next year’s slate of Elders and Deacons and it is at this meeting that we vote on the nominees they put forward. After the Congregational Meeting, you are invited to stay if you have questions regarding the sale of Montview Manor.
WORSHIP PARTICIPANTS
Preacher: The Rev. Clover Reuter Beal
Liturgist: The Rev. Ian Cummins
Conductor: Adam Waite
Organist: Barbara Hulac
Violin: Leena Waite
Violin: Michelle Davis
Violin: Phillip Stevens
Cello: Becky Osterberg
Reader: Meredith Broome (8:30am)
Reader: Gilbert McKenzie (11:00am)
Sound: Cate Thieme
Video: John Goerner
Live Stream: Christine Hofstad
Chorus: Westminster Choir
We are requiring masks in the sanctuary to protect our more vulnerable congregants.
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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Members who have died and individuals interred in the
Montview Garden Columbarium since All Saints’ Day, 2020.
Marjorie Young* 9/24/2000
Cynthia Musser* 3/24/2020
Samuel Fon 8/7/2020
Dorothy Harder 11/4/2020
Jane Parcels Humble 11/7/2020
Richard Summers* 11/7/2020
Ramona Brooks 11/19/2020
Sally Bulow Rose* 11/20/2020
Deane Klassen* 12/3/2020
Anne Hamilton 12/6/2020
William Hiatt 12/8/2020
Mike Yusas* 12/15/2020
James Stoever* 12/16/2020
LaVerne Pemberton 12/19/2020
Mac McLennan 12/25/2020
Marni Logan* 1/6/2021
Mary Crawford* 1/9/2021
Carlos May Gamboa 1/10/2021
Virginia Tenney* 1/12/2021
Lane Craddock 1/29/2021
Helen Ramsay* 1/30/2021
Warren Stewart 2/2/2021
Rev. William Mackintosh 2/4/2021
Susan Melendes 2/22/2021
William Wallis 3/4/2021
Barbara Anne Moe* 3/31/2021
Ellen Roberts* 4/19/2021
Dana Wilbanks 5/12/2021
Erin Gilmer* 7/7/2021
Gary Warnke 7/13/2021
Rev. Minoru Mochizuki 8/7/2021
John Kuzma* 8/7/2021
Eleanor Viergever 8/13/2021
Marilyn Polsfut* 8/16/2021
Rachel Marasco 8/23/2021
Peter Alford 8/27/2021
Barbara A. Haddad Ryan 9/20/2021
Joseph Henry Batchelder III 9/22/2021
MONTVIEW GARDEN COLUMBARIUM
*Gathering of the People
Leader: Our help is in the name of the Lord.
People: Who made heaven and earth.
Leader: Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. If anyone believes in me, even though they die, they will live, and whosoever lives and believes in me will never die.
People: Thanks be to God!
*Scripture Lesson Romans 8:31-39
Leader: God of all mercy, creator and maker of all, we come before you this day. We are mortal, formed of earth, and to earth we shall return. Yet, we come in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. We thank you for your loving care of those who have died. Blessed are those who die in the Lord. They rest from their labors and their works follow them.
People: Thanks be to God!
Leader: For the years of fulfillment, for the joys we have known, and for the memories that crowd our hearts; for the unexpected tribute, and the revealing of new beauty in those we have known before,
People: Thanks be to God!
Leader: For hearts that share our sadness and lives that share our empty spaces; for tears which heal and bring release, and which in your time you wipe away,
People: Thanks be to God!
Leader: For the courage which helps us carry on in a new adventure, confident of the nearness and understanding of those who have died,
People: Thanks be to God!
Leader: Above all, for the hope that you have given us through your Son Jesus Christ, that whether we live or whether we die, we belong to God,
People: Thanks be to God!
All: We, your people, who have passed through the valley of the shadow of death, fear no evil, for we live in you, now and forever. Increase in us the Communion of the Saints and the hope of the Risen life, now and forever. In the name of the One who is with us even to the end of time, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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