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Healing From Loss Experience (page 3)

Prayers of the People Rev. Denise Dugan

The Lord’s Prayer

Scripture & Message Rev. Dr. Chris Wilson

Psalm 137:1-6 | “Exilic Makeover”

Second Hymn “Peace is Flowing Like a River” (page 2)

Time & Talent Tell All

Al Hinrichs, Treasurer with the Finance Team

Gerald Hiller, with the Technology Team

Communion Meditation Rev. Denise Dugan

Communion Music

Thanksgiving Prayer Janey Pryor

Announcements Rev. Dr. Chris Wilson

Sending Song

Benediction Rev. Dr. Chris Wilson

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O Lord, hear my prayer; O Lord, hear my prayer.

When I call, an - swer me. O Lord, hear my prayer; O

Lord, hear my prayer; Come and lis - ten to me.

Saint Andrew Worship Service

Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost | Aug. 22, 2021 | 9:30 am

Prelude

Welcome & Greeting Rev. Dr. Chris Wilson Music for Centering

Opening Hymn “By the Waters of Babylon” (page 2)

Passing of the Peace - via text Rev. Denise Dugan

Children’s Moment Rev. Denise Dugan

Call to Prayer

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“Peace is Flowing Like a River”

“By the Water of Babylon”

Musicians:

Cindy Egger-Farris & Janice Rawlings (flute).

Vocalists:

Hal & Marti Johnson, Bonnie Burnside,

Shirley Dugan & Donna Helgeson

Livestream Production:

Jon Seitz & Gerald Hiller

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Healing From Loss Experience

Prayer Stations

There are three prayer stations located here in the sanctuary.

You will be invited to move to one or more of those stations

you feel would be a prayerful blessing to you. Be sure and

allow space for others to experience the station. Try to avoid

lines and find space to pray in the waiting between stations.

You can remain seated throughout this experience and reflect

on the invitation of what all three prayer stations offer in the

descriptions below.

• Exile Sand (use a twig for tracing a path)

Where are you on your journey today? You may be feeling

lost in the wilderness; dry, hungry, alone… Allow God to be

present with you in the desert wilderness. Trace a path in the

sand as you pray and reflect. Read the poem and scriptures.

Know that grief and loss is exhausting; pray for moments of

peace and rest. Let your path guide you closer to God’s

healing presence.

A Wilderness Prayer (Deuteronomy 8) © 2017 Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia;

Based on Deuteronomy 8:2-3; 14-16

God of the Ages

Our Deliverer and Provider

We bow in humility before your grace

You feed us with the divine

Your word

Your body

You quench our thirst with living water

A stream in the desert

You guide our feet through snares and snakes

You free us from slavery to sin and self and death

You lead us the long way to holiness and home

Test our hearts

Have we exalted ourselves?

Have we forgotten you?

Reveal the truth to us, O God

Exposed by your unrelenting light

Wiped clean with your wilderness wind

Grow in us wholehearted allegiance

that our blessing and devotion may never waver

that we may always recognize

and trust your desire to do us good

Amen

Isaiah 35:1-2a

The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad,

the desert shall rejoice and blossom;

like the crocus it shall blossom abundantly,

and rejoice with joy and singing.

Isaiah 41:17-18

The poor and needy search for water, but there is none;

their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the Lord will

answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs

within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of

waters, and the parched ground into springs…

Isaiah 51:3

For the Lord will comfort Zion;

he will comfort all her waste places,

and will make her wilderness like Eden,

her desert like the garden of the Lord;

joy and gladness will be found in her,

thanksgiving and the voice of song.

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• Rock Altar (use a rock)

What memories in this space remind you of joy and hope?

Is there a symbol of hope you find in this sanctuary

(architecture, banner(s), light, bread and cup)? Hope is not

only something for us on our individual path, but a path for

us as a wider community of faith. Place a rock alongside

other rocks to form a rock altar to signify this place as a

collective holy place that grounds us in faith and in our time

through tough experiences and moments.

• Merging Waters (pour small portion of water)

“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and let the one who

believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, ‘Out of the

believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.’” (Luke 7:37-

38) Our prayers do not know the boundaries of time and

space – every prayer offered joins with other prayers so that

all become one. Each person’s joys are the joys of others;

each person’s concerns are our concerns as well. Pour

some water into the bowl to represent your prayers today.

Watch as they mix with the water added by others. Imagine

all our prayers becoming one voice of lament and love,

praise and gratitude to our God.

Litany Seeking Healing Jody Gyulay

One: Blessed One, we give thanks for our many gifts: our

race, class, sexual orientation, age, gender

identification, ability, thought and the sacramental

relationships that grow from these gifts.

Many: Holy One, we rejoice in the collective gifts that

offer healing to our stories and love to our

journey.

One: Comforting Creator, you know our hurts, our

frustrations, our experiences of injustice, and our

separation from loved ones in life and in death.

Many: Give us strength, being bound together with ties

that cannot be broken to honor all that you have

created to be made whole out of brokenness.

One: Help us remember and claim, Source of All Life, that

each life will move through periods of doubt, pain,

grief, and hardship.

Many: Remind us that the path of hope is not away from

but through those moments of challenge being

supported and surrounded by those we love and

those who love us.

One: Loving God, move us into encounters of healing.

Many: Hear us, Holy One, and surround us in your

wholeness and grace.

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