Bulletin for May 2/3, 2026: Fifth Sunday in Easter

Bulletin for May 2/3, 2026: Fifth Sunday in Easter

Order of Service for 5:30PM, 8:30AM and 11AM

Prelude/Gathering Music

(5:30PM)
Steve Hale

(8:30AM)
Meditation on “Santo, Santo, Santo”
Charles Callahan
Robert Lewis, organ

(11AM)
Change My Heart, Oh God
Alvin Johnson

 

Welcome and Announcements

 

Gathering Song/Opening Hymn

(5:30PM; 8:30AM) ELW 380 v. 1, 2, 5 Hallelujah! Jesus Lives
(11AM) Holy Forever

 

Thanksgiving for Baptism

 

Hymn of Praise (8:30AM)

 

Prayer of the Day

 

Anthem (8:30AM)
He’s Got the Whole World with This is My Father’s World
arr. Joel Raney
Alleluia Choir

 

Children’s Message (8:30AM; 11AM)

 

Reading: Acts 7:55-60 (NRSV)

But filled with the Holy Spirit, he gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.  “Look,” he said, “I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”  But they covered their ears, and with a loud shout all rushed together against him.  Then they dragged him out of the city and began to stone him; and the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.  While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”  Then he knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” When he had said this, he died. 

 

Gospel Acclamation

(5:30PM; 8:30AM) ELW p. 142
(11AM) Agnus Dei

 

Gospel: John 14:1-14

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me.  In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.  And you know the way to the place where I am going.”  Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”  Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.  If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”  Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.”  Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?  Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his works.  Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if you do not, then believe me because of the works themselves.  Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it. 

 
 
Message

“The Way Through”
Beth Warpmaeker

 

Hymn of the Day/Song of the Day

(5:30PM; 8:30AM) ELW 810 O Jesus, I Have Promised
(11AM) Hymn of Heaven

 

Apostles’ Creed ELW p. 105

 

Prayers of the Church

Merciful God, receive our prayer.

 

Peace

 

Offering

(5:30PM)
Steve Hale

(8:30AM)
Christ Has Risen, Alleluia
Franklin D. Ashdown
Robert Lewis

(11AM)
Hungry
by Kathryn Scott
Alvin Johnson

 

Offertory Prayer

 

 The Great Thanksgiving

  • Dialogue; Preface; Holy, Holy, Holy ELW p. 144
  • Words of Institution; Lord’s Prayer

 

Communion

 

Communion Music

(5:30PM)
Steve Hale

(8:30AM)
Lamb of God ELW p. 146
ELW 474 Bread of Life from Heaven

(11AM)
I Can Only Imagine

 

Sending of Lay Eucharistic Ministers

 

Blessing

 

Closing Hymn/Sending Song

(5:30PM; 8:30AM) ELW 758 You Are the Way
(11AM) Mighty to Save

 

Dismissal

 

Postlude

(8:30 AM)
Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain
Wilbur Held
Robert Lewis, organ

Scripture quotations are from New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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