BETHEL COLLEGE MENNONITE CHURCH
Pentecost Sunday
May 28, 2023
Prelude—Hymn Preludes by J. Harold Moyer—Karen Schlabaugh
Be Thou My Vision
Beach Spring
Christ Candle Lighting
Welcome and Prayer—Dorothy Nickel Friesen
*Hymn—Holy Spirit, Come with Power—VT 57
Children’s Conversation—Esther Eash
Kin-dom Report—Community Playschool—Jeanette Leary, Cliff Dick
Scripture Reading—Acts 2:1-4,14,22-24,36-47—Lucy Burch and Emma Gering
Sermon—Pentecost, Communion and Peace— Roger Neufeld Smith
*Hymn—Let the Hungry Come to Me—VT 459
Communion
Preparation for Communion
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Pledge of Love VT 937
(congregational response “By the grace of God, I will”)
Words of Institution
Receiving the Bread and Cup
Prayer of Blessing
Prayers of God’s People
*Hymn—We Are People of God’s Peace—VT 797
People with May birthdays come forward for a blessing, please bring a hymnal.
Benediction
Postlude—Toccata in E Minor (Johann Pachelbel)—Karen Schlabaugh
You are invited to stand
VT—Voices Together
Keyboard—Karen Schlabaugh
Audio visual—John Thiesen