BETHEL COLLEGE MENNONITE CHURCH
March 30, 2025
Fourth Sunday of Lent
 
Christ Candle Lighting
 
Centering Music—In the Garden (Dobrinski)—Chancel Bells; Verlene Garber, director   
 
Welcome—Tim Hodge  
 
Leader: You are welcome in this space with all of who you are:
Your body, with its pain and its pleasure;
Your heart, with its passion and its longing;
Your feelings of relief and grief, anger and elation.
 
Congregation: We bring into this space all of who we are:
Committing to love ourselves,
Endeavoring to love each other,
Trusting in the fierce and eternal love of God.
 
All: We offer our full selves in this time of worship.
 
*Hymn—We Sing to You, O God—VT 80
               
Children and Youth Conversation—Will Wiebe-Friesen
 
Worship Music—And He Never Said a Mumblin’ Word (Gross)—Chancel Bells                                   
 
One-Minute Meditation
 
*Hymn—Will You Let Me Be Your Servant—VT 778
 
Scripture Reading—1 Kings 17:8-24—Ani Koontz
 
Sermon—God Saves Us as We Save Each Other—Joanna Harader
 
*Hymn –Christ Has No Body Here but Ours–VT 568
 
Prayers of God’s People
 
*Hymn—Great Is Thy Faithfulness—VT 419
Those with March birthdays are welcome to come forward as we sing this hymn. Please bring a hymnal.
 
*Birthday Blessing & Benediction
 
Postlude—Trumpet Concerto in D (Giuseppe Tartini) Allegro–Karen Schlabaugh, organ;  Evan Koch, trumpet                                                                                                                                        

* You are invited to stand
VT—Voices Together
Keyboard—Karen Schlabaugh
Audio visual—Francis Toews