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