Sunday, March 15, 2026
WORSHIP SERVICE
Speaker: Anita Schroeder Kipfer
Worship Leader: Barb Draper
Music Leader(s): Joyce Freeman & Mary Bauman
Musician(s): Lisa Demerling
10:30 a.m. WORSHIP SERVICE
Welcome & Announcements
Invitation to Worship
Leader: Welcome Lent –
ALL: And terrible dissonance as we condemn the Human One.
PEOPLE: We don’t really want to think that we might be among those voices, or consider our own complicity in such things.
Leader: We don’t really want to remember the violence or hear the horrible cries:
ALL: “Crucify! Crucify!”
PEOPLE: Welcome lament and confession as the story comes undone;
Leader: Welcome holy mystery.
PEOPLE: That even condemnation can find a place in the story of God’s salvation.
Leader: We tell the story again, trusting that God will meet us in it.
ALL: Welcome suffering, love and grace.
Gathering Prayer
Congregational Singing:
“Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness” STS # 1
“I Want Jesus to Walk with me” VT # 306
“Listen, God is Calling” VT # 765
Children’s Time
Congregational Singing:
“O Lamb of God” VT # 559
Sermon: “Standing with Christ in the Dissonance of Condemnation”
Congregational Singing:
“Lord Jesus, You Shall Be My Song” VT # 581
Congregational Prayer
Congregational Singing:
“Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness” Voices United # 375
11:30 a.m. COFFEE IN THE FOYER
*Note: order of service is subject to change