Grace Presbyterian Church WOrship Bulletin
October 5, 2025
Order of Worship
October 5, 2025 - Order of Worship – World Communion Sunday
Rev. Dr. Joanne Sizoo, Pastor
Lauren Abreu, Elder on Call
Grace Presbyterian Church
Following Jesus, we love, welcome, and serve.
Welcome & Announcements
Moment for Justice
Prelude "Bind Us Together” arr. B. Wolaver
Call to Worship:
If you are hungry,
there is room at God’s table.
If you are weary,
there is a seat saved for you.
If you dream of belonging, then we will practice belonging here.
From north, south, east, and west, God invites us home.
Let us worship our nourishing God.
**Hymn “We Come to This Table” C.W. Gillette
**Call to Confession
**Prayer of Confession
Creator God, we hear your invitation to love our neighbors as ourselves, to live like we belong to one another. And yet, what is out of sight is often out of mind. Forgive us for training our hearts to focus only on what is in front of us. Forgive us for ignoring the tie that binds us to all of creation. Forgive us for assuming that you being with us means you can’t be with others too. Our gaze has been too narrow. Open our hearts. Expand our understanding. Help us to celebrate the many places you are present in this world. Remind us of the ties that bind us to all of creation. With hope in our hearts we pray, amen.
**Words of Forgiveness
We are known. We are loved. We are forgiven. We begin again. Thanks be to God for a love like that.
**Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.
Time with Young Disciples (10:15) Dimes for Hunger Collection
Anthem (10:15) "We Gather at One Table" Grace Notes Choir
Scripture Acts 2: 42-47; 1 Corinthians 1: 10-17
Message
Affirmation
We believe in God,
Who befriended a wandering people, calling them from slavery into freedom; yet who in Rahab, Tamar, Ruth, Bathsheba, Cyrus, Darius and many others called outsiders to be agents of God’s purpose.
We believe in Jesus,
Who was revered by Persian sages, sought and found asylum in Egypt, preached the love of God to Syrians, attracted Greeks to his cause, found his first evangelist in a Samaritan, saw incomparable faith in a Roman, had his cross shouldered by a Lybian, and ascended above his native land that he might be present in all places.
We believe in the Holy Spirit,
Who at Pentecost proved that heaven has no favored mother-tongue; who, in the baptism of an Ethiopian, denied racism a foothold in faith; and who, in the ancient and modern worlds, founded churches in different cultures.
We believe that God is supremely known in Jesus.
Yet we affirm that God is present among people who do not own Christ as their Lord.
We believe that the kingdom of God is bigger than the Church, and that the love of God is beyond our understanding.
Therefore we celebrate that God’s ways are not our ways, that God knows whom God chooses, and reserves the right to surpass all human expectation.
Blessed be God forever.
Communion
Invitation to the Table - Great Prayer of Thanksgiving - Hymn #507 "Come to the Table of Grace" - Words of Institution - Sharing the Bread and Cup – Prayer
**Hymn #769 “For Everyone Born" (vs. 1-3, 5)
**Benediction
**Choral Response
Bind us together, Lord; bind us together with cords that cannot be broken.
Bind us together, Lord; bind us together, Lord; bind us together with love.
Postlude
**congregation standing in body or spirit
congregational responses in bold
lyrics printed with permission under One License #A-737483 and CCLI License #2545718
worship liturgy written by Rev. Sarah Speed | A Sanctified Art | sanctifiedart.org
Affirmation from WildGoose Resource Group
Moment for Justice
Prelude "Bind Us Together” arr. B. Wolaver
Call to Worship:
If you are hungry,
there is room at God’s table.
If you are weary,
there is a seat saved for you.
If you dream of belonging, then we will practice belonging here.
From north, south, east, and west, God invites us home.
Let us worship our nourishing God.
**Hymn “We Come to This Table” C.W. Gillette
**Call to Confession
**Prayer of Confession
Creator God, we hear your invitation to love our neighbors as ourselves, to live like we belong to one another. And yet, what is out of sight is often out of mind. Forgive us for training our hearts to focus only on what is in front of us. Forgive us for ignoring the tie that binds us to all of creation. Forgive us for assuming that you being with us means you can’t be with others too. Our gaze has been too narrow. Open our hearts. Expand our understanding. Help us to celebrate the many places you are present in this world. Remind us of the ties that bind us to all of creation. With hope in our hearts we pray, amen.
**Words of Forgiveness
We are known. We are loved. We are forgiven. We begin again. Thanks be to God for a love like that.
**Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.
Time with Young Disciples (10:15) Dimes for Hunger Collection
Anthem (10:15) "We Gather at One Table" Grace Notes Choir
Scripture Acts 2: 42-47; 1 Corinthians 1: 10-17
Message
Affirmation
We believe in God,
Who befriended a wandering people, calling them from slavery into freedom; yet who in Rahab, Tamar, Ruth, Bathsheba, Cyrus, Darius and many others called outsiders to be agents of God’s purpose.
We believe in Jesus,
Who was revered by Persian sages, sought and found asylum in Egypt, preached the love of God to Syrians, attracted Greeks to his cause, found his first evangelist in a Samaritan, saw incomparable faith in a Roman, had his cross shouldered by a Lybian, and ascended above his native land that he might be present in all places.
We believe in the Holy Spirit,
Who at Pentecost proved that heaven has no favored mother-tongue; who, in the baptism of an Ethiopian, denied racism a foothold in faith; and who, in the ancient and modern worlds, founded churches in different cultures.
We believe that God is supremely known in Jesus.
Yet we affirm that God is present among people who do not own Christ as their Lord.
We believe that the kingdom of God is bigger than the Church, and that the love of God is beyond our understanding.
Therefore we celebrate that God’s ways are not our ways, that God knows whom God chooses, and reserves the right to surpass all human expectation.
Blessed be God forever.
Communion
Invitation to the Table - Great Prayer of Thanksgiving - Hymn #507 "Come to the Table of Grace" - Words of Institution - Sharing the Bread and Cup – Prayer
**Hymn #769 “For Everyone Born" (vs. 1-3, 5)
**Benediction
**Choral Response
Bind us together, Lord; bind us together with cords that cannot be broken.
Bind us together, Lord; bind us together, Lord; bind us together with love.
Postlude
**congregation standing in body or spirit
congregational responses in bold
lyrics printed with permission under One License #A-737483 and CCLI License #2545718
worship liturgy written by Rev. Sarah Speed | A Sanctified Art | sanctifiedart.org
Affirmation from WildGoose Resource Group