BCMC Worship Service--2026 03 08

Описание: BETHEL COLLEGE MENNONITE CHURCH
March 8, 2026
3rd Sunday of Lent: Holy Confrontation

Christ Candle Lighting

Centering Music-- "Sweet Rivers of Redeeming Love" (from Sacred Harp)-- (arr. D. Hustad)-- Will Wiebe-Friesen


Welcome and Call to Worship—John Waltner

One: Come into God’s presence, you who imagine and you who seek, you who disrupt and you who repair.
All: By the Spirit, we gather in hope.
One: Come into God’s abundance, you of great faith, and you who grasp at crumbs; you who resist, and you who persist.
All: In Christ, we gather and are transformed.
One: Come into God’s presence, singing for joy and for justice; bringing prayer and worship, your most faithful acts of resistance.
All: To God be the glory! We gather to praise!

Opening Prayer—John Waltner

*Hymn—"You Are Salt for the Earth"—VT 297

Kindom Report—Puerto Rico Peace Camp—Ani Koontz and Grace Harader-Ellett

Children and Youth Conversation—Carol Flickinger

Worship Music—"O Thou in Whose Presence" (arr. J. Harold Moyer)Chancel Choir; Joel Garber, director; Will Wiebe-Friesen, accompanist

Scripture Reading—Numbers 27:1-11—Marlene Faul

*Hymn—"There Is a Line of Women"—VT 546

Scripture Reading—Matthew 15:21-28—Marlene Faul

Sermon—"The Perils of Pedestals"—Joanna Harader

Breath Prayer— God, grant me courage / to speak out in faith.

*Hymn—"Draw the Circle"—VT 802--Lucy Burch, flute

Receiving the Offering and Prayers of God’s People

*Hymn—"Sing a New World into Being"—VT 809

*Charge and Benediction

Postlude
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You are invited to stand
VT—"Voices Together"
Keyboard–Will Wiebe Friesen
Audio visual—Ken Lamp