Today’s service has THREE choices.  You may view the Live Stream on Facebook at this link:  https://fb.me/e/2Hp0ES5sY , hear it in the church parking lot at 107.1 FM, or join us in person either at the woods stage or inside (masking preferred). 

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Gathering Music                          Polly Dunford

Welcome and Announcements             Rosie Thompson                                      

Call to Worship  (responsively from Psalm 23)         Rev. Dr. Phuc Dai Nguyen

One: The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want

ALL: God makes us lie down in green pastures, God leads us beside still waters. 

One: God restores my soul.

ALL: God leads us in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 

One: Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

ALL: We walk through the valley of the shadow of death.

One: I will fear no evil.

ALL: We will fear no evil. 

One: For you are with me.

ALL: You are with us. 

You are with us. 

One: “When despair for the world grows in me

And I wake in the night at the least sound

In fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world and am free.”

ALL: We are free. Let us worship God.

Opening Hymn “O Sing to the Lord” Hymnal #637

1)  O sing to the Lord; O sing God a new song.

O sing to the Lord; O sing God a new song.

O sing to the Lord; O sing God a new song.

O sing to our God; O sing to our God.

2)  For God is the Lord, and God has done wonders.

For God is the Lord, and God has done wonders.

For God is the Lord, and God has done wonders.

O sing to our God; O sing to our God.

3)  So dance for our God and blow all the trumpets.

So dance for our God and blow all the trumpets.

So dance for our God and blow all the trumpets.

O sing to our God; O sing to our God.

4)  O shout to our God, who gave us the Spirit.

O shout to our God, who gave us the Spirit.

O shout to our God, who gave us the Spirit.

O sing to our God; O sing to our God.

5)  For Jesus is Lord!  Amen!  Alleluia!

For Jesus is Lord!  Amen!  Alleluia!

For Jesus is Lord!  Amen!  Alleluia!

O sing to our God; O sing to our God.

Scriptures Judges 13:15-24

        Acts 6:1-6

        John 4:5-15

Hymn “What Does the Lord Require?”   Hymnal #70

3 Parts:  1)  What does the Lord require of you?  What does the Lord require of you?

    2)  Justice, kindness, walk humbly with your God.

    3)  To seek justice and love kindness and walk humbly with your God.

Message “Hospitality Today”             Rev. Dr. Phuc Dai Nguyen

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn “As the Wind Song” Hymnal #292

1)  As the wind song through the trees, as the stirring of the breeze,

so it is with the Spirit of God,

as the heart made strangely warm, as the voice within the storm,

so it is with the Spirit of God.

Never seen, ever known where this wind has blown bringing life,

bringing power to the world, as the dancing tongues of fire,

as the soul’s most deep desire, so it is with the Spirit of God.

2)  As the rainbow after rain, as the hope that’s born again,

so it is with the Spirit of God.

as the green in the spring, as a kite on a string,

so it is with the Spirit of God,

making worlds that are new, making peace come true, bringing gifts,

bringing love to the world, as the rising of the yeast,

as the wine at the feast, so it is with the Spirit of God.

Benediction Rev. Dr. Phuc Dai Nguyen

Discussion

Shalom

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Calendar of Services June 19 — Rev. Dr. Steve Morgan

                June 26 — Rev. Dr. Steve Morgan

Come and see “Shrek” in Carolina Wren Park for its final performances on June 12-13 at 8:00 PM.  Be prepared to laugh, sing and love the big, green ogre, Fiona and all of the fairytale characters.  Drew Whitley  and Noah Taylor are co-directing, and Thor Raines plays Lord Farquaad.

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Anderson Forum for Progressive Theology will be hosting their next event on June 11 at 4:00 PM and June 12 at 2:00 PM.  Hal Taussig will present three lectures at this In-Person event (with possible live stream) at Grace Episcopal Church, 711 S. McDuffie Street, Anderson, SC.   The three lectures are about HarperOne’s recent book, After Jesus Before Christianity: A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements.  Authors are Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, and Hal Taussig, in collaboration with the Westar Christianity Seminar.

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A work trip to CDCA in Nicaragua is being planned for 2023.  More details to follow.

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The Church Garden is taking a different direction this summer by planting a cut flower garden.   If you have healthy viable seeds or plant starts of flowers to share, please contribute.  Thanks!

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Special prayers for Linda McFall as she is about to begin a new line of treatment at MUSC in Charleston for her non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.  She will be away for 6 weeks or more and wants her church family to know that she is remembering us too.

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No newsletter this coming week.  Editorial staff will be busy out of town.  Stay tuned though.

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Remember in prayer: Linda McFall; Mike Johnston; Taylor Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Family and Friends of Terry Ann Hayes; Jason Harding; Steve Hallowell; Pat Weddle; Glenn Burns; Tim and Michael Little-Bell and family; Jackie Moore; Whitney Bishop; Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; Victims of COVID-19; People of Ukraine; Families of Uvalde, Texas; Victims of mass shootings.