1. Welcome and Call to Worship

  2. A Brief Liturgy A Year Into The Pandemic

    Leader: I am exhausted.

    People: We all are.

    Leader: There is all the normal stuff of life.

    People: Yes. Work. School. Relationships. Health issues. We could go on.

    Leader: Right. And beyond it there is the pandemic. The pain of loss and the health effects of the virus.

    People: The economic devastation. The disruption of interaction with family and friends.

    Leader: All the protocols.

    People: We are tired of masks. Tired of social distancing. Tired of Zoom. We are tired of COVID-19.

    Leader: It is not yet tired of us.

    People: Correct. And we love our neighbours. So we do wear masks. We do keep our distance. We figure out the technology. We celebrate vaccinations.

    Leader: Jesus invites us to come to him when we are weary.

    People: Here we are Jesus.

    Leader: And he will give us rest.

    People: With thankful hearts, we accept.

  3. Prayer and Lord’s Prayer

    Our Father, who art in heaven,
    hallowed be thy name;
    thy kingdom come;
    thy will be done;
    on earth as it is in heaven.
    Give us this day our daily bread.
    And forgive us our trespasses,
    as we forgive those who trespass against us.
    And lead us not into temptation;
    but deliver us from evil.
    For thine is the kingdom,
    the power, and the glory
    for ever and ever.
    Amen.

  4. Now the Green Blade Riseth

    1. Now the green blade riseth, from the buried grain,
      Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain;
      Love lives again, that with the dead has been:
      Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.

    2. In the grave they laid Him, Love who had been slain,
      Thinking that He never would awake again,
      Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen:
      Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.

    3. Forth He came at Easter, like the risen grain,
      Jesus who for three days in the grave had lain;
      Quick from the dead the risen One is seen:
      Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.

    4. When our hearts are wintry, grieving, or in pain,
      Jesus' touch can call us back to life again,
      Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been:
      Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.

    1. 1 John 3:1-7

  6. Meditation

  7. Special Music: Where He Leads, I’ll Follow

  8. Offering

  9. Prayer of Intercession

  10. Intimations

  11. In the Bulb There Is a Flower

    1. In the bulb there is a flower;
      In the seed, an apple tree;
      In cocoons, a hidden promise:
      Butterflies will soon be free!
      In the cold and snow of winter
      There's a spring that waits to be,
      Unrevealed until its season,
      Something God alone can see.

    2. There's a song in every silence,
      Seeking word and melody
      There's a dawn in every darkness
      Bringing hope to you and me.
      From the past will come the future;
      What it holds, a mystery,
      Unrevealed until its season,
      Something God alone can see.

    3. In our end is our beginning;
      In our time, infinity;
      In our doubt there is believing;
      In our life, eternity.
      In our death, a resurrection;
      At the last, a victory,
      Unrevealed until its season,
      Something God alone can see.

  12. Blessing