Are Dead Trees Really Dead?

Al Zook will preach from 1 Corinthians 15:50-58.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“Come, We That Love”
Text: Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707, alt; refrain Robert Lowry; Music: Robert Lowry, 1867, The Victory, 1869

“Come, Holy Spirit, enter our silences”
By Neill Thew, 1990, adapt. Mennonite Worship and Song Committee, 2019

“Jesus Loves Me”
Text: Anna B Warner, 1859; Music: William B Bradbury, The Golden Shower, 1862

Secretly Do Good Deeds
Written by Melody Carlson, illustrated by Susan Reagan; ©2002 B&H Publishing Group

“Gloria”
Text: Latin; Luke 2:14; Music: Jacques Berthier, ©1979 Les Presses de Taizé (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“You Are Salt for the Earth”
Text & Music: Marty Haugen, 1985, Gather, 1988; ©1986 GIA Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“How Can We be Silent”
Text & Music: Michael Mahler; ©2003 GIA Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“En medio de la vida (You Are the God within Life)”
Text: Spanish; Mortimer Arias; stanza 1 and refrain trans. George Lockwood; stanzas 2-4 trans. Adam M L Tice; Music: Antonio Auza; arr. Homero Perera; ©1971 Mortimer Arias; trans. ©2019 Mortimer Arias

“La paz de la tierra (The Peace of the Earth Be with You)”
Text: Spanish; Guatemalan traditional; trans. Christine Carson, ©1998 Christine Carson and WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); Music: Guatemalan traditional; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Thuma mina (Send me, Lord)”
Text: Zulu; anon.; trans. anon.; Music: South African traditional; arr. ©1984 Peace of Music Publishing AB (admin. Walton Music Corp., a division of GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Jesus, NASCAR, & the Church

Pastor Glenn will preach from 1 Corinthians 12:1-11.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“I Want Jesus to Walk with Me”
Text & Music: African American spiritual 

“Lord, I Want to Be a Christian”
Text: African American spiritual, Folk Songs of the American Negro, 1907; Music: African American spiritual, Folk Songs of the American Negro, 1907; harm. anon.

“There Are Many Gifts”
Text: based on 1 Corinthians 12:4-12; Patricia Shelly, 1976, Many Gifts, 1977, alt.; Music: Patricia Shelly, 1976, Many Gifts, 1977; ©1977 Patricia Shelly; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“As I Went Down to the River to Pray”
Text & Music: African American spiritual

“For the times we have lied”
By Anne Macksoud, 1981

“Just a Closer Walk with Thee”
Text: African American traditional, ca. 20th c.; Music: African American traditional, ca. 20th c.; acc. David Berry, 2019

“This Little Light of Mine”
Text & Music: African American traditional, ca. 20th c.

“In the Morning When I Rise”
Text: African American spiritual; Music: African American spiritual; arr. Wendell Whalum, ©1978 Lawson-Gould Music (admin. Alfred Music Publishing Co., Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Lift Every Voice and Sing”
Text: James W Johnson, 1900; Music: J Rosamund Johnson, 1905

“There Is a Balm in Gilead”
Text & Music: African American spiritual

Standing in the Tragic Gap

Pastors Claudia and Glenn and PCRC members led a service of communal acknowledgement. This was a space to express, talk about, and own the pain, loss, and disappointment that has been part of the fabric of our lives over the past few months. The tone is similar to a typical Good Friday service.

Scripture: Lamentations 3:27-36 and 1 Corinthians 13:13

Today’s Music:

“Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed?”
Text: Isaac Watts, 1707; Music: Hugh Wilson; adapted by Robert A Smith, 1825; Public Domain

“Be Thou My Vision”
Text: Ancient Irish, tr. Mary Elizabeth Byrne, 1905; Music: Irish melody, harm. Martin Shaw, 1931; Harmonization copyright © Oxford University Press; All right reserved.; Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

 “My Shepherd Will Supply My Need”
Text: Isaac Watts; Music: American folk melody; Public Domain

“O Lord Hear My Prayer”
Text & Music: Jacques Berthier; ©1982 Les Presses de Taize. All rights reserved.; Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“O Love That Will Not Let Me Go”
Text: George Matheson, 1882; Music: Albert L Peace, 1884; Public Domain

“I Wonder as I Wander”
Music: Albert L Peace; Public Domain

 “My Life Flows On”
Text & Music: Robert Lowry; Public Domain

“Great is Thy Faithfulness”
Text: Thomas O Chisholm; Music: William Runyan; ©1923, renewal 1951 Hope Publishing Co.; All rights reserved.; Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“In Heavenly Love Abiding”
Text: Anna L Waring, Hymns and Meditations, 1850; Music: Felix Mendelssohn, Sechs Lieder, Op 59, No 3, 1843; Public Domain

“Rain Down”
Text & Music: Jaime Cortez; ©1991 OCP Publications.; All rights reserved.; Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084