Why Am I Here?

Pastor Glenn will preach from Jeremiah 1:4-10.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“I Will Arise and Go to Jesus”
Tune: Walker’s Southern Harmony, 1835; Arranged by John Carter; ©1987 Hope Publishing Company; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Waltz in A Flat Op. 39, No. 15”
Composed by Johannes Brahms, 1865

“He Leadeth Me”
Tune: “He Leadeth Me” by William B. Bradbury; Arranged by Larry Shackley; ©2008 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Song No. 5, from Sea Pieces Op. 55”
Composed by Edward MacDowell, 1898

“What Is This Place”
Text: Huub Oosterhuis, Zomaar een dak boven wat hoofden, 1968; trans. David Smith, ©1967 OCP Publications; Music: Nederlandtsche Gedenckclanck, 1626; harm. Bernard Huijbers, harm. ©1984 TEAM Publications, OCP Publications; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Open our ears”
By Carol Penner, 2019

“Morning Has Broken”
Text: Eleanor Farjeon, Enlarged Songs of Praise, 931, alt. © David Higham Assoc., Ltd.; Music: Scottish Gaelic traditional, Songs and Hymns of the Gael, 1888; harm. Martin Shaw, 1931, alt., © Oxford University Press; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“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

“Go, My Children”
Text: Jaroslav J Vajda, ©1983 Concordia Publishing House; Music: Welsh traditional, Musical and Poetical Relics of the Welsh Bards, 1784; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart”
Tune: Morecambre by Frederick C. Atkinson, 1841-1897; Arranged by Mark Hayes; ©2006 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Guide My Feet”
Text: African American spiritual; Music: African American spiritual; harm. Wendell Whalum, ca. 1984, ©Estate of Wendell Whalum; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Will You Let Me Be Your Servant”
Text: Richard Gillard, 1976, alt.; Music: Richard Gillard, 1976; adapt. Betty Pulkingham; ©1977 Scripture in Song (admin. Capitol CMG Publishing); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through CCLI License #200093153

Jeremiah 23:1-6

Pastor Claudia preached from Jeremiah 23:1-6.

Music Acknowledgements

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

“Be Thou My Vision”
Text: Irish traditional, “Rob tum o bhoile, a Comdi cride,” ca. 8th c.; trans. Mary Elizabeth Byrne, Ériu, Vol. 2, 1905, alt.; Music: Irish traditional, Old Irish Folk Music and Songs, 1909; harm. Martin Shaw, Enlarged Songs of Praise, 1931, alt., ©1927 Oxford University Press; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“The Lord’s My Shepherd”
Text: based on Psalm 23; The Psalms of David in Meeter, 1650; Music: Jessie S Irvine, 1872; harm. And adapt. David Grant, The Northern Psalter, 1872

“My Shepherd Will Supply My Need”
Text: based on Psalm 23; Isaac Watts, Psalms of David…, 1719, alt.; Music: American traditional, early 19th c., version from Joseph Funk’s Genuine Church Music, 1st ed., 1832; harm. J Harold Moyer, 1965, ©1969 Faith & Life Press/Mennonite Publishing House; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“The Lord Bless You and Keep You”
Text: based on Numbers 6:24-26, Peter C Lutkin, 1900; Music: Peter C Lutkin, 1900

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Pastor Claudia preached from Jeremiah 31:31-34.

Music Acknowledgements

“Rain Down”
Text & Music: Jaime Cortez, 1991; ©1992 Jaime Cortez (admin. OCP Publications); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Come, Bring Your Burdens to God (Woza nomthwalo wakho)”
Text: Xhosa, from the singing of the Mooiplaas congregation (South Africa); trans. Barbara Clark, Mairi Munro, and Martine Stemerick; Music: from the singing of the Mooiplaas congregation; transcr. Welile Sigabi; ©2008 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Obey My Voice”
Text: based on Jeremiah 7:23, KJV; Music: Sheilagh Nowacki, 1970, Festival of the Holy Spirit Song Book, 1972; ©1972 Sheilagh Nowacki

“For the Beauty of the Earth”
Text: Folliott S Pierpoint, Lyra Eucharistica, 1864, alt.; Music: arranged by John Rutter, ©1980 Oxford University Press; All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Fairest Lord Jesus”
Text: Schönster Herr Jesu!, Gesangbuch, Münster (Sts. 1, 3), 1677; Heinrich A H von Fallersleben, Schlesische Volkslieder (St. 2), 1842; tr. Anonymous, Church Chorals and Choir Studies (Sts. 1-3), 1850; Joseph A Seiss, Sunday School Book for the Use of Evangelical Lutheran Congregations (St. 4), 1873; Music: Schlesische Volkslieder, 1842; harmonized by Richard S Willis, Church Chorals and Choir Studies, 1850

Jeremiah 31:7-14

Pastor Claudia preached from Jeremiah 31:7-14.

Today’s Music:

“Praise the Lord, Sing Hallelujah”
Text: based on Psalm 148, adapted by William J Kirkpatrick; Music: William J Kirkpatrick; Public Domain

“I Saw a Tree by the Riverside”
Text & Music: Ken Medema; ©1976 Curb Word Music; Streamed and reprinted by permission through CCLI License #200093153.

“Arise, Your Light is Come!”
Text: Ruth Duck, 1974; ©1992 GIA Publications, Inc.; Music: William Henry Walter, 1894; Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Gentle Shepherd, Come and Lead Us”
Text: Gloria Gaither, ca. 1974; Music: William Gaither, ca. 1974; ©1974 William J Gaither; Streamed and reprinted by permission through CCLI License #200093153.

“O Little Town of Bethlehem”
Text: Phillips Brooks, 1868; Music: Lewis H Redner, 1868; Public Domain

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

Fire in my Heart

Pastor Claudia preached from Jeremiah 20:7-13.

Baccalaureate 2020

Join us as we celebrate FMC students graduating from high school! We will hear from the graduates before sending them off with a meditation and charge based on Jeremiah 1:4-10.

Baccalaureate is historically a worship service honoring God through the recognition of those earning high school, college, or post graduate degrees. This morning we celebrate Baccalaureate Sunday as an acknowledgment that God has graced us with the abilities to teach, learn, and grow “in stature and wisdom” (Luke 2:52). Baccalaureate services challenge us to bless God through the developing of the gifts we have been given. We are invited to acknowledge that our abilities are not just for personal use but God-given gifts to be shared in community. As we approach the transitions that graduations signify, our Baccalaureate worship affirms that God is with us throughout all our days.

Welcoming Exiles

Pastor Claudia looked at Jeremiah 29:4-7 and explored these questions: What do you do when you find yourself in a new land? How long does exile last? Is exile God’s will? How do exiles coexist with their enemies?

To be Clay in the Potter's Hand

Zach Martinez preaches from Jeremiah 18:1-10. In 2017, the Washington Post reported that, given declining trends in church attendance, the mainline Protestant Church has 23 years until its attendance is effectively zero. How does the Church confront this information with hope? Is it possible that hope doesn't mean everything turns out "okay"?