1 Samuel 17:57-18:5, 18:10-16

Pastor Claudia preached from 1 Samuel 17:57-18:5, 18:10-16.

Music Acknowledgements

“Holy Spirit, Come to Us”
Text: adapt. from Latin liturgy, ca. 10th c.; John 13:35; 15:12-13; 1 John 3:16; 4:10, 16; Music: Jacques Berthier; ©1998 Les Presses de Taizé (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Holy Spirit, Come with Power”
Text: Anne Neufeld Rupp, ©1970 Anne Neufeld Rupp; Music: attr. BF White, The Sacred Harp, 1844; harm. Joan Fyock Norris, ©1989 Joan Fyock Norris; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Nada te turbe”
Text: Spanish; attr. Teresa of Ávila, 16th c.; paraphr. Taizé Community, 1986; Music: Jacques Berthier, 1986; ©1986, 1991 Les Presses de Taizé (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens”
Text: Catherine Cameron, 1967, Contemporary Worship I, 1969, alt., ©1967 Hope Publishing Co.; Music: The Columbian Harmony, 1825; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

So Many Questions

Pastor Glenn preached from Mark 4:26-34. How should we read this text? Is it about the sower, the seed, or the harvest? And, for that matter, just who is the sower? So many questions!

Worship Resources Acknowledgements

“Praise the Lord, Sing Hallelujah”
Text: based on Psalm 148; The Book of Psalms, 1871; adapt. William J Kirkpatrick, ca. 1893; Music: William J Kirkpatrick, ca. 1893

“They That Wait Upon the Lord”
Text: Stuart Hamblen (chorus of song “Teach me, Lord, to Wait”); Music: Stuart Hamblen; ©1953, Renewed 1981 Hamblen Music Co.; Used by permission.; CCLI License #20093153

“God has set this day before us”
By Beth Merrill Neel, holdfasttowhatisgood.com/liturgy/call-to-worship

“Morning Has Broken”
Text: Eleanor Farjeon, Enlarged Songs of Praise, 1931, alt. © David Higham Assoc., Ltd.; Music: Scottish Gaelic traditional, Songs and Hymns of the Gael, 1888; harm. Martin Shaw, 1931, alt., © Oxford University Press

“Praise, I Will Praise You, Lord”
Text: French; based on Psalm 9:1-2; Claude Frayssé; English trans. Kenneth I Morse, 1988; Music: Claude Frayssé; harm. Alain Bergése, 1976; acc. Marilyn Houser Hamm; © 1975 Claude Frayssé; English translation copyright ©1989 Hymnal: A Worship Book; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“My Life Flows On”
Text & Music: Robert Lowry’s Bright Jewels for the Sunday School, 1869, alt.; Refrain arr. ©1989 Hymnal: A Worship Book, alt.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“God Is Here Among Us”
Text: German; Gerhard Tersteegen, Geistliches Blumengärtlein, 1729; trans. The Hymnal, 1940, alt.; Music: Joachim Neander, Alpha and Omega, Glaub- und Liebesübung, 1680

“Masithi: Amen (Sing Amen)”
Text: Xhosa; South African traditional; trans. Unknown, alt.; Music: S C Molefe, ©1991 Lumko Institute; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Confused?

Pastor Glenn’s sermon featured Mark 3:20-35 and lines from The Princess Bride:
”Inconceivable!”
”You keep using that word. I don’t think you know what it means.”

Worship Resources

“The Lord Is My Light”
Text: based on Psalm 27:1, 5, 14, Lillian Bouknight; Music: Lillian Bouknight; arr. Stephen Key, arr. ©2000 GIA Publications, Inc.; ©1980 Savgos Music, Inc.; All rights reserved.; Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“In the Quiet Curve of Evening”
Text: Juliana Howard; Music: Juliana Howard; acc. Vera Lyons, alt.; ©1993 Juliana Howard; All rights reserved.; Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“A love that never ceases”
By Beth Merrill Neel, holdfasttowhatisgood.com/liturgy/call-to-worship

“Whatsoever You Do”
Text: Willard F Jabusch, based on Matthew 25:31-46; Music: Willard F Jabusch; harmonized by Robert J Batastini; Text & Music copyright ©1966, 1982 Willard F Jabusch; admin. OCP; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“In Christ There is No East or West”
Text: John Oxenham, 1908, Bees in Amber, 1913, alt.; Music: Alexander Robert Reinagle, Psalm Tunes for the Voice and Pianoforte, ca. 1836

“Abide With Me”
Text: Henry F Lyte, 1847, Remains of Henry Francis Lyte, 1850, alt.; Music: William H Monk, Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861; Arrangement: Lloyd Larson, ©2019 Hal Leonard Corp.

“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

Baccalaureate 2021

Join us as we celebrate and recognize FMC’s 2021 graduates. Pastor Claudia offered a meditation and charge for the graduates based on Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. We heard from 2021 graduates in interviews with Pastor Glenn.

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.

Worship Resources Acknowledgments

“Uyai mose (Come All You People)”
Text: Shona; Alexander Gondo; transc. And English paraphrase I-to Loh, 1986; Music: Alexander Gondo; arr. John Bell, ©1994 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications); All rights reserved.; Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Lay one brick at a time”
By Dorothy Day, The Catholic Worker, 1957

“I Bind My Heart This Tide”
Text: Lauchlan M Watt, The Tryst: A Book of the Soul, 1907, alt.; Music: J Randall Zercher, 1965, The Mennonite Hymnal, 1969, ©1965 J Randall Zercher

“Together”
Text: Nathan Grieser, 2014, rev. 2018; Music: Nathan Grieser; acc. Jonathan Landis; ©2014 Nathan Grieser; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Teach Me Thy Truth”
Text: Edith Witmer, 1937, Life Songs No. 2, 1938, alt.; Music: Walter E Yoder, Life Songs No. 2, 1938

“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

“Sizohamba naye (We Will Walk with God)”
Text: Xhosa; traditional Swazi; trans. John L Bell, alt.; Music: traditional Swazi, transcr. Swedish Youth Exchange project, “Meeting Swaziland”; ©2002 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Out of Chaos- Hope

Pastor Glenn preached from Ezekiel 37:1-14, reflecting on the hope that emerges from chaos.

Music Acknowledgement

“Come, Let Us All Unite to Sing”
Text: anon., ca. 1812, Millennial Praises, 1812; Music: Edmund S Lorenz, Notes of Triumph: For the Sunday School, 1886

“Beyond a Dying Sun”
Text: Steve Engle, 1970; rev. 1984; Music: Steve Engle, 1970; harm. Steve Engle and Don Frederick; ©1970 Steve Engle and La Verne Church of the Brethren; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“O Healing River”
Text: Frances Minkoff; Music: Fred Hellerman; ©1964 (renewed) Appleseed Music, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“God Who Touches Earth with Beauty”
Text: Mary S Edgar, 1925, alt.; ©1990 Sacred Music Press; Music: Alfred V Fedak, 1988; ©1990 Sacred Music Press; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“You Shall Go Out with Joy”
Text: based on Isaiah 55:12; Steffi Geiser Rubin, 1975; Music: Stuart Dauermann, 1975; ©1975 Lillenas Publishing Co.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Where's Jesus? Grieving and regrouping when things didn't go as planned

Amy Zimbelman, Conference Minister of Mountain States Mennonite Conference, will preach from Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 and ask “Where’s Jesus? Grieving and regrouping when things didn’t go as planned.”

After the resurrection, the followers of Jesus are excited to see that he's making appearances everywhere. Strolling in gardens and grilling some fish for his friends, taking long walks down the road and coming over for dinner. He's with us again!

And then, the ascension. There he goes, up into the sky. Just like that.

Wait, we thought you were back! But now you’re leaving us to go up to heaven…by choice?

They can’t see Jesus anymore. And in our passage today, the Holy Spirit hasn’t come yet. I can only imagine the disciples looking at each other in that upper room and saying: “Soooo…this is awkward. Definitely not what we were expecting. What now?”

I want to talk this morning about what happens when things don’t go as planned—when we’re living the life we never expected to live. I want to talk about the shape of grief and regrouping in the midst of grief. In this year of coming out of the pandemic and so many other personal and collective tragedies, how do we grieve well? And what do we do now?

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Pastor Amy Zimbelman thoroughly enjoys serving as Conference Minister of MSMC, supporting 17 churches and many passion ministries in Colorado and New Mexico. She has served as a pastor at Mountain Community Mennonite for 3 years, and has worked in refugee resettlement for about a decade. Pastor Amy holds a Master of Divinity from Duke Divinity School, and has also served in Zambia through Mennonite Central Committee and in South Dakota with Mennonite Voluntary Service. In South Dakota, she met her husband/best friend, Matt Zimbelman, and they live in Colorado Springs and have two young sons. She loves spending time with her family, cooking/eating food, board gaming with friends, going outside to walk or hike, learning about other cultures, hashing things out in long conversations, and trying to follow Jesus.

Music Information & Acknowledgement

“God of the Bible”
Text: Shirley Erena Murray, ©1996 Hope Publishing Company; Music: Tony E Alonso, ©2001 GIA Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Let’s Walk Together”
Text: Laurie Zelman; Music: Mark A Miller; ©2007 Abingdon Press; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Calm Me, Lord”
Text: David Adam, ©SPCK; Music: Margaret Rizza, ©1998 Kevin Mayhew, Ltd. (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

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

“Hymn of Peace”
Text & Music: Timothy Shue, 1994

“The Lord Lift You Up”
Text: Patricia J Shelly; Music: Patricia J Shelly; arr. Dennis Friesen-Carper; ©1983 Patricia J Shelly; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

A Mother's Day Reflection

Pastor Glenn offered a Mother’s Day reflection from Matthew 11:28-30.

Acknowledgements and Copyright

“Gabriel’s Oboe”
Composed by Ennio Morricone, 1986

“Let’s Walk Together”
Text: Laurie Zelman; Music: Mark A Miller; ©2007 Abingdon Press; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Just a Closer Walk with Thee”
Text & Music: African American traditional, ca. 20th c.

“Far Above the Noise of Life”
Text: Susan Naus Dengler, 2006; Music: Lee Dengler, 2006; ©2006 Hal Leonard Corporation; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say”
Text: Horatius N Bonar, Hymns Original and Selected, 1846, alt.; Music: English traditional, English Country Songs, 1893; adapt. And harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams, The English Hymnal, 1906, alt.                                                                                           

“Resignation”
Arranged by James E Clemens, Simple Gifts collection; ©2008 World Library Publications, a division of GIA Publications; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“A Prayer for Mother’s Day”
By Laura Kelly Fanucci; ©2019 Laura Kelly Fanucci, www.motheringspirit.com

“What a Friend We Have in Jesus”
Text: Joseph M Scriven, 1855, Spirit Minstrel: A Collection of Hymns and Music, 1857, alt.; Music: Charles C Converse, 1868, Silver Wings, 1870

Acts 8:26-40

Pastor Claudia preached from Acts 8:26-40.

Music Acknowledgements

“Move in Our Midst”
Text: Kenneth I Morse, 1942, 1949, The Brethren Hymnal, 1951; Music: Perry L Huffaker, 1950, The Brethren Hymnal, 1951

“Like a Mother Who Has Borne Us”
Text: Daniel Bechtel, ©1986 Daniel Bechtel; Music: William P Rowan, 1992, ©1993 Selah Publishing Co., Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“I Bind My Heart This Tide”
Text: Lauchlan M Watt, The Tryst: A Book of the Soul, 1907, alt.; Music: J Randall Zercher, 1965, The Mennonite Hymnal, 1969, ©1965 J Randall Zercher

“Breathe on Me, Breath of God”
Text: Edwin Hatch, Between Doubt and Prayer, 1878, alt.; Music: Robert Jackson, Fifty Sacred Leaflets, 1888                                             

“Cast Thy Burden Upon the Lord”
Music: Felix Mendelssohn, 1846

“To God Be the Glory”
Text: Fanny J Crosby, Brightest and Best, 1875; Music: William H Doane, Brightest and Best, 1875

“Draw the Circle”
Text: Gordon Light, ©1994 Common Cup Music Society; Music: Mark A Miller, ©2008 Abingdon Press (admin. Music Services); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

I would die for you!

Pastor Glenn Balzer preached from John 10:11-18.

Worship Resources Acknowledgements

“Canon in D”
by Johann Pachelbel, 1680

“There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy”
Text: Frederick W Faber, Hymns, 1861; Music: Lizzie S Tourjee, Hymnal of the Methodist Church with Tunes, 1878

“There Is More Love Somewhere”
Text & Music: African American traditional

“Between the words”
By Jan Richardson, 2010; From In the Sanctuary of Women: A Companion for Reflection & Prayer ©2010. Upper Room Books.

 “Holy Spirit, Come with Power”
Text: Anne Neufeld Rupp, ©1970 Anne Neufeld Rupp; Music: attr. BF White, The Sacred Harp, 1844; harm. Joan Fyock Norris, ©1989 Joan Fyock Norris; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Lord, Listen to Your Children”
Text & Music: Ken Medema, 1970; ©1973 Hope Publishing Co.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through CCLI License #200093153    

“The Heavens Are Telling”
By Ludwig van Beethoven, 1803

“Source and sustainer of life”
Presbyterian Church (USA), Book of Common Worship, 2018, alt.; ©1940 Hymns Ancient and Modern

 “Go, My Friends, in Grace”
Text: David Wright, 2004, A Field of Voices, 2007, ©2004 David Wright; Music: James E Clemens, 2004, A Field of Voices, 2007, ©2004 James E Clemens; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Luke 24:36b-48

Pastor Claudia preached from Luke 24:36b-48.

Worship Resource Acknowledgements

“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

“Peace Before Us”
Text: David Haas, based on a Navajo prayer; Music: David Haas; ©1987 GIA Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“We are witnesses”
Written by Thom Shuman, posted on www.liturgylink.net

“Silence My Soul”
Text: Rabindranath Tagore (verse 1); Seon-Won Park (verses 2-4); Music: Francisco F Feliciano                                                                                        

“Esto Les Digo”
By Kinley Lange; ©2001 Alliance Music Publication Inc

“What Wondrous Love Is This”
Text: Cluster of Spiritual Songs, 3rd ed., 1823; Music: American traditional, Southern Harmony, 1840; harm. Alice Parker, ©1966 Alice Parker; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084