A Reconciling Congregation
224 Forest Home Drive, Ithaca, NY 14850 + (607) 257-4329
Virtual Sunday Worship
THE CHAPEL'S MISSION STATEMENT
Embracing God’s will for our community through education, compassion, and justice.
What does the Lord require of you? To act justly, to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with your God.”
~ Micah 6:8 ~
You are invited to zoom worship on
Sunday, November 1, 2020
09:45 A.M. Eastern Time
(service starts at 10)
Please bring with you some bread and drink as we celebrate Holy Communion on this last Sunday in the Christian year.
Click on the link below or dial or Dial +1 646-558-8656 US (New York)
https://zoom.us/j/95132610579?pwd=emlwaUJiT1FvVlcwVVU5TkVMTXZBQT09
Meeting ID: 951 3261 0579
Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aLVcEcfB5
ORDER OF WORSHIP
GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Rebecca Dolch, Pastor
TIME WITH YOUNG CHRISTIANS
"Mrs. Goose" by Elizabeth McMahon
PRELUDE
Maria Rabbia, Music Director
CALL TO WORSHIP
We gather together on this last Sunday in the Christian year
to give You thanks for the bounty of the earth.
We come to remember the living Presence of Christ
We come to celebrate spiritual community,
infused with Your Holy Spirit.
We come to confess and release all that does not serve
We open our hearts to Your forgiveness, Your unconditional love,
and Your ability to restore us to the people You created us to be.
HYMN
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
Come, ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest home;
all is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin.
God our Maker does provide for our wants to be supplied;
come to God's own temple, come, raise the song of harvest home.
All the world is God's own field, fruit as praise to God we yield;
wheat and tares together sown are to joy or sorrow grown;
first the blade and then the ear, then the full corn shall appear;
Lord of harvest, grant that we wholesome grain and pure may be.
For the Lord our God shall come, and shall take the harvest home;
from the field shall in that day all offenses purge away,
giving angels charge at last in the fire the tares to cast;
but the fruitful ears to store in the garner evermore.
SCRIPTURE READING
James 5:13-18
Luke 5: 12-16
Lamentations 3:21-26
Mary Ann Oyer, Reader
SHARING JOYS AND CONCERNS
PASTORAL PRAYERS
LORD’S PRAYER
SPECIAL MUSIC
Kristy Shuck
SERMON
The Healing Power of Confession
[Step 5 and 6 of the Twelve Steps of Recovery/ Twelve Steps of the Spiritual Path]
Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Step 6: Were entirely ready to have God remove all of these defects of character.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Gracious God, who pours out freely the gift of Your Holy Spirit:
We confess before You that we have failed to recognize this most valuable gift.
We have been satisfied with ordinary things, suspicious of unfamiliar things,
and blind to spiritual things.
Forgive us for lives un-adjusted to the order of Your love;
for hearts out-of-rhythm with the pulse of Your compassion;
for tongues unaccustomed to the shape of confession and witness.
Forgive us for a past we cannot change; open us to a future
in which we can be changed.
Cleanse and forgive us, O Lord.
Burn away our presumption and self-sufficiency.
Open us in faith to receive the renewing touch of Your hand.
We pray these things by the grace of Christ Jesus
and the presence of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
WORDS OF ASSURANCE AND PARDON
SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION
After the Communion prayer by the Pastor, you may partake of bread and cup.
Together, we close with a prayer after receiving:
Eternal God, we give you thanks for this holy mystery in which you have given yourself to us, so we may experience your love and forgiveness. Send us into the world in the strength of your Spirit, to give ourselves for others, in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN.
HYMN
Now Thank We All Our God
Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices,
who wondrous things has done, in whom this world rejoices;
who from our mothers' arms has blessed us on our way
with countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.
O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us,
with every joyful heats and blessed peace to cheer us;
and keep us still in grace, and guide us when perplexed
and free us from all ills, in this world and the next.
POSTLUDE
After the service you are welcome to stay on Zoom and visit with other Chapel friends in our breakout rooms.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Bible Study
Tuesdays at 4 p.m.
Use this Zoom Link through Nov. 17. https://zoom.us/j/94097194466
Meeting ID: 940 9719 4466
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Area Congregations Together (ACT) Zoom Thanksgiving Service
Sunday, November 22 at 3 p.m. For a Zoom link to the Service, send the message “ZOOM EOM” to Jim Grant, ACT Chairperson, at jag8452@gmail.com
ADVENT & CHRISTMAS
Christmas Eve Service
Our Christmas Eve virtual service will begin at 4 p.m. this year to support families with young children and those who have special Christmas Eve dinner times.
If you or members of your family (children and grandchildren) would like to participate in the Virtual Christmas Eve Pageant (readings, music, Christmas poetry, costumes) please let Pastor Rebecca know as soon as possible so we can make plans. She will plan the service around those who want to participate!
Chapel Goodie Bags
Would you like to make sweet Christmas Treats for distribution? Contact Carol Hockett at cih2@cornell.edu, or Sue Reid at js.reid@msn.com.
Would you like to make Christmas Ornaments from felt, buttons or your own special craft medium? Children are especially encouraged to participate! Connect with Susan Spear at geospear@citlink.net.
Treats, ornaments, cards and other goodies will go out to all Chapel members and friends who worship with us on Zoom or otherwise, for distribution before Christmas.
Join the Forest Home Chapel Christmas Spirits to make this Christmas special!
Food Ministry for the Advent Season
Would you like to participate in a "Fill-a-Bag-of-Food Advent Calendar?” The list of needed non-perishable items contains one food item per day to put in an Advent bag.
At the end of Advent, Chapel helpers will deliver the bags to Ithaca Kitchen Cupboard.
If you would like to participate, and to get festive, child-decorated paper bags to hold your offerings, please contact Chapel member Jean Snow, snowmom7452@gmail.com.
~ OR ~
You are welcome to give a Christmas Offering for our core Local Food Ministries: Ithaca Kitchen Cupboard and Foodnet Meals on Wheels. Please send checks to Forest Home Chapel, 224 Forest Home Drive, Ithaca, NY, with Local Food Ministries in the memo line. Thank you!
Fund Raiser for Ithaca Sanctuary Alliance
Join us for an easy, fun, and delicious way to support immigrant families in Ithaca!
http://bit.ly/Ithaca-Supports-Immigrants
Members of the Ithaca Sanctuary Alliance (ISA) and of the Tompkins County Immigrant Rights Coalition (TCIRC) have joined forces to support two of Ithaca's newest immigrant families, one from Haiti and one from Guatemala. Due to the pandemic their legal cases are taking longer than usual and funds are needed for housing, food, utilities, childcare, health, education, transportation, and other expenditures. Our goal is to raise $8,000.
How You Can Help!
Pre-order take-out meals for pickup on Saturday, December 5, from 4:00pm-6:00pm, at First Congregational Church (309 Highland Rd., Ithaca). $20+ suggested per meal
What's For Dinner?
Each meal contains
- Haitian Joumou soup (beef or vegetarian)
- Guatemalan empanadas (chicken or vegetarian)
- Yellow rice
- Refried beans
- Green salad
- Tomato salsa
- Bread
If you wish to skip the take-out meals and simply donate to this worthy effort, please click here to open the Secure Donation Form, create an online profile, and choose” ISA/TCIRC Fundraiser“.
Questions?
Contact: Kristen Brennan, kmb.ithaca@gmail.com
