Order of Worship July 12
Updated: Jun 13, 2022
UJCC Sunday House Worship Service
July 12, 2020 * Sixth Sunday After Pentecost
Blessings to you this holy Sabbath day! You are invited to use the following prayers & order of worship as we lift our hearts to God together from our respective homes!
Call To Worship
Leader: On this midsummer’s day,
We worship as God’s people
All: to hear stories of folks just like us—
Who make mistakes, choose favorites, and judge others.
Leader: On this midsummer’s day,
We struggle as God’s people
All: easily distracted by a culture with too many choices;
Our lives don’t even have room for God.
Leader: On this midsummer’s day,
We open our hearts as God’s people
All: trying to listen so we will be transformed,
Keeping our eyes open to see the way God offers. (ts)
Song of Centering I Need Thee Every Hour. Becky Messer
We Humbly Adore and Receive
Scripture Reading in Japanese Genesis 25:19-34 Miwa and Nanami Jones
Sermon “In Spite Of It All” Rev. Akiko Miyake-Stoner
Song of Reflection. No Longer Slaves by Bethel Music Alpha & Omega
You are invited to continue your spiritual practice of giving to the church. Please either mail your offering to the church (136 N. Villa Ave., Clovis, CA 93612) or try our online giving option (LINK HERE). Thank you!
Doxology Youth Band
* Please join in our Zoom Fellowship & Prayer meeting at 11:30
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* If you or your kids would like to contribute to our virtual worship by music, painting, photos, or anything, please contact Rev. Rae: sungrae@ujcclife.com
Joys and Concerns & Time of Prayer
You are invited to share your joys and concerns with one another using our usual format:
Person lifting the prayer: “O God of Mercy;” everyone’s response: “This is our prayer.”
After you share your joys and concerns, go around the circle and offer prayer, praying freely or using this format:
“God, I thank you for…” and “God, I ask for…”
You are invited to close together with The Lord’s Prayer.
Worship Resource: (ts) Thom Shuman, “Call To Worship (Proper 10),” Lectionary Worship Aids, Cycle A, CSS Publishing, 2007, pg. 143
Genesis 25:19-34
These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham was the father of Isaac, 20and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean. 21Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord granted his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived. 22The children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is to be this way, why do I live?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. 23And the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples born of you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the elder shall serve the younger.” 24When her time to give birth was at hand, there were twins in her womb. 25The first came out red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they named him Esau. 26Afterward his brother came out, with his hand gripping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. 27When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. 28Isaac loved Esau, because he was fond of game; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
29Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. 30Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, for I am famished!” (Therefore he was called Edom.) 31Jacob said, “First sell me your birthright.” 32Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?” 33Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. 34Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.