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fumc:120th-anniversary:dedicatory-service

FUMC → 120th Anniversary Rededication

This service is Sunday, May 17th at 4:00 PM.

NOTE The “Single Source of Truth” for the service is the actual script, not this document. If there is a difference between them, this document is in error. It's basically just here to collect and track notes and resources now.

Technical Details

Bishop Stoneking needs to be wearing the lavalier microphone. Everyone else will have to pass the handheld mic around.

Misc items:

  • There is a brass Bible stand that will need to be on the communion table before the service starts. The stand is currently on a table in the Northwest foyer. The Bible it currently holds is gigantic, but looks to be in pretty rough shape.
  • We need to choose and pre-set a special table for the artifacts.

Order of Service

Introit

3009: Praise God for This Holy Ground

Chancel Choir singing from the back of the sanctuary. The congregation is not singing for this.

Welcome: Pastor Kelsie

(Text is in the script)

After the welcome, Pastor Kelsie moves to the back of the room.

Call to worship: Cynthia

(Text is in the script)

  • All: [Refrain]
  • Liturgist: I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!”
  • All: Our feet were standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!
  • Liturgist: Jerusalem is built as a city and is bound firmly together,
  • Liturgist: to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord,
  • Liturgist: to give thanks to the name of the Lord,
  • Liturgist: as was decreed for Israel.
  • All: Thrones for judgment were set there, the thrones of the house of David.
  • All: [Refrain]
  • Liturgist: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
  • All: “May they prosper who love you! Peace be within your walls, and security within your towers!”
  • Liturgist: For the sake of my relatives and friends I will say, “Peace be within you!”
  • All: For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.“
  • All: [Refrain]

(The congregation remains standing for the processional hymn)

Processional Hymn: UMH 715 "Rejoice, the Lord is King"

The procession will go in through the two MIDDLE rows. Choir members should process down the STAGE RIGHT aisle and most everyone else should be on STAGE LEFT.

Procession:

  • Cross (to Communion table) FIXME Not assigned yet
  • The Light of Christ (Charlie and Eliott Keller)
  • Stained Glass Relic (to special table) FIXME Not assigned yet
  • Facade relic: Cornerstone (to special table) FIXME Not assigned yet
  • FIXME artifact for the boiler?
  • FIXME artifact for the elevator? (Lacey?)
  • Choir
  • Worship Team
  • Others involved (Sean)
  • Pastor Kelsie
  • DS Lou
  • Bishop Stoneking (carrying the Bible; places it on the Communion table).

Ending positions:

  • Choir in their seats
  • DS Lou at the pulpit
  • Bishop Stoneking in the big chair stage right
  • Pastor Kelsie in the less-big chair stage left
  • Cynthia in a still-less-big chair slightly farther left

Opening Prayer: DS Lou

(Please be seated)

DS Lou has prepared an invocation.

Declaration of Purpose: Cynthia

(Text is in the script)

  • Cynthia hands the microphone to Pastor and sits in the choir.
  • Mike Green, Barry, and Barbara come out of the choir.

Presentation of the Building

These people should be standing:

  • Pastor
  • Mike Green
  • Barry
  • Bishop Stoneking (At pulpit)
  • Barbara
  • Sean

(Text is in the script)

At the end of this, give Cynthia the microphone.

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Hymn of Praise: 139 Praise To The Lord, The Almighty

  • Verses 1 and 5 with an interlude by Scott and Mary

Scripture: Cynthia

(Put the microphone back in the holder)

Matthew 7:24-29

(Please remain seated…)

Musical response: Built On A Rock

by Jay Althouse

First UMC Chancel Choir

Scripture: Sean

1 Corinthians 3:7-11

(Please rise…)

(Take the microphone out of the holder and hand it to Pastor Kelsie)

Musical Response

Congregation sings UMH 559: Christ is Made the Sure Foundation

Sermon: Bishop Stoneking

(Please be seated)

FIXME If the sermon has a title please list it here

Elevator: Pastor and Bishop

(Text is in the script)

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Kinetic Response

“We Will Build This House” - Liturgical Dance by Jason Archuleta

  • Larry Hjalmarson, guitar
  • Iris Nixdorf, soprano
  • Mary Otterstrom, violin

Words and Music by Sally Rogers

Windows: Pastor and Bishop

(Text is in the script)

Window before pictures:

window-damaged.jpg window-north-upper-cracked.jpg window-north-lower-cracked.jpg window-north-lower-hole.jpg window-dirty.jpg

Window after pictures:

window-repaired.jpg window-east.jpg

Musical Response: Jackson

FIXME Need to find out what piece he's playing

Boiler: Pastor and Bishop

(Text is in the script)

(Kelsie puts the microphone back in the stand)

boiler-old.jpg boiler-new.jpg

Poetic Response: Stephen Macauley

“Rededication”

Offertory

Adoration by Florence B. Price

Scott playing

Response: UMH 94 Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow

Pastor Kelsie does presentation of gifts / blessing

Closing Hymn

  • 3132: House of God

Dismissal with Blessing: Bishop Stoneking

Postlude

Finale Jubilante - Healey Willan

Scott on the Organ

fumc/120th-anniversary/dedicatory-service.txt · Last modified: 2026/05/09 11:16 by naptastic