Pine River United Methodist Church
May 3, 2026 10:30 a.m
*please stand if you are able
SPECIAL MUSIC: “Here I am to Worship” Jody Wilson
RINGING OF THE BELL
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND JOYS AND CONCERNS
*HYMN #144 This Is My Father’s World
*Call to Worship
Leader: We thank you, O God, for the gift of this day.
All: For this beautiful space, for the warm hearts that greet us.
Leader: We thank you, O God, for the ability to come together to worship.
All: For songs and prayers that sustain us not only in this hour, but in the days that unfold.
Leader: We thank you, O God, for the blessings in our lives and in our world.
ALL: May we lift our voices in thanks, even as we worship You.
Let us sing our praises together!
*HYMN #189 Fairest Lord Jesus
*Unison Prayer
You, O Lord, are more wonderful than our lips can proclaim!
When we consider the awesome works of your hands,
Your love for us is more than amazing!
You have trusted us with the whole of the earth,
And put everything we see under the care of our hands.
Lord, O Sovereign Lord, the earth is filled with your glory!
HYMN Faith We Sing #2023 How Majestic Is Your Name
SCRIPTURE LESSONS:
Exodus 3:13-15 (page 50 in OT of Pew Bible)
13 But Moses said to God, “If I come to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” He said further, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ” 15 God also said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you’:
This is my name forever,
and this my title for all generations.
Psalm 90:1-5 (page 528 in OT of Pew Bible)
1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place
in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 You turn us back to dust
and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”
4 For a thousand years in your sight
are like yesterday when it is past
or like a watch in the night.
5 You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning;
Acts 17:22-29 (page 131 in NT of Pew Bible)
22 Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely spiritual you are in every way. 23 For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. 26 From one ancestor he made all peoples to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, 27 so that they would search for God and perhaps fumble about for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. 28 For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said,
‘For we, too, are his offspring.’
29 “Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals.
Psalm 8 (page 478 in OT of Pew Bible)
1 O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,
to silence the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have established;
4 what are humans that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them?
5 Yet you have made them a little lower than God
and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under their feet,
7 all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Leader: The word of God for the people of God.
People: Praise be to God.
APOSTLES CREED – in unison
I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth;
And in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord;
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead, and buried;*
the third day he rose from the dead;
he ascended into heaven,
and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic** church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.
MESSAGE “I Believe in God” Pastor Jen Matthees
SPECIAL MUSIC: “We are an Offering” Jody Wilson
HYMN Faith We Sing #2226 Bind Us Together twice
SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION UMH pg. 13
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
SILENT PRAYER
THE LORD’S PRAYER
*HYMN #77 How Great Thou Art verses 1-3
*BENEDICTION
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Tuesday, May 5: 10:00 a.m. Coffee at Lifehouse
Sunday, May 10: 10:00 a.m. Coffee Fellowship
10:30 a.m. Worship
May Mission: Minnesota Veterans Project
Church Office Hours:
Tuesday 8:00 – Noon, 1:00 –3:00 p.m.
Thursday and Friday 8:00 – 12:30 p.m
For prayer requests please contact the church office: prmethodist@gmail.com OR 218-587-4091.
The beginning of each month we will be starting a new prayer list. If you want continued prayers for a loved one, please contact church office.
GOD HEARS AND ANSWERS OUR PRAYERS
1 Lord, through all the generations
you have been our home!
2 Before the mountains were born,
before you gave birth to the earth and the world,
from beginning to end, you are God. Psalm 90:1-2 NLT
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