Oconee Street UMC Online Service
July 12, 2020
Prelude
Performed by Molly McClure Stanley, violin, and David Stanley, piano
Welcome
Invocation
Opening Hymn
Performed by First Plymouth Church (Lincoln, Nebraska)
Scripture Readings: Isaiah 43:18-21; 2 Corinthians 5:17
Sermon: “New Things”
Anthem
Written by John David, arranged by Peter Knight
Performed by The King’s Singers
You are the new day. You are the new day.
I will love you more than me and more than yesterday.
If you can but prove to me you are the new day.
Send the sun in time for dawn. Let the birds all hail the morning.
Love of life will urge me say, “You are the new day.”
When I lay me down at night, knowing we must pay.
Thoughts occur that this night might; Stay yesterday.
Thoughts that we as humans small could slow worlds and end it all.
Lie around me where they fall before the new day
One more day when time is running out for everyone;
Like a breath I knew would come I reach for the new day.
Hope is my philosophy; just needs days in which to be.
Love of life means hope for me. Borne on a new day.
You are the new day.
Prayer / The Lord’s Prayer
Closing Hymn
Written by James Abbington
Performed by the Morgan State University Choir
Wash, O God, our sons and daughters where your cleansing waters flow.
Number them among your people. Bless as Christ blessed long ago.
Weave them garments bright and sparkling; Compass them with love and light.
Fill, anoint them, send your Spirit, Holy Dove and heart’s Delight.
We who bring them long for nurture; By your milk may we be fed.
Let us join your feast, partaking; Cup of blessing, living bread.
God, renew us, guide our footsteps; Free from sin and all its snares.
One with Christ in living, dying; By your Spirit, children, heirs
Oh, how deep your holy wisdom; Unimagined all your ways
To your name be glory, honor; With our lives we worship, praise
We your people stand before you, Water-washed and Spirit-born
By your grace our lives we offer; Re-create us; God, transform!
Benediction
Postlude
Performed by Maxine Easom