July 25th, 2021
Sermon Series: June 27th through August 1st
Welcome + Announcements
Rev. Rachel Baughman
- If you’re new to OLUMC, please text the word NEW to 214-441-6647; we want to get to know you better! Our Ministry Team will follow up with you!
- SING! PLAY! SUMMER! Sermon Series continues! This series will be a musical delight incorporating Bluegrass and Gospel music into a 5-week, family-friendly devotional by SALT. Get your devotional booklet on your way out after service!
- This afternoon: One Board Meeting - all are welcome to attend to learn more about the inner-working of OLUMC. Meeting at 2:30 pm; Click Here to access the zoom link
- Today: Is Blessing Bag Day – Help Share a Blessing! Please take a blessing bag on your way out today keep it in your car and distribute it to an individual in need. Check our events page for information on an upcoming blessing bag creation event!
- July 29: Join us for our digital book study on James H. Cone's, "The Cross and The Lynching Tree". More info, the study guide, and this week's homework can be found at olumc.org/events
- August 1: Grow Study is at 9:30 and will meet at the church and online!
- August 1: Help Pack a Pantry Collection is the 1st Sunday of each month before and after worship service at the back parking lot (Welborn and Dickason). Drop off is available by appointment contact outreach@olumc.org (do not leave food at building entrances). Click here for the shopping list. Click here to volunteer to pack accommodate the pantry
- August 8: Bad Girls of the Bible Sermon Series begins August 8th! In this series, we will dive into four women of the Bible and wonder – why are their stories were told in this way? Who got to tell their stories? What is God doing in their stories? Along with the series, you can join the Bad Girls Study on either Thursday nights at 6:30 p.m. (starting Aug. 5th) or during Grow Study on Sunday's at 9:30 a.m.
- August 14: “Set in Motion: Has the Church Left the Building?” is the topic for the North Texas Conference Annual Laity Event Webinar from 9 a.m. – Noon. Jason Moore, author, speaker and worship coach, will talk about new ways of doing church. The workshop is open to all. Visit https://ntcumc.org/laity-of-ntc for more information. You must register before the event.
August 27: Red Cross will be hosting a blood drive on our campus. Check redcross.org for eligibility requirements to donate.
Preamble
Asa Woodberry
Written by Rev. Maras Morehouse
We, at Oak Lawn UMC, believe that everyone deserves to be:
Loved
Heard
Affirmed
AND Respected
We, at Oak Lawn UMC, believe that as a church it is possible to offer this to one another when we:
Listen
Learn
Appreciate diversity
AND Love God above all else and our neighbor as ourselves
Therefore, as individual parts of the church, we
pledge to move towards this corporate reality so that the church can be:
A voice for the voiceless
A home for the wanderer
A respite for the weary
A balm for the hurting
God’s presence in the world.
Call to Worship
Asa Woodberry
Written by Gretchen Toler-Dobus
Some days feel like a giant fish
just waiting to devour us
Or like we’re parked in Noah’s ark
Floodwaters all around us
How can we be the Davids in
A world full of Goliaths
Believing God will help us to
Face evil with defiance?
Come gather ‘round this common ground
Make differences harmonious
Together we’ll find hope and sing
Of Good News that is glorious!
Sing With Us
"There Is a Balm in Gilead" | UMH 375 | Led by Thiago Nascimento and the OLUMC Choir
There is a balm in Gilead
To make the wounded whole
There is a balm in Gilead
To heal the sin-sick soul
***
Sometimes I feel discouraged
And think my work's in vain
But then the Holy Spirit
Revives my soul again
***
Don't ever feel discouraged
For Jesus is your friend
And if you look for knowledge
He'll ne'er refuse to lend
***
If you can’t preach like Peter
If you can’t pray like Paul
just tell the love of Jesus
And say, "He died for all".
Words: Afro-American spiritual
Music: Afro-American spiritual; adapt. and arr. by William Farley Smith 1968
adapt. and arr. © 1968 The United Methodist Publishing House
Pass the Peace
Greet your neighbor with the Peace of Christ!
Kid's Time
Rev. Chuck Aaron
Scripture
Pastor Kaitlyn Frantz
Mark 16:1-6
"When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?” But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.“Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him."
Sermon
Pastor Kaitlyn Frantz
Prayer
Gretchen Toler-Debus
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Offering Invitation
Rev. Chuck Aaron
Offertory
"I Believe" | Performed by OLUMC Choir
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Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Praise him all creatures here below
Alleluia
Alleluia
Praise God the source of all our gifts
Praise Jesus Christ whose power uplifts
Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit
Alleluia
Alleluia
Alleluia
Sing With Us
"When the Church of Jesus" | UMH 592 | Performed by Thiago Nascimento and OLUMC Choir
When the church of Jesus
Shuts its outer door,
Lest the roar of traffic
Drown the voice of prayer:
May our prayers, Lord make us
Ten times more aware
That the world we banish
Is our Christian care.
***
If our hearts are lifted
Where devotion soars
High above this hungry
Suffering world of ours:
Lest our hymns should drug us
To forget its needs,
Forge our Christian worship
Into Christian deeds.
***
Lest the gifts we offer,
Money, talents, time,
Serve to salve our conscience
To our secret shame:
Lord, reprove, inspire us
By the way, you give;
Teach us, dying Savior,
How true Christians live.
Words: Fred Pratt Green 1968
Music: Ralph Vaughan William 1925
Words © 1969 Hope Publishing Co; Music by Permission of Oxford University Press
Blessing & Benediction
Pastor Kaitlyn Frantz
3014 Oak Lawn Ave
Dallas, TX 75219
214-521-5197
