Morning Worship

August 2nd, 2026 - Men's Choir Sunday

We offer you a warm welcome, and as is our practice, we remember that the land on which we meet is, was, and always will be native land. We acknowledge those indigenous tribes to Oklahoma: the Wichitas, Caddos, Plains Apaches, and the Quapaws, as the original custodians of the land in this place. We grieve the violence done to native language, culture, and personhood, and seek to honor the sovereignty and dignity of native peoples.

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Introit

Early American Folk and Hornpipe Tunes
Traditional arr. John Edwards
John Edwards, flute

Anthem

God Wouldn't Bring You This Far to Leave You
Tom Trenney
Men's Choir

Words of Welcome

One: Good morning and welcome from Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ, where no matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey . . .

All: You are welcome here!

Call to Worship

One: Friends, music has the power to reframe our thinking, illuminate the tenderness of the world around us, and create those thin places where heaven and earth meet and time falls away.
 
All: Today we mark ourselves as fully present - not afraid of longing for something more, not too busy to listen for God’s still, small voice, and not too proud to receive a gift that cannot be repaid.
 
One: Today we notice how singing and silence bear each other up, and resolve to practice both when we leave this place.
 
All: So let us sing with joy, listen with open hearts, and make ourselves ready to be shaped by the Spirit!

Hymn

Rejoice, You Pure in Heart, Hymn 71
New Century Hymnal

[Please rise in body or in spirit.]

Pass the Peace of Christ

One: "May the peace of Christ be with you."
All: "And also with you!"

Anthem

Sure On This Shining Night
Morten Lauridsen
Jacob Gonzales, Joe Phillips, Robert Lintner, Randi Ellefson, Clint Williams, and John Dyer

Joys + Concerns

For the joys of this congregation, let the people say: “Thanks be to God!”
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The Lord's Prayer

Let us say together the Lord’s Prayer, a translation by this congregation:

All: Our Creator, who is in heaven, holy is your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For you reign in the power that is love, now and always, Amen.

Anthem

Be thou my vision
John Rutter
Men's Choir

Homily

Rev. Dr. Lori Walke

Hymn

Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound, Hymn 547
New Century Hymnal

[Please rise in body or in spirit.]

Anthem

In Memoria Aeterna
Antonio Vivaldi ed. Douglas R. McEwen
Clint Williams, Robert Lintner, and John Dyer

Homily

Rev. Dr. Lori Walke

Communion 

Communion Liturgy

Communion Music
Veni Sancte Spiritus
from the Taize community; J. Berthier
Men's Choir
Joe Phillips, Robert Lintner, Clint Williams, soloists
John Edwards, flute
Carolyn Sargent, organ
Glenda Stansbury, piano

Anthem

I Sing Because I'm Happy 
Charles H. Gabriel
arr. Kenneth Paden/Rollo Dilworth

Hymn

Blessed Assurance, Hymn 473
New Century Hymnal

[Please rise in body or in spirit.]

Announcements

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Upcoming Church Events
  • Please support the work and mission of this congregation with your tithes and offerings.
  • Today after worship, Mayflower’s Handmade Ministry Group will meet to work on scarves, prayer shawls, and other projects in the Seeker’s Room, which is at the east end of Milligan Hall. All are welcome!
  • Tonight (August 2nd) at 5:30pm, the Micah Community Center is hosting a volunteer orientation. Their address is 6600 N Meridian, located on the south side of the building complex.
  • Next Sunday, August 9th, is Faith Formation Sunday and one of the things we’ll do is gift our third graders a Bible from their church family. If you are the grown-up of an incoming third grader or a student who started attending Mayflower after that, please register that student using the form on our events page or reach out to Joanna Goodwin, our Director of Faith Formation.
  • Be sure to check out the Events Page on our app and website to get all the details on the upcoming Brown Bag Bible Study dates, our New Member Class, and our Church-Wide Potluck, all scheduled for later this month!
  • You can find more details about all of these things in the events tab on our app and on our website.

Benediction

One: May God grant to us the grace to never sell ourselves short, the courage to risk something big for something good, and the wisdom to know that the world is too small for anything but love. So let us go in peace, pray for peace, wage a little peace, and love one another . . .

ALL: …every single other.

Benediction Response

What Does the Lord Require?
Jim Strathdee

Part 1: What does the Lord require of you? What does the Lord require of you?

Part 2: Justice, kindness, walk humbly with your God. Justice, kindness, walk humbly with your God.

Part 3: To do justice, and love kindness and walk humbly with your God. To do justice, and love kindness and walk humbly with your God.

[Sung in a round, Part 1 begins the response, joined the second time by Part 2, then by Part 3, and then a fourth time through. For those in-person, it is our tradition for the congregation to stand and turn towards the center aisle during the benediction response so that we might "send each other forth" to embody what we sing.]