One: Good morning and welcome to 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!

[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.]

We are so glad to worship together!

Please use the giving link below to support the work and ministry of this church with your tithes and offerings. We do not pass offering plates during worship, although those who are in-person can use the Giving Box, located just outside the sanctuary, to contribute. Thank you for giving!

Blessed Assurance, Hymn 473
New Century Hymnal

[Please rise in body or in spirit.]

There Is a Happy Land
George Shearing
Carolyn Sargent

For the joys of this congregation, let the people say, "Thanks be to God!"

A translation by members of this congregation:

It is Well with My Soul
arr. Glenda Stansbury
Glenda Stansbury

Rev. Sheridan Irick

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Rev. Dr. Lori Walke

At this church, we practice inclusive communion, which means that everyone is welcome at the Table. All that is needed is a desire to be in communion with God and this beloved community.

Everyone is invited to receive communion either by using the elements you’ve gathered at home while participating online, by remaining in your pew (so that communion  can be brought to you), or by coming forward to receive the elements. If you come forward, go to either side of the Table to receive the elements, pause for a moment to eat the bread and drink the cup, and then return to your pew. The cup is grape juice and the crackers are gluten-free and vegan.

Prayer of Consecration
Prayer of Thanksgiving

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

[Please rise in body or in spirit.]

What Does the Lord Require?
Jim Strathdee

[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.]