Sunday Morning at 11:00 AM
Join us Sunday mornings at 11:00 AM or you can also watch live on Facebook Live.
Our traditional worship service celebrates the best of our Wesleyan heritage with praise, music, prayer, Scripture, and proclamation. A warm and welcoming congregation greets one another, shares their joys and concerns, and seeks God’s will for their lives and for our church. All are invited to join our family of faith as we offer our praise and worship to God.
On the first Sunday of every month, we celebrate the Lord’s Supper at both Morning Worship and Sunday Night Live. We share Communion intinction, sharing the common bread and cup, with the option of prepackaged, individual gluten-free kits. All are welcome at the Table! If you would like Communion brought to your home, please contact the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Bulletin for Sunday, May 15, 2022
Gathering
Welcome
Prelude Bob Ladich, Trombone and Randy Shepard, Piano
*Call to Worship
Christ is alive – let all the people praise him.
Alleluia to the risen Lord!
Let all creation sing with joy.
Alleluia to the Lord of all creation!
We praise the One who makes all things new.
Alleluia to the One who renews and restores!
Christ is alive and has created a new family.
Alleluia! Amen.
Opening Prayer
Surprising God, in the resurrection of Jesus, you make all things new. Long ago, you called your church to a love that bridges social and cultural differences. You gave them the gift of your Holy Spirit to open their hearts to enact this love. Pour out on us that same Spirit of openness, that we too might discern new directions in our day. Fulfill through us your dream to reconcile and heal all of creation. Through Christ, we pray. Amen.
Hymn UMH 92 For the Beauty of the Earth
Scripture Lesson Psalm 148
Gathering of All God’s Children/Children’s Church
Hymn 393 Spirit of the Living God
Scripture Lesson Acts 11:1-18
Message A Story About How the Good News Is Bigger than We Imagined
Hymn 560 Help Us Accept Each Other
Prayers of the People
The Lord's Prayer
Invitation to the Offering
Offertory Be Thou My Vision arr. Douglas Wagner
Doxology UMH 95
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Loving God, we give you thanks for the ministry of reconciliation to which you call us in the name of Jesus. Accept these gifts for your mission to heal all of creation. May these gifts be a testament to your love for us as we share them in love for you. Through Christ, we pray. Amen.
*Closing Hymn UMH 547 O Church of God, United
*Benediction
*Benediction Response Christ, Now Go Before Us Chancel Choir
Postlude Randy Shepard
We collect canned goods to donate to the Urban Ministries of Wake County every Sunday.
Sunday Night LIVE! 7:00 PM in the Sanctuary
Is traditional church too early? Too formal? Too dressed up? Then join us for Sunday Night Live!
We meet every Sunday night at 7 pm in the Sanctuary, with the most remarkable array of guest musicians anywhere in Raleigh. SNL is musical, biblical, recovery-friendly, compassionate, and more fun than you should be able to have in church! (Wear your jeans, and don’t worry about “church clothes.”)
Worship is led by the Fairmont Gospel Revue on each 3rd Sunday. The Women of Faith were also regular guest musicians and will be getting back together before long. (COVID-19 has caused them, like so many choirs to take a break from regularly singing together.)
Women of Faith Fairmont Gospel Revue
We celebrate Communion on the 1st Sunday of every month by intinction, sharing the common bread and cup, with the option of prepackaged gluten-free kits. All are welcome at the Table!
Even if (especially if!) you’re not a “church person,” you are welcome here!
And, SNL! has a birthday coming up - Join us on May 15 for the 29th anniversary of Sunday Night LIVE! The Fairmont Gospel Revue will be there and as Steve Hickle suggests, there are two reasons to come:
1. If you’ve ever been
2. If you’ve never been
...and a third reason, it’s more fun than anybody ought to be allowed to have in church!
Sunday Night LIVE!
May 15, 2022
Celebrating 29 Years!
Mini-Concert, 6:45 PM Fairmont Gospel Revue
Welcome This is the Day the Lord Has Made
Opening Prayer
Serenity Song (tune: God Be With You ‘Til We Meet Again)
O God, grant us the serenity to accept the things that we cannot change,
the courage to change the things we can change,
and the wisdom that they’re not the same.
For serenity and courage and for wisdom, these three things we pray,
For these gifts of love and grace, may they come to us this very day.
Prayers of the People
The Lord’s Prayer UMH 895
Special Music Randy & Friends
Scripture Reading Acts 11:1-18
Message A Story About How the Good News Is Bigger Than We Imagined
Special Music Fairmont Gospel Revue
Song UMH 143 On Eagle’s Wings
Benediction
Traveling Music Fairmont Gospel Revue
Music
We have a wide range of music ministries for all ages, including vocal and bell choirs, small group ensembles, instrumental ensembles, gospel choirs, and gospel jazz.
Newest Fairmont Choir
The new choir Women of Faith, under the direction of Randy Shepard, has become a regular contributor to our Sunday Night LIVE! services. Hear them each second Sunday at 7:00 PM.