Gathering Music

“I Just Wanna Praise You”
Words & Music: Maurette Brown Clark

I just want to praise You
Forever and ever and ever
For all you’ve done for me.
Blessings and glory and honor
They all belong to you.
Thank you, Jesus.
For blessing me

Welcome & Call to Worship

Dee Jackson

“Holy Healing”

Leader: Beloved, we gather in the house of the Lord, where holy healing begins.
All: We come with open hearts, ready for renewal.

Leader: The Lord said, “Stand in the court of My house and speak to all who enter.”
So we come, not as spectators but as seekers of truth.
All: Speak, Lord, and we will listen. Correct us, cleanse us, and make us whole.

Leader: The Word of God is not meant to harm but to heal, not to shame but to shape us into vessels of grace.
All: We receive Your word, O God. Let it mend what is broken and restore what was lost.

Leader: God’s mercy is medicine for the soul;
God’s justice is the balm that binds the wounds of the world.
All: We trust the Healer’s hands. We yield our hearts to holy healing.

Leader: Let this place become a sanctuary of restoration,
a sacred space for truth and transformation.
All: Here we are, Lord, heal us, send us, and let Your healing flow through us.
All Together: Amen, Amen. Holy Healer, make us whole again.

Opening Song

“The Lord is Blessing Me Right Now”
Words: Bishop Larry Trotter

The Lord is blessing me
right now, Oh, right now
I said the Lord is blessing me
Right now, Oh, right now
He woke me up this morning
And started me on my way
The Lord is blessing me
Right now, Oh, right now

He woke me up this morning
I was clothed in my right mind
He didn’t let me sleep to late
He woke me – woke me – woke me
Right on time
He woke me up this morning
And started me on my way
The Lord is blessing me
Right now, Oh, right now
Tenors: The Lord is blessing me right now, the Lord is blessing me right now

Altos: The Lord is blessing me – right now – Oh right now

Sopranos: The Lord is blessing me. Right now. He keeps blessing me.

He woke me up this morning
And started me on my way
The Lord is blessing me
Right now, Oh, right now

Greetings/Introduction of the Bishop

Dean Edwin Aponte

Opening Prayer

Janice Marie Beauchamp

Scripture Reading – Jeremiah 26:1-4

Jennifer Nelson

26 At the beginning of the reign of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, this word came from the Lord: 2 Thus says the Lord: Stand in the court of the Lord’s house and speak to all the cities of Judah that come to worship in the house of the Lord; speak to them all the words that I command you; do not hold back a word. 3 It may be that they will listen and will turn from their evil way, that I may change my mind about the disaster that I intend to bring on them because of their evil doings. 4 You shall say to them: Thus says the Lord: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you.

Leader: The Word of God for the people of God.
All: Thanks be to God.

Sermonic Selection

“God Is”

Words: Rev. James Cleveland Accompanied by Gerard Barnes

Kisha Cohen

Sermon

Bishop Cynthia Moore-Koikoi

Musical Response

Yeongrok Choi, Hayoung Kim

Sacrament of Holy Communion

Bishop Cynthia Moore-Koikoi
Servers: Janice Marie Beauchamp & Dee Jackson

Invitation
Leader: Christ our Lord invites to his table all who love him, who earnestly repent of their sin and seek to live in peace with one another. Therefore, let us confess our sin before God and one another.

Confession and Pardon
All: Merciful God, we confess that we have not loved you with our whole heart. We have failed to be an obedient church. We have not done your will, we have broken your law, we have rebelled against your love, and we have not heard the cry of the needy. Forgive us, we pray. Free us for joyful obedience, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Leader: Hear the good news: Christ died for us while we were yet sinners;
that proves God’s love toward us. In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven!
People: In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven!
All: Glory to God. Amen.

The Great Thanksgiving
Leader: The Lord be with you.
All: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts.
All: We lift them up to the Lord.
Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
All: It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you, Almighty God, creator of heaven and earth.

And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven
we praise your name and join their unending hymn:

(Singing) Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,
heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest.

Leader: Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ. By the baptism of his suffering, death, and resurrection you gave birth to your church, delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made with us a new covenant by water and the Spirit.

On the night in which he gave himself up for us, Jesu took bread, gave thanks to you, broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said: “Take, eat; this is my body which is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
When the supper was over, he took the cup, gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said: “Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant, poured out for your and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ’s offering for us,
as we proclaim the mystery of faith.

(Singing) Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again. Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest.

Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here, and on these gifts of bread and wine. Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ, that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world, until Christ comes in final victory, and we feast at his heavenly banquet. Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy Church, all honor and glory is yours, almighty God, now and forever.

(Singing) Amen. Amen. Amen. Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest.

Breaking the Bread
Sharing in the Bread and Cup

Congregational Celebration of Music

“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”
Words: Elisha A. Hoffman, Music: Anthony J. Showalter

1. What a fellowship, what a joy divine,
   leaning on the everlasting arms;
   what a blessedness, what a peace is mine,
   leaning on the everlasting arms.

Refrain:
Leaning, leaning,
safe and secure from all alarms;
leaning, leaning,
leaning on the everlasting arms.

3. What have I to dread, what have I to fear,
   leaning on the everlasting arms?
   I have blessed peace with my Lord so near,
   leaning on the everlasting arms.

Refrain:
Leaning, leaning,
safe and secure from all alarms;
leaning, leaning,
leaning on the everlasting arms.

Benediction and Blessing of Food

Bishop Cynthia Moore-Koikoi