Gathering Music

Welcome – Laurie Zelman/Mark Miller

Call to Worship

Janice Marie Beauchamp

Leader: We did not come here alone.
People: We were carried here.
Leader: Carried by those who prayed before us, marched before us, and refused to give up before us. We are not here by accident.
People: We are here by covenant.
Leader: Bound together in one Spirit, baptized into one body. The body is not one member, but many. Every member matters. Every voice is needed. Every story belongs here.
People: So we gather, not as individuals seeking our own salvation, but as a community, answering a collective call.
Leader: Come, let us worship together.
All: We’re all in this together. And together, we march.

Opening Song

“We’re Marching to Zion” (Traditional Hymn by Isaac Watts/Robert Lowry)

Verse
Come we that love the Lord, and let our joys be known
Join in a song of sweet accord, Join in a song of sweet accord
And thus surround the throne and thus surround the throne

Chorus
We’re marching to Zion…beautiful, beautiful Zion.
We’re marching upward to Zion, the beautiful city of God.

Verse
The hill of Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets
Before we reach the heavenly fields, before we reach the heavenly fields
Or walk the golden streets, or walk the golden streets

Chorus
We’re marching to Zion…beautiful, beautiful Zion.
We’re marching upward to Zion, the beautiful city of God.

Verse
Then let our songs abound and every tear be dry
We’re marching through Immanuel’s ground, we’re marching through Immanuel’s ground
To fairer worlds on high, to fairer worlds on high

Chorus
We’re marching to Zion…beautiful, beautiful Zion.
We’re marching upward to Zion, the beautiful city of God.

Opening Prayer

Justine Ashlee

Scripture Reading

Matthew Seawright

1 Corinthians 12:12-14
12 For as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body—so also is Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by[a] one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. 14 So the body is not one part but many.

Welcome and Introduction of Preacher Rev. Kerwin Webb

Jennifer Nelson

Sermon

Rev. Webb

Musical Response

“I Need You To Survive” – One License #A-729109

I need you
You need me
We’re all a part of God’s body
Stand with me
Agree with me
We’re all a part of God’s body
It is God’s will that every need be supplied
You are important to me
I need you to survive
You are important to me
I need you to survive
(Repeat as needed)

Drive:
I pray for you
You pray for me
I love you
I need you to survive
I won’t harm you
With words from my mouth
I love you
I need you to survive
(Repeat as needed)

You are important to me
I need you to survive

Blessing

Rev. Webb

Sending Song

“We Resist” – Mark Miller