Good News Spreads - “Thomas”
Sunday, April 12, 2026
*Please stand in body or in spirit. Congregational responses are in bold and preceded by "All"
GATHERING
Welcome and Announcements
Invitation and Sharing of Peace
Peace be with you. And also with you.
Prelude Bind Us Together Rejuvenate
Lighting of the Altar Candles
Call to Worship (Clergy Stuff)
LEADER: God is near to all who call on God.
ALL: We call in God in truth.
LEADER: Let us speak God’s praise.
ALL: All creation will bless God’s name forever.
Opening Prayer (Clergy Stuff)
ALL: Risen God, you come into our midst and breathe on us your Holy Spirit. Empower us to believe at depth that you are with us, no matter how we experience you in our lives, and make us witnesses to one another of your very real presence among us. In your name we pray. Amen.
*Opening Song You Alone Are Holy TFWS 2077
1. You alone are holy;
you alone are worthy;
you are filled with splendor
and with awesome wonder.
For our sins
you suffered,
died and resurrected,
granting us salvation,
giving us eternal life.
2. You alone are holy;
you alone are worthy;
you are filled with splendor
and with awesome wonder.
Send your Holy Spirit;
may it shine upon us.
Let your wondrous glory
with its radiance
fill this place.
LISTENING
Scripture Reading John 20:19-31
This is the Word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God.
Message for All Ages
Sermon “Thomas” Rev. DV Yost
RESPONDING
*Sermon Song Thine Be the Glory UMH 308
- Thine be the glory,
risen, conquering Son;
endless is the victory
thou o’er death hast won.
Angels in bright raiment
rolled the stone away,
kept the folded graveclothes
where thy body lay.
Refrain
Thine be the glory,
risen, conquering Son;
endless is the victory
thou o’er death hast won.
- Lo! Jesus meets thee,
risen from the tomb;
lovingly he greets thee,
scatters fear and gloom.
Let the church with gladness
hymns of triumph sing,
for our Lord now liveth;
death hath lost its sting.
Refrain
Thine be the glory,
risen, conquering Son;
endless is the victory
thou o’er death hast won.
- No more we doubt thee,
glorious Prince of life!
Life is naught
without thee;
aid us in our strife.
Make us more
than conquerors,
through thy deathless love;
bring us safe through Jordan
to thy home above.
Refrain
Thine be the glory,
risen, conquering Son;
endless is the victory
thou o’er death hast won.
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Prayers of the People |
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God of new life, hear our prayer.
The Lord’s Prayer (Spoken)
All: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.
Offertory Craig Nickerson, Organist
*Offering Response Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow (UMH 94)
*Prayer of Dedication (Clergy Stuff)
ALL: Loving God, we offer these gifts out of the abundance you have first given us. Accept them, we pray, and use them to bear witness to your life-changing power, that all might come to love you and their neighbors as themselves. Amen.
SENDING
*Closing Song Love Divine, All Loves Excelling UMH 384
1. Love divine,
all loves excelling,
joy of heaven,
to earth come down;
fix in us thy
humble dwelling;
all thy faithful
mercies crown!
Jesus, thou art
all compassion,
pure, unbounded
love thou art;visit us with
thy salvation;
enter every
trembling heart.
2. Breathe, O breathe
thy loving Spirit
into every
troubled breast!
Let us all
in thee inherit;
let us find that
second rest.
Take away
our bent to sinning;
Alpha and
Omega be;
end of faith,
as its beginning,
set our hearts
at liberty.
3. Come, Almighty
to deliver,
let us all
thy life receive;
suddenly return
and never,
nevermore thy
temples leave.
Thee we would be
always blessing,
serve thee as
thy hosts above,
pray and praise thee
without ceasing,
glory in thy
perfect love.
4. Finish, then,
thy new creation;
pure and spotless
let us be.
Let us see thy
great salvation
perfectly restored
in thee;
changed from glory
into glory,
till in heaven
we take our place,
till we cast our
crowns before thee,
lost in wonder,
love, and praise.
*Benediction
Benediction Response
Postlude Craig Nickerson, Organist
Next Week
Good News Spreads “Paul’s Conversion”
April 19, 2026 Acts 9:-1-19a
Community Representatives at the Thrift Store this April
- A representative from the Department of Aging will have a table set up during Thrift Store hours on Thursday, April 16.
- A nurse from the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center will have resources and blood pressure screening on Thursday, April 23rd.
JOIN US for our April meeting on April 26th as we plan an upcoming prayer vigil for peace. We are currently planning to host the prayer vigil for peace on May 31st.
BACKPACK BUDDIES: April’s food items are SBreakfast Bars and Hormel Compleats or any item listed on the shopping list. If you find it difficult to shop, you may send a monetary donation to the church or place your donation in the offering plate on any Sunday. Please mark your gift, “Backpack Buddies”.
This Week at Arnolia
- Tuesday, April 14: 8:30 – 11:30 AM Thrift Store accepting donations
- Tuesday, April 14: 12 Noon Pastor’s Study
- Tuesday, April 14: 6:30 PM Bible Study
- Wednesday, April 15: 7:30 PM Rejuvenate
- Thursday, April 16: 10 AM – 2 PM Thrift Store Open
- Thursday, April 16: 6:30 PM Celebration Ringers
- Friday, April 17: Pastor’s Sabbath – Church Office Closed
- Sunday, April 19: 10 AM Worship Service
- Sunday, April 19: 11:15 AM SPRC
Copyrights
Bind Us Together, by Bob Gillman, © 1977 Thankyou Music Ltd, CCLI #1228, Rejuvenate
Used by Permission. CCLI Church Copyright License Number: 1684333 and Streaming License Number: 20155039
You Alone Are Holy, by Jorge Lockward, Kenneth R Hanna, Raquel Mora Martinez, © Words: 1996 Abingdon Press; Music: Public Domain, CCLI #3412965 - TFWS 2077 Used by Permission. CCLI Church Copyright License Number: 1684333 and Streaming License Number: 20155039.
Thine Be The Glory, UMH 308, Public Domain
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, UMH 384, Public Domain
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