Season of Rest - “A Rhythm of Rest”
Sunday, June 14, 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 Trust in You Rejuvenate
Call to Worship Breakthrough Series)
LEADER: There is a time for everything, a season for every activity under heaven.
ALL: Today is a time to pause, to breathe, and to rest.
LEADER: In the rhythm of life, God calls us to balance.
ALL: We come to seek that balance, to align our hearts with God’s rhythm.
LEADER: Let us rest in God’s presence, knowing that rest is holy.
ALL: Let us enter into this season with rest.
Opening Prayer (Breakthrough Series)
ALL: God of all seasons, help us find balance in the rhythm of our lives. Teach us to rest in You, trusting that in our stillness, You are at work renewing us. Amen.
*Opening Song Make Me a Channel of Your Peace TFWS 2171
1. Make me a channel
of your peace.
Where there is hatred,
let me bring your love,
Where there is injury,
your pardon, Lord,
and where there’s doubt,
true faith in you.
2. Make me a channel
of your peace.
Where there’s
despair in life,
let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness,
only light,
and where there’s sadness,
ever joy.
3. Oh, Master, grant that
I may never seek
so much to be consoled
as to console,to be understood
as to understand,
to be loved
as to love
with all my soul.
4. Make me a channel
of your peace.
It is in pardoning
that we are pardoned,
In giving of ourselves
that we receive,
and in dying that
we’re born to eternal life.
LISTENING
Scripture Reading Ecclesiastes 3:1-13
This is the Word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God.
Message for All Ages
Sermon “A Rhythm of Rest” Rev. DV Yost
RESPONDING
*Sermon Song Hymn of Promise UMH 707
1. In the bulb
there is a flower;
in the seed, an apple tree;
in cocoons, a hidden promise:
butterflies will soon be free!
In the cold
and snow of winter
there’s a spring
that waits to be,
unrevealed until its season,
something God alone can see.
2. There’s a song
in every silence,
seeking word and melody;
there’s a dawn
in every darkness,
bringing hope to you and me.
From the past
will come the future;
what it holds, a mystery,
unrevealed until its season,
something God alone can see.
3. In our end
is our beginning;
in our time, infinity;
in our doubt
there is believing;
in our life, eternity.
In our death, a resurrection;
at the last, a victory,
unrevealed until its season,
something God alone can see.
Prayers of the People
Leader: God of Rest, ALl: 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 (Breakthrough Series)
ALL: Lord, accept these gifts as a symbol of our trust in Your rhythm of work and rest. Bless them to bring healing, balance, and peace to all they touch. Amen.
SENDING
*Closing Song He Leadeth Me: O Blessed Thought UMH 128
1. He leadeth me:
O blessed thought!
O words with heavenly
comfort fraught!
Whate’er I do,
where’er I be,
still ’tis God’s hand
that leadeth me.
Refrain
He leadeth me,
he leadeth me,
by his own hand
he leadeth me;
his faithful follower
I would be,
for by his hand
he leadeth me.
Sometimes mid scenes
of deepest gloom,
sometimes where
Eden’s bowers bloom,
by waters still,
o’er troubled sea,
still ’tis his hand
that leadeth me.
Refrain
He leadeth me,
he leadeth me,
by his own hand
he leadeth me;
his faithful follower
I would be,
for by his hand
he leadeth me.
3. Lord, I would place
my hand in thine,
nor ever murmur
nor repine;
content, whatever
lot I see,
since ’tis my God
that leadeth me.
Refrain
He leadeth me,
he leadeth me,
by his own hand
he leadeth me;
his faithful follower
I would be,
for by his hand
he leadeth me.
4. And when my task
on earth is done,
when by thy grace
the victory’s won,
e’en death’s cold wave
I will not flee,
since God through Jordan
leadeth me.
Refrain
He leadeth me,
he leadeth me,
by his own hand
he leadeth me;
his faithful follower
I would be,
for by his hand
he leadeth me.
*Benediction
Benediction Response
Postlude Ben Boellner, Guest Organist
Next Week
Season of Rest “What Kind of Rest”
June 21, 2026 Genesis 2:1-3
BACKPACK BUDDIES: June’s food items are Individual Snack Bags and Chips and Pretzels, 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, June 16: 8:30 – 11:30 AM Thrift Store accepting donations
- Thursday, June 18:: 10 AM – 2 PM Thrift Store Open
- Friday, June 19 Pastor’s Sabbath – Church Office Closed
- Sunday, June 21: HAPPY FATHER’S DAY
- Sunday, June 21: 10 AM: Worship Service
Copyright
Trust in You, by Lauren Daigle, Michael Farren, and Paul Mabury, © 2014 Centric Songs; See You At The Pub; Oceans Away Music; So Essential Tunes; Farren Love And War Publishing; Integrity's Alleluia! Music, CCLI#7025522 – Rejuvenate
Used by Permission. CCLI Church Copyright License Number: 1684333 and Streaming License Number: 20155039.
Make Me a Channel of Your Peace, by Sebastian Temple, © 1967 OCP Publications, OneLicense #316475, TFWS 2171
Reprinted / Streamed with permission under One License A-735755. All Rights Reserved.
Hymn of Promise, by Natalie Sleeth, © Words: 1986 Hope Publishing Company; Music: 1986 Hope Publishing Company, CCLI#126529, UMH 707
Used by Permission. CCLI Church Copyright License Number: 1684333 and Streaming License Number: 20155039.
He Leadeth Me: O Blessed Thought, UMH 128, Public Domain
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