Liturgical Color: Green

Theme: The feeding of the 5,000 men, plus women and children.

Pastoral Invitation to the Congregation
Suggestion: "When we worship, we celebrate our personal relationship with God - Creator, Liberator, Sustainer - with God who is both loving and holy, and our world-wide relationship with each other, God's people and with God's world, even that part of the world opposed to God and Christ's church."

You may want to follow with this litany between pastor and ministers:

Pastor: Good morning! Welcome to the celebration of life in Jesus Christ!
ALL: This is our joyful response to God in worship.
Pastor: Let us listen with our ears, see with our eyes, and be open with our minds.
All: Speak to us, Lord, and we will hear what you have to say; we will act on what you show…