Theme: The Faith of a Syrophoenician Woman; the Healing of a Deaf and Dumb Man. Of what do you need healing?

THE COMMUNITY GATHERS TO CELEBRATE

Pastoral Invitation
(Pastor and Ministers)
(Several days, maybe weeks, before worship ask a variety of people of what they were healed and to prepare to share in worship.) In the name of the Great Healer, welcome to this sixteenth Sunday in Pentecost. I invite you to share of what God has healed you. Remind them that God is invested in many kinds of healings, as, for example, physical, emotional, relational, environmental, political, and so forth, all of which come under the theme of spiritual. Give plenty of time. Share one of your own healings. After each expression of healing, have the congregation respond with these, or similar, words: "Prai…