Liturgical Color: White

Theme: The Vine and the Branches: Our Choice -- Pruned or Severed.

AN INVITATION TO WORSHIP

Pastoral Invitation (Pastor and Ministers)
Welcome, in the name of Christ, the Vine, to the fifth Sunday of Easter. If we claim to be one of the branches of the vine, then, in worship and beyond worship, we are not an audience, which spends its life examining the vine. We are a congregation, part of the universal branches, learning and growing together. We are the actors on the world stage. Rejoice! Rejoice!

P: Christ is the vine.
M: We are the branches.

Hymn of Praise
"All Things Bright and Beautiful"

Prayer of Praise
Focus on Christ, the true vine, and our privilege and opportunity for our being one/many of the branches.

TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR OURSELVES

Acts of C…