Worship Resources



MISSION SUNDAY (MISSION WORK ABROAD)

MUSIC & WORSHIP RESOURCES

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Charles Cotton, Lectionary Young Adult Liturgists’ Team

Worship Planning Notes

Consider the following suggestions in your worship planning:

  • On this Mission Sunday, sponsor a resource fair before and after service. Encourage your congregation to share their professional and other resources with your church and the community. Choose a ministry from your church that ministers through missions and outreach to select the venue and provide each participant with the essential information needed to share with attendees.

  • Provide a congregational leaflet highlighting local outreach organizations that help in missions and outreach. Ensure that the leaflet provides the essentials for parishioners to contact these organizations. Encourage members of your congregation to execute their responsibility as a missionary by volunteering their time and resources to one of the listed charities.

  • Invite non-citizens, especially persons from Africa to your church.

  • See today’s Lectionary Commentary in the “Helpful Websites” section for a list of organizations that offer mission services around the world.

1. The Call to Worship

Minister: O come let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
Congregation: For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
Minister: In his hands are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.
Congregation: May our mouths be filled with praise and honor all the day long.
Unison: We come this day to worship God.

2. Opening Hymns
(a) Wonderful Words of Life. By Phillip Bliss

(b) Open My Eyes That I May See. By Clara H. Scott

(c) Deeper, Deeper. By Charles P. Jones

(d) He Has Done Great Things for Me. By Jessy Dixon

3. Spirituals or Traditional Songs
(a) I Am Redeemed. By Jessy Dixon

(b) Lord I Want to Be a Christian. Adapt. by John Work Jr.

(c) I Have Decided. Arr. by Norman Johnson

(d) I Am Thine, O Lord. By Fanny Crosby

4. Worship through Dance
(a) Faithful to Believe. By Byron Cage

(b) Awesome God. By Fred Hammond

(c) Lord How I Love You. By Fred Hammond

5. Anthem or Hymn
(a) He’s So Freely Passing Out Blessings. By Damian D. Price

(b) For God So Loved the World. By Lanny Wolfe

6. Modern Songs
(a) We Are One. By William Murphy

(b) How Great Is Our God. By Chris Tomlin

(c) Souled Out. By Estee Bullock and Nate McNair

7. Offertory Song or Instrumental
(a) He’s Already Provided. By Martha Munizzi

(b) Release My Praise. By Eric Reed

(c) Everyday Is a Day of Thanksgiving. By Leonard Burks

8. Song or Instrumental for the Period of Prayer
(a) Leave It There. By Charles H. Tindley

(b) Pass Me Not. By Fanny Crosby

(c) He Knows Just How Much You Can Bear. By Roberta Martin

9. Sermonic Selection
(a) Only What You Do for Christ Will Last. By Raymond Rasberry

(b) Great Is Thy Faithfulness. By William Runyan

(c) How Great Thou Art. by Stuart K. Hine

(d) Savior, Lead Me Lest I Stray. By Frank M. Davis

10. Invitation Song or Instrumental
(a) Completely Yes. By Sandra Crouch

(b) Jesus Christ Is the Way. By Walter Hawkins

(c) Just as I Am. By Charlotte Elliott

(d) We Offer Christ. By Joel Britton

11. Benediction Song or Instrumental
(a) Always Remember. By Andraé Crouch

(b) The Lord Bless You/Sevenfold Amen. Numbers 6:24-26. Tune by Peter C. Lutkin

(c) Till We Gather Again. By Stephen Key

(d) Lord, Make Me More Holy. Arr. by Roland M. Carter

Cites and Additional Information for Music and Materials Listed

1. The Call to Worship—Psalm 95:1-6 and Psalm 73:8.

2. Hymns and Congregational Songs
(a) Wonderful Words of Life. By Phillip Bliss
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. Chicago, IL: GIA Publications, 2001. #371

African Methodist Episcopal Church. African Methodist Episcopal Church Bicentennial Hymnal. Nashville, TN: African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1981. #207

National Baptist Publishing Board. The New National Baptist Hymnal. Nashville, TN: National Baptist Pub. Board, 1981. #133

Total Praise. Chicago, IL/Nashville, TN: GIA Publications, Inc./Sunday School Publishing Board, 2011. #330

Church of God in Christ. Yes, Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. Memphis, TN: Church of God in Christ Pub. Board in association with the Benson Co., 1982. #61

(b) Open My Eyes That I May See. By Clara H. Scott
Location:
African Methodist Episcopal Church Bicentennial Hymnal. #285

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #129

Total Praise. #283

Yes, Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. #360

(c) Deeper, Deeper. By Charles P. Jones
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #336

Total Praise. #377

Yes, Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. #447

(d) He Has Done Great Things for Me. By Jessy Dixon
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #507

Total Praise. #503

3. Spirituals or Traditional Songs
(a) I Am Redeemed. By Jessy Dixon
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #512

Total Praise. #504

(b) Lord I Want to Be a Christian. Adapt. by John Work Jr.
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #463

African Methodist Episcopal Church Bicentennial Hymnal. #282

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #490

Total Praise. #466

Yes, Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. #277

(c) I Have Decided to Follow Jesus. Arr. by Norman Johnson
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #400

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #164

Total Praise. #401

Yes, Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. #484

(d) I Am Thine, O Lord. By Fanny Crosby
Location:
African Methodist Episcopal Church Bicentennial Hymnal. #283

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #329

Total Praise. #397

4. Worship through Dance
(a) Faithful to Believe. By Byron Cage
Location:
Faithful to Believe. New York, NY: Verity, 2009.

(b) Awesome God. By Fred Hammond
Location:
Love Unstoppable. New York, NY: Integrity, 2009.

(c) Lord How I Love You. By Fred Hammond
Location:
Love Unstoppable. New York, NY: Integrity, 2009.

5. Anthem or Hymn
(a) He’s So Freely Passing Out Blessings. By Damian D. Price
Location:
Total Praise. #372

(b) For God So Loved the World. By Lanny Wolfe
Location:
Total Praise. #146

6. Modern Songs
(a) We Are One. By William Murphy
Location:
Morton, Paul. Embracing the Next Dimension. Nashville, TN: Tehillah Music Group, 2008.

(b) How Great Is Our God. By Chris Tomlin
Location:
How Great Is Our God: The Essential Collection. Brentwood, TN: Sparrow, 2011.

(c) Souled Out. By Estee Bullock and Nate McNair
Location:
Walker, Hezekiah. Souled Out. London, England: Zomba, 2008.

7. Offertory Song or Instrumental
(a) He’s Already Provided. By Martha Munizzi
Location:
No Limits. New York, NY: Sony, 2006.

(b) Release My Praise. By Eric Reed
Location:
The Park Ministries. One Thing I Desire. New York, NY: Koch, 2006.

(c) Everyday Is a Day of Thanksgiving. By Leonard Burks
Location:
Total Praise. #521

8. Song or Instrumental for the Period of Prayer
(a) Leave It There. By Charles H. Tindley
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #387

African Methodist Episcopal Church Bicentennial Hymnal. #427

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #216

Total Praise. #427

Yes, Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. #280

(b) Pass Me Not. By Fanny Crosby
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #396

African Methodist Episcopal Church Bicentennial Hymnal. #272

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #162

Total Praise. #476

Yes, Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. #276

(c) He Knows Just How Much We Can Bear. By Roberta Martin
Location:
The New National Baptist Hymnal. #250

9. Sermonic Selection
(a) Only What You Do for Christ Will Last. By Raymond Rasberry
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #548

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #403

Total Praise. #559

(b) Great Is Thy Faithfulness. By William Runyan
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #158

African Methodist Episcopal Church Bicentennial Hymnal. #84

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #153

Total Praise. #154

Yes, Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. #122

(c) How Great Thou Art. by Stuart K. Hine
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #148

African Methodist Episcopal Church Bicentennial Hymnal. #68

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #25

Total Praise. #142

Yes, Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. #39

(d) Savior, Lead Me Lest I Stray. By Frank M. Davis
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #473

African Methodist Episcopal Church Bicentennial Hymnal. #385

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #230

Total Praise. #477

Yes, Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. #394

10. Invitational Song or Instrumental
(a) Completely Yes. By Sandra Crouch
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #551

Total Praise. #560

(b) Jesus Christ Is the Way. By Walter Hawkins
Location:
Total Praise. #197

(c) Just as I Am. By Charlotte Elliott
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #396

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #145

Total Praise. #346

Yes, Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. #293

(d) We Offer Christ. By Joel Britton
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #355

Total Praise. #350

11. Benediction Song or Instrumental
(a) Always Remember. By Andraé Crouch
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #640

Total Praise. #624

(b) The Lord Bless You/Sevenfold Amen. Numbers 6:24-26. Tune by Peter C. Lutkin
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #636

(c) Till We Gather Again. By Stephen Key
Location:
Total Praise. #576

(d) Lord, Make Me More Holy. Arr. by Roland M. Carter
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #632

Total Praise. #623

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