Order of Worship

February 23, 2025

Dearborn First UMC

22124 Garrison Street, Dearborn, MI 48124

www.dearbornfirstumc.org
office@dearbornfirstumc.org

Prelude
~ We invite you to quiet your hearts and minds for worship as our prelude begins ~

Bob Barnhart

“Cantilena”

GATHERING

Welcome Statement 
Pastor Suzy Todd

Dearborn First UMC strives to foster a climate of purposeful inclusion of all people. We value the diversity of racial and cultural identity, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious background, family structure, age, mental and physical health and ability, and educational and class status. When we reflect the fullness of God’s creation, we reflect the Kin-dom of God.

Life of the Church
Mary Gladstone-Highland

*Call to Worship
Mary Gladstone-Highland

God, your justice brings low the mighty and uplifts the lowly

Help us strive to create a world of justice for all.

God, you call us to be peacemakers - not peacekeepers - in all things, large and small.

Help us to create peace through acts of mercy and love.

God, you demand justice for the poor and deliverance from their needs.

Help us work steadfastly for political systems that care for the least among us.

God, give us the courage to speak truth to power.

Help us to demand just systems and laws from those who represent us. 

 Amen.

*Opening Hymn
UMH #203 “Hail to the Lord’s Anointed” v. 1-4

Family Moment
Tracy Lahay

*CONFESSION & PARDON

Pastor Suzy Todd

O God, Our Sustainer  
search our hearts and reveal to us our sinfulness,
all the ways that we contribute to injustice  
and to self-destroying bondage.
Give us deep courage to find the true path of your way,

God is just and forgiving.
God receives us as we are,
lifts us up and calls us again to
be people upholding justice and peace.
Receive God’s pardon and peace,
knowing that all sins are forgiven

Thanks be to God!

PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD

Meditation
Chancel Choir

“Amazing Grace”

Sermon
Pastor Suzy Todd

“Love Out Loud”

James 2:1-4, Psalm 146:6-9

Proverbs 31:8-9, Deuteronomy 10:16-19

Pastoral Prayer and Prayers of the People
Pastor Suzy Todd

The Lord’s Prayer

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. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

RESPONSE TO THE WORD PROCLAIMED

Offering
Mary Gladstone-Highland

Offertory
John McCoy, Guitar

“Legacy”

Doxology
UMH #95 “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”

Prayer of Dedication
Pastor Suzy Todd

Closing Hymn
UMH #103 “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise” v. 1,3,4

SENDING

Benediction
Pastor Suzy Todd

~ We invite you to go in peace or remain in quiet meditation during the postlude ~

Postlude
Bob Barnhart

“Toccata in d  Dorian”