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ORDER OF SERVICE April 5, 2015 Easter Sunday

PRELUDE Trumpet Concerto in D Major K.67 Tartini Dominic Derasse, Trumpet

Maria Conti, ViolinBruno Peña, ViolinDavid Fallo, Viola

Jing Li-Fallo, Cello Trio Sonata in G Pergolesi

Moderato This Joyful Eastertide Traditional Carol

Risa Renae Harman, SopranoJenna Hintz, SopranoPatrick Hogan, TenorScott Tomlinson, Bass

Love is Come Again Medieval French Carol

Church Sonata in E Flat Major Mozart

The Trumpet Shall Sound Handel Messiah Scott Tomlinson, Bass

WORDS OF WELCOME

INTROIT Christ the Lord Hath Risen Medieval Chant

CALL TO WORSHIP

Leader: Come to the risen Christ, you who wonder if new life is possible.

All: We come with our sins, our fears, our doubts and our sorrows.

Leader: Come to the risen Christ, you who are wounded.

All: We come with our emptiness, our mourning, our anger, our loneliness.

Leader: Come to the risen Christ, you who are rejoicing.

All: We come with our hopes, our faith, our pride, and our joy.

Leader: All are welcome in the Alleluia!

All: All are risen in God’s great Amen!

*The congregation is invited to stand

*HYMN Jesus Christ Is Risen Today Lyra Davidica

*OPENING PRAYER O living God, we who are partly living, scarcely hoping, and fitfully caring, pray to you now to make us fully alive. Give us the vitality, awareness and commitment that we see in Jesus Christ, through the power of his death and resurrection; we ask this in his name. Amen. *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, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us,and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,forever and ever. Amen.

*GLORIA PATRIGlory be to the Father, and to the Son,

and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning,is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

CHILDREN’S MESSAGE The Rev. Dr. Ed HorstmannChildren may now leave for Church School.

SCRIPTURE LESSON Isaiah 25:6-9On this mountain the Lord of Hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear. And Jesus will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations; he will swallow up death forever. Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken. It will be said on that day, ‘Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, so that he might save us. This is the Lord for whom we have waited; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.’

ANTHEM A Hymn of Resurrection Gwyneth Walker

SCRIPTURE LESSON John 20: 1-18Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magda-lene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings ly-ing there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself.

Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that Jesus must rise from the dead. Then the disciples re-turned to their homes. But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!” (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”; and she told them that Jesus had said these things to her.

SERMON Specializing in the Impossible The Rev. Dr. Ed Horstmann

*HYMN Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain Sullivan

OFFERING Invitation Offertory Prayer Anthem Et Resurrexit Beethoven

Mass in CAnd on the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures.

He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father.He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and

His kingdom will have no end.

And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life,Who proceeds from the Father and the Son.

Who together with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified,and who spoke through the prophets.

And one holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins

and I await the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.

*Doxology Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him,

all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host: Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

*Hymn No. 720 O Beautiful for Spacious Skies (verse 1)O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain,for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!

America! America! God shed full grace on thee,and crown thy good with servanthood from sea to shining sea.

PASTORAL PRAYER

*HYMN Christ the Lord is Risen Today Webb

CHURCH PRAYEROur Heavenly Father, shed forth thy blessed spirit upon all our lives. Make each one of us an instrument in thy hands for good. Purify our hearts, strengthen our minds and bodies, fill us with Christian love. Let no pride, no self-conceit, no rivalry, no ill-will ever spring up among us. Make us earnest and true, wise and prudent, giving no just cause for offense and may thy holy peace rest upon us this day and every day throughout the coming week, sweetening our trials, cheering us in our work, and keeping us faithful to the end, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

BENEDICTION

RESPONSE Hallelujah Chorus Handel

POSTLUDE

ROUND HILL COMMUNITY CHURCH MISSION STATEMENTWe, the members of the Round Hill Community Church, a self-governing, non-denominational body, seek to foster a commu-nity of faith where people of all ages and backgrounds pursue spiritual growth; where God is worshipped in Word and praised in music; where friends are made and hurts are healed. We seek to be a community where individuals commit their time are resources to education, fellowship, and to helping those in need among our Church family and in the broader world. We are a church where faith, hope, justice and love are valued, and above all, Jesus is Lord.

ROUND HILL COMMUNITY CHURCH CREEDI believe in God, the one universal Father of all mankind, re-vealed supremely in Jesus Christ, our Lord, and present with us to guide, comfort and inspire in the Holy Spirit. I believe in the Kingdom of God; and in the mission of the Christian Church to proclaim the Gospel to all the world, exalting the worship of the Lord our God, and laboring for the progress of knowledge, the promotion of righteousness, the reign of peace, and the re-alization of human brotherhood. United in Christian love, we pray and labor for the coming of the Kingdom, the triumph of righteousness and the life everlasting. Amen.

The lovely flowers adorning the Sanctuary this morning were given by:

Jo Ann and Banks Adams in loving memory of Minnie and Joseph Freeman and Minnie and Banks T. Adams

Marion Piro for Carrie Lee Bossiere with love on Easter & forever

From the RHCC Music Committee in loving memory of Kiernan Hogan

Jean and Richard Bergstresser in loving memory of our parents Elizabeth and Robert McCoy, Idaleen and John Bergstresser

Caroline and Winthrop Adkins in loving memory of The Rev. Dr. Leslie John Adkins and Mrs. Edith Sanderson Adkins,

and Dr. Charles and Mrs. Ruth Manuele

The Debnars with fond memories of our dear friends Bette Willis and Bob Johnson

Alice Fisher in honor of Agnew, Bennett, Joan and Everett Fisher – a generation that has passed beyond the horizon

but that will remain in our memories forever

Sandy and Randy Motland in honor of their families

Taffy Fisher Field and Emily Fisher in honor of Everett & Cathy Fisher, Henry & Alice Fisher and Tren and Catherine Marshall

with love and gratitude for these lives of joy, generosity, and adventure, the example they set, and all they continue to give

Mirella and Hadi Hajjar in memory of our fathers…May they rest in peace

The Heerdt Family in honor of Alexandra’s and Paul’s parents George & Hannelore Simkovich and Mark & Lois Heerdt

The Heerdt family with best wishes for a quick recovery from surgery to Natasha Simkovich

Swan Grant in dedication to Barry, Bo and Julie Grant, Tony Doumlele and Ann Pruner

Anonymous donation in recognition of the wonderful women of the Flower Committee who decorate our Sanctuary so beautifully

throughout the seasons of the year

Janet and Joseph Huley dedicated to the memory Henry and Mary Huley who lovingly shared so much of their lives with the RHCC

Suzy Simpson in loving memory of her parents, Jomarie and Bob Dresel

Anonymous donation in memory of the inspirational lives of Emerson Stone and Everett Fisher

Amy Minella in honor of her children,Michael, Casey, Matthew and Perry - out in the real world, making their way

In loving memory of John Kingsley by his family

Anonymously gifted in appreciation of Arto Szabo’s wonderful exhibit “Impressions of Tuscany”

In loving memory of Harrison Hoffman from his family

Thalia Cokkinos for my beautiful mother Vivien, whose liberation day was Easter Sunday, 2001

Libby and Rusty McKee in loving memory of Mr. & Mrs. Joseph V. McKee, Jr., parents of Rusty McKee and

grandparents of Charley, Parker and William McKee

Ward and Diane Davol’s parents Pawnee Murray, Dodie Ostrom and Rector Davol

Mrs. Hobart A. H. Cook in dedication to Marion E. Cummings – spring is here!!

Dee Lewis and Arto Szabo in loving memory of Ella Szabo

Dee Lewis in loving memory of my parents, The Rev. Dr. Edward W.W. and Mrs. Judith (Andress) Lewis

and with love to my daughters, Hilary and Emily Zerbst

Richards and Phoebe Ford to our parents Robert Ray and Elizabeth Brown, S. Richards Ford and Cornelia Burchell Ford

Heather and Michael Sandifer in celebration of spring!

Anyone who dedicated flowers today is welcome to take a potted plant home.

CHURCH NEWS

Thank you to Alice Fisher and Ted Thaxter for ushering today.

We thank everyone who volunteered to bring a treat for our special Easter Coffee Hour today in the Community House. Please join us there for fellowship following the service today.

Polo at Conyers Farm is the new exhibit in Les Beaux Arts Gallery. We invite you to take time before you leave for Coffee Hour in the Community House, to view the exhibit and meet the artist, Ted Berkowitz. Single women of the church and their friends are invited to the next gathering of the Single Women’s Group at RHCC on April 11 from noon -2p.m.Church member Libby Grant, an attorney, will be with us to discuss any le-gal issues and concerns we may have. Brown bag lunch. Kindly RSVP to the Church Office if you plan to attend.

The Rev. Anita E. Keire’s recently published book Resurrection Dialogues with Skeptics and Believers is now available in the church parlor as well as on Amazon.com. The origin and ideas for this project sprang from a three-year discussion group at RHCC and on April 12 at 11:30 a.m., following coffee hour, Anita will lead a forum about her book. All are invited to attend!

In addition to being very appreciative of donations of all types of non-perish-able food stuffs and financial support, each month, Neighbor to Neighbor has identified a special “wish list item” for April, of peanut butter and jelly. A food wagon and giving envelopes are located in the Narthex. Please be generous.

Special Request from our RHCC kids: Help create a library for the children of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation! Books are scarce on the reservation, but we’d like to change that! Please check your shelves, your kids’ and grandkids’ shelves, even your neighbors’ shelves for used, “like new” kids’ books to donate. Or, pick up a new book to donate the next time you visit the bookstore. Our goal is to collect as many books as we can to board the Big Red Bus that leaves April 11th for South Dakota. There’s a box in the parlor for the books. Thank you for helping to fill it up!

The Round Hill team will be on the Reservation from July 18 - 25. If you’d like to learn more about this amazing opportunity, join us this Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. in the Meeting Room for our first trip meeting with Samantha Steinmetz from Simply Smiles. Call the Office for more information, or visit the Simply Smiles website, simplysmiles.org

REFLECTION

One day people will touch and talk, perhaps, easily, And loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight; And people will untie themselves as string is unknotted, Unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers,Unfurl, uncurl, as seaweed returned to the sea.And work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying,And play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling;And the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice,And people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.

“Day Dream,” by A.S.J. Tessimond

Cover art: “Easter Morning,” by He Qi © www.heqiart.com

Senior Minister: The Rev. Dr. Edward G. HorstmannMinister Emeritus: The Rev. Dr. Ralph AhlbergMinister of Music: Christopher KabalaChurch School Coordinator: Connie BlundenRound Hill Community Church395 Round Hill Road, Greenwich, CT 06831 203.869.1091 roundhillcommunitychurch.org