sunday november 23, 2025

Fruitland United Methodist Church
November 23, 2025

*(Please stand if you are comfortably able.)

Prelude: “Thanksgiving Celebration”

Welcoming the Light of Christ and inviting the neighborhood to worship.

Welcome and Announcements
*Call to Worship
Lord, your kingdom comes closer every day.
Help us to build it stone by stone.
Lord, your garden grows abundantly.
Give us the tools to care for your creation.
Lord, we thank you for your creation, from the smallest quarks to the largest galaxies.
Help us to see beyond ourselves and experience your universal love.

*Sharing the peace of Christ.
*Sing: “Great is Thy Faithfulness” UMH 140

Psalm 100- Roxie Tolbert UMH 821

Time With Young Christians – Pastor
(Please write prayer concerns and celebrations on yellow notepads, to be collected.)

Time of Community Expressions
   Hymn: “Holy, Holy, Holy” TFWS 2007
   Thanksgiving and Celebration
   Prayers for Healing and Wholeness
   Our Community and The World
And now, we pray in the way that Jesus taught us to pray, "Our
Father, who art in heaven . . . "

*Hymn – “His Eye is on the Sparrow” TFWS 2146

Invitation to Generosity – Pastor
   Offertory “Children of the Heavenly Father” by Swedish Medlody, arranged by F. Bock
*Doxology Praise God, from whom all blessings flow . . . UMH 95

Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 29: 1, 4-14

Sermon: “Hope is Possible All the Time.”

*Prayer of Confession:
Holy Lord, we admit that we have lost hope in our day-to-day,
often forgetting that our hope comes from you. Help us
remember that hope is possible all the time. Amen.

Hymn: “Soon and Very Soon” UMH 706

Pastoral Benediction:
Go forth in the light of Christ.
May joy fill your hearts, hope renew your vision, and peace guide your steps. Amen.

Postlude: “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise”

If needing pastoral care while Pastor Jorge is out of town, you may contact
Chip Johnson, pastor of Payette UMC. His phone is 208-546-9137.