Welcome to all who are worshipping with us today! It is our privilege to serve you, and we hope you will feel connected and at home. Our community of faith exists to connect people to Jesus and proclaim that God is big enough to shape and transform your life story. As we follow Jesus and connect with all those who come into the church, we hope you find your place in God's story of salvation. It is our vision to be an irresistible church that unapologetically connects you your next-door neighbors, and the next generation to Jesus. Being connected to Jesus leads to a growing relationship with God, a life of purpose, and becoming an activated world-changer.

I hope your time with us will be an encounter with the living God and you experience the love and grace of God through worship and the people at John Wesley UMC.

TODAY'S WORSHIP LEADERS
Preaching Pastor: Rev. David Briggs
Assisting: Dr. Marty Dunbar, Rev. Cheryl Smith, Rev. Todd Cooper
Traditional Worship Team
Modern Worship Team

CALL TO WORSHIP

WORSHIP SONG - My Testimony
I saw Satan fall like lightning
I saw darkness run for cover
But the miracle that I just can't get over
My name is registered in heaven

I believe in signs and wonders
I have resurrection power
Still the miracle that I just can't get over
My name is registered in heaven
My praise belongs to you forever

[CHORUS]
This is my testimony from death to life
Cause grace rewrote my story, I'll testify
By Jesus Christ the Righteous
I'm justified
This is my testimony
This is my testimony

Come together sons and daughters
Bought with blood
And washed in water
Sing the praises of the Spirit
Son and Father
Our God will finish what He started
Our God will finish what He started

[CHORUS]

[BRIDGE] 4x
If I'm not dead, You're not done
Greater things are still to come
Oh I believe

[CHORUS] 2x

WORSHIP SONG - Because He Lives
God sent His Son
They called Him Jesus
He came to love, heal and forgive
He lived and died to buy my pardon
An empty grave is there to prove my Saviour lives

[CHORUS]
Because He lives I can face tomorrow
Because He lives all fear is gone
Because I know He holds the future
And life is worth the living just because He lives

And then one day
I'll cross that river
I'll fight life's final war with pain
And then as death gives way to vict'ry
I'll see the lights of glory and I'll know he lives

[CHORUS] 2x

WELCOME

CHILDREN'S MOMENT - Youth Director, Chris McCarthy

MUSICAL WELCOME - The Blessing
The Lord bless you and keep you
Make His face shine upon you
And be gracious to you
The Lord turn His face toward. you
And give you peace

Amen, amen, amen
Amen, amen, amen

PRAYER AND BLESSING - Rev. Cheryl Smith

THE LORD'S PRAYER

WORSHIP SONG - There Was A Jesus
Every time I try to make it on my own
Every time I try to stand, I start to fall
And all those lonely roads that I have traveled on
There was Jesus

When the life I built came crashing to the ground
When the friends I had were nowhere to be found
I couldn't see it then but I can see it now
There was Jesus

[CHORUS]
In the waiting, in the searching
In the healing, in the hurting
Like a blessing buried in the broken pieces
Every minute, every moment
Where I've been or where I'm going
Even when I didn't know it
Or couldn't see it
There was Jesus

For this man who needs amazing kind of grace
For forgiveness and a price I couldn't pay
I'm not perfect so I thank God every day
There was Jesus
There was Jesus

[CHORUS]

[BRIDGE]
On the mountains
In the valleys
There was Jesus
In the shadows
Of the alleys
There was Jesus
In the fire, in the flood
There was Jesus
Always is and always was, oh
No, I never walk alone
Never walk alone
You're always there

[CHORUS]

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MESSAGE - Rev. David Briggs

WORSHIP SONG - Come Christians Join To Sing
Come, Christians, join to sing:
Alleluia! Amen!
loud praise to Christ our King;
Alleluia! Amen!
Let all, with heart and voice,
before his throne rejoice;
praise is his gracious choice.
Alleluia! Amen!

Come, lift your hearts on high;
Alleluia! Amen!
Let praises fill the sky:
Alleluia! Amen!
He is our guide and friend;
to us he'll condescend;
his love shall never end:
Alleluia! Amen!

Praise yet the Lord again:
Alleluia! Amen!
Life shall not end the strain:
Alleluia! Amen!
On heaven's blissful shore
his goodness we'll adore,
singing forevermore;
Alleluia! Amen!

BENEDICTION