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Central United
Methodist Church

Pentecost Sunday

May 23, 2021
10:45 a.m.

Our Vision:

Making Christ known by extending hospitality,
serving the community, and embracing all.

201 - 3rd Avenue Knoxville TN 37917
www.knoxcentralumc.org

Welcome! We’re glad you are here. Keeping in mind our call to do no harm, please remember the
five core practices: Wear a mask, physically distance of at least 6ft, wash your hands,
disinfect frequently used surfaces and opt to worship online if you feel sick.

We Gather to Praise God

Gathering Music

Prelude We Pray Now to the Holy Spirit Dieterich Buxtehude

Welcome The Spirit of God be with you! And also with you! Rev. Jimmy Sherrod

Opening Prayer Rev. Stephanie Parrott

Call to Worship

The Spirit is here among us
within us, around us, between us.

The Spirit is here to strengthen us
bringing courage, bringing conviction.

The Spirit is here to move us,
making us sing and praise.

The Spirit is here.
May we feel the Spirit as we gather. May we be fed by her fiery strength.
May we be emboldened by her powerful wind.

We gather in the Spirit's arms to be nurtured as we worship.
And may our worship fill us with the Spirit as we go back out into our daily lives.
Come, Holy Spirit, Come!

Opening Song O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing Miller/57 UMH

O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise,
the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace, the triumphs of his grace!

My gracious Master and my God, assist me to proclaim,
to spread through all the earth abroad the honors of thy name, the honors of thy name.

Jesus! the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease;
'tis music in the sinner's ears, 'tis life, and health, and peace,

He speaks, and listening to his voice, new life the dead receive;
the mournful, broken hearts rejoice, the humble poor believe,

O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise,
the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace, the triumphs of his grace!

We Listen to Hear God’s Voice

Scripture Acts 2:1-13
A Time For Young Christians
Rev. Parrott
Song Song of Pentecost Joel Raney
Sermon I Love To Tell the Story: Power and Joy!
Rev. Sherrod
We Respond to God’s Great Love Douglas Nolan

Song On the Day of Pentecost UMH 156

Offering Our Gifts

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.

*Closing Song We Are Scattered to Serve God In Our World

I Love to Tell the Story (vv. 1,2,4)

I love to tell the story, of unseen things above,
of Jesus and his glory, of Jesus and his love.

I love to tell the story, because I know ’tis true.
It satisfies my longing, as nothing else can do.

Benediction [Refrain] I love to tell the story, ’twill be my theme in glory.
To tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.

I love to tell the story, for those who know it best
seem hungering and thirsting to hear it, like the rest.
And when, in scenes of glory, I sing the new, new song,
’twill be the old, old story that I have loved so long. [Refrain]

Send Us Out
Send us out to proclaim the reign of Your kingdom.

Send us out to proclaim and to heal.
Send us out with your power and your authority

to overcome and to heal the world.

Postlude Come Down, O Love Devine Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Sunday, May 23, 2021

Peter Keyes is a patient at Tennova North as he struggles to recover from a rupture appendix and the resulting
infection.

Belle Blanton (Barry and Christina Blanton's 3-month-old daughter) was admitted to East Tennessee Children's
Hospital with a urinary infection and respiratory virus. She will be there for a couple of days to watch for signs
of pneumonia.

Sandra Perry has a recurrence of the intestinal infection for which she was recently hospitalized. She is home
on a new antibiotic and feeling much better.

Billy Varnell is recovering from a break in one leg and trying to avoid reconstructive surgery on that leg.

Kyle DeBusk (Susie Knable's Akers cousin) will have reconstructive surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical
Center on Monday. The doctors will insert a device into his pelvis in hope that he will be able to walk again
after 13 months

Kay Hodge (mother of the Cottrell's son-in-law, Jeff Hodge, and grandmother of Jordan Shaver) passed away
Thursday morning. Remember her family in your prayers.

Kenny Johnson (Doug Johnson's brother) has stage 3 colon cancer and will begin radiation therapy and chem-
otherapy soon.

Barbara Severiano (Patty Parham's friend) will have surgery Monday to remove a large fibroid tumor.

Please continue to remember Clara Hagaman (1412 Tipton Station Rd, 37920), Sancy Hail (7545 Thunder Ct,
Powell, 37849), Bobbie Jones (friend of Carolyn Cottrell), Allen Knable (4371 Lifespring Ln, Room
303, 37918), Barbara Marks (1315 Snowdon Dr., 37912), Richard Moon (7655 April Cross, Corryton,
37721), Doris Jean Moore (7404 Kentfield Dr, 37919), and Billy Varnell (4121 Riverstone Ln, 37918).