worship service january 18 2026
Martin Luther King, jr.--His life and ministry
We are honored to welcome Congresswoman maggie goodlander, who will be our speaker
ORDER OF WORSHIP
Call to Worship
HYMN: Lift Every Voice and Sing (See the story about this hymn)
MLK READING: Bus boycott, Montgomery, AL (1956) -- Read By--Karen Roach
SCRIPTURE—Matthew 5:38-49
ANTHEM: Guide My Feet Lord
MLK READING: Last Sunday Sermon, (March 31, 1968)--Read By--Teri Harkins
HYMN: Just A Closer Walk With Thee
THOUGHTS ON Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ..... Rep. Maggie Goodlander
UNISON PRAYER by Dr. King
Our Father God, who dost overarch our fleeting years with thine eternity and
Dost undergird our weakness with thy strength, in the midst of the pressures of another day, as we face its vast concerns. Above all else, save us from succumbing to the tragic temptation of becoming cynical. In Jesus Name, AMEN
LORD’S PRAYER
WORSHIP OF GOD WITH OUR OFFERINGS
OFFERTORY: If I Can Help Somebody
HYMN: Battle Hymn of the Republic (v. 1-4)
BENEDICTION: We Shall Overcome
STORY BEHIND THE ANTHEM--LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING
Lift Every Voice and Sing, by James Weldon Johnson: Mr. Johnson tells about the origin of that hymn: “A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercises. I wrote the words and he wrote the music. Our New York publisher, Edward B. Marks, made mimeographed copies for us, and the song was taught to and sung by a chorus of five hindered colored school children. Shortly afterwards my brother and I moved away from Jacksonville to New York, and the song passed out of our minds. But the school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children. Within twenty years, it was being sung over the South and in some other parts of the country. Today the song, popularly known as the Negro National Hymn, is quite generally used. The lines of this song repay me in an elation, almost of exquisite anguish, whenever I hear them sung by Negro children”
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 debts as we forgive our debtors
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen
Click on the hymns below to follow or sing along
Call to Worship
HYMN: Lift Every Voice and Sing (See the story about this hymn)
MLK READING: Bus boycott, Montgomery, AL (1956) -- Read By--Karen Roach
SCRIPTURE—Matthew 5:38-49
ANTHEM: Guide My Feet Lord
MLK READING: Last Sunday Sermon, (March 31, 1968)--Read By--Teri Harkins
HYMN: Just A Closer Walk With Thee
THOUGHTS ON Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ..... Rep. Maggie Goodlander
UNISON PRAYER by Dr. King
Our Father God, who dost overarch our fleeting years with thine eternity and
Dost undergird our weakness with thy strength, in the midst of the pressures of another day, as we face its vast concerns. Above all else, save us from succumbing to the tragic temptation of becoming cynical. In Jesus Name, AMEN
LORD’S PRAYER
WORSHIP OF GOD WITH OUR OFFERINGS
OFFERTORY: If I Can Help Somebody
HYMN: Battle Hymn of the Republic (v. 1-4)
BENEDICTION: We Shall Overcome
STORY BEHIND THE ANTHEM--LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING
Lift Every Voice and Sing, by James Weldon Johnson: Mr. Johnson tells about the origin of that hymn: “A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercises. I wrote the words and he wrote the music. Our New York publisher, Edward B. Marks, made mimeographed copies for us, and the song was taught to and sung by a chorus of five hindered colored school children. Shortly afterwards my brother and I moved away from Jacksonville to New York, and the song passed out of our minds. But the school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children. Within twenty years, it was being sung over the South and in some other parts of the country. Today the song, popularly known as the Negro National Hymn, is quite generally used. The lines of this song repay me in an elation, almost of exquisite anguish, whenever I hear them sung by Negro children”
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 debts as we forgive our debtors
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen
Click on the hymns below to follow or sing along
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