WORLD COMMUNION SUNDAY
October 5, 2025 | 8:30 & 11:00am
GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME
Prelude
Air
Gerre Hancock (1934-2012)
Welcome
Rev. Clover Reuter Beal
Co-Pastor
*Call to Worship
Leader: The table is wide, stretching farther than our fear.
All: The welcome is wide, gathering those long excluded or unsure they belong.
Leader: Here the hurting find bread, and the weary find rest.
All: Here the joyful share the cup, and the doubtful are not turned away.
Leader: Let us worship the One who sets a table of wide welcome.
All: Let us rejoice in the feast of inclusion, for the body is one, and we belong to one another.
*Gathering Hymn 15 All Creatures of Our God and King, Verse 1
Corporate Confession (Unison)
Hospitable God,
you invite us to a banquet where the last are first
and the mighty and humble trade places.
Too often we turn away—
we’re busy, uncomfortable with the guest list,
or unmoved by the menu of grace.
Forgive us. Open our hearts to receive your welcome,
and lead us to make room at your abundant table
for neighbors and strangers alike. Amen.
*Assurance of God’s Love
*Response Gloria (Sung two times)
*Passing of the Peace
*Hymn
506 Look Who Gathers at Christ’s Table! (Copeland)
LISTENING FOR GOD’S WORD
Word to the Children
When the music begins, children are invited to gather on the chancel steps as we sing, “This is where children belong, part of our family, part of our song. Be with us, pray with us, help us grow strong: this is where children belong.” Please note that the 11:00am service is livestreamed and your child’s image may appear on the video.
Anthem
Chega De Saudade (No More Blues) (8:30am)
Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927-1994)
Roll Down, Justice (11:00am)
Mark Miller (b. 1967)
Prayer for Illumination (Unison)
O God, open our hearts by the power
of your Holy Spirit
so that the words of Scripture
may become your Living Word.
Amen.
Scripture Lesson
1 Corinthians 12:12-26 (Pew Bible New Testament Page 153)
Response to Reading
Leader: Listen to the voice of the Spirit speaking to the Church.
People: Thanks be to God.
Sermon
The Table is Wide and the Body is One
Rev. Dr. Jason Hays, Executive Minister
Moment for Reflection
Musical Reflection
RESPONDING TO GOD’S GRACE
Offering Ourselves and Our Gifts Rev. Dr. Lorraine Leist, Associate Pastor
Making a financial gift makes Montview’s programs and ministries possible, including this worship service. You are invited to give generously at www.montview.org/giving or by texting a dollar amount to 720.452.6449. Offering boxes are stationed at the exit for cash and checks. We’re grateful for your support.
All are invited to sign and pass the Friendship Pad and greet each other by name.
*Prayer of Dedication (Unison)
God, you have so greatly loved us, long sought us, and mercifully redeemed us. Give us grace that in everything, we may yield ourselves, our wills and our works, a continual thank offering to you. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
*Response
607 Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow (Doxology)
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Christ, all people here below; Praise Holy Spirit evermore; Praise Triune God, whom we adore. Amen.
THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER
Invitation to the Lord’s Table
Great Thanksgiving
Leader: The bread we share this day is sacred. Grain, gift of the earth, gives life.
People: The friendship we share this day is sacred. Gatherings, when we pray and sing, celebrate life.
Leader: The laughter we share this day is sacred. Joy and sorrow that rise from love are springs of life.
People: The stillness we share this day is sacred. In this peace is a haven for the spirit, which nurtures life.
Leader: For bread, for friends, for joy and sorrow, for the comfort of quietness – let us be grateful.
People: Behold these breads from the earth’s many grains, from the hands of many peoples:
Leader: Loaves of barley, made holy by the toil of the people and the soil of the earth in Egypt, Africa, and the Middle East….Tortillas, also unleavened, made holy by the struggles for justice in this hemisphere.
People: With our daily breads: may there be enough for all earth’s peoples; May there be enough for all earth’s children.
Leader: With these breads: may we be made holy by sharing in the labors, toils and struggles of the many around the globe.
People: May we be made holy by the sharing of our sustenance with our siblings who circle the earth. May we be one!
Leader: In joining our hearts together, we find Your love is satisfied and our way is clear. Let us join in earth’s great song of praise to our God:
Eucharistic Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer (Unison)
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.
Words of Institution
Communion of the People
You are invited to come forward, offering your open palms to the communion server. Once you receive a piece of communion bread and juice, please bring them back to your seat in the pews. Bread at every station is gluten-free. The Presbyterian tradition does not include a specific rite for first Communion. Our parents decide when their children are ready to participate. If you’d like to receive communion in your pew, please signal to a server when they come down the aisle at the conclusion of communion.
Communion Music
Quintessence (8:30am)
Quincy Jones (1933-2024)
Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether (11:00am)
Harold Friedell (1905-1958)
*Prayer of Thanksgiving (Unison)
Gracious God, you have made us one with all your people in heaven and earth. You have fed us with the bread of life and renewed us for your service. Help us, who have shared Christ’s body and received his cup, to be faithful disciples, so that our daily living may reflect your presence among us, and our love be your love, reaching out into the world; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
*Closing Hymn
546 Lord, Dismiss Us with Your Blessing (Sicilian Mariners)
SENDING IN GOD’S LOVE
*Charge and Benediction
Benediction Response (11:00am)
A Gaelic Blessing
John Rutter (b. 1945)
Postlude
Allegro Assai Vivace, from Sonata I
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
WORSHIP PARTICIPANTS
Preacher: Rev. Dr. Jason Hays
Liturgists: Rev. Clover Reuter Beal and Rev. Dr. Lorraine Leist
Piano/Conductor: Adam Waite
Guest Organist: Daniel Romero
Trumpet: Shane Endsley (8:30am)
Reader: George Moseley (11:00am)
Sound: Cate Thieme
Video: John Goerner
Chorus: Westminster Choir (11:00am)
TODAY AT MONTVIEW
8:00am- 12:30pm
Childcare – Ages Birth-7
Location: Preschool Floor
Enter via the Commons past Heritage Center to the Education wing.
8:30am
Worship Service
Location: Sanctuary
8:45am
Youth Bells (Grades 3-8)
Location: Room 206B
9:30am
Fall Ministry Fair
Location: Fellowship Hall
Bel Canto Choir (Grades K-5)
Location: Room 205
Assembly: Choir Alternative Fellowship (Grades K-5)
Location: Room 204B
Confirmation
Location: Confirmation Room
Sunday School (Preschool)
Location: Room 112
JAM in the AM (Grades 6-8)
Location: Cellar
10:00am
Sunday School (Grades K-5)
Location: Second Floor
11:00am
Worship Service
Location: Sanctuary
12:00pm
Jubilate Singers
Location: Sanctuary
JAM (Grades 6-8) – Corn Maze
Location: Off-Site
6:00pm
MOB (Grades 9-12)
Location: Cellar
PARISH NEWS
Prayer Tree
Sears Barrett (husband of Colleen Barrett); Diane Bassett; Jolene Cranston; Mary Gerwin (mourning the death of her mother, Marie Gerwin); Nancy Getzinger and family (mourning the death of Nancy’s brother, Dick Getzinger); Janine Haugen and family (mourning the death of Janine’s father, Alan Espelien); Mark Haynes; Joe Hickman; Lynn Merwin and family (mourning the death of Lynn’s mother, Ethel Merwin); Eden Murphy; Margaret Pearce (friend of Peggy Gonder); Jim Polsfut; Damara Rice (great niece of The Rev. JeanAnne Swope); Lynne Sheridan (mourning the death of her mother, Nellie Jean Sheridan); Franklin Thompson (brother of Dolores Collins); Kathryn Walton (daughter of MaryGrace Wake); Mary Weinzirl (friend of Sharon Craft); Steve Wrenn (brother of Grover and Suzie Wrenn)
Pastoral Care Concerns
Please reach out to the church with pastoral care concerns such as illnesses, hospitalizations, deaths, births, or any other change of personal circumstances or condition. Contact: caring@montview.org or (303) 355-1651 (general mailbox voicemail). For pastoral care emergencies, please call (303) 355-1651 and press 4.
Flower Dedication
The flowers in the chancel today are given to the glory of God by Christy Jordan in memory of Dr. Dave Hutchison.
PEACE & GLOBAL WITNESS OFFERING
Montview has a tradition of supporting the Presbyterian Church’s Peace and Global Witness Offering. A gift to this offering enables the church to promote the Peace of Christ by addressing systems of conflict and injustice across the world. Help equip peacemakers in congregations and around the world by making a donation. Envelopes will be in the pews on October 5.
ABOUT THIS SERVICE
Assistive listening devices are available in the sound booth in the back of the sanctuary.
Restrooms are available in the Commons. An all-gender restroom is available on the lower level across from Youth Cellar.
A room for families with children who are not enjoying the service is below the sanctuary with livestream.
Childcare is available for ages Birth-7 on the Preschool floor.
Please note that the 11:00am worship service will be livestreamed to several social media platforms and your image may appear on the livestream video.
MONTVIEW BOULEVARD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
1980 Dahlia Street, Denver, CO 80220
303.355.1651 | www.montview.org