ALL SAINTS’ SUNDAY
November 2, 2025 | 8:30 and 11:00am
GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME
Prelude
Fantasy on Amazing Grace
arr. Charles Callahan (b. 1951)
Welcome
Rev. Clover Reuter Beal
Co-Pastor
*Call to Worship
Leader: Like many before us, we gather as God’s people.
People: May the lingering echo of saints resound in our songs.
Leader: May their stories open a space for the Spirit to enter us anew.
People: In remembering them, may we find ourselves re-membered.
Leader: May the God of every generation form us anew for this generation.
All: Surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us worship God.
*Gathering Hymn 645 Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above, Verse 1
*Corporate Confession (Unison)
Holy and merciful God,
surrounded by the great cloud of witnesses,
we confess that we have sinned against you in
thought, word, and deed.
We have not loved you with our whole heart,
nor loved our neighbors as ourselves.
While the saints persevered in faith, we have faltered.
While they bore witness with courage, we have been silent.
While they served sacrificially, we have served ourselves.
Forgive us, renew us, and strengthen us to follow their example,
that we may one day join them in your eternal realm.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
*Assurance of God’s Love
*Response Gloria
*Passing of the Peace
*Hymn
652 A Grateful Heart (Rockingham)
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 the 11:00am service is livestreamed and your child’s image may appear on the video.
Anthem
Kyrie, from Requiem (11:00am)
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
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
Luke 12:15-21 (Pew Bible New Testament Page 64)
Response to Reading
Leader: Listen to the voice of the Spirit speaking to the Church.
People: Thanks be to God.
Sermon
The Abundance of Saints
Rev. Dr. Jason Hays, Executive Minister
Moment for Reflection
Musical Reflection
RESPONDING TO GOD’S GRACE
Offering Ourselves and Our Gifts Rev. Amanda Osenga, 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 Lord be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts.
People: We lift them to the Lord.
Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People: It is right to give God thanks and praise.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you, Gracious God, creator of heaven and earth. You formed us in your image and breathed into us the breath of life. When we turned away, and our love failed, your love remained steadfast. You have been faithful to us through all generations and continue to speak to us today. We praise you for this table of love you spread in the world as a sign of your love for all people. And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven, we praise your name and join in their unending song.
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
Agnus Dei, from Requiem (11:00am)
Gabriel Fauré
*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.
*Recessional Hymn 326 For All the Saints, Verses 1-3 (Sine Nomine)
1 For all the saints who from their labors rest,
Who thee by faith before the world confessed,
Thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest.
2 Thou wast their rock, their fortress, and their might;
Thou, Lord, their captain in the well-fought fight;
Thou, in the darkness drear, their one true light.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
3 O blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle; they in glory shine;
Yet all are one in thee, for all are thine.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Naming of the Saints (In the Columbarium)
Join us in the Columbarium for the continuation of this service with our Naming of the Saints service.
STEWARDSHIP 2026 – SHARING FROM ABUNDANCE
Our stewardship theme this year, Sharing from Abundance, invites us to see generosity as a response to the blessings already present in our lives. Please prayerfully consider making a generous pledge to the worshipful work of our church for 2026, ensuring that Montview will continue to be a place of courage, compassion, inclusion, and joyful responsibility. Pledge online at www.montview.org/giving or by clicking here. On November 26, join us for Stewardship Sunday as we dedicate our commitments to Montview’s many ministries.
WORSHIP PARTICIPANTS
Preacher: Rev. Dr. Jason Hays
Liturgists: Rev. Clover Reuter Beal and Rev. Amanda Osenga
Piano/Conductor: Adam Waite
Organ: Benjamin Corwyn
Reader: Paul Ward (8:30am)
Reader: Douglas Easton (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
Naming of the Saints Service
Location: Columbarium
How to Live Out Matthew 25 in a World Short on Compassion
Mayor Mike Johnston
Location: Sanctuary
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
Naming of the Saints Service
Location: Columbarium
Jubilate Singers (Grades 6-12)
Location: Sanctuary
12:15pm
Seeds of South Sudan Luncheon
Location: Fellowship Hall
4:00pm
JAM (Grades 6-8)
Location: Cellar
6:00pm
MOB (Grades 9-12)
Location: Cellar
PARISH NEWS
Prayer Tree
The people of Jamaica impacted by Hurricane Melissa; Sears Barrett (husband of Colleen Barrett); Edward Collins (son of Dolores Collins); Jolene Cranston; Cindi Graves; Mark Haynes; Joe Hickman; Heather Kerr (mourning the death of her brother-in-law, Dan Kerr); The King Family (mourning the death of Suzy King); Sherwood Lingenfelter (brother of Paul Lingenfelter); Eden Murphy; Jim Polsfut; Kathryn Walton (daughter of MaryGrace Wake); Peggy Whitt; Steve Wrenn (brother of Grover Wrenn)
Deaths
October 24 | Suzy King (Memorial Service November 16 at 2pm in the Sanctuary)
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 Elisabeth Fedde in memory of her sister, Marilyn Raag.
WELCOME MONTVIEW’S NEW ORGANIST: BENJAMIN CORWYN
We’re thrilled to have with us in worship this morning, Montview’s next Organist and Associate Minister of Music: Benjamin Corwyn. Ben is a multi-faceted musician, with a decade’s worth of church organ experience, degrees in Music Composition and
Collaborative Piano, and sings tenor in Denver’s premiere choral group, Kantorei. Welcome, Ben!
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.
REMEMBRANCE OF SAINTS IN THE MONTVIEW GARDEN COLUMBARIUM
*Gathering of the People
Leader: Our help is in the name of the Lord.
People: Who made heaven and earth.
Leader: Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. If anyone believes in me, even though they die, they will live, and whosoever lives and believes in me will never die.
People: Thanks be to God!
*Scripture Lesson Romans 8:31-39
*Naming of the Saints
*A Litany of Thanksgiving
Leader: God of all mercy, creator and maker of all, we come before you this day. We are mortal, formed of earth, and to earth we shall return. Yet, we come in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. We thank you for your loving care of those who have died. Blessed are those who die in the Lord. They rest from their labors and their works follow them.
People: Thanks be to God!
Leader: For the years of fulfillment, for the joys we have known, and for the memories that crowd our hearts; for the unexpected tribute, and the revealing of new beauty in those we have known before,
People: Thanks be to God!
Leader: For hearts that share our sadness and lives that share our empty spaces; for tears which heal and bring release, and which in your time you wipe away,
People: Thanks be to God!
Leader: For the courage which helps us carry on in a new adventure, confident of the nearness and understanding of those who have died,
People: Thanks be to God!
Leader: Above all, for the hope that you have given us through your Son Jesus Christ, that whether we live or whether we die, we belong to God,
People: Thanks be to God!
All: We, your people, who have passed through the valley of the shadow of death, fear no evil, for we live in you, now and forever. Increase in us the Communion of the Saints and the hope of the Risen life, now and forever. In the name of the One who is with us even to the end of time, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
*Closing Hymn For All the Saints
*Blessing
MONTVIEW BOULEVARD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
1980 Dahlia Street, Denver, CO 80220
303.355.1651 | www.montview.org