FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT
March 22, 2026 | 8:30 and 11:00am
GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME
Prelude
Chanson Triste (Une Larme)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Welcome
Rev. Clover Reuter Beal, Co-Pastor
*Call to Worship
Leader: We have wandered far.
People: Yet God has not abandoned us.
Leader: We come with questions we cannot answer.
People: Yet Christ receives our honesty.
Leader: We come in the middle of our journey,
some of us still learning to see.
People: Yet the one who opens eyes meets us here.
Leader: Come, let us worship God, who brings us
from darkness into his marvelous light.
Gathering Hymn 165 The Glory of These Forty Days, Verse 4 
*Corporate Confession (Unison)
Merciful God, we have not loved you with our whole hearts.
We have turned from our neighbors in their need.
We have chosen our comfort over your call.
We have mistaken silence for peace, and distance for safety.
We have grown comfortable in our blindness.
Forgive us, Holy One, and restore us to yourself,
and reconcile us to one another. Amen.
*Assurance of God’s Love
*Response What Wondrous Love Is This
*Passing of the Peace
*Hymn
183 Come to Me, O Weary Traveler (Austin)
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
Mercy Now (8:30am)
Mary Gauthier (b. 1962)
Gladsome Radiance, from All-Night Vigil (11:00am)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Prayer for Illumination (Unison)
Lord, may your Holy Word
be for us the seed of
new possibilities
that blossoms in ways we
cannot yet imagine. Amen.
Scripture Lesson
John 11:30-44 (Pew Bible New Testament Page 91)
Response to Reading
Leader: Listen to the voice of the Spirit speaking to the Church.
People: Thanks be to God.
Sermon
Do You Smell the Stench?
Rev. Dr. Jason Hays, Executive Minister
Moment for Reflection
Musical Reflection
Sanctuary (8:30am)
Eliza Gilkyson (b. 1950)
Agnus Dei, from Missa Mysteriorum (11:00am)
Nancy Galbraith (b. 1951)
RESPONDING TO GOD’S GRACE
Offering Ourselves and Our Gifts Sandy Prouty, Minister of Children & Families
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 223 When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, Verse 4
Prayers of the People and 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.
*Closing Hymn
775 I Want Jesus to Walk with Me (Walk With Me)
This morning’s singing of “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me” – an American Negro Spiritual – is presented in accordance with our reparations royalty pilot program: a practice of valuing the musical contributions of enslaved Africans to American worship and song. All are invited to make a reparation royalty contribution via the pew offering envelope (write “reparations royalty”), at Montview.org/giving (One-time gift: Reparations Royalty Fund) or by clicking here.
Blessing of Prayer Shawls and Quilts (Unison)
May God’s grace be upon these shawls and quilts…
warming, comforting, enfolding and embracing.
May these shawls and quilts be a safe haven…
a sacred place of security and well-being…
sustaining and embracing in good times
as well as difficult ones.
May those who receive these shawls and quilts
be cradled in hope, kept in joy,
graced with peace,
and wrapped in love.
The Prayer Shawls that are blessed at today’s service will be available in the Commons afterwards if you know someone in need of healing.
SENDING IN GOD’S LOVE
*Charge and Benediction
Benediction Response (11:00am)
Kyrie
Plainsong
Postlude
Breslau
arr. Brian Solomons (b. 1948)
MINISTRY HIGHLIGHT: SOCIAL JUSTICE MINISTRY
Montview’s Social Justice Ministry fights injustice on the local, state and federal level and hosts the Palm Sunday breakfast. We focus on hunger because Congress cut SNAP (food stamps) in 2025 by $186 billion to pay for billionaire tax cuts. Stop by the
Commons table to send a card to your Congressperson and join us March 29.
ONE GREAT HOUR OF SHARING
Each gift to One Great Hour of Sharing supports PC(USA) programs that relieve hunger, promote development and assist in areas of disaster. Help provide people with safety, sustenance, and hope by making a donation. Envelopes will be in the pews today, March 22, and on March 29.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Agape Latte
March 22 | 5-7:00pm (Miller Chapel)
Join us for Agape Latte, Montview Youth’s coffeehouse-style concert and fundraiser supporting summer trips to Puerto Rico, Ghost Ranch, and our JAM InTown Mission Immersion. With more than 60 youth participating, our goal is to raise $15,000. Enjoy live performances, Caribbean bowls, festive beverages, and a silent and live auction. The silent auction will be online, so you can browse and bid from your phone. Childcare is available for birth–7 years old. Click here to register, preview auction items, donate, and learn more.
WORSHIP PARTICIPANTS
Preacher: Rev. Dr. Jason Hays
Liturgists: Rev. Clover Reuter Beal and Sandy Prouty
Piano/Conductor: Adam Waite
Organ: Benjamin Corwyn
Soloist: Juli Davidson (8:30am)
Reader: Bob Homiak (8:30am)
Reader: Jacob Kirkwood (11:00am)
Sound: Cate Thieme
Video: John Goerner
Chorus: Westminster Choir (11:00am)
PARISH NEWS
Prayer Tree
The clergy of Jamaica as they support those affected by Hurricane Melissa; Jolene Cranston; Rev. Emory Gillespie; Meg Glazner and family; Cindi Graves; Mark Haynes; Joe Hickman; Tim Hobbins (relative of Cindy and Terry Oakes); The Hoeft Family; Sherwood Lingenfelter (brother of Paul Lingenfelter); Sam Mateo; John Odell and Margaret Gonder-Odell (siblings of John and Peggy Odell Gonder); Vanessa Owen and family (mourning the death of Vanessa’s mother); Jim Polsfut; Keren Roewe; Jan Tazelaar; Anne Tennant; Stuart Tessler (friend of Barbara Furutani)
Births
March 3 | Auggie James Orzolek, child of Madison Smith and Louis Orzolek
January 20 | James Merrifield Weschler, child of Sarah and Charley Weschler
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.
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
Bel Canto Choir (Grades K-5)
Location: Room 205
Assembly: Choir Alternative Fellowship (Grades K-5)
Location: Room 204B
Sunday School (Preschool)
Location: Room 112
JAM in the AM (Grades 6-8)
Location: Cellar
9:40am
Four Voices of Resistance and Hope: Faith in Times of Crisis
James Cone: Black liberation theology
Rev. Dr. Ben Sanders III
Location: Miller Chapel
10:00am
Sunday School (Grades K-5)
Location: Second Floor
11:00am
Worship Service
Location: Sanctuary
12:00pm
Jubilate Singers
Location: Sanctuary
5:00pm
Agape Latte
Location: Miller Chapel
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