June 22, 2025

JUNE 22, 2025 SECOND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST REV. KENDRA BALLIET ORGANIST JIM ROSS * Please Stand If Able Prelude - Offertoire-Cecile Chaminade Welcome & Announcements *Call to Worship Pastor: As we have been baptized into Christ, People: We are clothed with Christ. Pastor: And if we belong to Christ, People: Then we are Abraham’s offspring Pastor: And heirs according to the promise. People: Thanks be to God. * Opening Hymn – “Come, Christians, Join to Sing” UMH #158 *Unison Prayer Loving and holy God, we confess that we hold tightly to our pride and resist your transforming grace. You offer us freedom and a welcome place in your family, yet we struggle, trying to earn what you have already given. We cling to our old ways of doing and thinking. You call us your beloved children. Help us hear and claim our new identity. Free us from the bonds of limited imagination and empower us to thrive in your life of faith and grace. We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen. *Apostles Creed UMH #881 *Glory Be to the Father UMH #70 Children’s Chat Scripture – Galatians 3:23-29 Pastor: The Word of God for the people of God. People: Thanks be to God Message: “Reflecting Christ” Tithes and Offering Offertory - Beach Spring-Truuke Ameigh *Doxology – UMH #94 Prayers of the People - Joys and Concerns *Prayer Hymn – “As the Deer” TFWS #2025 Pastoral Prayer & Lord’s Prayer *Closing Hymn – “In Christ There Is No East or West” UMH #548 Action Steps and Benediction Postlude - Trumpet Voluntary in D-Robert Lind The flowers on the altar today are given to the glory of God and in honor of the 19th wedding anniversary of Jim & Darlene Ross. Thank you for sharing in this worship service. Please continue to stay in touch through our website (stoneumc.org) and/or by following us on Facebook (Stone UMC). If you have joys or concerns that you would like lifted up in prayer, please fill out the Prayer Card in the pew, on the website, or share them by contacting us at 814-724-6736 or [e-mail]