Second Sunday in Easter Season: When the Unimaginable Has Happened

Sunday, April 11, 2021
10:30 AM 11:30 AM 10:30 11:30

Union Presbyterian Church 200 E Main St Endicott, NY, 13760 United States (map)

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Jesus was supposed to be dead. Everyone was telling Thomas, Jesus was alive. How do your beliefs unravel when the unimaginable happens?

Join us this morning for worship online as we welcome the Rev. Kimberly Chastain to our virtual pulpit. Kimberly is the first installed pastor of Binghamton United Presbyterian Church (the “other UPC”.) She’s been an ordained teaching elder for 36 years, serving in 7 churches in 5 presbyteries. Kimberly is the proud mom of one son and the delighted granmom of one beautiful baby girl, and makes her home in Johnson City with two beautiful nieces and two goofy dogs.

Prelude

“I Know That My Redeemer Liveth (Hannah),” Juliet Calkins, James H. Filmore

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Hymn #312 R

“Christ Is Alive!” Brian Wren

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Christ is alive! Let Christians sing. The cross stands empty to the sky.

Let streets and homes with praises ring. Love, drowned in death, shall never die.

Christ is alive! No longer bound to distant years in Palestine,

But saving, healing, here and now, and touching every place and time.

In every insult, rift, and war, where color, scorn, or weather divide,

Christ suffers still, yet loves the more, and lives, where even hope has died.

Women and men, in age and youth, can feel the Spirit, hear the call,

And find the way, the life, the truth, revealed in Jesus, freed for all.

Christ is alive and comes to bring good news to this and every age;

Till earth and sky and ocean ring with joy, with justice, love, and praise.

Children’s Message

“I Know That My Redeemer Lives!” Samuel Medley, John Hatton

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Anthem

“In Christ Alone,” Mark Hayes

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Piano: Heather Ingraham

Prayer Response #311 R (verse 4)

“Now the Green Blade Rises”

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When our hearts are wintery, grieving or in pain,

Your touch can call us back to life again;

Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been:

Love is come again, like wheat arising green.

Hymn # 372 R

“I Then Shall Live”

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I then shall live as one who’s been forgiven;

I’ll walk with joy to know my debts are paid.

I know my name is clear before my Father;

I am his child, and I am not afraid.

So greatly pardoned, I’ll forgive another;

The law of love I gladly will obey.

I then shall live as one who’s learned compassion;

I’ve been so loved that I’ll risk loving, too.

I know how fear builds walls instead of bridges;

I dare to see another’s point of view.

And when relationships demand commitment,

Then I’ll be there to care and follow through.

Your kingdom come around and through and in me,

Your power and glory, let them shine through me;

Your hallowed name, oh, may I bear with honor,

And may your living kingdom come in me.

The Bread of Live, oh, may I share with honor,

And may you feed a hungry world through me.

Postlude

“The Day of Resurrection,” Larry Shackley

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Pastor: Rev. Patricia Raube

Parish Associate: Rev. Jeff Kellam

Music Director: Chris Bartlette

Music Associate: Colin DeLap

Pianist/Organist: Heather Ingraham

Handbell Director: Claire Bombard

Media Manager: Ryan DeLap

Liturgist: Barbara Ann Dailey

Contributing Pastor: Rev. Kimberly Chastain

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