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Oasis Worship
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Wednesdays, 6:00-6:30pm.
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Hands and Heart: Why We Serve
Wednesday evening Oasis services of music, prayer, and reflection has started. This seasons theme will focus on living out our faith through volunteering and serving, both inside and outside the walls of St. Luke’s. Each week, we’ll highlight a local organization and hear from a volunteer about how and why they make a difference. We’re also partnering with St. Luke’s Story Circle to learn more about volunteer experiences through storytelling. (Jesus’ favorite way to get a point across!).
Come, relax, connect, listen, learn, and be. No matter who you are or where you come from, you are welcome here.​​​​​​
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November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving Eve
Prelude
David and Malia
Welcome
Opening Hymn
“Come, Ye Thankful People, Come” #693
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Let Us Give Thanks - by Gerhard Frost
Leader: Let us give thanks this moment
Cong: for the sturdy fact of God’s continuing love, for mercies which go before us and follow after us, for those free gifts which cost God so much.
Leader: Let us give thanks
Cong: for memory and expectation, for the good that we have known and know today in Jesus Christ, for the Spirit’s brooding presence in our nights and in our days.
Leader: Let us give thanks
Cong: for pleasures which comfort and pains which force our growth and keep us at the Shepherd’s side, for deep meanings revealed and mysteries mercifully concealed, for the image of God within us, the capacity to inquire and adore.
Leader: Let us give thanks
Cong: for one another, for just being together, for differences which complement and complete, for gifts which enrich and disagreements which challenge, for our oneness in Christ.
Leader: Let us give thanks
Cong: for melody and mirth, for rhythm and beat, for the repeated and common, for the ever-unfolding, and for senses with which to respond.
Leader: And let us give thanks for someone to thank.
Cong: Amen.
Athem
Grace Notes
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Leader: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Cong: And also with you.
Prayer of the Day
Leader: Almighty God, your generous goodness comes to us new every day. By the work of your Spirit lead us every day to acknowledge your goodness, to give thanks, and to serve you in willing surrender, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. And all God’s children said loudly…Amen!
Holy Gospel: Matthew 6:25-33
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For it is the gentiles who seek all these things, and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
The Gospel of the Lord...Thanks be to God!
Message
Hymn of the Day
“For the Beauty of the Earth” #879
Announcements
Offering
"Ainta That Good News" - Chorale
Prayers
Words of Institution
The Lord’s Prayer
Communion Song
“Morning by Morning”
Communion Blessing and Benediction
Closing Hymn
“Gratitude”
Go in peace, serve the Lord...Thanks be to God!
Postlude
Ross