7/19/26 Bulletin
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UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF HANCOCK
We respect tradition — and we welcome inclusive language about people and expansive language about God. Please pray using words most meaningful to you.
Open and Affirming of ALL God’s Children
July 19, 2026 at 10:00 a.m.
Welcome Monteux Musicians!
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Meeting ID: 839 3635 9115 Passcode: 776780
The first pew in front of the pulpit has books and quiet activities for people of all ages.
Please find something that suits you, take it to your pew, and return it after the service.
Silent Prayer
Righteous God, test us and stretch us, strengthen us in your truth and justice, fortify us with resolve and power so that we might be the people you have called us to be. Holy One, even beyond forgiveness, we seek transformation. Renew our minds, open our hearts, and release our hands to repair, reconcile, and restore in your name. Keep us from being the cause of suffering. Equip us to be agents of healing. Make us attentive to your presence. Attune us to your will. Lead us on the path you have paved before us so that the grace we receive will sow seeds of redemption and healing in the world. Amen.
* Indicates when we stand in body or spirit.
Announcements
Prelude
Welcome
*Introit As We Are Gathered R. #243 As we are gath-ered, Je-sus is here; / one with each oth-er, Je-sus is here.
Joined by the Spir-it built up in love, / part of the bod-y, the church of God.
*Call to Worship (from Psalm 65)
Leader: The Holy One is in this place! Do we know it?
All: The Holy One has searched and known us, our path, and all our ways.
Leader: The Holy One is in this place! Such knowledge is too wonderful!
All: Wherever we go, the Spirit goes with us! We cannot flee, for God is there!
Leader: The Holy One is in this place! The Spirit bears witness with our spirit, and we gather and wait in hope.
All: The Holy One is with us. Praise God!
Passing the Peace and Lighting Peace & Justice Candle
*Hymn Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound B. #547
Amazing grace how sweet the sound,
that saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
was blind, but now I see.
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
and grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
the hour I first believed!
Through many dangers, toils, and snares,
I have already come;
'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
and grace will lead me home.
My God has promised good to me,
whose word my hope secures;
God will my shield and portion be
as long as life endures.
When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’d first begun.
*Invocation (in unison)
Holy Love, we come before you knowing you go before us and you keep us in safety. We come to this place in space and time across distance and difference as your offspring to receive an inheritance of your promise and to renew our lives in your covenant. Let our spirits receive your word and our hearts ignite with your compassion, mercy, and righteousness. Let your kin-dom spread in us and through us as we worship and follow you. Amen.
Children’s Message Rev. Hannah
Scripture Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24 and Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
Special Music
Message Rev. Hannah Mondrach
*Hymn Great is Your Faithfulness B. #423
Great is your faithfulness, O God, Creator,
with you no shadow of turning we see.
You do not change, your compassions they fail not;
all of your goodness forever will be.
Refrain:
Great is your faithfulness! Great is your faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed your hand has provided,
Great is your faithfulness, God, unto me!
Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,
sun, moon and stars in their courses above,
Join with all nature in manifold witness
to your great faithfulness, mercy, and love.
Refrain
Great is your faithfulness! Great is your faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed your hand has provided,
Great is your faithfulness, God, unto me!
Pardon for sin and a peace so enduring,
your own dear presence to cheer and to guide.
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
blessings all mine with ten thousand beside.
Refrain
Prayers of the People – Sharing Joys & Concerns –
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father (Mother, Creator) 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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass
against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the
kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen
Lead me Lord, lead me in thy righteousness, make thy way plain before my face.
For it is thou Lord, thou Lord, only, that makest me dwell in safety.
Invitation to Offering – God’s gifts are generous and abundant. Give in the spirit of sufficiency and trust that God has provided for all of our needs. Our gifts enable us to share abundance so that all may feast and rejoice in God’s creation.
Offertory Pastorale on Psalm 23 Robert Powell
*The Doxology
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below; Praise
God for all that love has done; Creator, Christ, and Spirit, One. Amen
*Prayer of Dedication (in unison)
Holy One, may these gifts reflect our trust in you and your provision. Magnify them for your purpose and grant us discernment to be caretakers of the resources entrusted to us. Amen.
*Hymn Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee R. #7
Joyful, joyful, we adore thee, God of glory, Lord of love;
hearts unfold like flowers before thee, opening, to the sun above.
Melt the clouds of sin and sadness, drive the dark of doubt away;
giver of immortal gladness, fill us with the light of day.
All thy works with joy surround thee, earth and heaven reflect thy rays,
stars and angels sing around thee, center of unbroken praise.Field and forest, vale and mountain, flowery meadow, flashing sea,chanting bird and flowing fountain, call us to rejoice in thee.
Thou art giving and forgiving, ever blessing, ever blessed,
well-spring of the joy of living, ocean depth of happy rest!
Source of grace and fount of blessing, all who live in love are thine;
teach us how to love each other, lift us to the joy divine.
Mortals, join the happy chorus which the morning stars began;
God’s own love is reigning o’er us,
joining people hand in hand.
Ever singing, march we onward, victors in the midst of strife,
joyful music leads us sun-ward in the triumph song of life.
*Benediction
*Sung Benediction Love God with Your Heart R. #79
Love God with your heart and your neigh-bor as your-self;
Love God with your mind and your neigh-bor as your-self;
Love God with your strength and your neigh-bor as your-self.
Postlude
(Please remain seated for the Postlude)
If you are visiting with us today, please sign our Guest Book
in the back of the sanctuary.
Our Monteux student musicians for today are Aria Anderson (Viola) & Cornelia DiGioia (Violin)
Aria Anderson is a dynamic and in-demand artist in each of her chosen fields. Beginning her musical journey at the age of three, she often snuck out at night to listen to violin lessons taking place downstairs, and her passion for music and beauty has never faded. As a violinist, violist, and vocalist she has been touring in Asia, Europe, and North America since she was nine years old, and frequently performs with local Philadelphian orchestras. She is an enthusiastic chamber musician and pedagogue, and a proud junior faculty member at Blue Mountain Chamber Music Festival. Aria received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy before beginning a masters in viola performance program, which she completed in the studio of Kerri Ryan at Temple University. She then began a professional studies program before matriculating into Temple’s DMA program, continuing under Kerri Ryan. Her past teachers include Sherri Anderson, John Gerschefski, Igor Fedotov, and Ana Tsinadze. As a vocalist, she studied with Joy Meade and Damian Savarino.
Cornelia Di Gioia is a violinist and violist who studied music and history at Grinnell College. She began violin at age six, primarily studying with Sheila Hanford, and continued her studies at Grinnell with Tracy Engman Finkelshteyn and Charles Miranda. Throughout her youth, Cornelia was a member of Midwest Young Artists Conservatory, and soloed multiple times with a chamber orchestra run by retired principal violist of the Chicago Symphony, Charles Pikler. She has performed in masterclasses with groups including the Lincoln Trio, Risus Quartet, Jupiter String Quartet and the Cavani String Quartet, and participated in festivals including the Castleman Quartet Program and the Monteux School and Music Festival. Along with leading the ensemble as concertmaster for most of her time at the college, in Spring of 2026, Cornelia was selected to perform the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Grinnell Symphony Orchestra. She is also very interested in historical musicology and early music, and plays baroque violin, viola and viola da gamba. In her free time, she likes to dance, make art, and woodcarve, and she is currently learning to play the accordion.
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Many thanks to those who make this service possible –
in front of the camera and behind the scenes.
Sabbatical Minister – Rev. Hannah Mondrach
Music Minister – Debbie Riley
Deacons – Everett Espling and David Wildes
Liturgist – Pat Summerer
Audio-Video Support – Mike Summerer
Office Administrator – Vicky Espling
Settled Minister – Rev. TJ Mack
The Body of Christ – You
Resources:
The New Century Hymnal (B.) Hymns of Truth and Light (R.)
Copyright © 1995 The Pilgrim Press Copyright © 1998 First Congregational
Church of Huston, Texas
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Great Is Your Faithfulness
Words - ©1923, 1951 Hope Publishing Company
Contributors: Thomas O Chisholm
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
Words and Music - ©2020 Stephen DeCesare / Exultet Music
Contributors: Henry Van Dyke, Ludwig Beethoven, Stephen DeCesare
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