Weekly Bulletin: 6/14/26
JUNE 14, 2026 ORDER OF WORSHIP
WELCOME Rev. Jacob T. Jackson
ANNOUNCEMENTS Liturgist
PRELUDE Dr. Banks
INVOCATION (Remain Seated) Liturgist
Holy and just God,
Open our eyes this morning
not just to what is seen, but to what is hidden.
Give us hearts that are willing to be stirred,
even when the truth is uncomfortable.
Convict us where we have ignored injustice.
Humble us where we have benefited without noticing the cost.
And shape us into people who reflect your kingdom
a kingdom not built on exploitation,
but on love, sacrifice, and grace.
In the name of Jesus,
who gave His life to give us life,
Amen.
**CALL TO WORSHIP Liturgist
Leader: We gather in a world that celebrates power, achievement, and glory.
People: But we come to worship a God who sees what others overlook.
Leader: Where the world praises what is built,
People: God remembers who built it.
Leader: Where the world counts success,
People: God counts every life, every story, every sacrifice.
Leader: Come, let us worship the One who hears the cries of the oppressed,
People: And calls us to justice, mercy, and humility.
All: Let us worship God.
**WORSHIP SONG "Build Your Kingdom Here”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GrGrddmZvA (Chris Llewellyn, Gareth Gilkeson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbdJXKqVgtg (Rend Collective)
Verse 1
Come set Your rule and reign
In our hearts again
Increase in us we pray
Unveil why we're made
Come set our hearts ablaze with hope
Like wildfire in our very souls
Holy Spirit come invade us now
We are Your church
We need Your pow'r in us
Verse 2
We seek Your kingdom first
We hunger and we thirst
Refuse to waste our lives
For You're our joy and prize
To see the captives' hearts released
The hurt the sick the poor at peace
We lay down our lives for heaven's cause
We are Your church
We pray revive this earth
Chorus
Build Your kingdom here
Let the darkness fear
Show Your mighty hand
Heal our streets and land
Set Your church on fire
Win this nation back
Change the atmosphere
Build Your kingdom here we pray
Verse 3
Unleash Your kingdom's pow'r
Reaching the near and far
No force of hell can stop
Your beauty changing hearts
You made us for much more than this
Awake the kingdom seed in us
Fill us with the strength and love of Christ
We are Your church
We are the hope on earth
Chorus
Build Your kingdom here
Let the darkness fear
Show Your mighty hand
Heal our streets and land
Set Your church on fire
Win this nation back
Change the atmosphere
Build Your kingdom here we pray
OFFERING & OFFERTORY
**DOXOLOGY
Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him all creatures here below;
Praise Him above ye heav’nly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
OFFERTORY PRAYER Rev. Jacob T. Jackson
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Rev. Jacob T. Jackson
John 16:13
JOYS AND CONCERNS Rev. Jacob T. Jackson
PASTORAL PRAYER
LORD’S PRAYER
SCRIPTURE READING Exodus 1:8-14, 22 NRSV Liturgist
8 Now a new king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph.
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9 He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we.
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10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”
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11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh.
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12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.
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13 The Egyptians subjected the Israelites to hard servitude
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14 and made their lives bitter with hard servitude in mortar and bricks and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.
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22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”
RESPONSE TO SCRIPTURE Liturgist
Liturgist: The Word of God for the people of God.
Congregation: Thanks be to God.
SPECIAL MUSIC Dr. Banks
SCRIPTURE READING 1 Kings 5:13-18; 12:4 NRSV Liturgist
13 King Solomon conscripted forced labor out of all Israel; the levy numbered thirty thousand men.
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14 He sent them to the Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts; they would be a month in the Lebanon and two months at home; Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.
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15 Solomon also had seventy thousand laborers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hill country,
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16 besides Solomon’s three thousand three hundred supervisors who were over the work, having charge of the people who did the work.
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17 At the king’s command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.
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18 So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites did the stonecutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.
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4 “Your father made our yoke heavy. Now, therefore, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke that he placed on us, and we will serve you.”
RESPONSE TO SCRIPTURE Liturgist
Liturgist: The Word of God for the people of God.
Congregation: Thanks be to God.
SERMON “The Price of the Pitch” Rev. Jacob T. Jackson
**UMH HYMN #431 “Let There Be Peace On Earth”
Let there be peace on earth,
and let it begin with me;
Let there be peace on earth,
the peace that was meant to be.
With God our creator,
children all are we.
Let us walk with each other
in perfect harmony.
Let peace begin with me;
let this be the moment now.
With every step I take,
let this be my solemn vow:
to take each moment
and live each moment
in peace eternally.
Let there be peace on earth,
and let it begin with me.
FELLOWSHIP BLESSING Youth Representative
God,
Thank you for this food and for bringing us together.
As we eat, help us remember those who don’t have enough
and teach us to care for others.
Bless our time together and our conversations.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
**BENEDICTION Rev. Jacob T. Jackson
POSTLUDE Dr. Banks
(Please be seated as the postlude closes our service)