We Gather as God’s People Open our hearts and our minds and our hands

to know that we cannot contain you


PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE & THE LORD’S PRAYER

or fathom the depths of your love,
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but are invited to meet you here.
PRAYER OF DEDICATION
CALL TO WORSHIP silence We seek and rekindle the divine spark
One: In the beauty of this moment

As we encounter your simplicity
 that God places in each of us

All: We worship you.

may we be awed by your majesty
 lighting the world as we serve

One: In the fellowship of your people

and worship you with all that we have. Amen. with the brightness of God’s love.
All: We worship you.
Use us as agents of your love, healing God,

One: In the presence of your Spirit

ALL-SAINTS CANDLE LIGHTING like the servant girl’s simple words

All: We worship you.

may we be reminded of the power of the simplest gestures.
One: In the company of all creation

We Listen for God’s Word
Use our time, our skills, our resources

All: We worship you.

to serve to create a community of grace. Amen.
One: Source, Savior, Spirit; Trinity in Unity

All: We worship you. HEBREW SCRIPTURE (on insert) 1 Kings 3:5-15
THE LORD’S SUPPER
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GOSPEL Luke 4:21-30
We Are Sent Into God’s World
PASSING THE PEACE
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YOUNG PEOPLE’S MESSAGE fulfilled in your hearing.” All spoke well of him and were
amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They BENEDICTION
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will quote to me this proverb, ‘Doctor, cure yourself!’ And you
will say, ‘Do here also in your hometown the things that we have
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heard you did at Capernaum.’”
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God of marvelous mountains, God of minute molehills,
 And he said, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the
Helping Refugee Families: there is a red box in the fellowship hall for
God of vast deserts, God of tiny beaches, prophet’s hometown. But the truth is, there were many widows collecting gently-used preschool-sized clothing, especially winter
God of city and village, of palaces and slums,
 in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three clothing & coats (on-going).
you meet us here in grandeur and in simplicity. years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the
land; yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at The food shelf needs our help for the November & December
silence distributions. The need around the holidays is always larger than
Zarephath in Sidon. There were also many lepers in Israel in the
We praise you that you encounter your saints
 normal. All the churches in this ministry in Essex-Underhill & Jericho
time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed are asked to help. There are lots of different jobs assisting the clients as
In every place, in every setting,
 except Naaman the Syrian.” When they heard this, all in the they choose their groceries, move around the tables & carry things out
making no distinctions of class or race or gender
 synagogue were filled with rage. They got up, drove him out of to their vehicles. Saturday, 17 November from 9 am, at Good Shepherd
You embrace us and offer forgiveness and healing to all. the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town Lutheran Church, rte 15, Jericho. Park across the street at Clark’s
was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. But he passed Truck Center.
silence
through the midst of them and went on his way.
God, forgive us for the ways that we discriminate Usher & Greeter Schedule for Nov & Dec available in narthex
and exclude, consciously or unconsciously.

Forgive us for the limits and conditions we set on your love. We Respond to God’s Word Campbell's “Labels for Education" program has ended; we are no
longer collecting them.
Forgive us for our lack of imagination
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across the street for Sunday Service, this will allow those with small
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 Essex Eats Out Schedule Here are people, places, & concerns folk have recently lifted
up. Please keep them in your prayers at home.
Nov 9 - Holy Family Nov 16 - St James Please call or email the church office to add to the prayer list.
Nov 23 - EUMC Nov 30 - St Pius
Ongoing Prayers Lifted Up Last Sunday
Birthdays & Anniversaries Tim Nancy - healing & patience for William,
November 10 - Owen Duff, Heidi Evans stroke
Lenore
Michael Parker Ken - children & their mom
Calendar Keenan Kathryn - Mike
All Tuesdays: Pastor Is In @ Nest Coffee Shop 10 am - noon
Church Office noon- 2 pm
Arlitha
Callie
David - Michael, new baby
Midge - thanks for prayers & cards for
Patients Without
Mt Mansfield Bible Study 2 pm
Borders
Grace Naylor Ken
Anne Kennison
All Thursdays: Church Office noon- 2:00 pm Godfrey family
Gloria McKeen
Grace Naylor, being moved to Green
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Mountain from Birchwood
Mon, 5 Nov: Monday Companions at Eve’s home on Norma Strickland
Brown’s River Road. 7:00 pm. Read through Judy & Diezela Mutsumi Corson, visiting sick father in
Chapter 13 of Canoeing the Mountains. Matthew C. Japan.

Sun, 11 Nov: Pledge Sunday. Bring your 2019 Estimate of Giving Elissa & Leif
Cards and a potluck item to share! Greg
Paula DeMichele
Mon, 12 Nov: Questions of Faith Session Four
Don Strickland
in the Parlor, 7:00 pm.
Ellie Uckele
Wed, 14 Nov: Mitch is in Methuen MA for a Conference event Cole
Harley
Thu, 15 Nov: Food shelf Set up, 6:30 pm GSLC
Gordon Mitchinson
Sat, 17 Nov: Food shelf Distribution 9:00 am, GSLC Susan

Migrant Justice Potluck Dinner and presentation

at St. James Episcopal Church 5:30 pm.

Mon, 19 Nov: No Monday Classes. Happy Thanksgiving!

Fri, 23 Nov: Essex Eats Out @ EUMC 5:30 pm

Mon, 26 Nov: Monday Companions at Eve’s home 7 pm Essex Center United Methodist Church
essex_umc@comcast.net tel. 878-8304
Sun, 2 Dec: Advent Season Begins! New Member Sunday! www.essexumc.com
Talk to Pastor Mitch if you are interested in Ministers: the entire congregation Lay Leader: Joshua Knox
becoming a member of Essex UMC Equipping Pastor: Rev. V. Mitchell Hay

Essex Center
cell tel. 881-3268 (feel free to call) mitchellhay@comcast.net
Mon, 3 Dec: Questions of Faith Session 5 Office Manager: Heidi Evans
in the Parlor, 7:00 pm Organ: Kathryn Parker Piano: June Packard

Thu, 6 Dec: Annual Church Conference! Make a space in

Song Leader: Dana Thomas Projection: Sam Evans
Greeter -Gail Godfrey
United Methodist Church
your week for this important meeting! 7 pm. Ushers - Roger & Kathy Dodge, Dawn Hill-Fleury
4 November 2018 All Saints Sunday
HEBREW SCRIPTURE 2 Kings 5:1-17
Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a
great man and in high favor with his master, because by him the
Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty
warrior, suffered from leprosy. Now the Arameans on one of
their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel,
and she served Naaman’s wife. She said to her mistress, “If only
my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would
cure him of his leprosy.” So Naaman went in and told his lord
just what the girl from the land of Israel had said. And the king
of Aram said, “Go then, and I will send along a letter to the king
of Israel.” He went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six
thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of garments. He brought
the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter
reaches you, know that I have sent to you my servant Naaman,
that you may cure him of his leprosy.” When the king of Israel
read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to give
death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of
his leprosy? Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel
with me.” But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king
of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king,
“Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me, that he
may learn that there is a prophet in Israel.”
So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the
entrance of Elisha’s house. Elisha sent a messenger to him,
saying, “Go, wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh
shall be restored and you shall be clean.” But Naaman became
angry and went away, saying, “I thought that for me he would
surely come out, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his
God, and would wave his hand over the spot, and cure the
leprosy! Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus,
better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them,
and be clean?” He turned and went away in a rage. But his
servants approached and said to him, “Father, if the prophet had
commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have
done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, ‘Wash,
and be clean’?” So he went down and immersed himself seven
times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God;
his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy, and he was
clean.
Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company; he
came and stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is
no God in all the earth except in Israel; please accept a present
from your servant.” But he said, “As the Lord lives, whom I
serve, I will accept nothing!” He urged him to accept, but he
refused. Then Naaman said, “If not, please let two mule-loads
of earth be given to your servant; for your servant will no longer
offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god except the Lord.
HEBREW SCRIPTURE 2 Kings 5:1-17
Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a
great man and in high favor with his master, because by him the
Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty
warrior, suffered from leprosy. Now the Arameans on one of
their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel,
and she served Naaman’s wife. She said to her mistress, “If only
my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would
cure him of his leprosy.” So Naaman went in and told his lord
just what the girl from the land of Israel had said. And the king
of Aram said, “Go then, and I will send along a letter to the king
of Israel.” He went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six
thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of garments. He brought
the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter
reaches you, know that I have sent to you my servant Naaman,
that you may cure him of his leprosy.” When the king of Israel
read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to give
death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his
leprosy? Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with
me.” But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of
Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king, “Why
have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me, that he may
learn that there is a prophet in Israel.”
So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the
entrance of Elisha’s house. Elisha sent a messenger to him,
saying, “Go, wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall
be restored and you shall be clean.” But Naaman became angry
and went away, saying, “I thought that for me he would surely
come out, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God,
and would wave his hand over the spot, and cure the leprosy!
Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than
all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be
clean?” He turned and went away in a rage. But his servants
approached and said to him, “Father, if the prophet had
commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have
done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, ‘Wash,
and be clean’?” So he went down and immersed himself seven
times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God;
his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy, and he was
clean.
Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company; he
came and stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is
no God in all the earth except in Israel; please accept a present
from your servant.” But he said, “As the Lord lives, whom I
serve, I will accept nothing!” He urged him to accept, but he
refused. Then Naaman said, “If not, please let two mule-loads of
earth be given to your servant; for your servant will no longer
offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god except the Lord.
HEBREW SCRIPTURE 2 Kings 5:1-17
Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a
great man and in high favor with his master, because by him the
Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty
warrior, suffered from leprosy. Now the Arameans on one of
their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel,
and she served Naaman’s wife. She said to her mistress, “If only
my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would
cure him of his leprosy.” So Naaman went in and told his lord
just what the girl from the land of Israel had said. And the king
of Aram said, “Go then, and I will send along a letter to the king
of Israel.” He went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six
thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of garments. He brought
the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter
reaches you, know that I have sent to you my servant Naaman,
that you may cure him of his leprosy.” When the king of Israel
read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to give
death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his
leprosy? Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with
me.” But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of
Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king, “Why
have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me, that he may
learn that there is a prophet in Israel.”
So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the
entrance of Elisha’s house. Elisha sent a messenger to him,
saying, “Go, wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall
be restored and you shall be clean.” But Naaman became angry
and went away, saying, “I thought that for me he would surely
come out, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God,
and would wave his hand over the spot, and cure the leprosy!
Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than
all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be
clean?” He turned and went away in a rage. But his servants
approached and said to him, “Father, if the prophet had
commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have
done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, ‘Wash,
and be clean’?” So he went down and immersed himself seven
times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God;
his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy, and he was
clean.
Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company; he
came and stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is
no God in all the earth except in Israel; please accept a present
from your servant.” But he said, “As the Lord lives, whom I
serve, I will accept nothing!” He urged him to accept, but he
refused. Then Naaman said, “If not, please let two mule-loads of
earth be given to your servant; for your servant will no longer
offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god except the Lord.