Prelude
Welcome & News of the Church
Call to Worship
Opening Hymn - (#695) "My Country, 'Tis of Thee"
Praise Songs
Recognition of Graduates - "Pomp and Circumstance" March #1 by Edward Elgar
Confession, Assurance, and Gloria Patri
Recognition of Guest Performers
Choral Anthem - "God Bless America" by Berlin/Ringwald
Sermon - "Avelut - Mourning" (Jeremiah 8:21–9:1; 9:17–20; John 11:35) - by Rev. Jason Griffice
Hymn of Response - (#690) "America, the Beautiful"
Receiving of Our Tithes and Offerings
Offertory
Doxology
Pastoral Prayer
Choral Anthem - "Battle Hymn of the Republic" arr. Peter Wilhousky
Benediction
Postlude "Fanfare for the Common Man" by Copland/Radulescu
My Country, 'Tis of Thee
My country, 'tis of the,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrims' pride.
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring!
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble, free,
Thy name I love.
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills:
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom's song.
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
Our father's God, to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing:
Long may our land be bright
Withe freedom's holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King!
America, the Beautiful
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea.
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
'Til all success be nobleness,
And every gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam,
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea.
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