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The First Sunday in Lent

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Centering Practice

We invite you to slow down, breathe, and connect with God, each other, and yourself. Today’s centering practice comes from Cole Arthur Riley, creator of Black Liturgies  

• Inhale: There is beauty in the stillness
• Exhale: I am free to rest

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Call to Worship

As we journey together
during this Lenten season,
we remember: 

The everyday places we walk
are holy ground;
and the ordinary people we meet
are deeply loved by God.

In these thin spaces,
steadfast love and faithfulness meet.
From ashes and dust, God creates beauty.
Amen. 

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Worship Song

Great Things

Come let us worship our King
Come let us bow at His feet
He has done great things

See what our Savior has done
See how His love overcomes
He has done great things
He has done great things

O Hero of Heaven
You conquered the grave
You free every captive and break every chain
O God, You have done great things

We dance in Your freedom, awake and alive
O Jesus, our Savior, Your name lifted high
O God, You have done great things

You’ve been faithful through every storm
You’ll be faithful forevermore
You have done great things

And I know You will do it again
For Your promise is “Yes and amen”
You will do great things
God, You do great things

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Kingdom Come

God, let Your kingdom come
May Your will be done
God, let Your kingdom come

Earth is groaning and we are longing
For Your kingdom to come
All creation and all of heaven
Join their voices as one

Hope is stirring, joy arising
As we look to the day
When all injustice will bow
And every voice will cry out
Holy is Your name

Lift up your heads, all the weak and the poor
The Lord is at hand and His kingdom is yours

Lift up your hearts, all who suffer and mourn
The Lord is at hand and His kingdom is yours

Lift up your eyes, all who hunger for more
The Lord is at hand and His kingdom is yours

Lift up a shout, let the earth hear your voice
The Lord is at hand and His kingdom is yours

I will build my life upon Your love
It is a firm foundation
I will put my trust in You alone
And I will not be shaken

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Prayer of Confession

O God,
You are our shelter from the storm,
a safe refuge in times of sorrow,
and we find our home in You.

Where our hearts are dry,
let Living Water flow.
In our darkness, let Light shine.
Hear us, O God, we pray: 

— Moment of silent prayer — 

God of mercy,
forgive our sin and shortcomings,
transform and direct what we shall be,
that we would walk in Your ways, always.
Amen.

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Assurance of God’s Love

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Prayers of the People

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Communion

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Offering Prayer

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Announcements

• Thanks for worshiping with us today! We hope you experience meaningful connection with God and others in our community. If you’re visiting for the first time today, we’d love to get to know you better. Please take home a visitor’s card with QR code so that we can stay in touch & build a relationship!
• Lenten Devotional: We encourage you to read Pastor Ray Hollenbach’s book, Deeper Hope, as a daily devotional throughout the season of Lent.
• Home Groups: Ann & Cherry’s Home Group begins this Saturday, March 15th at 4:00 pm. Their focus will be on care for self & care for others. Tae & Yang’s Home Group will start next Friday, March 21st at 6:30 pm — in honor of Women’s History Month, their group will study women in the Bible! Keep an eye out for an Under 30s group as well. Feel free to respond to an invitation or take initiative to join up! 
• Praise & Prayer Night: On Saturday, March 29th, we will have a special night of interactive praise & prayer. More details to come! 
• Reset Sunday: March is a month with 5 weeks — we will not gather on Sunday, March 30th for worship together. Instead, we’ll encourage you to connect with God, others, and yourself out in the world that day. We will provide a worship guide the week before Reset Sunday.

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Passing of the Peace

Let’s greet each other at this time!

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Family Praise

You, You, You

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Worship Song

Invitation Fountain w Build My Life

All who are weak
All who are weary
Come to the rock
Come to the fountain

All who have sailed
On the rivers of heartache
Come to the sea
Come on be set free

If You lead me Lord
I will follow
Where You lead me Lord
I will go

Come and heal me Lord
I will follow
Where You lead me Lord
I will go, I will go…

All who are weak
All who are weary
Come to the rock
Come to the fountain

All who have climbed
On the mountains of heartache
Reach to the stars
Come on and give Your life

I will build my life upon Your love
It is a firm foundation
I will put my trust in You alone
And I will not be shaken

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Scripture Reading

John 12:20-26

²⁰ Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. ²¹ They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” ²² Philip went and told Andrew, then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. ²³ Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. ²⁴ Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain, but if it dies it bears much fruit. ²⁵ Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. ²⁶ Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.

Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Together: Thanks be to God.

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Sermon

The Mystery of the Seed

Pastor Jeya

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Reflection Questions:

• How would you finish this sentence: I wish I… 
• If you find yourself wishing for something material or cosmetic, that’s okay! But try to get to the heart of what you’re really wishing for – why do I wish for this thing? What do I really want?
• Take a minute to pray to God by finishing this sentence, “Would You…?”

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Worship Song

Have My Heart

You love with no reservations
You’re not looking for perfection
And there’s no need in me pretending
I’ll give You everything
I’ll give You everything

You deserve my full attention
Nothing less than my devotion
Oh, speak to me and I will listen
I’ll give You everything
I’ll give You everything

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh 
You can have my heart
You can have my heart

Be the Lord of my emotions
Set me free from selfish motives
And search me ’til there’s nothing hidden
And I’ll give You everything
Yes, I’ll give You everything

My heart is Yours forever
My heart is Yours forever

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Benediction

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Centering Practice

We invite you to slow down, breathe, and connect with God, each other, and yourself. Today’s centering practice comes from Cole Arthur Riley, creator of Black Liturgies  

• Inhale: I pause to behold
• Exhale: Even here, there is beauty  

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Call to Worship

The glory of God is revealed in many ways:
Through clouds of splendor, the fire of God’s love,
and the radiant wonder
of Christ transfigured on the mountain.

May Light break through the surrounding darkness,
transforming our despair into hope,
and sending us into the world as seeds of hope.
Amen.

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Worship Song

Oh Our Lord

We behold the breaking dawn
The light that shines over everyone
We look to You, we long for You, oh Lord

We behold the rising sun
The earth awaits, Your hope has come
We look to You, we long for You, oh Lord

Oh, oh, oh, our Lord
Oh, oh, oh, our Lord
How majestic is Your name in all the earth

We behold the falling rain
Like waters rise, flood this place
We reach for You, we cling to You, oh Lord

Oh, Your name is a light in the darkness
Oh, Your name is the word of truth
Oh Your name, oh Your name

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This I Know

Up on the mountain
Where Your love captured me
Where finally I’m free
This I know

Up on the mountain
Where You taught my soul to sing
Amazing grace, the sweetest thing
This I know

And then the storm rushing in
And here I am again
This I know

Take me up to where I was
When I never wanted more than You
Lift me up to feel Your touch
It wouldn’t be that much for You

This I know, this I know
This I know…

Up on the mountain
Where You took me by the hand
Taught me to dance again
This I know

Up on the mountain
Where You took this heart of stone
Put life back in these bones
This I know

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Community Prayer

Based on Psalm 36

How precious is Your steadfast love, O God.
We take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
With You is the fountain of life;
in Your light, we see light. 

Radiant Lord,
may Your light dispel our darkness;
may Your grace transform our hearts;
and may Your life inspire us to follow.
Hear us, O God, we pray: 

— Moment of silent prayer — 

Your love and faithfulness, O Lord,
reach to the skies.
Make us a people of justice and righteousness,
for Your name’s sake.
Amen. 

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Assurance of God’s Love

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Communion

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Offering Prayer

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Announcements

• Thanks for worshiping with us today! We hope you experience meaningful connection with God and others in our community. If you’re visiting for the first time today, we’d love to get to know you better. Please take home a visitor’s card with QR code so that we can stay in touch & build a relationship!
• Ash Wednesday Service: We will mark the beginning of Lent together this Wednesday, March 5th via Zoom at 7:30 pm. Please make sure to take home a packet for each member of your household today.
• Lenten Devotional: We will send out a PDF copy of Pastor Ray Hollenbach’s book, Deeper Hope, as a daily devotional throughout the season of Lent.
• Home Groups: Ann & Cherry’s Home Group will begin on Saturday, March 15th at 4:00 pm. Their focus will be on care for self & care for others. Tae & Yang’s Home Group will start on Friday, March 21st at 6:30 pm — in honor of Women’s History Month, their group will study women in the Bible! Keep an eye out for an Under 30s group as well. Feel free to respond to an invitation or take initiative to join up! 
• Praise & Prayer Night: On Saturday, March 29th, we will have a special night of interactive praise & prayer. More details to come! 
• Reset Sunday: March is a month with 5 weeks — we will not gather on Sunday, March 30th for worship together. Instead, we’ll encourage you to connect with God, others, and yourself out in the world that day. We will provide a worship guide the week before Reset Sunday.

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Passing of the Peace

Let’s greet each other at this time!

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Family Praise

Light of the World

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Worship Song

Build My Life

Worthy of every song we could ever sing
Worthy of all the praise we could ever bring
Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe
We live for You

Jesus, the Name above every other name
Jesus, the only One who could ever save
Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe
We live for You, we live for You

Holy, there is no one like You
There is none beside You
Open up my eyes in wonder

And show me who You are
And fill me with Your heart
And lead me in Your love
To those around me

I will build my life upon Your love
It is a firm foundation
I will put my trust in You alone
And I will not be shaken

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Scripture Reading

Luke 9:28-36

²⁸ Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. ²⁹ And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white. ³⁰ Suddenly they saw two men, Moses and Elijah, talking to him. ³¹ They appeared in glory and were speaking of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. ³² Now Peter and his companions were weighed down with sleep; but since they had stayed awake, they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him. ³³ Just as they were leaving him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah” — not knowing what he said. ³⁴ While he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they were terrified as they entered the cloud. ³⁵ Then from the cloud came a voice that said, “This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!” ³⁶ When the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and in those days told no one any of the things they had seen.

Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Together: Thanks be to God.

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Sermon

Seeds of Hope

Pastor Dan

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Conversation Questions:

• What or who do you love so much that you could “set your face toward” a hard path?
• When have you seen goodness shine with radiance?
• During Lent, what kind of fasting for you will lead to more love for God and/or justice for others?

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Worship Song

Send the Rain

Lord, we come to You
Now with open hands
Broken lives and dreams
Washed up on the sand

We’ve been beaten down
But still we choose to stand
We choose to stand

Lord, we long for You
For Your hand to move
Heal this barren land
Come and make it new

Jesus, You’re the life
That is breaking through
You’re breaking through

The saints of old in ancient days
They worked the ground
that we reap from today

So use our hands to cultivate
The harvest that
our children’s children taste
We’re ready God, so send the rain

Lord, we’ll follow You
To unbroken earth
On the path not used
Where new hope is birthed

We will work as one
Holding to Your truth
To Your truth

Heal the ruined cities
We destroyed with our own hands
Bring us back together
Let us see the promised land

Pour out Your Spirit
On this dry and thirsty ground
O God of the harvest
Could it be right here and now
Could it be right here and now

Open up the heavens,
let Your rain fall down
We are thirsty, we are thirsty

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Benediction

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Centering Practice

We invite you to slow down, breathe, and connect with God, each other, and yourself. We continue to celebrate Black History month together. Today’s centering practice comes from Cole Arthur Riley, creator of Black Liturgies  

• Inhale: I need more than me
  Exhale:  We get free together  
• Inhale: I am worthy of embrace
  Exhale: God, lead me to belonging

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Call to Worship

Adapted from “Let Me Walk With You,” by Dr. Tamisha Tyler 

Let down your hair and tell me your story.
You are welcome here
at the table where blessings flow.

Sameness and difference.
Sameness and difference.
Let us dive deep into mystery and grace together.

Let us sit in the grey together,
Let us wait on God together.
I cannot promise you I will be perfect;
I can only promise that I will be here.

Walking…
Listening…
Waiting…
Together.
Amen.

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Worship Song

Sound of Adoration

When we were lost ones
You were the Shepherd that carried us home
When we were prodigals
You ran to meet us with open arms
And we can’t hold back our praise

When we were refugees
You were the One who took us in
When we were enemies
You paid the price for all our sin
And we can’t hold back our praise

This is the sound of adoration
Oh, how we love You
Jesus, we love You

You are the joy of all creation
Oh, how we love You
Jesus, we love You

You are the Risen One
You conquered death and made a way
You sang our freedom song
Now we are dancing on our chains
And we can’t hold back our praise

By the cross, I am free
Your grace changes everything
I was blind, now I see
Your grace changes everything

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My Hallelujah

Open up the doors again
Let the King of glory in
His Kingdom will never end
Oh, I know that You are good

Break the darkness with the light
All the earth let praise arise
Every dead place come alive
Oh, I know that You are good
Oh, I know that You are good

You will have my hallelujah
You alone the highest name
All to You I surrender
Every breath I take
Make my life Your praise

Oh, Spirit of the Living God
Fire burning in my heart
I’m wide awake to who You are
Oh, I know that You are good
Oh, I know that You are good

You are my strength when I am weak
You are my sight when I can’t see
As praise goes up, I believe
The walls are coming down

Oh, when I was lost, You rescued me
When I was bound, You set me free
As praise goes up, I believe
The walls are coming down

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Community Prayer

Adapted from Dr. Barbara A. Holmes. Dr. Holmes was a spiritual teacher, author, activist, and scholar — as well as President Emerita of United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities 

Our God
in whom we live and move and have our being,
For the nurture of our many villages of belonging;
for unexpected healing and imaginative pathways;
we give thanks.

In our fractured and frustrating time,
we cannot carve out shared destinies in isolation.
Even in our wounded unknowing,
bring us to a place of true contemplation.

Open our eyes to wonder and mystery all around us;
open our hearts to authentic connection;
open our hands to become a community of care,
even in the midst of crisis and concern.

— Moment of silent prayer — 

Spirit of love,
Bring us into inner space so deep, so daringly vast,
that even in the midst of noise around us,
we find stillness and home in You.
Amen. 

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Assurance of God’s Love

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Offering Prayer

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Announcements

• Thanks for worshiping with us today! We hope you experience meaningful connection with God and others in our community. If you’re visiting for the first time today, we’d love to get to know you better. Please take home a visitor’s card with QR code so that we can stay in touch & build a relationship!
• Support for World Relief: Our church is sending $1500 to support the work of World Relief in helping refugee families, which will cover rent/utilities for one month for one family. For over 40 years, World Relief has worked with both Republican and Democratic administrations to help resettle over 500,000 refugees. The suspension of the Refugee Resettlement Program and a stop-work order in January means that private donations are the only means of support for 4,000 recent refugees who were already in process of being resettled here. 
• Monthly Prayer Walk: This Saturday, March 1st, we’ll meet at 9:00 am here at Sandburg for our prayer walk/run!
• The Season of Lent: Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, March 5th. We will have a gathering that day via Zoom at 7:30 pm.
• Home Groups: Ann & Cherry’s Home Group will begin on Saturday, March 15th at 4:00 pm. Their focus will be on care for self & care for others. Tae & Yang’s Home Group will start on Friday, March 21st at 6:30 pm — in honor of Women’s History Month, their group will study women in the Bible! Keep an eye out for an Under 30s group as well. Feel free to respond to an invitation or take initiative to join up! 
• Church Retreat: We’re excited to have a church-wide retreat on 4th of July weekend! We’re looking at July 4th through 6th — we’d like to get a rough headcount now so we can plan!
• Youth Group Valentine’s Cards: A quick update from Ann Leong, “A couple of patient’s family members raved about how the cards brightened not only their day but the day of their loved ones who were in the hospital sick.”

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Passing of the Peace

Let’s greet each other at this time!

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Family Praise

Shine (From the Inside Out)

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Worship Song

Open Space with Hosanna

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes
to the things unseen
Show me how to love like You
have loved me

Break my heart for what breaks Your
Everything I am
for Your Kingdom’s cause
As I walk from earth into eternity

Pull me in closer
Close to Your heart
May I be a pure reflection of all You are

Love that is patient
Love that is kind
And love that keeps no offences
or wrongs in my mind

Make me like Jesus
Make me like Jesus

You’re faithful to find me
Right where I am
Though even in my wandering You call me friend

And mercy receives me
and lifts me to my feet
And I’m caught up in the wonder and mystery

Of knowing Jesus
Of knowing Jesus

My heart is an open space
for You to come and have Your way
I’m open, I’m open

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Scripture Reading

John 9:1-12

¹ As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. ² His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” ³ Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. ⁴ We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵ As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” ⁶ When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man’s eyes, ⁷ saying to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see. ⁸ The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” ⁹ Some were saying, “It is he.” Others were saying, “No, but it is someone like him.” He kept saying, “I am he.” ¹⁰ But they kept asking him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” ¹¹ He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ Then I went and washed and received my sight.” ¹² They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”

Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Together: Thanks be to God.

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Sermon

Unusual & Unexpected

Pastor Jeya

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Conversation Questions:

• Which medieval cat best represents how you were this week and why? And then 2 more 
• What’s a way that you’ve had eyes to see God’s healing and transformation this week?
• Where is there a place that you are hoping for and maybe even hopeful to work towards God’s healing and transformation this week?

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Worship Song

Have My Heart

You love with no reservations
You’re not looking for perfection
And there’s no need in me pretending
I’ll give You everything
I’ll give You everything

You deserve my full attention
Nothing less than my devotion
Oh, speak to me and I will listen
I’ll give You everything
I’ll give You everything

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh 
You can have my heart
You can have my heart

Be the Lord of my emotions
Set me free from selfish motives
And search me ’til there’s nothing hidden
And I’ll give You everything
Yes, I’ll give You everything

My heart is Yours forever
My heart is Yours forever

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Benediction

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Centering Practice

We invite you to slow down, breathe, and connect with God, each other, and yourself. We continue to celebrate Black History month together. Today’s centering practice comes from Cole Arthur Riley, creator of Black Liturgies  

• Inhale: God, awaken my soul to beauty
  Exhale: I resist the tyranny of despair
• Inhale: I choose a life enchanted
  Exhale: There is a miracle in the mundane

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Call to Worship

Adapted from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

O God, we thank You for Your church,
founded upon Your Word,
that challenges us to do more than sing and pray, 

But to go out and work
as though the very answer to our prayers
depended on us and not upon You. 

Help us to shine like stars as we walk, pray
sing, and live together until that day
when all God’s children will rejoice 

in one common band of humanity
in the reign of our Lord and of our God,
we pray. Amen.

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Worship Song

Here I Am to Worship

Light of the world
You stepped down into darkness
Opened my eyes, let me see

Beauty that made
this heart adore You
Hope of a life spent with You

So here I am to worship
Here I am to bow down
Here I am to say that You’re my God

You’re altogether lovely
Altogether worthy
Altogether wonderful to me

King of all days
Oh so highly exalted
Glorious in heaven above

Humbly You came
To the earth You created
All for love’s sake became poor

I’ll never know how much it cost
To see my sin upon that cross

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Hosanna

I see the King of Glory
Coming on the clouds with fire
The whole earth shakes
The whole earth shakes

I see His love and mercy
Washing over all our sin
The people sing
The people sing

Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest

I see a generation
Rising up to take their place
With selfless faith
With selfless faith

I see a near revival
Stirring as we pray and seek
We’re on our knees
We’re on our knees

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like You have loved me

Break my heart for what breaks Yours
Everything I am for Your kingdom’s cause
Show me how to love like You have loved me

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Community Prayer

Today’s prayer comes from the work of Howard Thurman 

O love of God,
without which life has no meaning
and no harbor, 

Leave us not alone with our little lives,
our broken dreams, our insistent problems,
but invade our spirit with Thy vitality

That we may be renewed in all the ways of our lives,
that we may turn from this place, this day,
with all that is within us,
washed and purified and refreshed. 

— Moment of silent prayer — 

We seek this with simplicity of heart,
and with quiet faith and confidence
that Thou would not deny Thy love to Thy children.
Amen. 

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Assurance of God’s Love

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Offering Prayer

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Announcements

• Thanks for worshiping with us today! We hope you experience meaningful connection with God and others in our community. If you’re visiting for the first time today, we’d love to get to know you better. Please take home a visitor’s card with QR code so that we can stay in touch & build a relationship!
• Coffee with PJ & PD: We’d love to meet you for a cup of coffee soon! Please reach out to connect! 
• Home Groups: We’re launching our next season of Home Groups soon. Let’s invest in relationships and build community together! 

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Passing of the Peace

Let’s greet each other at this time!

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Family Praise

Give It Away

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Worship Song

Open the Eyes of My Heart

Open the eyes of my heart, Lord
Open the eyes of my heart
I want to see You
I want to see You

To see You high and lifted up
Shining in the light of Your glory
Pour out Your power and love
As we sing holy, holy, holy

Holy, holy, holy
Holy, holy, holy
Holy, holy, holy,
I want to see You

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Scripture Reading

John 9:1-12

¹ As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. ² His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” ³ Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. ⁴ We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵ As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” ⁶ When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man’s eyes, ⁷ saying to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see. ⁸ The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” ⁹ Some were saying, “It is he.” Others were saying, “No, but it is someone like him.” He kept saying, “I am he.” ¹⁰ But they kept asking him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” ¹¹ He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ Then I went and washed and received my sight.” ¹² They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”

Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Together: Thanks be to God.

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Sermon

Healing Through the Eyes of Jesus

Pastor Dan

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Quiet Reflection:

• What does healing mean to you?
• What holds you back from being totally open to Jesus?
• How would your life be different if Jesus put you back together? Are you open to that kind of change?

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Worship Song

Simplicity

I come in simplicity
Longing for purity
To worship You
In spirit and truth, only You

Lord, strip it all away
‘Til only You remain
I’m coming back
To my first love, only You

You’re the reason I sing
The reason I sing
Yes my heart will sing
How I love You

And forever I’ll sing
Forever I’ll sing
Yes my heart will sing
How I love You

I come with my broken song
To You the Perfect One
To worship You
In spirit and truth, only You

Give me a childlike heart
Lead me to where You are
Cause I’m coming back
To my first love, only You

How I love You, how I love You
How I love You, my first love

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Benediction

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Centering Practice

• We invite you to slow down, breathe, and connect with God, each other, and yourself
• We invite you to slow down, breathe, and connect with God, each other, and yourself. As we begin to center ourselves, I invite you to listen to this quote from the Talmud: Do not be daunted by the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work but neither are you free to abandon it.
• This month, we will celebrate Black History month together. Much of our liturgy will be shaped by Black theologians, pastors, and leaders. Today’s centering practice comes from Cole Arthur Riley, creator of Black Liturgies  
• Inhale: I breathe — Exhale: I move 
• Inhale: I recall my power — Exhale: I do what I can 

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Call to Worship

During February, we will celebrate Black History Month together as a church. In a world that often dehumanizes and stereotypes, we honor, affirm, and uphold the God-given dignity & worth of our Black siblings. We celebrate the indelible contributions of the Black community to our faith, our culture, and our world. We honor God’s call to celebrate our diversity and our unity in Christ.

Our Call to Worship comes from Howard Thurman’s work, “Meditations of the Heart.” Thurman was born in 1899 and raised in the segregated South. He is recognized as one of the great spiritual leaders of the 20th century renowned for his reflections on humanity and our relationship with God. Thurman was a prolific author (writing at least 20 books); perhaps the most famous is Jesus and the Disinherited (1949), which deeply influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Thurman was the first black person to be a tenured Dean at a PWI (Boston U). He also cofounded the first interracially pastored, intercultural church in the US.

Open unto me, light for my darkness
Open unto me, courage for my fear
Open unto me, hope for my despair

Open unto me, peace for my turmoil
Open unto me, joy for my sorrow
Open unto me, strength for my weakness

Open unto me, wisdom for my confusion
Open unto me, forgiveness for my sins
Open unto me, tenderness for my toughness

Open unto me, love for my hates
Open unto me, Thy Self for myself
Lord, Lord, open unto me!

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Worship Song

Sound of Adoration

When we were lost ones
You were the Shepherd that carried us home
When we were prodigals
You ran to meet us with open arms
And we can’t hold back our praise

When we were refugees
You were the One who took us in
When we were enemies
You paid the price for all our sin
And we can’t hold back our praise

This is the sound of adoration
Oh, how we love You
Jesus, we love You

You are the joy of all creation
Oh, how we love You
Jesus, we love You

You are the Risen One
You conquered death and made a way
You sang our freedom song
Now we are dancing on our chains
And we can’t hold back our praise

By the cross, I am free
Your grace changes everything
I was blind, now I see
Your grace changes everything

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Great Are You Lord

You give life
You are love
You bring light to the darkness

You give hope
You restore
every heart that is broken
And great are You, Lord

It’s Your breath in our lungs
So we pour out our praise
We pour out our praise

It’s Your breath in our lungs
So we pour out our praise
To You only

All the earth will shout Your praise
Our hearts will cry, these bones will sing
Great are You, Lord

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Community Prayer

As Dr. King taught us, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” As we pray together, let’s be a force for goodness & light in our world today. Today, our prayers will be shaped by Dr. King’s own prayers as we think about what it means to join Jesus’ work of healing, justice, and redemption today.

God of love and justice,
help us as individuals and as a world
to hear it now before it is too late: 

“Seek first the Kingdom of God
and God’s justice
and all these other things will be added unto you.”

We have all too often lived by our own selfish impulses
rather than by the sacrificial love revealed by Christ.
We often give in order to receive.
We love our friends and hate our enemies.
We go the first mile but dare not travel the second.

— Moment of silent prayer — 

O God, have mercy upon us.
If we cannot fly, help us to run;
if we cannot run, help us to walk;
if we cannot walk, help us to crawl.

Spirit, in all we do and all we are,
help us to keep moving forward;
Seeing that the time is always right
to do the right thing.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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Assurance of God’s Love

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Offering Prayer

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Announcements

• Thanks for worshiping with us today! We hope you experience meaningful connection with God and others in our community. If you’re visiting for the first time today, we’d love to get to know you better. Please take home a visitor’s card with QR code so that we can stay in touch & build a relationship!
• PTA Meeting & Volunteers: Our new Director of Children’s Ministry, Ann Leong, will lead a meeting for all of our Sunday School parents right after service today! Also, if you’re interested in volunteering to teach Sunday School, please talk to Ann today
• Super Bowl Party: The Ahn Family has graciously invited all of us over to their place to watch the big game! Please pitch in to help cover the cost of food 
• Coffee with PJ & PD: We’d love to meet you for a cup of coffee soon! Please reach out to connect! 
• Home Groups: We’re launching our next season of Home Groups soon. Let’s invest in relationships and build community together! 
• EcoVivarium: Thanks to everyone who was able to join us last Sunday in Escondido! If you still need to chip in, the cost was $15/person 
• Run Club: This Saturday — keep an eye out for more information this week!

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Passing of the Peace

Let’s greet each other at this time!

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Family Praise

Your Love is Deep

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Worship Song

Lord, I Need You

Lord, I come, I confess
Bowing here I find my rest
Without You I fall apart
You’re the One that guides my heart

Lord, I need You, Oh, I need You
Every hour I need You
My one defense, my righteousness
Oh God, how I need You

Where sin runs deep Your grace is more
Where grace is found is where You are
And where You are, Lord, I am free
Holiness is Christ in me

Teach my song to rise to You
When temptation comes my way
And when I cannot stand I’ll fall on You
Jesus, You’re my hope and stay

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Scripture Reading

John 9:1-12

¹ As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. ² His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” ³ Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. ⁴ We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵ As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” ⁶ When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man’s eyes, ⁷ saying to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see. ⁸ The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” ⁹ Some were saying, “It is he.” Others were saying, “No, but it is someone like him.” He kept saying, “I am he.” ¹⁰ But they kept asking him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” ¹¹ He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ Then I went and washed and received my sight.” ¹² They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”

Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Together: Thanks be to God.

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Sermon

Healing Through the Eyes of Jesus

Pastor David

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Reflection Questions:

• Think about your life and our world at the moment. What are things that you are hopeful for and what are things that you are saddened by? Write out areas that you hope to see healing in for our world. 
• We will collect these and share among one another anonymously. The hope is we see the world a bit through the lens of others in our church community. 
• Spend this week trying to see the world through the lens of the person writing the note and pray for continual healing of our world and others!

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Worship Song

Open Space with Hosanna

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes
to the things unseen
Show me how to love like You
have loved me

Break my heart for what breaks Your
Everything I am
for Your Kingdom’s cause
As I walk from earth into eternity

Pull me in closer
Close to Your heart
May I be a pure reflection of all You are

Love that is patient
Love that is kind
And love that keeps no offences
or wrongs in my mind

Make me like Jesus
Make me like Jesus

You’re faithful to find me
Right where I am
Though even in my wandering You call me friend

And mercy receives me
and lifts me to my feet
And I’m caught up in the wonder and mystery

Of knowing Jesus
Of knowing Jesus

My heart is an open space
for You to come and have Your way
I’m open, I’m open

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Benediction

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Centering Practice

• We invite you to slow down, breathe, and connect with God, each other, and yourself
• For the next month, our community will be exploring themes of healing. Take a few moments to show yourself some care in a way that you’re asking God for healing

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Call to Worship

God is doing a new thing,
making a way in the wilderness
and creating streams of Living Water
in the wasteland.

God has created and formed us,
calling us precious, honored, and loved.
We receive the love of Christ
and share it with our neighbors near and far.
Amen. 

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Worship Song

Oh Our Lord

We behold the breaking dawn
The light that shines over everyone
We look to You, we long for You, oh Lord

We behold the rising sun
The earth awaits, Your hope has come
We look to You, we long for You, oh Lord

Oh, oh, oh, our Lord
Oh, oh, oh, our Lord
How majestic is Your name in all the earth

We behold the falling rain
Like waters rise, flood this place
We reach for You, we cling to You, oh Lord

Oh, Your name is a light in the darkness
Oh, Your name is the word of truth
Oh Your name, oh Your name

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Kingdom Come

God, let Your kingdom come
May Your will be done
God, let Your kingdom come

Earth is groaning and we are longing
For Your kingdom to come
All creation and all of heaven
Join their voices as one

Hope is stirring, joy arising
As we look to the day
When all injustice will bow
And every voice will cry out
Holy is Your name

Lift up your heads, all the weak and the poor
The Lord is at hand and His kingdom is yours

Lift up your hearts, all who suffer and mourn
The Lord is at hand and His kingdom is yours

Lift up your eyes, all who hunger for more
The Lord is at hand and His kingdom is yours

Lift up a shout, let the earth hear your voice
The Lord is at hand and His kingdom is yours

I will build my life upon Your love
It is a firm foundation
I will put my trust in You alone
And I will not be shaken

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Prayer of Confession

God of restoration,
You are the Maker of a better world.
You are the Creator of transforming peace.

Turn our hearts outward to the world around us;
May Your perfect love drive out fear,
empowering us to join Your mission of hope.
Hear us, O God, we pray: 

— Moment of silent prayer — 

O Lord, our hope and trust,
Breathe life into our weary world
and into our hearts,
for Your glory and for the world You love.
Amen.

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Assurance of God’s Love

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Prayers of the People

After each phrase, we invite you to pray aloud and from your hearts,
Lord, have mercy: 

For those suffering from violence, war, and natural disasters… 

For our country and its leaders, to govern with wisdom and integrity…  

For the Church worldwide, to act justly, to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with You… 

For ourselves and our loved ones,
to be strengthened, healed, and renewed… 

For our friends who need to know Your love
and the friendship of our Anchor & Hope community… 

Amen.

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Offering Prayer

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Announcements

• Thanks for worshiping with us today! We hope you experience meaningful connection with God and others in our community. If you’re visiting for the first time today, we’d love to get to know you better. Please take home a visitor’s card with QR code so that we can stay in touch & build a relationship!
• Director of Children’s Ministry: We are so glad to welcome our newest staff member, Ann Leong, as our Director of Children’s Ministry! Let’s take a moment to thank God and to pray for her as she begins this new chapter of life and ministry with us. 
• Monthly Prayer Walk: We will meet in the parking lot of Sandburg Elementary this Saturday, February 1st at 9:00 am for our first prayer walk of 2025! We’ll also have a group participating in a Prayer Run for those interested!
• Church Without Walls: Next Sunday, February 2nd, we will not gather at Sandburg but will have a Church Without Walls gathering at the EcoVivarium in Escondido at 10:30 am! Suggested donation of $20/person to cover the costs of admission 
• Special thanks to the Kim family: The UC Kim’s are celebrating Soren’s birthday by providing lunch today! 
• Coffee with PJ & PD: We’d love to meet you for a cup of coffee soon! Please reach out to connect! 
• Thank You Cho Family: And thanks to our Youth Group for the beautiful Valentine’s Cards you made yesterday!

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Passing of the Peace

Let’s greet each other at this time!

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Family Praise

Ask Seek Knock

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Worship Song

Isaiah Song w You Are Good

Oh, oh, oh
You are good
And Your mercy endures forever

Sing, sing oh barren land
Water is coming to the thirsty
Though we are empty, You are the well
We draw from You and You will provide

This is the Word of the Lord, our Creator
God stands from age to age
The ancient of days

God, You’re the Holy One
The Fairest of ten thousand
And those who call upon Your name
They shall be saved

We won’t fear
For You will be our song

You’re the river in the desert
Pouring Your Spirit on the broken
Giving beauty for our ashes
Joy for our sadness, heaven’s open

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Scripture Reading

Numbers 21:1-9

¹ When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them captive. ² Then Israel made a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed give this people into our hands, then we will utterly destroy their towns.” ³ The Lord listened to the voice of Israel and handed over the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their towns; so the place was called Hormah.

⁴ From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became discouraged on the way. ⁵ The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.” ⁶ Then the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died. ⁷ The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord to take away the snakes from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. ⁸ And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a poisonous snake, and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.” ⁹ So Moses made a snake of bronze and put it upon a pole, and whenever a snake bit someone, that person would look at the snake of bronze and live.

Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Together: Thanks be to God.

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Sermon

Hope in Unexpected Places

Pastor Jeya

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Discussion Time:

Share a picture on your phone that represents one (or more!) of these things: 

• Mystery and the everyday coming together 
• God’s presence 
• Hope in an unexpected place

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Worship Song

The Kingdom is Yours

Blessed are the ones who do not bury
All the broken pieces of their heart
Blessed are the tears of all the weary
Pouring like a sky of falling stars

Blessed are the wounded ones in mourning
Brave enough to show the Lord their scars
Blessed are the hurts that are not hidden
Open to the healing touch of God

The Kingdom is yours, the Kingdom is yours
Hold on a little more, this is not the end
Hope is in the Lord, keep your eyes on Him

And blessed are the ones who walk in kindness
Even in the face of great abuse
Blessed are the deeds that go unnoticed
Serving with unguarded gratitude

And blessed are the ones who fight for justice
Longing for the coming day of peace
Blessed is the soul that thirsts for righteousness
Welcoming the last, the lost, the least

Blessed are the ones who suffer violence
And still have strength to love their enemies
Blessed is the faith of those who persevere
Though they fall, they’ll never know defeat

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Benediction

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Centering Practice

• We invite you to slow down, breathe, and connect with God, each other, and yourself
• In 2 Chronicles 7:14 the Lord speaks to the people of God, saying, “If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”  
• We invite you to hold a posture of humility for a few moments as we remember our calling on behalf of our communities, nation, and world 

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Call to Worship

God is doing a new thing,
making a way in the wilderness
and creating streams of Living Water
in the wasteland.

God has created and formed us,
calling us precious, honored, and loved.
We receive the love of Christ
and share it with our neighbors near and far.
Amen. 

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Worship Song

Be Thou My Vision w/ Open The Eyes

Open the eyes of my heart, Lord
Open the eyes of my heart
I want to see You
I want to see You

Be thou my Vision
O Lord of my heart
Naught be all else to me
Save that Thou art

Thou my best thought
By day or by night
Waking or sleeping 
Thy Presence, my Light

Riches I heed not
Nor vain empty praise
Thou mine inheritance
Now and always

Thou and Thou only 
Be first in my heart
High King of Heaven 
My treasure, Thou art

O God, be my everything
Be my delight
Be Jesus, my glory
My soul satisfied

High King of Heaven
When victory is won
May I reach Heaven’s joys 
O bright Heaven’s sun

Heart of my own heart
Whatever befall
Still be my vision
O Ruler of all

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Called Me Higher

I could just sit
I could just sit and wait for all Your goodness
Hope to feel Your presence

And I could just stay
I could just stay right where I am
and hope to feel You
Hope to feel something again

But You have called me higher
You have called me deeper
And I’ll go where You will lead me Lord

And I could hold on
I could hold on to who I am and never let You
Change me from the inside

And I could be safe
I could be safe here in Your arms
and never leave home
Never let these walls down

And I will be Yours
I will be Yours for all my life

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Prayer of Confession

How precious is Your steadfast love, O God.
We take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
In Your light, we see light.

Though the new year has just begun,
many of us are weary in heart, soul, mind, and body.
We need Your love to strengthen and transform us.
Hear us, O God, we pray: 

— Moment of silent prayer — 

God of light and life,
Shine through us, we pray,
that we would bear Your light
throughout the world You love.
Amen.

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Assurance of God’s Love

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Prayers of the People

Every generation faces challenges unique to their own times. In many ways, even as a new administration is inaugurated tomorrow, our nation is deeply divided. Stories of violence, war, and natural disasters happen far too often around our world.

We are reminded of Dr. King’s timeless words, “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.” As the people of God, we are not without hope; we are called to face the darkness and hold up light — to join Jesus in creating a world where all can experience the fullness of God’s love. So today, after each phrase, we invite you to pray aloud and from your hearts, Lord, have mercy:

For those suffering from violence, war, and natural disasters… 

For our country and its leaders, to govern with wisdom and integrity…  

For the Church worldwide, to act justly, to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with You… 

For ourselves and our loved ones,
to be strengthened, healed, and renewed… 

For our friends who need to know Your love
and the friendship of our Anchor & Hope community… 

Amen.

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Offering Prayer

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Announcements

• Thanks for worshiping with us today! We hope you experience meaningful connection with God and others in our community. If you’re visiting for the first time today, we’d love to get to know you better. Please take home a visitor’s card with QR code so that we can stay in touch & build a relationship!
• Prayer Meeting: In remembrance of MLK Day, we will have a special prayer meeting tomorrow via Zoom at 5:30 pm. Please check your email tomorrow for the link. 
• Monthly Prayer Walk: We will meet in the parking lot of Sandburg Elementary on Saturday, February 1st at 9:00 am for our first prayer walk of 2025! 
• Church Without Walls: On Sunday, February 2nd, we will not gather at Sandburg but will have a Church Without Walls gathering at the EcoVivarium in Escondido at 10:30 am! Suggested donation of $20/person to cover the costs of admission 
• Run Club: Please give a follow to @anchorandhoperunclub — we’ll be launching a page on our site, a Strava group, and regular gatherings soon.
• Sunday School Volunteers: We’re still looking for volunteers, so please talk to Tae today if you’re interested 
• Coffee with PJ & PD: We’d love to meet you for a cup of coffee soon! Please reach out to connect! 
• Special thanks to the Kim family: The Vista Kim’s are celebrating Noah’s birthday by providing lunch today!

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Passing of the Peace

Let’s greet each other at this time!

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Family Praise

Jump, Jump, Jump

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Worship Song

Teach Us Your Ways

Teach us Your ways… teach us Your ways
As we learn from one another
Learn to love each other
Teach us Your ways

Teach us to give… teach us to give
Give ourselves for one another
Learn to love each other
Teach us to give

Teach us to weep… teach us to weep
Let us weep with one another
Learn to love each other
Teach us to weep

Hallelujah… hallelujah…
Let us learn from one another
Learn to love each other
Teach us Your ways

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Scripture Reading

Psalm 65:1-8

¹ Praise awaits you, our God, in Zion;
to you our vows will be fulfilled.

² You who answer prayer,
to you all people will come.

³ When we were overwhelmed by sins,
you forgave our transgressions.

⁴ Blessed are those you choose
and bring near to live in your courts!
We are filled with the good things of your house,
of your holy temple.

⁵ You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds,
God our Savior,
the hope of all the ends of the earth
and of the farthest seas,

⁶ who formed the mountains by your power,
having armed yourself with strength,

⁷ who stilled the roaring of the seas,
the roaring of their waves,
and the turmoil of the nations.

⁸ The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders;
where morning dawns, where evening fades,
you call forth songs of joy.

Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Together: Thanks be to God.

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Sermon

A New Way

Pastor Dan

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Reflection Question:

• When have you found beauty or joy in a thin space? Or in an unexpected way? Or in navigating a threshold?  

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Worship Song

Open Up

You heard the cry of our hearts
And You came down
Freely You gave us Your love
Showing us how

Make me an instrument of Your peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow love
Where there is darkness
Let me shine light and…

May Your love
Cause us to open up
Cause us to open up our hearts

May Your light
Cause us to shine so bright
That we bring hope into the dark

All that we do without love
It means nothing
Grant us the courage to give
As You’re calling

Hope for the hopeless
Your love is

Strength in our weakness
Your love is

May we love
As You love

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Benediction

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Centering Practice

• We invite you to slow down, breathe, and connect with God, each other, and yourself
• Last week, we heard from staff and our core team rep about dreams & visions for the new year 
• 2025 has just begun, but so much has already happened. We invite you to sit & breathe, to hold your hands over your eyes, and to ask for God’s vision for your life (and ours) for the new year 

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Call to Worship

God is doing a new thing,
making a way in the wilderness
and creating streams of Living Water
in the wasteland.

God has created and formed us,
calling us precious, honored, and loved.
We receive the love of Christ
and share it with our neighbors near and far.
Amen. 

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Worship Song

Sound of Adoration

When we were lost ones
You were the Shepherd that carried us home
When we were prodigals
You ran to meet us with open arms
And we can’t hold back our praise

When we were refugees
You were the One who took us in
When we were enemies
You paid the price for all our sin
And we can’t hold back our praise

This is the sound of adoration
Oh, how we love You
Jesus, we love You

You are the joy of all creation
Oh, how we love You
Jesus, we love You

You are the Risen One
You conquered death and made a way
You sang our freedom song
Now we are dancing on our chains
And we can’t hold back our praise

By the cross, I am free
Your grace changes everything
I was blind, now I see
Your grace changes everything

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Have My Heart

You love with no reservations
You’re not looking for perfection
And there’s no need in me pretending
I’ll give You everything
I’ll give You everything

You deserve my full attention
Nothing less than my devotion
Oh, speak to me and I will listen
I’ll give You everything
I’ll give You everything

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh 
You can have my heart
You can have my heart

Be the Lord of my emotions
Set me free from selfish motives
And search me ’til there’s nothing hidden
And I’ll give You everything
Yes, I’ll give You everything

My heart is Yours forever
My heart is Yours forever

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Prayer of Confession

Light of the World,
Your creativity and love brought forth
the sun, the moon, and the stars.
By Your Spirit, You lead us in new directions.

Haver mercy on us,
and upon our broken world,
as all creation groans;
Hear us, O God, we pray: 

— Moment of silent prayer — 

Voice of Love,
You know us and call us by name.
Restore us and the world You love.
Amen.

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Assurance of God’s Love

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Prayers of the People

As San Diegans, we know firsthand the pain, disorientation, and devastation caused by rampant wildfires.

Today, as we lift up those who are suffering in the greater Los Angeles area, we invite you to pray one sentence out loud for those affected, especially if there’s someone you know personally, and we will respond together by saying, “Lord, have mercy” 

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Offering Prayer

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Announcements

• Thanks for worshiping with us today! We hope you experience meaningful connection with God and others in our community. If you’re visiting for the first time today, we’d love to get to know you better. Please take home a visitor’s card with QR code so that we can stay in touch & build a relationship!
• Congrats! Thanks to everyone who ran in the Resolution Run yesterday! Special congrats to our two champions, Jin and Arya, who both placed in their respective divisions! Please pray for our Anchor & Hope Run Club this year as we hope to connect with others in the community 
• Church Without Walls: On Sunday, February 2nd, we will not gather at Sandburg but will have a Church Without Walls gathering at the EcoVivarium in Escondido! More details to come soon 

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Passing of the Peace

Let’s greet each other at this time!

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Family Praise

Light of the World

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Worship Song

Canvas & Clay

In my mother’s womb
You formed me with Your hands
Known and loved by You
Before I took a breath

When I doubt it, Lord, remind me
I’m wonderfully made
You’re an artist and a potter
I’m the canvas and the clay

You make all things work together
For my future and for my good
You make all things work together
For Your glory and for Your name

There’s a healing light
Just beyond the clouds
Though I’ve walked through fire
I see clearly now

I know nothing has been wasted
No failure or mistake
You’re an artist and a potter
I’m the canvas and the clay

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Scripture Reading

Isaiah 64:8

Yet, O Lord, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand.

Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Together: Thanks be to God.

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Sermon

The Shape of Things to Come

Pastor Jeya

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Reflection Activity

• Reflect: What (or who) is God shaping me to be? Where and how might I be called to participate in the Truth, Beauty, Goodness, Healing of this world?
• Take some time to think about how a literal shape might represent the answer to your reflection and cut out that shape.
• Take a moment to share your shape with your neighbor.

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Worship Song

Open Space

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like You have loved me

Break my heart for what breaks Yours
Everything I am is for Your kingdom’s cause
Show me how to love like You have loved me

Pull me in closer
Close to Your heart
May I be a pure reflection of all You are

Love that is patient
Love that is kind
And love that keeps no offences
or wrongs in my mind

Make me like Jesus
Make me like Jesus

You’re faithful to find me
Right where I am
Though even in my wandering You call me friend

And mercy receives me
and lifts me to my feet
And I’m caught up in the wonder and mystery

Of knowing Jesus
Of knowing Jesus

My heart is an open space
for You to come and have Your way
I’m open, I’m open

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Benediction

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Church Anniversary Sunday

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Centering Practice

• We invite you to slow down, breathe, and connect with God, each other, and yourself
• Begin by closing our eyes and taking several slow, deep breaths
• Stand for 12 seconds of silence with open hands
• Take one big step forward to symbolize starting off on the right foot!

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Call to Worship

God is doing a new thing,
making a way in the wilderness
and creating streams of Living Water
in the wasteland.

God has created and formed us,
calling us precious, honored, and loved.
We receive the love of Christ
and share it with our neighbors near and far.
Amen. 

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Worship Song

My Hallelujah / O Come Let Us Adore

O come all ye faithful
Come let us adore Him

You will have our hallelujah
You alone, the highest name
All to You, Lord we surrender
Every breath we take
Make our lives Your praise

Open up the doors again 
Let the King of glory in 
His Kingdom will never end 
Oh, we know that You are good

Break the darkness with the light 
All the earth let praise arise 
Every dead place come alive 
Oh, we know that You are good

Oh, Spirit of the Living God 
Fire burning in our hearts  
We’re wide awake to who You are
Oh, we know that You are good

You are my strength when I am weak 
You are my sight when I can’t see  
As praise goes up, I believe 
The walls are coming down

Oh, when I was lost, You rescued me 
When I was bound, You set me free
As praise goes up, I believe 
The walls are coming down

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Prayer of Confession

God of goodness and guidance,
In the midst of shadow & fog,
You send Jesus to be our light of hope.

In a world of scarcity, make us generous;
To those who fear, make us the voice of love;
For the grieving, make us tender and kind;
Hear us, O God, we pray: 

— Moment of silent prayer — 

Spirit of new life,
Help us to dream with You —
broader and wider and newer and brighter
than all we have ever known.
Amen.

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Assurance of God’s Love

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Prayers of the People

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Communion

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Offering Prayer

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Announcements

• Thanks for worshiping with us today! We hope you experience meaningful connection with God and others in our community. If you’re visiting for the first time today, we’d love to get to know you better. Please take home a visitor’s card with QR code so that we can stay in touch & build a relationship!
• Anniversary Sunday: Let’s celebrate our church’s anniversary together after service in the park! Lunch will be provided — please consider giving $10 to cover the costs. 
• Resolution Run: This Saturday, January 11th, we invite you to kick off the year with our Anchor & Hope Run Club — please talk to Jin for registration details to join our team 

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Passing of the Peace

Let’s greet each other at this time!

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Family Praise

Shine (From the Inside Out)

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Worship Song

You Hold It All Together

Our hope is in You God
We are steadfast
We will not be moved

We’re anchored, never shaken
All our hope is You

You come at the right time
When I least expect it
Never behind

So why would I be surprised
When You deliver every time

On mountaintops, You stay the same
In valleys low, You never change

And I believe that I will see
The goodness of the Lord
I’m confident as seasons change
Your faithfulness remains

You go, You go before me
To prepare a blessing
You madе a way

It’s more than I could imagine
More than I can fathom
Or comprehend

God of our present
God of our future
You write our story
You hold it all together

And we believe that we will see
The goodness of the Lord
We’re confident as seasons change
Your faithfulness remains

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Scripture Reading

Hebrews 6:19

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.

Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Together: Thanks be to God.

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Panel Conversation

Staff & Core Team Representative:

Kathy Lee, Pastor David, Tae Kim, Pastor Dan, Pastor Jeya

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Our dreams for our church for 2025:

• Kathy: I hope that we as a church can embody Christ’s love, peace, and joy to one another and the world around us as we engage deeply in relationship with God, one another, and the greater community around us.
• Pastor David: My hope for our church in 2025 is that we are not just finding Jesus as our anchor and hope, but we are living that out in our own communities.
• Tae: My hope for our church in 2025 is that this is a year of growth. I believe we have a wonderful church, a wonderful and dedicated pastoral staff, and a mission that is not only rooted in Truth but so relevant for the world today: to bring hope to those who need it — a hope that has been given to us through God’s love.
• Pastor Dan: My dream is that this time next year, each of us will be more open to God, others, and ourselves — and that the journey of openness will fill our hearts with joy, meaning, and encouragement. 
• Pastor Jeya: To learn together how we can see hope by being hope in our small corners of the world, which then flows and overflows into the rest of this world.

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Worship Song

Let Us Be Known

Let us be known by our love
In every word, in every deed
Honor the Son

Let our light shine in every eye
Let us be known by our love

For the glory of our Savior
For the glory of our God
For the glory of the Spirit
Let us be known by our love

Let us be known by our joy
In every home, in every heart
Sing to the Lord

Let our lives show goodness and hope
Let us be known by our joy

For the glory of our Savior
For the glory of our God
For the glory of the Spirit
Let us be known by our joy

Let us be known by our peace
In every town, in every tribe
Jesus is King

Let us go forth, heal and restore
Let us be known by our peace

For the glory of our Savior
For the glory of our God
For the glory of the Spirit
Let us be known by our peace

For the glory of our Savior
For the glory of our God
For the glory of the Spirit
Let us be known by our love

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Benediction

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