Children’s Sunday

“Seeing Possibilities in this Pandemic Times Through the Eyes of the Children”

PRELUDE – Charleston King Galope

LIGHTING OF CHRIST’S CANDLE

GREETINGS

WELCOME SONG: “Welcome to the family”

Welcome to the family,

we’re glad that you have come

To share your life with us,

as we grow in love and

May we always be to you,

what God would have us be:

A family always there

to be strong and to lean on.

May we learn to love each other

more in each new day

May words of love be on our lips

in everything we say

May Your Spirit fill our hearts

and teach us how to pray

That we might be a true family.

WORDS TO PONDER (Minister)

“God gives us children for a time, To train them in God’s way, To love them, and to show them how to follow and obey”.

(Our Daily Bread Vo. 7)

“We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his/her bones are being formed, his/her blood is being developed. To him/her we cannot answer “tomorrow”. His/Her name is “today”.

– Gabriela Mistral

CALL TO WORSHIP

Leader: Come, children, all of you, let us worship our God!

Response : We are here to listen to the teachings of our Redeemer Jesus Christ, the great and good teacher.

Leader: Be joyful always in obeying God’s commandment and study it day and night.

Response: We are here to witness our faith and trust of a compassionate and ever caring and loving God.

All: O God, how glorious is your name! Our righteous and powerful God, showed us the right path that we should follow.

OPENING SONG:

“Jesus loves the little Children”

Jesus loves the little children

All the children of the world

Red, brown, yellow Black and white

They are precious in His sight

Jesus loves the little children of the world

Jesus died for all the children

All the children of the world

Red, brown, yellow Black and white

They are precious in His sight, Jesus died for all the children Of the world.

OPENING PRAYER (Unison)

May we all feel your presence now, O God.

We humbly submit ourselves to you so that we

may know what you want us to be and what you want us to do. Help us learn from you so that we may grow in your love and be empowered to serve your people. Prepare us now through your Spirit, and make us listen to what you want to say to us. We worship you with joy and thanksgiving. In the name of our Savior Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen.

Response: “Gloria Patri”

Glory be to the Father,

and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning,

is now and ever shall be,

World without end, Amen, Amen.

CALL TO CONFESSION (Leader)

People of God, we have walked the path

that separated us from our Creator. We have made decisions and plans of our own that keep us away from doing the will of God.

We fail in serving the least of our brethren,

the widows, the inflicted and most of all the children. Let us therefore confess our shortcomings and weaknesses

and ask for forgiveness before God.

SONG OF CONFESSION:

“If I have Wounded Any Soul Today” (hfj66)

If I have wounded any soul today,

If I have caused one foot to go astray,

If I have walked in my own willful way,

Dear Lord, forgive!

If I have uttered idle words or vain,

If I have turned aside from want or pain,

If I offended others thru the strain,

Dear Lord, forgive!

ASSURANCE OF PARDON(Minister)

Take heart. God’s Spirit empowers us

to move from the ways of death to the ways of new life. Our sins are forgiven. Let us forgive one another in the joyful community of the risen Christ. God’s readiness to forgive far exceeds our love of sinning. For God’s life-giving grace in Jesus Christ reaches out to us and embraces us with the blessings of salvation.

Response “Jesus Loves Me”

Refrain:

Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me!

Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so.

CHURCH CONCERNS

CHILDREN’S TRIBUTE

PRAYER OF THE PEOPLE

Response “O Lord, Hear Our Prayer”

O Lord, hear our prayer,

O Lord hear our prayer,

When we call, answer us.

O Lord, hear our prayer,

O, Lord, hear our prayer.

Come and listen to us.

SCRIPTURE READING

3 Children are a gift from the LORD;

they are a reward from him.

4 Children born to a young man are like arrows in a warrior’s hands.

5 How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be put to shame when he confronts his accusers at the city gates.

Ps. 127:3-5 (NLT)

14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

Matthew 19:14

1 God is our refuge and strength an ever-present help in trouble.

2 Therefore we will not fear,

though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;

I will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted in the earth.”

11 The Lord Almighty is with us;

the God of Jacob is our fortress.

Psalm 46[:1-2; 10-11

SPECIAL SONG “Yesterday’s Dream”

-Children

MESSAGE From Children’s point of view through :

Video clips Selected Children

Testimony Charleston King G. Galope

Ideal World Juzmin Mares Salomon

DUET: “A Gift To You”

Mariah Gracia Archieann and Mariah Gracia Archieville (Star and Twinkle) Beley

AN AFFIRMATION (Unison)

We believe that children are a new beginning,

one filled with hope and the promise of a better tomorrow. Each child is a whole person with body and spirit undivided, his/her entire being actively participating in the making of history in accordance with God’s laws.

Children are God’s greatest gift to us. They are with us to show us the way to God’s kingdom,

not to be molded and shaped by our own world. As we face a new beginning and as we promote peace, we do so not only for them,

but also with them, so that together,

we can build the world that they want,

CALL TO OFFERING

God has abundantly blessed us and called us to be in community with others, to share our love and material possessions. Let us rejoice in what we have been given and in what is ours to give.

OFFERTORY SONG “Heal the World” -Children

DOXOLOGY

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

We dedicate to you, generous God, our lives.

Receive these offerings as a sign of our gratitude and commitment. Amen.

CLOSING SONG

“It could be a Wonderful World”

If we could consider each other,

A neighbor, a friend, or a brother,

It could be a wonderful, wonderful world,

It could be a wonderful world, oh-ho