Fourth Sunday after Pentecost - June 16, 2024

Sermon Title: “My Story Is Our Story” by The Rev. Mark Breland
We offer a special welcome to our Guest Preacher for Sunday, the Rev. Mark Breland, pastor at Lititz Moravian Church. Pastor Mark is married to his wife, Dee, and has three sons. He grew up in the Second Moravian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was ordained in 1990 and has served as pastor of the Redeemer Moravian Church in Philadelphia, as a team pastor at the Lake Mills Moravian Church Wisconsin and the Haverford and Second Moravian Churches in Indianapolis. He has been pastor at Lititz Moravian since 2007.
Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. It recalls how the states of Louisiana and Texas heard the news that President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Slavery continued in those two states for more than two years after the proclamation was signed because the word had yet to travel there. Texas and Louisiana finally got the good news on June 19, 1865. Former slaves broke out in spontaneous celebration. These were dangerous times. Even in the face of resistance and threat, the formerly enslaved Africans found ways to give voice to the wide range of thoughts and emotions at the announcement of the end of legalized slavery in the United States of America.
For more information on Lehigh Valley Celebrations of Juneteenth, please go to juneteenthlv.org/
Liturgy for Juneteenth
Adapted and used with permission from the Liturgy for Juneteenth, Copyright © 2019 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Sacrament of Baptism reprinted or adapted from the 1995 Moravian Book of Worship with the permission of the Interprovincial Board of Communication, Moravian Church in America. © 1995 IBOC. www.moravian.org; e-mail: [e-mail]. All rights reserved.
1 Samuel 8:4-11, 16-20 and Mark 3:19b-35 New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
In the Morning When I Rise
Moravian Book of Worship hymn 573
TEXT: Afro-American Spiritual
TUNE: Afro-American Spiritual Arr. Alma Blackmon (1984). Music © 1984 by Alma Blackmon
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Lead Me, Guide Me
Moravian Book of Worship hymn 728
TEXT: Doris M. Akers, alt.
TUNE: Doris M. Akers. Arr. Richard Smallwood (1981)
Text and tune ©1953 by Doris M. Akers. All rights administered by Unichappell Music Inc. International copyright secured.
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Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow
Moravian Book of Worship hymn 817
TEXT: Thomas Ken (1695), alt. (1709)
TUNE: Genevan Psalter (1551), original form
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
Moravian Book of Worship hymn 707
TEXT: James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
TUNE: J. Rosamund Johnson (1873-1954). ©1921 by Edward B. Marks Music Company.
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