Author: Tim Fehr
Last saved by: Synod Resource Center
Company: Northwest Synod of Wisconsin

HELPING

&

HIKING

Opening Song: Joyful, Joyful We will Serve You (handout)

Welcome:  Brooke Olson

Worship Leader:  We gather in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

Congregation:  Amen

Confession:  Blue book, page 10, second setting

First Lesson:  Deuteronomy 8:6-11

Worship Leader:  God is good.
Congregation:  All the time.
Worship Leader:  All the time.
Congregation:  God is good.

Second Lesson: Philippians 2:1-8

Worship Leader:  God is good.
Congregation:  All the time.
Worship Leader:  All the time.
Congregation:  God is good.

Message:  Carole

Mission Team Members:  We are here to celebrate the call of Christ through our baptism, to be his servants in the world.

Congregation:  Come, Holy Spirit, empower this mission team for Service.

Mission Team Members:  We are here to celebrate and affirm our unique God-given gifts and to declare that we have been saved through faith for a purpose.

Congregation:  We thank you, Lord, for the gifts your Holy Spirit has given to these youth and adults.

Mission Team Members:  We are here to ask for your prayers and blessing as we go to Libby, Montana, to build a house and work for those who need better housing.

Congregation:  May God go with you as you serve; may God give you his peace and strength; may God give you the energy and enthusiasm to accomplish your servant tasks.  We send you out to serve in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Pastor:  Our Mission Team members have sponsors that have sponsored them in many ways already, and now we ask that sponsors pray for these team members as they head out to serve.  I now ask the Sponsors to stand.
	Sponsors, will you be faithful in your prayers for these team members?  Will you remember them daily in your prayers?

Sponsors:  Yes, with the help of God.

Family Members and Sponsors:  (Please come forward and put your hands on your team member.)  Lord, we thank you that you have water-marked these Mission Team members with the cross of Christ and that you have identified them as your Children.  May they continue to have faith in your promises and may they faithfully respond to your call to serve.  In Jesus’ name we pray.

Parents and Families:  Dear Lord, be with _________ as he/she moves on an exciting adventure.  Calm his/her fears, ready him/her for new experiences, bless him/her on his/her way, keep him/her safe in his/her travels, and give him/her a servant’s heart.  I/We ask these things through Jesus Christ, who came to serve.  Amen.
	(Families may return to their seats.)

Commissioning:  You all are servants for God!  I ask you to choose a rock in the water, the water that reminds you that you were baptized with water.  Choose a rock and please tell the congregation how you intend to be a servant of God’s on Mission Trip 2000.

Words of Institution:  Pastor Marcia Pyle

Communion:  Songs:  Blue #705, 702, 709, 710.

Blessing

Worship Leader:  We invite you to join us in the following prayer and also invite you to say this prayer each week that we are gone.  Please pray that we are healthy, happy, and most of all that we are doing God’s work well and that we are accomplishing lots for this family.

Benediction

Worship Leader:  Let us pray together the prayer attributed to St. Francis of Assisi

Congregation:  Lord, make us instruments of your peace.  Where there is hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.  Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.  In the name of Jesus, Amen.

Song: Jesus, Please Watch Over Us.

Mission Team:  Go in Peace.

Everyone:  And do God’s work.

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Please join us for the send-off tomorrow at 5:30 am!!!!!!!!!

Thank you to all of our Church Sponsors.

Each Mission Trip member must have a Church sponsor.  This money goes to Habitat for Humanity for building supplies.

Sponsors:  Put your letter to be given to your team member in the basket.

The Whereabouts of the 2000 Mission Team

If you should need to get in touch with us while we are gone, the numbers and addresses are:

Date(s):
Church and Address:
Phone Number:
Contact Person:
Phone Number:

Used with permission from First Lutheran Church, Amery, Wisconsin