OUR SAVIOUR’S
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

November 1, 2026

In the Name and Fellowship of Jesus Christ, you are welcomed to our faith community.

We are so glad that you chose to join us this morning to worship with us. Whatever your circumstances: married, single, single again, with or without children, looking for a home church or “just browsing,” you are welcome at Our Saviour’s. Please record your visit with us. Sign the attendance pad and pass it to the other end of the pew. You can also fill out a Connect Card and place it in the offering plate or the office, we'd like to know how we can serve you or minister to you. We’d love to stay in touch with you, and provide you with information about our church ministries and programs, you can also check out our website at www.osumc.org. You are invited to join us for coffee hour where we can get to know you better. Again, thanks for joining us today! We hope to see you again very soon. God bless you.

Words in red type to be read by the congregation.
An asterisk(*) indicates to please stand in body or in spirit, as you are able.

Order of Worship

Announcements

Brian English

Prelude

For All the Saints

Ralph Vaughan Williams

arr. by Shirley Brendlinget

Ricardo Pedroza

Welcome

Pastor Heewon Kim

*Hymn

He Leadeth Me: O Blessed Thought

United Methodist Hymnal 128

verses 1 and 4

Prayers of the People

Pastor Heewon

Offertory

Wonder, Love, and Praise

Tom Fettke

Chancel Choir

*Hymn

Glory Be to the Father

United Methodist Hymnal 71

*Prayer of Dedication

Eternal God, we give you thanks for the saints who have gone before us—those whose lives bore witness to your grace and whose faith still shapes the church we share today. As we remember them with gratitude, we offer these gifts as signs that their witness continues through us. Open our eyes to see your work in the world. Use our voices to give witness to what we have seen of your love and mercy. Use these offerings to strengthen your church, that our lives may also become a testimony to your living Word at work among us. Through Christ, our Lord.

Amen.

Scripture Reading

Linda DeMore

Romans 12:1-2

Living sacrifice and transformed lives
12 So, brothers and sisters, because of God’s mercies, I encourage you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice that is holy and pleasing to God. This is your appropriate priestly service. 2 Don’t be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you can figure out what God’s will is—what is good and pleasing and mature.

Leader: This is the word of God for the People of God
People: Thanks be to God Amen

Message

Counterculture: Week 1

Who Are We?

Pastor Heewon Kim

Invitation

Pastor: Christ our Lord invites to his table all who love him, who earnestly repent of their sin and seek to live in peace with one another.
Therefore, let us confess our sin before God
and one another.

Prayer of Confession

Pastor: Beloved, we are God’s children now, but what we will be in the fullness of our time has not been revealed.

What we do know is this: we will be like Jesus the Christ and saints of God. Let us consider how Jesus was revealed among us and pray to be more like the Christ in every way.

Pastor: Jesus embodied the unconditional love of God…

Congregation: We pray,  may we be more like Jesus.

Pastor: Jesus fed those who were hungry…
Congregation: We pray,  may we be more like Jesus.

Pastor: Jesus drew near to those living on the margins and excluded…
Congregation: We pray,  may we be more like Jesus.

Pastor: Jesus brought healing and wholeness to those in need…
Congregation: We pray,  may we be more like Jesus.

Pastor: Jesus hungered and thirsted for righteousness…
Congregation: We pray,  may we be more like Jesus.

Moment of Silence

Assurance of Pardon

Pastor: Beloved, through the love shown to us by Jesus, we can be sure that we are God’s children now. The Spirit of Christ is among us in this gathering, and the nature of Christ is revealed within us.

Congregation: We are becoming more and more like Christ each day,
Living witness to the good news of God’s grace.
Therefore, let us live joyfully as God’s people,
saints and instruments of God’s way.

Holy Communion

Leader: The Lord be with you.

Unison: And also with you.

Leader: Lift up your hearts.

Unison: We lift them up to the Lord.

Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

Unison: It is right to give our thanks and praise.

Leader: It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you, Almighty God, creator of heaven and earth.

God of Abraham and Sarah,
God of Miriam and Moses,
God of Joshua and Deborah,
God of Ruth and David,
God of the priests and the prophets,
God of Mary and Joseph,
God of the apostles and the martyrs,
God of our mothers and our fathers,
God of our children to all generations.

And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven we praise your name and join their unending hymn:

Unison: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

Leader: Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ. By the baptism of his suffering, death, and resurrection you gave birth to your church, delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made with us a new covenant by water and the Spirit.

On the night in which he gave himself up for us, he took bread, gave thanks to you, broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said: "Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me."

When the supper was over, he took the cup, gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said: "Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant, poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."

And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ's offering for us, as we proclaim the mystery of faith.

Unison: Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.

Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here, and on these gifts of bread and wine. Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ, that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood.

Renew our communion with all your saints, especially those whom we name before you—

Gary Renner
Fred K Howe Jr.
Dyrle Rathman
Susan Bernasek
Harry Kokal
John Boucek
Maurice L. Vitosh

Other Loved Ones

Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, strengthen us to run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the Pioneer and Perfecter of our faith. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world, until Christ comes in final victory and we feast at his heavenly banquet.

Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy church, all honor and glory is yours, almighty God, now and forever.

Unison: Amen

Leader: And now, with the confidence of children of God, let us pray:

Unison: Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.

Amen.

Sing during communion

UMH 620; UMH 362; UMH 622; UMH 618

Passing the Peace

*Hymn

O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee

United Methodist Hymnal 430

verses 1, 2, and 4

*Blessing

*Hymn

God of Grace and God of Glory

United Methodist Hymnal 577

verse 1

Postlude

Adagio, BWV 539

J. S. Bach

Ricardo Pedroza