OUR SAVIOUR’S
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
March 23, 2025
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 welcomed 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
Tim Alexander
Prelude
It is Well With My Soul
Philip Bliss
arr Mark Hayes
Ricardo Pedroza
Welcome/Prayer
Pastor David Lagos-Fonseca
*Hymn
Come and Find a Quiet Center
verses 1 and 3
The Faith We Sing 2128
Call to Confession
Prayer of Confession
We confess, O Lord, that when you offer us your kingdom, we get lost in our own work, wealth, power, and pride. You invite us to follow you, but we refuse to abandon our selfish ways. Thank you for your amazing patience and your unlimited grace that seeks to restore us to new life. Amen.
Words of Assurance and Confession
Leader: My friends, when we are lost, all is not lost. God runs toward us, sweeping us in his arms, embracing us with unlimitless grace and love.
So hear the good news: In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.
Congregation: In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven. Thanks be to God! Amen.
Sharing of Joys and Concerns/Lord's Prayer
Steve Schray
Offertory
O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go
Albert Peace
arr. Mark Hayes
Ricardo Pedroza
*Hymn
Praise God, From Whom all Blessings Flow
United Methodist Hymnal 95
*Prayer of Dedication
Loving and generous God, we offer our gifts that others might be swept up in your loving and gracious arms. Amen.
Gift of Music
A Prayer for Peace
Karissa Dennis
Chancel Chimers
*Gospel Reading
Dana Legg
Luke 15: 11-32 (NLV)
Parable of the Lost Son
11 To illustrate the point further, Jesus told them this story: “A man had two sons. 12 The younger son told his father, ‘I want my share of your estate now before you die.’ So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons.
13 “A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living. 14 About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve. 15 He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs. 16 The young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything.
17 “When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger! 18 I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, 19 and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.”’
20 “So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. 21 His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son.[b]’
22 “But his father said to the servants, ‘Quick! Bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him. Get a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet. 23 And kill the calf we have been fattening. We must celebrate with a feast, 24 for this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found.’ So the party began.
25 “Meanwhile, the older son was in the fields working. When he returned home, he heard music and dancing in the house, 26 and he asked one of the servants what was going on. 27 ‘Your brother is back,’ he was told, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf. We are celebrating because of his safe return.’
28 “The older brother was angry and wouldn’t go in. His father came out and begged him, 29 but he replied, ‘All these years I’ve slaved for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends. 30 Yet when this son of yours comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the fattened calf!’
31 “His father said to him, ‘Look, dear son, you have always stayed by me, and everything I have is yours. 32 We had to celebrate this happy day. For your brother was dead and has come back to life! He was lost, but now he is found!’”
Reader: This is the Word of God for the People of God.
Congregation: Thanks be to God. Amen.
Message
Just Extravagant
Pastor David Lagos-Fonseca
*Hymn
Let All Things Now Living
The Faith We Sing 2008
Blessing
Postlude
God's Own Son, I Gladly Say It
setting by Kenneth Kosche
Ricardo Pedroza
Our Saviour’s United Methodist Church
Mission Statement
Growing Each Day by Worshiping God; Loving One Another; and Serving Others
A Safe Sanctuary Congregation
701 E. Schaumburg Rd., Schaumburg, IL 60194
Church Phone: 847/352-8181
E-mail: churchoffice@osumc.org
Web address: www.osumc.org
Prayer Requests: pray@osumc.org
Regular Worship Service:
Sundays - 9:30 A.M.
Sunday School – 9:30 A.M.
To learn about our upcoming events please visit our calendar:
~ OSUMC Members of the Reconciling Church Task Force ~
Martha Walker
Cindy Rucks
Phil Dyer
Diane Dyer
Barry Maurizio
Brian English
Jenny Beutin
Barbara Garvin (Alternate)
~SINGLE BOARD MEMBERS ~
Single Board Chairperson
Dan Meyer
Lay Leader
Brian English
Finance Chairperson
Michele Anderson
Finance Vice Chair
Phil Prather
Trustees Chairperson
Bob Garvin
Trustees Vice Chair
John Kostecki
Pastor Parish Committee Chairperson
Faith Folkes
Pastor Parish Committee Chairperson Vice Chair
Matthew Williams
U.M. Men’s Representative
Barry Maurizio
United Women in Faith Representative
Mary Legg
Youth Representative
Angelina Mheenbeek
Recording Secretary
Marcia Needler