The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Let us be a servant people, reconciling, ending strife,
seeking ways more just of sharing and of ord’ring human life.
Fill us with a glowing vision of this world as it should be;
send us forth to change that vision into blest reality.
– Christ, You Call Us All to Service
(The Covenant Hymnal: A Worshipbook, #614, verse 3;
Words: Joy F. Patterson, 1931- , © 1994 Hope Publishing Company
Music: Dutch melody; arr. Julius Rontgen, 1855-1933)