Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost - October 11, 2026

Sermon by the Rev. Becky Lepore Stewardship liturgy 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: pubs@mcnp.org. All rights reserved. Philippians 4:1-9 and Matthew 22:1-14 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. Join hearts and voices as we lift TEXT: © by Jane Parker Huber Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-718538. All rights reserved. O holy God, whose gracious pow’r redeems us, TEXT: © by Jane Parker Huber Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-718538. All rights reserved. Bless, Lord, the labor we bring to serve you, TEXT: Albert F. Bayly (1901-1984). © 1988 by Oxford University Press (from “Praise and Thanksgiving”) TUNE: Setting © by Brian Henkelmann Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-718538. All rights reserved. Lord of all good, you now our gifts can see; TEXT: Albert F. Bayly (1901-1984). © 1988 by Oxford University Press Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-718538. All rights reserved. (1784) 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 In Mercy, Lord, This Grace Bestow Moravian Book of Worship hymn 643 TEXT: St. 1 Anna Nitschmann (1715-1760). Tr. Frederick William Foster, alt. St. 2 Henriette Louise von Hayn (1724-1782). Tr. anon., alt. TUNE: Edward Miller (1790) Bliss Beyond CompareMoravian Book of Worship hymn 594 TEXT: Gottfried Arnold (1666-1714). Moravian tr. (1754). Recast Frederick William Foster (1789) TUNE: Adam Drese (1698) (Earlier form)