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Gathering
         Prelude: Please enter quietly and contemplate the images provided for your reflection.
         Welcome and Call to Worship
         Singing:         All praise to our redeeming Lord (WB 21)
                                    Immortal, invisible, God only wise (WB 70)
                                    Come and see (WB 20)    
Offering Our Gifts
         Children's Time  Sue Byler
         The Gift of Our Tithes
                  Offertory Prayer and Offertory
         The Gift of Confession:
                  Healing Christ:
                           We offer up to you our darkness and our sins.
                           We offer the parts of ourselves that hurt others;
                           We offer those things that we hide even from ourselves;
                           We offer our distorted vision;
                  Christ, shine on us. Come and be light for our eyes.
         Song: Come and be light for our eyes (STJ 5)
Hearing the Word
         Scripture Selections from 1 Samuel 16:1-13 and John 9:1-41      
                                    David Shank
         Dramatic Reading         Alisha and Andrew Snyder
         Silent Reflection
         Sermon: ``What? Are we blind too?''         Christina Litwiller
         Song of Response: Open my ears, open my eyes     (opposite)
Hearing Each Other
         Congregational Sharing
                  Pastoral Prayer  Anita Kehr
         Introduction of Visitors
                  Please pass the friendship registers.
         Announcements
Sending
         Song of Sending: Thuma mina (WB 434)
         Benediction

Worship Participants:
Worship Leader Jennifer Schrock
Song Leader Paul Leichty
Accompanist Mitch Siemens-Rhodes
Prelude and Offertory Justin Heinzekehr       
Sound/Projection Phil Bauman  
Ushers Dan and Matthew Williams
Visuals Laverne Nafziger
Lent Planning Committee Greg Smucker, Laverne Nafziger, Michael Sherer, Tracy Thorne, Anita Kehr

Song of Response: Open my ears, open my eyes
         Ears, eyes, hands, arms, mind, heart
         Come, Jesus, come.
         Ears and eyes, hands and arms, mind and heart
         O come, Jesus, come.
         My ears, my eyes, my hands, my arms, my mind, my heart
         Come, Jesus, come.
         My ears, my eyes, my hands, my arms, my mind, my heart
         O come, Jesus, come.
         Open my ears, open my eyes, open my hands,
         open my arms, open my mind, open my heart
         O come, Jesus, come.
         Open my ears, open my eyes, open my hands,
         open my arms, open my mind, open my heart
         O come, Jesus, come.
         Open my mind, open my heart
         O come, Jesus, come.
                                    Words and music by James Clemens.

Childcare during worship is available for infants and toddlers (generally ages three and under) in the nursery on the right side of the hallway going back to Jubilee Hall.
Nurture Hour begins ten minutes after the end of worship. Please stay and enjoy coffee and conversation in the fellowship hall, and then gather in the meetingroom for these classes:
Adult classes at Berkey Avenue are intergenerational, and visitors are encouraged to attend a class of their choosin g. :
¨         The College Age/Young Adult class , led by John and Ruth Roth and by Joe Liechty meets in the library.
¨         Sermon Discussion, led by David Heusinkveld and Dale Shenk, meets in the northeast corner of the meetingroom.
¨         Book study of Politics Under God by John H. Redekop , led by Daniel Grimes, meets in the southeast corner of the meetingroom.
¨         A long-term, discussion-based group meets in the northwest corner of the meetingroom.
¨         Bible Study class, led by David Shank, meets in Lois and Cindy's office.        
¨         A membership exploration class, led by Anita Kehr and Dan Schrock, meets in the small room off Jubilee Hall, next to the MYF room.
Children from preschool through fifth grade gather after worship for singing in ``Jubilee Hall'' (the large room north of the fellowship hall). Younger children may go directly to their classroom (see the room assignments below).
¨         Infants and 2-year-olds meet in ``Cherub Corner.''
¨         Preschool (3- and 4-year-olds) meet in ``Gentleness.''
¨         Primary (kindergarten and first grade) meet in ``Joyful.''
¨         Middler I (second and third grades) meet in ``Peace.''
¨         Middler II (fourth and fifth grades) meet in ``Forgiveness.''
Youth:
The JYF (grades 6-8) and the MYF (grades 9-12) meet in their classrooms off of Jubilee Hall.
The bulletin cover is a simplified version of a woodcut by Robert Hodgell and is used with permission.