God has a strong stomach

Rev. Amy Zimbelman, Conference Minister of MSMC, will preach from Mark 5:21-43 with a sermon titled "God has a strong stomach, and other insights from Mark 5." Amy offers this description: "Today we'll be looking at the healing of two women in the book of Mark: one with a flow of blood for years, and a 12-year-old on the threshold of adulthood. We'll be drawing from scholars like Dr. Brittney Wilson and Dale Martin to look at bleeding and how bodies and gender were viewed at the time (So if you get queasy at the mention of blood, I apologize in advance for triggering any gag reflexes.) And we'll be looking at the relationship between us and God when it comes to healing. What might our healing demand of us? and in the mess of life, where do we find God?"

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“Sicilienne, Op. 78”
Composed by Gabriel Fauré, 1898

“To God Be the Glory”
Music: William H Doane, 1875; arr. Mark Hayes, ©2006 Lorenz Publishing Co.; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Wakantanka (Many and Great)”
Text: Dakota; Joseph R Renville, Dakota Dowanpi Kin, 1846; paraphr. Philip Frazier, 1929, alt.; Music: Plains Indian traditional, Dakota Odowan, 1879

“Heleluyan”
Text: Muscogee; Hebrew traditional, ca. 4th c. BC; Music: Muscogee traditional; transcr. Charles H Webb, ©1989 United Methodist Publishing House (admin. Music Services); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Glory to God in the highest, and peace to God’s people on earth”
By Harold M Daniels, 2003

“Come and See”
Text: Marilyn Houser Hamm, 1974, Sing and Rejoice, 1979; adapt. from Greek and Latin liturgies; Music: Marilyn Houser Hamm, 1974, Sing and Rejoice, 1979; ©1974 Marilyn Houser Hamm; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Jesus, Be the Center”
Text & Music: Michael Frye; ©1999 Vineyard Songs (admin. Music Services); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through CCLI License #200093153

“Sonata in E Major, K. 380”
Composed by Domenico Scarlatti, 1840

“New Earth, Heavens New”
Text: Harris J Loewen, 1982, Assembly Songs, 1983, rev. 2019; Music: Harris J Loewen, 1982, Assembly Songs, 1983; acc. Andrea Welty Peachey; ©1991 Hope Publishing Co.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Longing for Light”
Text & Music: Bernadette Farrell; ©1993 OCP Publications; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Thomas and Jesus: Of Palm Reading and Trust

Amy Zimbelman, Conference Minister of Mountain States Mennonite Conference, will preach from John 20:19-31 with a sermon titled “Thomas and Jesus: Of Palm Reading and Trust.”

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“Nearer, My God, to Thee”
Music: Bethany by Lowell Mason; arr. John Turner; ©2012 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“To God Be the Glory”
Music: William H. Doane; arr. John Carter; ©1991 Hope Publishing Company; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Holy Spirit, Come with Power”
Text: Anne Neufeld Rupp, ©1970 Anne Neufeld Rupp; Music: attr. BF White, The Sacred Harp, 1844; harm. Joan Fyock Norris, ©1989 Joan Fyock Norris; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“In defiance of corruption and falsehood”
By John van de Laar, 2009

“Confitemini Domino (Come and Fill Our Hearts)”
Text: Latin; Psalm 136:1; English and Spanish stanzas Taizé Community; Music: Jacques Berthier; ©1982, 1991, 2011 Les Presses de Taizé (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Jesus Loves Me”
Text: Anna B Warner, 1859; Music: William B Bradbury, The Golden Shower, 1862

“Gloria”
Text: Latin; Luke 2:14; Music: Jacques Berthier, ©1979 Les Presses de Taizé (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“These Things Did Thomas Count”
Text: Thomas H Troeger, 1984, ©1986 Oxford University Press; Music: Bradley P Lehman, ©2019 Bradley P Lehman; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“We Walk by Faith”
Text: Henry Alford, Psalms and Hymns, 1844, alt.; Music: Marty Haugen, 1983, Mass of Creation, ©1984 GIA Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“My Lord, What a Morning”
Music: arr. Larry Shackley; ©2010 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“The Church of Christ, in Every Age”
Text: Fred Pratt Green, 1969, Hymns and Songs, ©1971 Hope Publishing Co.; Music: Lee H Bristol Jr, 1962, More Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1971, ©1962 Theodore Presser Co.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say”
Text: Horatius N Bonar, Hymns Original and Selected, 1846, alt.; Music: English traditional, English Country Songs, 1893; adapt. and harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams, The English Hymnal, 1906, alt.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon... say what now?

Amy Zimbelman, Conference Pastor of Mountain States Mennonite Conference, will preach from Luke 4:14-30.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“Be Thou My Vision”
Irish Folk Melody; Arranged by Mark Hayes; ©2004 Glory Sound, A Division of Shawnee Press, Inc; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Impromptu, Op. 142 No. 2”
Composed by Franz Schubert, 1827

“Praise to the Lord, the Almighty”
Tune: Lobe den herren from the Straslund Gesangbuch, 1665; Arranged by Larry Shackley; ©2006 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Come, Let Us All Unite to Sing”
Text: anon., ca. 1812, Millennial Praises, 1812; Music: Edmund S Lorenz, Notes of Triumph: For the Sunday School, 1886

“Come, Holy Spirit, enter our silences”
By Neill Thew, 1990, adapt. Mennonite Worship and Song Committee, 2019

“God of the Bible”
Text: Shirley Erena Murray, ©1996 Hope Publishing Company; Music: Tony E Alonso, ©2001 GIA Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Confitemini Domino (Come and Fill Our Hearts)”
Text: Latin; Psalm 136:1; English and Spanish stanzas Taizé Community; Music: Jacques Berthier; ©1982, 1991, 2011 Les Presses de Taizé (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Praise with Joy the World’s Creator”
Text: Iona Community, 1985, alt. ©1987 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); Music: John Goss, The Supplemental Hymn and Tune Book, 1869; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Sicilienne, Op. 78”
Composed by Gabriel Fauré, 1898

“Go Now in Peace, Worship Continues”
Text: Mary R Bittner, ©2004 Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc., alt.; Music: David N Johnson, abridged; arr. Andrew Daniels, ©1968 and this arr. ©2020 Augsburg Publishing House (admin. Augsburg Fortress); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Will You Come and Follow Me”
Text: John L Bell and Graham Maule; Music: Scottish traditional; arr. Lloyd Kauffman, arr. ©2015 Lilly Chapel Press, LLC; ©1987 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Where's Jesus? Grieving and regrouping when things didn't go as planned

Amy Zimbelman, Conference Minister of Mountain States Mennonite Conference, will preach from Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 and ask “Where’s Jesus? Grieving and regrouping when things didn’t go as planned.”

After the resurrection, the followers of Jesus are excited to see that he's making appearances everywhere. Strolling in gardens and grilling some fish for his friends, taking long walks down the road and coming over for dinner. He's with us again!

And then, the ascension. There he goes, up into the sky. Just like that.

Wait, we thought you were back! But now you’re leaving us to go up to heaven…by choice?

They can’t see Jesus anymore. And in our passage today, the Holy Spirit hasn’t come yet. I can only imagine the disciples looking at each other in that upper room and saying: “Soooo…this is awkward. Definitely not what we were expecting. What now?”

I want to talk this morning about what happens when things don’t go as planned—when we’re living the life we never expected to live. I want to talk about the shape of grief and regrouping in the midst of grief. In this year of coming out of the pandemic and so many other personal and collective tragedies, how do we grieve well? And what do we do now?

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Pastor Amy Zimbelman thoroughly enjoys serving as Conference Minister of MSMC, supporting 17 churches and many passion ministries in Colorado and New Mexico. She has served as a pastor at Mountain Community Mennonite for 3 years, and has worked in refugee resettlement for about a decade. Pastor Amy holds a Master of Divinity from Duke Divinity School, and has also served in Zambia through Mennonite Central Committee and in South Dakota with Mennonite Voluntary Service. In South Dakota, she met her husband/best friend, Matt Zimbelman, and they live in Colorado Springs and have two young sons. She loves spending time with her family, cooking/eating food, board gaming with friends, going outside to walk or hike, learning about other cultures, hashing things out in long conversations, and trying to follow Jesus.

Music Information & Acknowledgement

“God of the Bible”
Text: Shirley Erena Murray, ©1996 Hope Publishing Company; Music: Tony E Alonso, ©2001 GIA Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Let’s Walk Together”
Text: Laurie Zelman; Music: Mark A Miller; ©2007 Abingdon Press; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Calm Me, Lord”
Text: David Adam, ©SPCK; Music: Margaret Rizza, ©1998 Kevin Mayhew, Ltd. (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“There Is a Balm in Gilead”
Text & Music: African American spiritual

“Hymn of Peace”
Text & Music: Timothy Shue, 1994

“The Lord Lift You Up”
Text: Patricia J Shelly; Music: Patricia J Shelly; arr. Dennis Friesen-Carper; ©1983 Patricia J Shelly; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084