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Pastor.............................................................................. Reverend Carol Asher Home Phone: 744-7864 E-mail: clsasher2@aol.com Ministers......................................................................................... All Members Director of Music.................................................................... Secretary.................................................................................... Nancy Lemieux Ukama/Partner........... |
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This Week in Our Church Family
Boldface = Church-sponsored events
Sunday (18) 10:00 am Worship and
11:00 am Fellowship and Refreshments in Gilpatric Hall
Letter writing after service
Village Preschool Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:45-11:45 a.m.
Monday (19) 5:30 & 8:30 am Boot Camp (Mon.-Fri.)
9:00 am T’ai Chi
Tuesday (20) 5:30-6:30pm
Wed. (21)
Thursday (22) 6:00 pm T’ai Chi
Friday (23)
Saturday (24) 8:00am Al-Anon
Sunday (25) 10:00 am Worship and
11:10 am Fellowship and Refreshments in Gilpatric Hall
Letter writing after service
Thank You to Today’s Volunteers
Ushers: | Kent & Mary Alice Warner | Nursery Care: | Gabby Smith |
Liturgist: | Nancy Leighley | Greeters: | Bob & Honey Evans |
Acolytes: | Madison & Kaylee Smith | Fellowship Hosts: | Honey Evans, Pat Morrow, Nancy Leighley |
September 18, 2011 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship
Large print bulletins available—please ask an usher.
An asterisk (*) indicates “Please stand if you are able.”
Gathering for Worship
PRELUDE “Adagio” Mozart
IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH (announcements)
PREPARING THE WAY Children’s Story (children will leave for their classes at this time)
Entering into Worship
CHORAL INTROIT
RESPONSIVE CALL TO WORSHIP
L: Out of the fullness of the lives that God has given us we have come to worship and to praise.
P: With thanks we offer to God the creativity of our minds, the warmth of our hearts, and the joy of our spirits.
L: We love because God has first loved us, freeing us from the power of sin and death.
P: With glad hearts let us join together in singing praise to God and in gathering strength and direction for our journey.
*OPENING HYMN “O Worship the King” Hymn #17
*GATHERING PRAYER (in unison)
O God, you are the source of our life. It was you who mysteriously knit us together in our mother's wombs. It was you who nurtured us by the love of family and friends, and through your own mysterious outpouring of affection. You form us, O God, and you break us apart, that we might return to you. You are the beginning and the end. Be with us this day in this place, O God, as we seek to understand more clearly our call to be loving, just, fully human and completely yours. We pray in the name of Jesus the Christ who taught us this prayer: "Our Father..."
*LORD’S PRAYER (using “debts”)
“Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.”
PASSING THE PEACE OF JESUS CHRIST
*HYMN “There’s A Sweet Spirit in This Place” Hymn #261
A Time of Sharing
ANTHEM “Sanctus” Schubert
PRAYER JOYS AND CONCERNS
Pray as if all depended on God; act as if all depended on you.
CALL TO PRAYER
“Lord, listen to your children praying; Lord, send your Spirit in this place.
Lord, listen to your children praying. Send us love, send us power, send us grace.”
PASTORAL PRAYER
CHORAL RESPONSE
MOMENT FOR
25:40 and our UKAMA partnership)
OFFERING
Organ Offertory “Glory Be To God” Berkenstock
*Offering Response #379 (sung by the people)
Accept, O God, the gifts we bring of spirit and of clay.
Transform them into blessings on those we serve today.
Rekindle deep within us all a passion to fulfill
the ministry disciples have, empowered to do your will.
*Prayer of Dedication
Reflecting on God’s Word
FAITH STORY OF Honey Evans “The Power of Prayer”
Sending
*CLOSING HYMN “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee” Hymn #2
*BENEDICTION
ORGAN POSTLUDE “Deo Gracias” Young
(in these few minutes during the postlude, sit quietly and soak up the
love and grace of God that will help you through this coming week.)
Life is a Gift from God
Life is not so much—
a fight to be fought,
a game to be played,
a race to be run,
a prize to be snared.
It is more nearly—
God's will to be sought,
a course to be laid,
a work to be done,
a gift to be shared.
A Grand Weaving
My life is but a weaving between my God and me;
I may not choose the colors; He knows what they should be;
For God can view the pattern upon the upper side
While I can only see it on this, the under side.
Sometimes He weaves in sorrow which seems strange to me;
But I will trust His judgment and work on faithfully.
Tis He who fills the shuttle; He knows just what is best,
So I should weave in earnest and leave with God the rest.
At last when life is ended I hope with Him to abide
Then I may view the pattern upon the upper side;
Then I may know the reason why joy and pain entwined
Was woven in the fabric of life that God designed.
A Mouse Story 
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. “What food might this contain?” the mouse wondered. He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!”
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, “Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it.”
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!” The pig sympathized, but said, “I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers.”
The mouse turned to the cow and said, “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!” The cow said, “Wow, Mr. Mouse. I’m sorry for you, but it’s no skin off my nose.”
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer’s mousetrap alone. That very night a sound was heard throughout the house—like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.
The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever. Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient.
But his wife’s sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.
The farmer’s wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.
The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.
So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn’t concern you, remember—when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.
Announcements
Welcome to all!
Greetings friends! In Romans 16,
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Thank You To Honey Evans who is sharing her story this morning.
And thank you to those who are participating in this morning’s service.
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Reach the Beach - Thank You for your Help
Thanks to so many people who helped welcome the many participants in the Reach the Beach Relay Race Friday night (and Saturday morning).
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UKAMA Letters
You are invited and urged to remain after our fellowship time today to sit and write a letter to one of our sisters and brothers in our UKAMA partner church at Beacon Hill, in
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25:40
Next Sunday, Pat Thomas will be with us.
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October Newsletter
A reminder – ALL material to be included in the October newsletter should be submitted to the Church Office by early Wednesday morning, September 21st.
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Prayers, Joys and Concerns
For the next several weeks “Prayer Matters” updates will be sent out weekly from the church office. If you have questions, additions or updates to our prayer list, please call
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