bulletin: 08.12.2012
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bulletin, order of worship, announcements, special prayersTRANSCRIPT
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHwww.fpcnorfolk.org
AUGUST 12, 2012
SPECIAL PRAYERS THIS WEEK:
Kenya Joy Home Creation Care Tip Persecuted Churches
John, 5 years old Turn off the tap while you brush your teeth.
Libya
FPC Missionaries: The Nicaragua Mission Team (returned yesterday)
FPC Local Missions: FPC Children’s Sunday School
Pastors at First Presbyterian Church:Jim Wood, Senior Pastor - [email protected]
Valena Hoy, Executive Associate Pastor - [email protected] Jim Gates, Associate Pastor of Evangelism - [email protected]
Permission to Rest!We hope you enjoy your
FREE LEMONADE AND COOKIES after each service today!(Permission to not rush out after service today.)
5-Cents-A-Meal OfferingHalf of what you offer today will benefit local, national and global hunger programs, and half supports our
FPC Saturday Soup Kitchen. Thank you!
SEEKING CHRIST
Small Group Meet Up - We hope you will drop by the Armstrong Chapel TODAY after each service! Come learn more about small groups and how you can get connected! For more information contact Valena Hoy at [email protected] or 757.625.1697 ext. 306
Loan your Summertime Yard Games to FPC - As part of our Summer Sermon Series Sunday themes, wouldn’t it be fun to set up some outdoor games to play together after each service? If you are willing to loan a safe yard game one Sunday (such as croquette, volleyball, etc.), please contact Jim Gates at 757.625.1697 ext. 320 or email [email protected] this week.
Congregational Meeting: August 19 at 10:45 in First Hall - Join us as we elect new elders, deacons, nominating committee members and trustees.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHwww.fpcnorfolk.org
AUGUST 12, 2012
First Time Guests - Stop by the Common for a free copy of Donald Miller’s Searching for God Knows What
Free NIV Bibles - are available in the Loft for anyone who would like one.
Cross in The Common - A handmade cross will be added to the cross in The Common each time the Lord blesses us with a first-time guest. We celebrate that 512 first-time guests have been with us in worship since 9.11.2011. Please remember to invite your friends to church. “...and day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.” Acts 2:47
Pra•x•is
SHARING HIS LOVEGo 2 Blocks! -1 Block Sunday school +1 Block Worship; please park 2 blocks away to make room for guests.
FPC Photography Team Meeting - Anyone interested in joining our FPC Photography Team, or who currently serves on the team, is invited to join us for a brief meeting TODAY, Sunday, August 12th at 12:15 in the Rabbi Room. Contact Jim Gates at 757.625.1697 ext. 320 or email [email protected].
Sunday School Teachers Needed - FPC Children’s Ministry is looking for Sunday School teachers beginning September 9th for both the 9:30 and 11:00 worship hours. If you have a heart for Christ and a love for kids, contact Hunter Johnston at [email protected] for more information.
Prayer Partner Opportunity - We have an exciting opportunity for your consideration. The staff at the Holy Family Center at Nazareth Hospital would like to team up with the friends of Tree of Lives as prayer partners – one HFC staff pairing up with one TOL/FPC friend, creating a prayer partnership to sustain and encourage all of us as we do ministry around the world. If you are interested in being paired up with a Holy Family Center staff member as a prayer partner, email Becky Lyle Pinkard at [email protected] to find out more.
SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY AUGUST 12, 201217 th Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary
Welcome
Call to Worship: Psalm 92: 1-4, Page 548, O.T., NRSV
*Hymn: Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee #464
Prayer of Confession: Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo. Forgive what our lips tremble to name, what our hearts can no longer bear, and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgment. Set us free from a past that we cannot change, open to us a future in which we can be changed and restore our joy in you. Grant us grace to grow more and more in your likeness and image through Jesus Christ, the light of the world.
Silent Confession
Confessional Response: Kyrie Kyrie eleison; Christe eleison; Kyrie eleison. Translation: Lord have mercy; Christ have mercy; Lord have mercy.
Assurance of Pardon: 2 Corinthians 5: 17-19, Page 181, N.T., NRSV
*Congregational Response to God’s Grace: Gloria Patri #579 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen.
Greeting and Connecting with the 5-Cents-A-Meal Offering: Half the proceeds benefit local, national and global hunger programs, and half supports our FPC Saturday Soup Kitchen.
Children through grade 5 are invited to come forward to receive a Children’s Worship Packet designed especially to involve them in worship.
Old Testament Reading: Nehemiah 8: 8-12, Page 437, O.T., NRSV
New Testament Reading: John 15: 1-17, Page 109, N.T., NRSV
The Preached Word: Permission to Rest Jim Wood
Presentation of our Gifts
Offertory Anthem: Laudamus Te by Antonio VivaldiDuet: Joanne Robinson and Claudia Nachtigal
*Doxology and Prayer of Dedication Praise God, from whom all blessings flow, Praise Him, all creatures here below, Praise Him above, ye heavenly host, Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
*Affirmation of Faith: The Apostles‘ Creed I believe in God, the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Amen.
Concerns and Prayers of Our Church Family
The Lord’s Prayer (in unison) 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 us our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and power, and glory, forever.
*Hymn: When We All Get to Heaven
Sing the wondrous love of Jesus, Sing His mercy and His grace;In the mansions bright and blessed, He'll prepare for us a place.
Refrain: When we all get to heaven, What a day of rejoicing that will be!When we all see Jesus, We'll sing and shout the victory.
While we walk the pilgrim pathway, Clouds will overspread the sky;But when trav'ling days are over, Not a shadow, nor a sigh.
Let us then be true and faithful, Trusting, serving ev'ry day;Just one glimpse of Him in glory Will the toils of life repay.
Onward to the prize before us! Soon His beauty we'll behold;Soon the pearly gates will open; We shall tread the streets of gold.
*An Invitation to Christian Discipleship
*Benediction and Congregational ResponseCeltic Alleluia: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia
The Flowers in the Sanctuary are given to the glory of God and in memory of Dr. John W. Baker, Jr. by his family.
(Please silence your digital devices)
ENTERING INTO THE WORD
Songs of Praise and Prayer: Be Welcome Here
I Am a Friend of God
Greeting & Prayers Children through Grade 5 are invited to come forward to receive a
Children’s Worship Packet designed especially to involve them in worship.
Songs: We Are Here to Worship
More Than a Friend
5-Cents-A-Meal Offering: Half the proceeds benefit local, national and global hunger programs, and half supports our FPC Saturday Soup Kitchen.
ENCOUNTERING THE WORD
Old Testament Reading: Nehemiah 8: 8-12, Page 437, O.T., NRSV
New Testament Reading: John 15: 1-17, Page 109, N.T., NRSV
The Preached Word: Permission to Rest Jim Wood
ENGAGING THE WORD AND THE WORLD
Offering Our Gifts & Prayers
Benediction and Song of Response: Our God is Greater - Reprise
CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP AUGUST 12, 201217 th Sunday in Ordinary Time 9:30 in First Hall
SUNDAY MORNING CLASSES AUGUST 12, 2012
For help finding a class for yourself or your child, please stop by the Welcome Center.
Children and Youth Sunday School
Bethlehem Babies Nursery Birth-23 months ~ 8:20am - 12:10pm Check your child in at the Nursery Area.
Little Lambs Sunday School 2-4 year olds ~ 9:30 & 11:00am Check your child in at computers outside the children’s wing.
R.A.D.I.C.O.L Sunday School (Raising Awesome Disciples in Christ Our Lord) K-5th grade ~ 9:30am (In July and August there will be no 11:00 Children’s Sunday School classes) Check in at computers outside the children’s wing.
Jr. High Sunday School Grades 6-8 ~ 9:30am in the Catacombs
Sr. High Sunday School Grades 9-12 ~ 9:30am in Youth Director’s Office on Staff Square; 11am in the Fellowship Hall Adult Sunday School
9:35 classesCast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God (Rabbi Room)1 Peter: Finding Encouragement in Troubling Times (Northminster House) 11:05 Reason for God Class (The Center)Journeying through the Holy Land (2nd & 4th Sundays) (The Center)
In The Common Bibles & Sermon DVDs in The Loft, free for guests.
A Special Gift for Visitors: First-time visitors receive a copy of Donald Miller’s book, Searching for God Knows What, found on the table in The Common.
Program Staff:Annie Blakey, Interim Director of Youth Ministries - [email protected] Andrew Callan, Minister of Administration - [email protected]
Lucy Gates, Director of Family & Children’s Ministries - [email protected] Mackey Johnston, Children’s Ministry Coordinator - [email protected] Kristine Rand, Director of Prayer & Spiritual Growth - [email protected] Wood, Mission Outreach Coordinator - [email protected]
