PRAYER JOYS & CONCERNS

August 30Joys: Justin Wilder – has gotten stitches out and got to play footballlast night – he celebrated his 18th birthday yesterday (Becky Eckels)Concerns: Roger Sholly – My Dad is having amputation on 9/9going to see him next weekend before (Joshua Sholly), Alicia Gurleyjob concerns (Vicki & Mark), Sandra Williams4th chemo for breast cancer (Becky Eckels), Wally Kitchenscontinues to heal (Becky Eckels)

SERMON NOTES

PRAYER JOYS & CONCERNS

has gotten stitches out and got to play footballbirthday yesterday (Becky Eckels)

My Dad is having amputation on 9/9 – I’mgoing to see him next weekend before (Joshua Sholly), Alicia Gurley –job concerns (Vicki & Mark), Sandra Williams – she has recently had her

chemo for breast cancer (Becky Eckels), Wally Kitchens – he

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SERMON NOTES

THIS WEEK AT BPC

Sunday,

10¢-A

8:45 –

Fellowship Hall

9:00 AM

9:55 AM

10:00 –

11:20 AM

Sanctuary

1:00 –

Hall & Pavilion

6:00 PM

Paxton’s

Mo

Labor Day

Tuesday

6:30 PM

Wednesday

5:45 PM

6:20 PM

with school supplies presented to teachers

7:15 PM

Thursday

6:00 –

Saturday

9:00 AM

Fellowship Halll

Sunday, September 6Morning1st Reading2nd ReadingGospelEvening

Monday, September 7Morning1st Reading2nd ReadingGospelEvening

Tuesday, September 8Morning1st Reading

THIS WEEK AT BPC

Sunday, September 6

A-Meal Offering to be received

– 9:00 AM – Coffee Fellowship in

Fellowship Hall

9:00 AM – Sunday School

9:55 AM – Worship Service

– 11:00 AM – LMCS Bible Study - Rm 201

11:20 AM – 1:30 PM – LMCS Worship in

Sanctuary

– 4:00 PM – LMCS in BPC Fellowship

Hall & Pavilion

6:00 PM – Young Adult Pot Luck at the

Paxton’s

Monday, September 7

Labor Day – Church office closed

Tuesday, September 8

6:30 PM – Women’s Bible Study Group 3

Wednesday, September 9

5:45 PM – Supper

6:20 PM – G.I.F.T. Program – Mission Night

with school supplies presented to teachers

7:15 PM - Choir

Thursday, September 10

– 8:00 PM – LMCS ESL Class in Rm 201

Saturday, September 12

9:00 AM – Men’s Prayer Breakfast in the BPC

Fellowship Halll

LOOKING AHEAD

Sunday, September 13RALLY DAY8:00 AM – KAPM Breakfast Meeting

at Covenant PC, Kannapolis8:45 – 9:00 AM – Coffee Fellowship in

Fellowship Hall9:00 AM – Sunday School9:55 AM – Worship Service

10:00 – 11:00 AM –11:00 AM – Rally Day Celebration with

Dish Lunch in BPC Fellowship Hall11:20 AM – 1:30 PM

Sanctuary1:00 – 4:00 PM – LMCS in BPC Fellowship

Hall & Pavilion

Monday, September7:00 PM – Gathering Time7:15 PM – Ministry Area Teams

Tuesday, September9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Fellowship Hall

Wednesday, September3:00 PM – Staff Meeting5:45 PM – Supper6:20 PM – G.I.F.T. Program7:15 PM - Choir

Thursday, September 111:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Laundromat6:00 – 8:00 PM – LMCS ESL Class in Rm 2016:00 – 9:00 PM – “Suds of Love” at Harris

Laundromat

Sunday, September8:45 – 9:00 AM – Coffee Fellowship in

Fellowship Hall9:00 AM – Sunday School9:55 AM – Worship Service

Kickoff10:00 – 11:00 AM –11:20 AM – 1:30 PM

Sanctuary1:00 – 4:00 PM – LMCS in BPC Fellowship

Hall & Pavilion

DAILY LECTIONARY

Sunday, September 6Morning: Psalms 103; 150

Reading: 1 Kings 12:21-33Reading: Acts 4:18-31

Gospel: John 10:31-42Evening: Psalms 117; 139

Monday, September 7Morning: Psalms 5; 145

Reading: 1 Kings 13:1-10Reading: Phil. 1:1-11

Gospel: Mark 15:40-47Evening: Psalms 82; 29

Tuesday, September 8Morning: Psalms 42; 146

Reading: 1 Kings 16:23-34

Tuesday, September 82nd Reading: Phil. 1:12-30Gospel: Mark 16:1-8 (9-20)Evening: Psalms 102; 133

Wednesday, September 9Morning: Ps. 89:1-18; 147:1-111st Reading: 1 Kings 17:1-242nd Reading: Phil. 2:1-11Gospel: Matthew 2:1-12Evening: Psalms 1; 33

Thursday, September 10Morning: Ps. 97; 147:12-201st Reading: 1 Kings 18:1-192nd Reading: Phil. 2:12-30

Thursday, September 10GospelEvening

Friday, September 11Morning1st

2nd

GospelEvening

Saturday, September 12Morning1st

2nd

GospelEvening

LOOKING AHEAD

September 13

KAPM Breakfast Meetingat Covenant PC, Kannapolis

Coffee Fellowship in

Sunday SchoolWorship Service

LMCS Bible Study - Rm 201Rally Day Celebration with Covered

in BPC Fellowship Hall1:30 PM – LMCS Worship in

LMCS in BPC Fellowship

September 14Gathering TimeMinistry Area Teams

September 1512:00 PM – Quilting 101 in BPC

September 16Staff Meeting

G.I.F.T. Program

September 171:00 PM – “Suds of Love” at Harris

LMCS ESL Class in Rm 201“Suds of Love” at Harris

September 20Coffee Fellowship in

Sunday SchoolWorship Service with BELIEVE

LMCS Bible Study - Rm 2011:30 PM – LMCS Worship in

LMCS in BPC Fellowship

Thursday, September 10Gospel: Matthew 2:13-23Evening: Psalms 16; 62

Friday, September 11Morning: Psalms 51; 148

Reading: 1 Kings 18:20-40nd Reading: Phil. 3:1-16

Gospel: Matthew 3:1-12Evening: Psalms 142; 65

Saturday, September 12Morning: Psalms 104; 149

Reading: 1 Kings 18:41-19:8nd Reading: Phil. 3:17-4:7

Gospel: Matthew 3:13-17Evening: Psalms 138; 98

Welcome to Bethpage Presbyterian Church!

yesterday, today,

We are excited that you have joined us in worshipping God today. If youare a visitor, please pick up a church information brochure, found in thepew holders. Please, let us get to know you a little better by filling out

the informationplate. Whether you are just visiting, looking to stay or have worshipped

here your whole life, it is great to worship the Lord together this day!

“Seeing the Gospel Anew”

Welcome to Bethpage Presbyterian Church!September 6, 2015

“A family of faithyesterday, today, and tomorrow.”

We are excited that you have joined us in worshipping God today. If youare a visitor, please pick up a church information brochure, found in thepew holders. Please, let us get to know you a little better by filling out

the information card, inside the brochure. You can drop it in the offeringplate. Whether you are just visiting, looking to stay or have worshipped

here your whole life, it is great to worship the Lord together this day!

www.bethpagechurch.org704-933-2209 (phone)

704-933-2208 (fax)6020 Mooresville Road • Kannapolis NC 28081

Church office hours: 8:30 AM -3:30 PM, MRev. Ellen Campbell Gardner:

704-431-3700 (cell) 704-934-3457 (home)

Welcome to Bethpage Presbyterian Church!

We are excited that you have joined us in worshipping God today. If youare a visitor, please pick up a church information brochure, found in thepew holders. Please, let us get to know you a little better by filling out

card, inside the brochure. You can drop it in the offeringplate. Whether you are just visiting, looking to stay or have worshipped

here your whole life, it is great to worship the Lord together this day!

6020 Mooresville Road • Kannapolis NC 280813:30 PM, M-F

3457 (home)

The Service for the Lord’s DayFifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

September 6, 2015 9:55 A.M.

THE GATHERING

ANNOUNCEMENTS (RITUAL OF FRIENDSHIP/PRAYER CARDS)

*WELCOME & PASSING OF THE PEACE

TRINITY CHIMES

PRAYER OF PREPARATION

On this Labor Day Weekend, remind us God, that it is not thework of our hands alone that brings salvation in this world; butthe work of our hands by your will and your strength alone.Strengthen us Lord in this next hour, that renewed by ourworship we might mount up like eagles, that we might walk andnot grow weary. AMEN.

PRELUDE “Simple Gifts” Arr. Cindy Berry

*CALL TO WORSHIP “Lord, I Lift Your Name on High” Rick Founds

Lord, I lift your name on high;Lord, I love to sing your praises.

I’m so glad you’re in my life;I’m so glad you came to save us.

You came from heaven to earth to show the way,from the earth to the cross my debt to pay;

from the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky;Lord, I lift your name on high.

© 1989 Maranatha Praise, Inc. (admin. by The Copyright Co., Nashville, TN) CCLI License # 11234266.

*PRAYER OF ADORATION

*HYMN 417 “Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation” REGENT SQUARE

*CALL TO CONFESSION

*PRAYER OF CONFESSION

Leader: God of Creation, you made us for work and themeaning it brings to our lives; and it was good, verygood. On this Labor day we confess that we have usedyour purposed labor in our lives for things that are notgood, not good at all. For some of us our work hasbecome the meaning in our lives. Without our work,we have to admit, we don't know who we are or theworth you created in us.

People: Forgive us, Lord.

Leader: For some of us, we have settled for work that doesn'tfulfill us, because we are afraid to seek and developthe skills you gave us at our birth. We find it hard totrust that you will provide a vocation that fits ourgiftedness.

People: Forgive us, Lord.

Leader: For some of us, we don't work in a way that glorifiesyou. We do things at work or at home that are not ourbest efforts. We go in late and leave early. We makepromises we do not fulfill. We are not honest, Lord.

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People: Forgive us, Lord.

Leader: God of Redemption and Power, On this Labor day, maywe see our work in a new light; as preparation for yourreturn and another way of glorifying you, even as weseek to be a sure presence of Jesus Christ in our worldtoday. AMEN. (Please take a moment for silentconfession.)

*DECLARATION OF FORGIVENESS

*RESPONSE OF PRAISE HYMN 579 “Glory to the Father” GLORIA PATRI

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.

THE WORD

TIME WITH YOUNGER CHRISTIANS(Afterwards ages 3 to 8 years old may exit for Children’s Worship)

ANTHEM “The Water Is Wide” Gilbert Martin

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION Margaret Griffin

OLD TESTAMENT READING Psalm 119:169-176 (Bible, OT p. 571)This is the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God!

NEW TESTAMENT READING Galatians 6:1-10 (Bible, NT p. 191)This is the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God!

SERMON “The Laborer’s Promise” Rev. Ellen Campbell Gardner

*HYMN 428 “We Give Thee but Thine Own” SCHUMANN

*ASSURANCE OF FAITH The Apostles’ Creed (Hymnal, p. 14)

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven andearth, and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who wasconceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, sufferedunder Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; hedescended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead;he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of Godthe Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge thequick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; thecommunion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrectionof the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE & THE LORD’S PRAYER

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thykingdom 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 weforgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, butdeliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the powerand the glory, forever. Amen.

GIVING GOD’S TITHES & OUR OFFERINGSand OUR 10¢-A-MEAL OFFERING

Offertory “Wonderful Words of Life” Philip P. Bliss*Doxology 592 OLD HUNDREDTH

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;Praise God, all creatures here below;Praise God above, ye heavenly host;Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

*Prayer of Dedication

THE SENDING

*HYMN (see insert) “Before You I Kneel”Keith & Kristyn Getty, Jeff Taylor and Stuart Townend

(verse 1: Mallory Penland, verse 2 & 3: All)

*BLESSING AND CHARGE

*CHORAL CLOSING “Awesome God” Rich Mullins

Our God is an awesome God; he reigns from heaven abovewith wisdom, pow’r, and love. Our God is an awesome God!

© 1988 BMG Songs, Inc. CCLI License # 11234266.

*POSTLUDE “I Will Sing of My Redeemer” James McGranahan

† † † † †*An asterisk indicates that all who are able may stand.

TO OUR VISITORSWe welcome you to our worship, and we ask that you sign our Ritual ofFriendship as it is passed along the pew. We hope that you will return toworship with us again! We have a nursery lovingly and carefully attended bychurch members. After the Time with Younger Christians, children ages 3 to 8years old, are invited to exit through the doors at the back of the sanctuary toattend Children’s Worship. Parents may meet their children after worship bywaiting outside Room 112 in the basement.

MEMBERSHIPWe welcome into membership all who love Jesus Christ, accept him as Lord of alllife, and seek to serve him as part of his body in the church. We invite you tospeak to one of our elders, greeting you at the door as you leave the worshipservice.

THE SESSION OF OUR CHURCH

Rev. Ellen Campbell Gardner, ModeratorDennis Graybeal, Treasurer

CLASS OF 2016

Roger Hamilton, Asst. Treasurer, EducationMatt Josey, Property

Diane Mullinax, NurtureKim Shore, Personnel

CLASS OF 2017

Steve Gaskey, FellowshipKim Gibson, Nurture

Richie Goodman, WorshipCarrie Paxton, Education

CLASS OF 2018

Sherry Childers, PersonnelJoyce Deal, Stewardship

Dougie Kirkman, Mission/EvangelismEric McKnight, Communications

USHERS

HEAD USHERChristel Josey

USHERSLarry & Nelda RiggsJenny Linebarrier

Macky Petrea

LECTOR

Margaret Griffin

CHILDREN’S NURSERY

Sunday School & WorshipSusan Smith & Dougie Kirkman

CHILDREN’S SUNDAYSCHOOL & WORSHIP

Ellen Shore & Heather Kirkman