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February 19, 2012Pancake Hour
There will be a Pancake Brunch following Sunday school on February 19, 2012. This is the Sunday before Fat Tuesday (also known as Shrove Tuesday, or Mardis Gras.) The tradition was to use up certain groceries before the beginning of Lent. We will have a few of our “member Chefs” flipping pancakes for us. Perhaps we might even be able to inspire a PANCAKE RACE!
There is a sign-up sheet in the Fellowship Hall to let us know how many to expect and to let us know if you will be helping with the food. All actual cooking can be done here.
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February 05, 2012Sunday, February 5, 2012 Bulletin
The Order for the Worship of God
Faith Presbyterian Church 9:30 a.m., February 5, 2012
Let the first tone of the organ be a call to quiet mediation in which all may become aware of God’s presence, and lift up a prayer for yourself and for Faith Church.
Prelude Elevation
Francois Couperin (France, 1668-1733)
I Come With Joy To Meet My Lord Peter Stearns
(See gray hymnal, p. 311)
Welcome
Hymn # 486 Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Prayer of Confession – front of gray hymnal
Prayer for Illumination Glenn Sparks
First Lesson: John 6: 47 - 51 NRSV Glenn Sparks
47Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48I am the bread of life. 49Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
Lector: “This is the Word of God.”
Congregation: “Thanks be to God for His Word.”
Anthem Old Time Religion / Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Traditional spiritual arr. Kartsonakis
Pianist Joshua Aucoin
Children’s Sermon
Hymn # 379 What Wondrous Love vs. 1 - 2
Second Lesson: I Corinthians 9: 15 - 23 NRSV
15But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing this so that they may be applied in my case. Indeed, I would rather die than that—no one will deprive me of my ground for boasting! 16If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel! 17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission. 18What then is my reward? Just this: that in my proclamation I may make the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my rights in the gospel.
19For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might win more of them. 20To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) so that I might win those under the law. 21To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law) so that I might win those outside the law. 22To the weak I became weak, so that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. 23I do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.
Sermon “Your Calling and Your Gift ” Pastor David Horner
Gathering of Tithes and Offerings
Offertory Prelude on the hymntune "Bevan" (1853)
Healey Willan (Canada,1880-1968)
Jesus, my great High Priest, offered His blood and died,
My guilty conscience seeks no sacrifice beside.
His powerful blood did once atone,
And now it pleads before the throne.
Response
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise him, all creatures here below.
Alleluia, Alleluia.
Praise him above, you heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia! ∆
Hymn # 377 Were You There
The Lord’s Supper
Invitation
Words of Institution: Matthew 26: 26 - 29 NRSV
In Unison
26While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” 27Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; 28for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 29I tell you, I will never again drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Giving and receiving of the Bread and Cup
The inside cups are white grape juice;
the outer cups contain wine.
Prayer of Consecration
Almighty Lord: we are thankful for all the benefits given us in this bread and wine, this body and blood. As the grain was harvested and the grapes gathered for this food, so may your church in every place be gathered into your household. And as the grain was ground and the grapes crushed, so may our lives be spent in your service, until you return in triumph to gather to yourself the harvest and call us to the marriage feast of the lamb. Amen.
Hymn # 379 What Wondrous Love vs. 3 - 4
Benediction
Postlude Verbum Supernum
Marcel Dupre' (France, 1886-1971)
(6) To Thy great name be endless praise,
Immortal Godhead, One in Three!
O grant us endless length of days
In our true native land with thee.
∆ ©LASST UNS ERFREUEN CCLI# 387100
Worship
…is the quickening of conscience by God’s holiness;
the nourishment of mind with His truth;
the purifying of imagination by His beauty;
the opening of the heart to His love;
the surrender of the will to His purpose;
and all of this gathered up in adoration—
the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable, and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.”
-William Temple
Welcome
To all who are weary and seek rest; to all who mourn and long for comfort; to all who struggle and desire victory; to all who sin and need a Savior; to all who are idle and look for service; to all who are strangers and want fellowship; to all who hunger and thirst after righteousness; and to whosoever will come--this church opens wide her doors and offers her welcome in the name of Jesus Christ her Lord.
Guests please sign our guest book and join us in the
Fellowship Hall after worship.
Childcare is available during worship for infants up to
2-1/2 years old in the room behind the balcony.
Children ages 2-1/2 through 5 will be in the Childcare room in the Education Wing.
School age children worship with their parents.
An usher will be glad to help you locate these rooms.
Announcements
* Ushers this morning are Don & Carol Gentry and Lois Wark & Carol Graefnitz.
* The flowers this morning are provided by Kathy Bowker.
* Java Hero – Shirley Bosler
* Our special thanks to Joshua Aucoin for the special music today. Josh is 14 years old and is 8th grade home school.
* Sunday Evening Bible study will be cancelled this evening but will resume next Sunday, February 12 at the Stewart’s.
* Snow removal sign up sheets are located in Fellowship Hall. We need volunteers for the days of the week and the months of February – April 8th.
Weekly Calendar for February 5, 2012
Today:
9:30 a.m. Worship - Communion
11:00 a.m. Sunday School
Valentine Cookie Project
2:30 p.m. St. Mary’s worship
This Week:
Mon., 7:00 p.m. Special Session
Tues., 9:15 a.m. FWF Bible study at Jan Hem’s
Tues., 3:35 p.m. Homework Club at Klondike Elementary
Tues., 7:00 p.m. Boy Scout Troop 338
Tues., 7:30 p.m. Bible study at Tippecanoe Co. Jail
Wed., 7:00 a.m. Morning Prayers & Breakfast (Jan Hem)
Wed., 5:45 p.m. Bell Choir
Wed., 6:30 p.m. Adult Choir
Wed., 7:00 p.m. Cub Scout Troop 3338
Thurs., 7:00 p.m. Bible study at the Horner’s
Thurs., 3:45 p.m. Homework Club at Klondike Elementary
There will be a Pancake Brunch following Sunday school on February 19, 2012. This is the Sunday before Fat Tuesday (also known as Shrove Tuesday, or Mardis Gras.) The tradition was to use up certain groceries before the beginning of Lent. We will have a few of our “member Chefs” flipping pancakes for us. Perhaps we might even be able to inspire a PANCAKE RACE!
There is a sign-up sheet in the Fellowship Hall to let us know how many to expect and to let us know if you will be helping with the food. All actual cooking can be done here.