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May 24, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009 Bulletin
The Order for the Worship of God
Faith Presbyterian Church 9:30 a.m., May 24, 2009
Let the first tone of the organ be a call to quiet meditation in which all may become aware of God’s presence, and lift up a prayer for yourself and for Faith Church.
Hymn Sing Green Supplemental Hymnal
# 32 In My Heart There Rings a Melody
# 40 Praise Him! Praise Him! vs. 1 & 3
# 42 Love Lifted Me vs. 1 & 3
# 50 Jesus Saves vs. 1 & 4
# 88 Jesus, Name Above All Names
Gray Psalter Hymnal
# 634 Father, We Love You
Welcome and Greeting
Hymn # 262 My Faith Looks Up to Thee
Psalter: Psalm 130 NRSV (read responsively) David McKinnis
1Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord.
2Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!
3If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
4But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered.
5I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;
6my soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning.
7O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is great power to redeem.
8It is he who will redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
Prayer for Illumination David McKinnis
First Lesson: 1 Kings 19: 1 - 9 NRSV David McKinnis
1Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.” 3Then he was afraid; he got up and fled for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah; he left his servant there. 4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.” 5Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, “Get up and eat.” 6He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. 7The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.” 8He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
9At that place he came to a cave, and spent the night there. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
Lector: “This is the Word of God.”
Congregation: “Thanks be to God for His Word.”
Special Music That’s Why I Need You Hopkins
Children’s Choir
Children’s Sermon
Hymn # 543 Guide Me, O My Great Redeemer
Second Lesson: John 17: 6 – 19 NRSV
6”I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; 8for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. 9I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. 10All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them.
11And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. 12While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. 14I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 15I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. 16They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
17Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.
Sermon “If Christ Is for Us…” Pastor Ralph Smith
After the sermon children in grades K-6 may leave for children’s choir
Gathering of Tithes and Offerings
Please sign and pass the register located in the pew.
Offertory O Beautiful For Spacious Skies Charles Callahan
Response
Glory to the Father, glory to the Son,
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. s
Prayer of Dedication
Minute for Mission – VBS, Barbara Knox
Joys and Concerns
Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession
Lewis & Kari Hauer (Mike Bergmann’s sister & husband), Ezekiel Housley (Tom & Peggy Housely’s grandson), James Brand (Carol Graefnitz’s brother), folk in the military, Greg & Faith Hurst, Bolivia (SIM), ECHO
Hymn # 469 A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Benediction
Postlude Recessional Frank Asper
sBethel Park. CCLI# 387100
* The New Revised Standard Version (Anglicized Edition), copyright 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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.
Babysitting 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 Pre-School Nursery in the Education Wing. School age children worship with their parents.
Announcements
* Ushers this morning are Tom & Peggy Housley
* Greeters this morning are Bert & Becky Chapman.
* Java Heroes – Dennis & Nancy Dunn
* Presbyterian Habitat House - Construction on the Presbyterian Habitat House will begin in August. Most construction days will be on Saturdays, but there will be some week-day construction. The first day will be Friday, August 7. Please contact me (Dan Trinkle) if you are interested in working so I can get a general idea of interest and availability.
* GRADUATES - Do you know of someone connected to our Faith congregation who is graduating this spring? We, here at Faith, want to recognize these significant accomplishments and celebrate with our young friends and family members. Please let me know the names of graduates and the schools from which they will be graduating. Thank you! Lois Wark, 754-1903
* For those wishing a visit at any time by Pastor Horner please be sure you let Stephanie know you are interested. Pastor Horner’s office hours are Monday – Thursday 9:30am – 1:30pm, or by appointment.
* If you need prayer or other help from the church or know of anyone else that does, please call Pastor Horner or one of the elders or deacons.
Hymn Sings in May
On four Sunday mornings in May, starting today, we will begin our Worship service with a Hymn Sing. Usually, members of the Worship and Music Committee take turns choosing hymns, but this time we want to give YOU a chance to let us know which hymns you wan to sing. Your suggestions need to be in the office by WEDNESDAY of each week, so that the Hymn Sing leader can incorporate them, and so that the Hymn numbers can be printed in the bulletin. Of course you may suggest songs from both hymn books.
We look forward to your participation.
Weekly Calendar for May 24, 2009
Today:
9:30 a.m. Worship
11:00 a.m. Sunday School
2:30 p.m. Rosewalk Commons worship
6:00 p.m. Youth
This Week:
Mon., Office Closed – Memorial Day
Tues., 9:30 a.m. Women’s Bible study (studying Proverbs)
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 (Lois Wark)
Coming Weeks:
June 8 – June 12 Vacation Bible School
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