FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH www.fpcnorfolk.org JULY 8, 2012
SPECIAL PRAYERS THIS WEEK: Kenya Joy Home
Creation Care Tip
Persecuted Churches
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Recycle all paper, glass and aluminum in your home.
Chechnyan region of Russia
FPC Missionaries: Kenya Summer Mission Team returning today! Drew Czioks serving in Pune, India FPC Local Missions: Ghent Area Churches Red Cross Blood Drive
Permission to Rest!
Visit The Common for FREE DOGS OR BURGERS after each service today! (Permission to not stick to traditional breakfast food before noon.)
Help us meet our goal to donate
60 pints of blood on Wednesday, July 11th at the Ghent Area Churches Red Cross Blood Drive. (See our announcement on the next page.) Go to www.thejonahproject.blogspot.com to see all the neat places Jonah has been! Don’t forget to send in YOUR photos of Jonah with you on your travels, whether near or far! Contact Hunter Johnston at 757- 625-1697 ext. 324 or email photos with descriptions to hunter@fpcnorfolk.org
Pastors at First Presbyterian Church: Jim Wood, Senior Pastor - jim@fpcnorfolk.org Valena Hoy, Executive Associate Pastor - valena@fpcnorfolk.org Jim Gates, Associate Pastor of Evangelism - jimgates@fpcnorfolk.org
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH www.fpcnorfolk.org JULY 8, 2012
SEEKING CHRIST
Morning Aside Retreat - Plan to be with us July 14th from 9:00 am to noon for this special time. Our July theme is Abiding in the Spirit with Facilitator Frank Drake. Join a group of fellow travelers for a morning of peace and quiet at The Center. It is a grand way to break the cycle of busyness and recharge your soul...just what our Summer Sermon Series prescribed — PERMISSION TO REST! We Want to Know! As we are together seeking Christ and sharing His love, please share any praise reports, concerns or urgent needs with us so our deacons can stand with you. Confidential communications can be sent to Grace Weedman, FPC’s Parish Visitor, via email to grace@fpcnorfolk.org or by phone at 757-625-1697. Join our Photography Team - We are looking for a few photographers to take photos during Sunday morning worship services and fellowship times. Show the world what you are seeing at FPC with minimal time and effort! If interested please contact Jim Gates at jimgates@fpcnorfolk.org or mark the back of the Connection Card.
SHARING HIS LOVE Go 2 Blocks! -1 Block Sunday school +1 Block Worship; please park 2 blocks away to make room for guests. Ghent Area Churches Red Cross Blood Drive - July 11th any time between 1:30 pm to 7:30 pm at First Presbyterian Church in First Hall. To schedule an appointment go to www.redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code GHENT or just walk in! Can’t donate blood? You can still help by volunteering at the sign-in table. Email Sue Russell at sgrdlr@cox.net to let her know when you’re available – whether it’s 30 minutes or 3 hours, your time would be greatly appreciated! Nicaraguan Coffee Time - It's time to order your signature, premium coffee from Vida Joven in Nicaragua! For $15.00 you can send a Nicaraguan young person to Young Life camp in Matagalpa, Nicaragua AND enjoy a delicious one pound bag of home grown robust coffee. Please place your order by Sunday, July 15th. Contact Susan Rawls at srawls03@gmail.com or mark the box on the Connection Card. Vacation Bible School needs your help - Non-perishable and fresh snacks are needed as well as decoration supplies. Please visit www.fpcnorfolk.org for a complete list of suggested items or contact Shannon Benda, wsbenda@gmail.com. Supplies can be dropped off at the Welcome Desk or in Room 204 in the RADICOL hallway. Friendly Faces with Basic Computer Skills Needed - This summer we are asking for volunteers to greet and assist new guests with checking in their children on our computer system during Sunday mornings. Smiles are the most important part of this job and helping type in pertinent data for new kids is second. Children’s Check-In Assistants serve twice a month either from 9:00 to 10:15 or from 10:15 to 11:15. Sign up on the Connection Card or contact Lucy Gates at lucy@fpcnorfolk.org.
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 Pra•x•is cross in The Common each time the Lord blesses us with a first-time guest. We celebrate that 467 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
SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time
JULY 8, 2012 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary
Welcome Call to Worship: *Hymn:
Psalm 71: 1-3 Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty
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Prayer of Confession: Merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart and mind and strength; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. In your mercy forgive how we have been, help us amend how we are, and direct how we shall be more like Your Son, so that we may delight in Your will and walk in Your ways, to the glory of your holy name. Silent Confession Confessional Response:
Kyrie Kyrie eleison; Christe eleison; Kyrie eleison. Translation: Lord have mercy; Christ have mercy; Lord have mercy.
Assurance of Pardon:
1 Corinthians 15: 58
*Congregational Response to God’s Grace: 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.
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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 Packets designed especially to involve them in worship. Anthem:
When In Our Music God is Glorified arr Charles Stanford
When in our music God is glorified, and adoration leaves no room for pride, it is as though the whole creation cried: Alleluia! How often, making music, we have found a new dimension in the world of sound, as worship moved us to a more profound Alleluia! So has the church, in liturgy and song, in faith and love, through centuries of wrong, borne witness to the truth in ev'ry tongue: Alleluia! And did not Jesus sing a psalm that night when utmost evil strove against the light? Then let us sing, for whom he won the fight: Alleluia! Let ev'ry instrument be tuned for praise! Let all rejoice who have a voice to raise! And may God give us faith to sing always: Alleluia!
Old Testament Reading: New Testament Reading:
1 Samuel 15: 10-34, Page 258, O.T., NRSV
John 15: 1-17, Page 109, N.T., NRSV
The Preached Word:
Permission to Rest
Jim Gates
Presentation of Our Gifts Offertory Anthem:
The Glory of the Father by Egil Hovland (Text: adapted from John 1)
*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:
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
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*An Invitation to Christian Discipleship *Benediction and Congregational Response Celtic Alleluia Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia
Flowers in the Sanctuary: The flowers are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of Cullen Davis by Carol and Caroline.
CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time
JULY 8, 2012 9:30 a.m. in First Hall
(Please silence your digital devices)
ENTERING INTO THE WORD Songs of Praise and Prayer:
Rising Up to Heaven Rain Down
Greeting & Prayers Children through grade 5 are invited to come forward to receive a Children’s Worship Packets designed especially to involve them in worship. Songs:
I Call Your Name We Are Here to Worship
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:
1 Samuel 15: 10-34, Page 258, O.T., NRSV
New Testament Reading: The Preached Word:
John 15: 1-17, Page 109, N.T., NRSV Permission to Rest
ENGAGING THE WORD AND THE WORLD
Jim Gates
Offering Our Gifts & Prayers Benediction and Song of Response: We Are Here to Worship — Reprise
SUNDAY MORNING CLASSES
JULY 8, 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 years old ~ 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 classes First Class - James (Northminster House) Basic Bible - Paul's Epistles (Rabbi Room, Main building) 11:05 classes The Reason for God - Video Study of Tim Keller’s book (The Center) Journeyers Sunday School - Lessons from the Holy Land. 2nd & 4th Sundays (The Center)
In The Common
Bibles & Sermon DVDs in The Loft, free for guests.
A Special Gift for Guests: First-time guests receive a copy of Donald Miller’s book, Searching for God Knows What, found on the table in The Common.
Program Staff: Annie Blakey, Director of Youth Ministries - annie@fpcnorfolk.org Andrew Callan, Minister of Administration - andrew@fpcnorfolk.org Lucy Gates, Director of Family & Children’s Ministries - lucy@fpcnorfolk.org Hunter Mackey Johnston, Children’s Ministry Coordinator - hunter@fpcnorfolk.org Kristine Rand, Director of Prayer & Spiritual Growth - kristine@fpcnorfolk.org Sheryl Wood, Mission Outreach Coordinator - sheryl@ fpcnorfolk.org