ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING CHURCH CALENDAR No Bible Study This Week Cluster Lenten Services, TONIGHT, 6PM at Lime Ridge UMC (Bloom) Maundy Thursday Svc, 6PM Covered Dish Dinner at 5:30PM at Fisherdale Good Friday Service, 7PM St. Paul’s UMC Food Bank: April 28th, 4:40—6:15PM UMW May 2nd, 7PM at Gloria Breech’s house Next Breakfast: May 21st
Mt Zion United Methodist Church Catawissa, PA Pastor Chad Carter
“You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth.” John 18:37
Please sign up, we need YOUR help! We are in need of greeters to welcome folks to the church at the beginning of our services, please sign up for this vital ministry. God has blessed us with children. Now we have to be faithful to what He asks of us. Please sign up to help one month with children’s church. There are several tasks, you can sign up to be a teacher, a helper, or to assist with the toddlers. Many hands make light work. Food Bank April 28th Kulp & Mt. Zion are helping hand out food this month. Please sign up in the social room outside the sanctuary. VCFD Chicken & Waffle Dinner April 30th at the Red Brick Church in Numidia. Bible in One Year MONDAY Apr 18: Lev 22; Psalm 28&29; Eccles 5; 2 Tim 1 TUESDAY Apr 19: Lev 23; Psalm 30; Eccles 6; 2 Tim 2 WEDNESDAY Apr 20: Lev 24; Psalm 31; Eccles 7; 2 Tim 3 THURSDAY Apr 21: Lev 25; Psalm 32; Eccles 8; 2 Tim 4 FRIDAY Apr 22: Lev 26; Psalm 33; Eccles 9; Titus 1 SATURDAY Apr 23: Lev 27; Psalm 34; Eccles 10; Titus 2 SUNDAY Apr 24: Num 1; Psalm 35; Eccles 11; Titus 3
April 17, 2011 Christ’s Kingdom—Not of This World
Welcome to the Mt. Zion United Methodist Church! We are glad to have you worshipping with us this morning. If you are visiting with us, please fill out the visitor card and place it in the offering. We want to know who is worshipping with us, and who you are! Welcome and announcements Prelude (the gift of music helps us to prepare our hearts for worship) Lighting of the candles (the flame represents the presence of the Holy Spirit)
“Christ’s Kingdom Not of This World” Offering (We give our gifts to God)
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.—Matthew 6:19, 21 NIV *Doxology ‘Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise Him, all creatures here below;
Call to Worship (from Zechariah 9:9) Leader: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, you king is coming to you: Congregation: righteous and having salvation, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. *Opening Hymn 278 “Hosanna, Lord Hosanna”
praise him above ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.” *Closing Hymn 282 “Tis Finished, The Messiah Dies” Benediction
Music ministry of the choir
Postlude
Sharing of Joys and Concerns for Prayer
The Acolyte will take the light of Christ into the world
Invitation to Prayer, Hymn 308 “Thine Be the Glory”
* please stand if it is comfortable for you to do so
Pastoral Prayer, closed with 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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. Children’s Message The children are invited to come up front with Pastor Chad
John 18:36-37
Pianist Becky Schlieder • Pastor Chad Carter (570) 356-7022 ccarter@susumc.org Www.kulpmtzion.org Find us on facebook (search Catawissa Parish”