ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING CHURCH CALENDAR No Bible Study This Week (resumes after Labor Day) Aug 4th, 6PM Finance Committee Mtg Aug 4th, 7PM Trustee Quarterly Mtg August 12th, 4PM-Close-Serving Ice Cream at Catawissa Fire Carnival Next Breakfast: August 20th Next UMW Meeting Sept 12, 6PM, Picnic at Becky Schlieder’s
Mt Zion United Methodist Church Catawissa, PA Pastor Chad Carter ...in every way, you were enriched in Him in all speech and all knowledge—so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revealing of our LORD Jesus Christ 1 Corinthians 1:5-7
Special Love Offering TODAY we will be taking up a love offering for the team that goes to Guatemala on a mission trip. This is the mission team that Cale & Deanna participate in. Water Park Adventure Day TODAY 5-7PM We are having a “Water Park Adventure Day” for the Youth and Jr. Youth at Kulp. We are going to have a Slip n' slide; capture the flag; water balloon battles, water gun fights, sprinkler obstacle courses. We need volunteers to help with this event, please see Pastor Chad if you can help Back to School Party Aug 27th - (6:30PM) We are having a “Back to School” party at Kulp UMC. There will be a campfire, hot dogs, popcorn, crafts, and an outdoor movie!!! We will be collecting extra school supplies to help our neighbors who are without. We need volunteers to help with this event, please see Pastor Chad if you can help July Food Bank: Spaghetti Sauce & Noodles Bible in One Year MONDAY Jul 25: Judges 8; Acts 12; Jeremiah 21; Mark 7 TUESDAY Jul 26: Judges 9; Acts 13; Jeremiah 22; Mark 8 WEDNESDAY Jul 27: Judges 10; Acts 14; Jeremiah 23; Mark 9 THURSDAY Jul 28: Judges 11; Acts 15; Jeremiah 24; Mark 10 FRIDAY Jul 29: Judges 12; Acts 16; Jeremiah 25; Mark 11 SATURDAY Jul 30: Judges 13; Acts 17; Jeremiah 26; Mark 12 SUNDAY Jul 31: Judges 14; Acts 118; Jeremiah 27; Mark 13
What We Have In Jesus July 24, 2011
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!
“What We Have In Jesus”
1 Corinthians 1:4-9 (pg NT152)
Offering (We give our gifts to God)
Welcome and announcements
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself—Matthew 22:37-38NIV
Prelude (the gift of music helps us to prepare our hearts for worship)
*Doxology ‘Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise Him, all creatures here below;
Lighting of the candles (the flame represents the presence of the Holy Spirit)
praise him above ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.”
Call to Worship (from Revelation 11:17 & Psalm 145:10) Leader: We offer thanks to you, LORD God Almighty, Who is and Who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign. Congregation: All your works shall give thanks to you, O LORD, and all your saints shall bless you! *Opening Hymn 131 “We Gather Together” Choir Anthem Sharing of Joys and Concerns for Prayer Invitation to Prayer, Hymn 102 “Now Thank We All Our God” 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. The Children are dismissed for Children’s Church in the basement
*Closing Hymn 73 “O Worship the King” Benediction Postlude The Acolyte will take the light of Christ into the world * please stand if it is comfortable for you to do so Pianist Becky Schlieder • Pastor Chad Carter (570) 356-7022 • ccarter@susumc.org www.kulpmtzion.org • Find us on facebook (search “Catawissa Parish”)