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The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes snacks and meals.
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The sermon this morning: 'Jesus Walks on the Water.' The sermon tonight: 'Searching for Jesus.'
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Ladies , don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.
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Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community.. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say 'Hell' to someone who doesn't care much about you.
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Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.
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Miss Charlene Mason sang 'I will not pass this way again , ' giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.
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For those of you who have children and don't know it , we have a nursery downstairs.
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Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.
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Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.
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A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.
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At the evening service tonight , the sermon topic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come early and listen to our choir practice.
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Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
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Scouts are saving aluminum cans , bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
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Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you will want remembered.
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The church will host an evening of fine dining , super entertainment and gracious hostility.
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Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.
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The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon..
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This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
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Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 AM. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B. S. Is done.
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The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
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Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door.
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The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
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Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.
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The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new campaign slogan last Sunday: 'I Upped My Pledge so up yours.'
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Bulletin Bloopers
Sunday, March 21, 2010
March 21, 2010 - Prayer
How grateful we are, O God, for the gift of Christ … for love beyond all limits … for grace, mercy and peace … for hope and courage … for wisdom to guide us, and faith to help us through the dark moments of life … for love to lift us beyond self-interest.
How grateful we are, O God … for the little Bethlehem baby boy and the angels who sang to the shepherds in the hills … for the wise men who made the long journey to follow a star and find a king … for John the Baptist in the wilderness who preached a new day to the people and baptized our LORD in Jordan’s water …
How grateful we are, O God … for the Rabbi who called James and John, Peter and Andrew … for the gentle man at the well in Samaria who talked to a lonely woman … for a kindly man who stood beneath a tree and saw a little man up in its branches … for the daring man who challenged the powers of his day, who refused to knuckle under to the conservative forces of Rome and it’s temple collaborators … the powers that feared all change and killed the prophets.
How grateful we are, O God … for the man who stood silently in Pilate’s courtroom … who bore the lash of the whip and the shame of crucifixion … for the man who walked into the arms of death and felt its sting for our sake.
How grateful we are, O God … for the great Son of God who went to hell, to the far-reaches of death and despair, to the place of no-return, to give release there to all the prisoners … that none might be lost, that all would be found, and everything made new.
Help us, this day, O God, to receive this Christ.
The Christ of the Cross … that we might be brave in our faith and bold in our mission.
And with him, and through him, to live your kingdom …
To talk to the lonely and stand for the truth.
To confront the conservative forces that drive power and religion … political power and religious rituals that have long forgotten their true purpose to serve the people and protect the children.
Help us, we pray, with a full measure of your Holy Spirit, to make this Lenten journey really count … to stand before the cross and feel the crisis – to hear the deep questions you pose to us … questions that ruffle our feathers and unsettle us, so that you can transform our spirit and move us along the road to a better humanity and a richer faith.
Do not leave us alone, O God, even when we turn away from the light of Christ. Don’t not leave us alone, O God, even when we steel our hearts and close our minds to you.
Do not leave us to our own devices, for therein we die.
Do not leave us alone with our small ideas and shallow loves.
Do not leave us alone in our pride and our prejudice.
Come to us, we pray, LORD Jesus, for we need your grace, your forgiveness, and your light to find ourselves and become truly human.
How grateful we are, O God … in the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, who taught us to pray, saying, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done …
How grateful we are, O God … for the little Bethlehem baby boy and the angels who sang to the shepherds in the hills … for the wise men who made the long journey to follow a star and find a king … for John the Baptist in the wilderness who preached a new day to the people and baptized our LORD in Jordan’s water …
How grateful we are, O God … for the Rabbi who called James and John, Peter and Andrew … for the gentle man at the well in Samaria who talked to a lonely woman … for a kindly man who stood beneath a tree and saw a little man up in its branches … for the daring man who challenged the powers of his day, who refused to knuckle under to the conservative forces of Rome and it’s temple collaborators … the powers that feared all change and killed the prophets.
How grateful we are, O God … for the man who stood silently in Pilate’s courtroom … who bore the lash of the whip and the shame of crucifixion … for the man who walked into the arms of death and felt its sting for our sake.
How grateful we are, O God … for the great Son of God who went to hell, to the far-reaches of death and despair, to the place of no-return, to give release there to all the prisoners … that none might be lost, that all would be found, and everything made new.
Help us, this day, O God, to receive this Christ.
The Christ of the Cross … that we might be brave in our faith and bold in our mission.
And with him, and through him, to live your kingdom …
To talk to the lonely and stand for the truth.
To confront the conservative forces that drive power and religion … political power and religious rituals that have long forgotten their true purpose to serve the people and protect the children.
Help us, we pray, with a full measure of your Holy Spirit, to make this Lenten journey really count … to stand before the cross and feel the crisis – to hear the deep questions you pose to us … questions that ruffle our feathers and unsettle us, so that you can transform our spirit and move us along the road to a better humanity and a richer faith.
Do not leave us alone, O God, even when we turn away from the light of Christ. Don’t not leave us alone, O God, even when we steel our hearts and close our minds to you.
Do not leave us to our own devices, for therein we die.
Do not leave us alone with our small ideas and shallow loves.
Do not leave us alone in our pride and our prejudice.
Come to us, we pray, LORD Jesus, for we need your grace, your forgiveness, and your light to find ourselves and become truly human.
How grateful we are, O God … in the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, who taught us to pray, saying, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done …
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