THANKSGIVING SABBATH

11:00 a.m.                                              November 19, 2006

 

Assemble in God’s Name

Organ Prelude:

 

Choral Introit:

Welcome

Concerns of the Church

 

s  Passing the Peace

s Hymnbook: "All People That on Earth Do Dwell”  #24

Lighting the Candles

 

Call to Worship  (Psalm 100:4-5)

Leader: The Lord be with you.

People: And with you also.

Leader:  Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, bless his name.

People   For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

 

Opening Prayer

 

A Psalm of Praise (Psalm 146)

 

s Hymnbook: "Now Thank We All Our God” #9

s Gloria Patri #546

 

Presentation of Tithes and Offerings

 

Offertory

 

s Doxology #544

 

Proclaim God’s Word

Children's Sermon

               Dismissal to Children’s Church (5 and Under)

 

Prayers of the People

 

First Reading: Psalm 147:1-7

 

Anthem

 

Second Reading: Luke 17:11-19

 

Sermon: "The Ten Lepers”

 

Go in God’s Name

s The Apostles' Creed

 

s Prayer of Thanksgiving

 

s The Lord's Prayer

 

s Hymnbook: "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come”     #525

s Extinguishing the Candles

 

s Charge and Blessing

 

Postlude:

 

s:  all who are able, please stand.


 

 

The author of Psalm 42 remembers joining a crowd walking to the house of God “with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving” (Psalm 42:4, NRSV). May that same kind of joy be ours today as we meet together to worship God.

 

Wednesday Bible Study 10:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.  . 

 

Ava Howe is still in Charlotte Institute of Rehabilitation.  Please remember Ava and all our sick and shut-ins in your prayers.

 

The Session will not meet tonight.

 

This evening, at Trinity United Methodist Church, the Western York County Christian Ministerial Association is sponsoring a Community Thanksgiving Service.  Father Scott Fleischer, Chaplain of York Episcopal Home for Children, will preach.  The service begins at 6:00 p.m.  Afterwards, the folks at Trinity will host light refreshments. 

 

Start Thanksgiving right, with Thanksgiving breakfast on Thanksgiving morning at YARPC.  Breakfast is served at 8:00 a.m.  Everyone is invited.

 

It is ARP Magazine subscription time again.  Please give your subscription to our “ARP” agent, Jane Sherer.  The cost is $20 per year.

 

The WOC is having individual poinsettias in the church this year.  If you would like to have a flower in honor or in memory of someone, please give your money to Frances Nivens and sign the sheet in the narthex of the church.  Poinsettias are $11 each.

 

Flora “Johnnie” Funderburk Ruth, 88, passed on Wednesday, November 15, 2006.  Her funeral was at the church on Friday.  She walked in the way of the Lord among us, and now she has gone to continue her walk with the Lord.  We pray God’s comfort for the family.


 

Psalm 146

 

1  Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul!

2  I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long.

3  Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help.

4  When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

5  Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD their God,

6  who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith forever;

7  who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free;

8  the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous.

9  The LORD watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

10  The LORD will reign forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the LORD!

 

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