11:00 a.m. November 18, 2007
Assemble in God’s Name
Organ Prelude:
Choral Introit:
Welcome
Concerns of the Church
s Passing the Peace
s Hymnbook: "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come” #525
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: "All People That on Earth Do Dwell” #24
s Gloria Patri #546
Presentation of Tithes and Offerings
Offertory
s Doxology #544
Children's Sermon
Dismissal to Children’s Church (5 and Under)
Prayers of the People
First Reading: Psalm 147:1-7
Anthem
Second Reading: John 6:35
Sermon: "Bread of Life”
Go in God’s Name
s The Apostles' Creed
s Prayer of Thanksgiving
s The Lord's Prayer
s Hymnbook: "Rejoice, the Lord is King” #140
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.
Debbie Gibby is in Mercy South. Ann Dodgen is still in the hospital in Tampa. Her address if you want to send cards is:
Ann Dodgen
c/o Patricia Dodgen
19108 Centre Rose Blvd
Lute, Fla. 33558
Please remember Debbie and Ann and all our sick and shut-ins in your prayers.
The Session will meet next Sunday night, November 25.
A Community Thanksgiving Service, sponsored by the Western York County Christian Ministerial Association, will be held tonight at First Baptist Church. Gene Feagin, the minister at Trinity UMC, will preach. The service begins at 6:00 p.m. Afterwards, the folks at First Baptist will host light refreshments.
No Wednesday Bible Study this week
Start Thanksgiving right, with Thanksgiving breakfast on Thanksgiving morning at YARPC. Breakfast is served at 8:00 a.m. Everyone is invited.
The adults are invited to go to The Bill Graham Library, December 1. we leave the church at 10:00 a.m.
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.
Next Sabbath, November 25, is Christ the King Day. December 2 is the First Sabbath in Advent.
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!
If you have questions or comments, email Tony Grant
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