Bethel Presbyterian Church
Kingston United Methodist Church
1st Sunday after Epiphany
January 13, 2008
Welcome/Announcements
Please record your presence with us on the attendance pads.
Greetings
Praise Chorus: “Awesome God” Mullins
Chiming of the Hour
Invocation Reinhold Niebuhr
Eternal God, Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, we worship you. Your wisdom is beyond our understanding, your power is greater than we can measure, your thoughts are above our thoughts; as high as the heaven is above the earth, your majesty judges all human majesties. Your judgment brings princes to naught, and makes the judges of the earth as vanity; for before the mountains were brought forth or ever the earth and the world were made, even from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Give us grace to apprehend by faith the power and wisdom which lie beyond our understanding: and in worship to feel that which we do not know, and to praise even what we do not understand: so that in the presence of your glory we may be humble, and in the knowledge of your judgment we may repent; and so in the assurance of your mercy, we may rejoice and be glad. Amen.
†Hymn 156: “I Love to Tell the Story” (Vss 1,3,4) Hankey
Responsive Psalm 29 761
†The Gloria Patri
Chancel Choir: “Sing, Sing, Glory to the Lord” Wagner
Congregational Prayer & the Lord’s Prayer
(Prayer Requests are listed on insert, recorded on prayer cards in the pew)
Offertory Sentence The Methodist Shorter Book of Offices
O Lord God, Holy Father… I am no longer my own, but Thine. Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt; put me to doing, put me to suffering; let me be employed for thee or laid aside for thee, exalted for thee or brought low for thee; let me be full, let me be empty; let me have all things, let me have nothing; I freely and heartily yield all things to thy pleasure and disposal. Amen.
Offertory: “Lord, When You came to Jordan” Genevan Psalter
Lord, when You came to Jordan and asked to be baptized,
What was Your vow and vision of love and sacrifice?
Was there a sudden splendor of prophets, priests, and kings,
a wind that stirred the Waters, a blur of might wings?
Presentation of our Tithes and Offerings
Offertory Response 95: “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”
Children’s Sermon Pat Harvey
Children K-5 Dismiss to Children’s Church
†The Gospel Lesson: Matthew 3: 13-17
Hymn 117: “O God, Our Help in Ages Past” (Vss 1,3,6) St. Anne
The acolytes leave, modeling our carrying the light into the world
Please remain in your pews until the acolytes have departed the sanctuary
†Benediction
†Benediction Response 665: “Go Now in Peace” Sleeth
†Postlude: “A Mighty Fortress is Our God” Ein’ Feste Burg
-Altar Prayer
† Congregation Standing
ANNOUNCEMENTS
At Home
Doris Barber, Dot and Al Davis, Gene Pierce, Anne Robertson,
Marci Smith, Tom and Helen Roostee, Marnie Shields
Jamestown: 851 Lawnville Road, Kingston 37763
Louise Pickel Room 209
Mac Robbins Room 305
Anne Smith Room 312
Wellington Place: 1098 Bradford Way, Kingston 37763
Joan Pemberton Room 306 B
Jan Parker Room 107
Baptist Healthcare: 700 Williams Ferry Rd #45, Lenoir City 37771
Evelyn Waldrup Room 42
Rockwood Healthcare: 5580 Roane State Highway, Harriman 37748
Roberta Cash Room 132 B
Margaret True Room 212 B
Harriman Healthcare: 240 Hannah Road, Harriman 37748
Ruby Hunter Room 305 A
NHC Oakridge: 300 Laboratory Road, Oak Ridge 37830
Wanda Carter Room 212
Elmcroft Assisted Living: 8024 Gleason Dr. Knoxville 37919
Shirley Lumpkins Room 202
In our prayers… Edith Miles in ICU at
Vanderbilt University Hospital. Address:
1211 Medical Center Dr.
Nashville, TN 37232
Prayer Concern
Please fill out at prayer card and place in the offering plate if you have a prayer concern.
Please send memorials for Bettie Shenk to:
National Kidney Foundation of East Tennessee
Project Keep
4450 Walker Blvd.
Knoxville, TN 37917
or to the Bethel Presbyterian Music Program.
The Annual Congregational Meeting and luncheon will be in the KUMC Fellowship Hall on January 27th, after the 10:30 worship. The purpose of the meeting is to elect three members of the congregation to the nominating committee and to vote on the Pastoral Terms of Call.
There will be training for Acolytes and Parents on January 20th at 9:30 am in the Kingston United Methodist Church Annex.
Would you like to host a Bethel-KUMC Lenten Study in your home or at KUMC? Let Pat Harvey know!
Bethel Children are invited to be a part of the KUMC Children’s Choir. Be at KUMC Annex January 20th, at 8:30 am for breakfast and practice afterwards.
Bell Choir rehearsal this week is at 5:30 pm due to the Fellowship Supper. Chancel Choir rehearsal is at 7 pm.
We need volunteers to move the heavy files of music to our Music Director’s home. Please see Debbie Smith in the Bethel Church office.
The Bethel Fellowship Supper will be Wednesday, January 16th at 6:30 pm in the Kingston United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall.
Studies begin the week of February 10
th, 2008. Other Studies are being planned to fit the needs and desires of the participants. We are also looking for people to host Lenten Small Groups. Booklets and Registration Forms are in the Narthex.
Radical Renovation
– Thursdays, 1:00 pm.
That the World May Know: On the Death and Resurrection of Jesus the Messiah
– Sunday Morning, 9:30 am.
Pilgrim Road: A Benedictine Journey Through Lent
– Sunday Evening – Time & place to be announced.
