Sunday Morning Worship Service
August 12, 2007

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The Service For The Lord’s Day
Bethel Presbyterian Church
August 12, 2007
11:00 a.m.

The Gathering and Greeting of God’s People

Leader: Our help is in the name of the Lord,

People: Who made heaven and earth.

Prelude

Call to Worship

Leader: And God created the heavens and the earth.

People: And gave them to us to use and enjoy.

Leader: And God breathed into each of us, and set us upon the earth.

People: And God sent Jesus Christ to save us from the pull of death.

Leader: Everything that fills our souls with gladness and light is a gift from our Creator.

All: We have been entrusted with unfathomable riches. For all this our God is to be praised. Let us worship God together!

*Hymn of Praise # 293   This Is My Father’s World

Call to Confession

Caring and compassionate Creator, we enter this beautiful place set apart for Your worship, knowing that we have failed to see You in other places. You alone know how often we have sinned – hear now the prayers of Your people…

Prayer of Confession

Creator God, in the beginning, You made the earth, and everything that is on it, and them proclaimed “It is good, very good”.

We thank You, dear Lord, that You made the earth and everything in it for good.

And as Your final act of creation You made people and gave us the responsibility for the
things on Your earth.

We are humbled to think, You allowed us to share in Your acts of creation.

But, we have not always treated Your creation with respect.

And now our earth is sick, and we have helped to make her sick by our misuse of the good gifts of God’s creation.

We waste Your good gifts of energy, of coal and oil and gas, when we use unnecessary lights, heat, or cooling.

O Lord, Have mercy on us.

We waste Your good gifts of energy, when we soak too long in a hot shower.

Lord, have mercy on us.

We waste Your good gifts of energy, when we overuse cars and trucks and buy bigger vehicles than we need.

O Lord, have mercy on us.

We waste Your good gifts of natural beauty, when we trash the roadsides and streams.

O Lord, have mercy on us.

We waste Your good gifts of bugs, birds, and blooms, when we misuse chemicals in our homes, yards, fields and churches.

O Lord, have mercy on us.

We waste Your good gifts of resources when we fail to recycle paper, aluminus, glass, and plastic.

Lord have mercy upon us,
Christ have mercy upon us,
Lord have mercy upon us.

Declaration of Forgiveness

Leader: The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting. Thanks be to God.

All: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven!

*Anthem   All Things Bright and Beautiful

Old Testament Lesson:   Psalm 104 From The Message Bible

Message   God is the Creator. We Are the Caretakers   Bethel Green Team

Congregational Music   Somebody’s Going to Use It After You   Insert

Prayer

*Affirmation of Faith – The Apostle’s Creed Page 14 in Hymnal

Offering

*Doxology

*Prayer of Dedication

Time of Sharing and Prayer

Special Sharing With Congregation Green Team

Hymn # 272   God of the Sparrow

*Charge and Blessing

Congregational Response   Let There Be Green on Earth Insert

*Benediction

Congregational Response   This Is My Father’s World

*POSTLUDE

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Thank You

The Liturgist today is Rev. Pat Harvey and Rev. Bill Shenk

The Ushers today are Bethel Children

The organ is being played by Marilyn Gaffin.

Sanctuary Flowers: Provided by Bethel Sunday School

Special Thanks to those who designed and participated in today’s Worship Service

Children of our Sunday School, their teachers Marge Hettrick and Jan Rybka, and Bethel Junior and Senior High Youth who were Teaching Assistants this summer.

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A Note From Pat:

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THIS WEEK'S EVENTS

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Sunday	Aug 12	Sunday School (all ages) Worship Stewardship and Finance Meeting Youth Group	9:45 A.M. 11:00 A.M. 12:30 P.M. 2:00 P.M.
Monday	Aug 13	Seniorcize Boy Scouts	9:00 A.M. 7:00 P.M.
Tuesday	Aug 14	NO “FUN LUNCH” THIS WEEK NO YOGA THIS WEEK OR NEXT WEEK
		Parish Life	7:00 P.M.
Wednesday	Aug 15	Seniorcize Worship Committee Evangelism Committee Property and Personnel Committee	9:00 A.M. 4:30 P.M. 6:00 P.M. 5:30 P.M.
Thursday	Aug 16	Mission Outreach	6:00 P.M.
Friday	Aug 17	Seniorcize	9:00 A.M.