TO OUR GUESTS, we extend a warm welcome. We invite you to participate in signing our Friendship Folder, adding your address and phone number if you'd like to receive our church newsletter or a pastoral call. When we pray the Lord's Prayer at Bethel, we say "sins...sin against us" rather than "debts..." or "trespasses..."; during "a time for sharing" we welcome prayer requests from the congregation. On first Sundays each month, all who put their trust in Christ and who have received baptism in any Christian church are invited to share his sacred meal. We are glad you are with us. Please come again.

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The Service For The Lord’s Day
Bethel Presbyterian Church
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
September 25, 2005

GREETING, WORDS OF WELCOME, RITUAL OF FRIENDSHIP AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Worship the Lord with gladness.

And enter the Lord’s presence with songs of joy.

PRELUDE   Lord of the Dance

CALL TO WORSHIP

In caring and compassion, God's arms embrace us when we feel weak and alone.

Let us open our arms to share that embrace with others.

With ideas and inspiration, God pushes us to grow and thrive.

Let us give that seed new roots by planting it in the soil of others_ lives.

With divine generosity, God shares all creation with us.

Let us share that bounty with all for whom God created.

God calls us as partners to build a world of joy and hope.

Let us build a world where our lives, and those of our sisters and brothers, may resound in praise of our gracious God.

PRAYER OF THE DAY

*HYMN #265   Great God, We Sing That Mighty Hand   Wareham

*UNISON CONFESSION OF SIN

Merciful God, in Jesus you have shown us the way of salvation, the joy of Christian fellowship, and the model of service to others. Yet we turn our backs on your gifts; we dishonor you in the way we treat our bodies; we bring harm to others through the choices we make; we cling to destructive habits and superficial values; we allow the opinions of others to control the way we think about ourselves. Forgive us, we pray. Remind us of your covenant love and fill us with the grace of new beginnings. Help us to rise to new life, so that we might live together in honesty, peace, and unity. In Jesus' name, Amen.

ASSURANCE OF PARDON

Hear the good news! Who is in a position to condemn? Only Christ, and Christ died for us, Christ rose for us, Christ reigns in power for us, Christ prays for us. Anyone who is in Christ is a new creation. The old life has gone; a new life has begun. Know that you are forgiven and be at peace.

Thanks be to God! In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven!

*CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE   Gloria Patri   Hymn #579

NEW TESTAMENT   Mark 6:14-29

MINUTE FOR MISSION Peacemaking Offering   Carol Brown

A MOMENT WITH THE CHILDREN

ANTHEM   Amazing Grace   Chancel Choir

*HYMN #367   Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love   Chereponi

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH

Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death_even death on a cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess to the glory of God: Jesus Christ is Lord! Amen.

SHARING OF PRAYER CONCERNS

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND LORD’S PRAYER

DEDICATION OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS

OFFERATORY MUSIC   It Is Well With My Soul   Bliss

*DOXOLOGY Hymn #592

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below;

Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

PRAYER OF DEDICATION

*HYMN #438   Blest Be the Tie That Binds   Dennis

*CHARGE AND BLESSING

*CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE   God Be with You Till We Meet Again    Hymn #540

*POSTLUDE   Hail to the Almighty   Koury

*All who are able may stand.

A Special Thank You

The Liturgist today is Danny Holloway.

The Ushers today are Anita and Chelsea Richmond.

The flowers are given by Greg & Margaret Murr, in loving memory of Greg's mother, Ina Jane Murr.

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THIS WEEK'S EVENTS

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Sunday	Sep 25	Church Hike Called Session Meeting	12:00 P.M. 6:00 P.M.
Monday	Sep 26	Exercise With Bill Boy Scout Committee Meeting	9:00 – 10:00 A.M. 7:00 P.M.
Wednesday	Sep 28	Exercise With Bill Memory Screening Handbell Practice Choir Practice	9:00 – 10:00 A.M. 10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. 5:45 P.M. 7:15 P.M.
Friday	Sep 30	Exercise With Bill	9:00 – 10:00 A.M.
Sunday	Oct 2	World Wide Communion Sunday

   

 

Income Last Week

Undesignated Offering	$ 4,076.80
Grace School	$100.00
Rent – Mid-East	$100.00
Building Fund	$75.00
TOTAL	$4,351.80