Sunday Morning Worship Service
October 10, 2004
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.
THE SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
October 10, 2004
GREETING, WORDS OF WELCOME, RITUAL OF FRIENDSHIP AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
The whole earth is full of God’s glory.
PRELUDE Dresden Amen Wagner
CALL TO WORSHIP – Psalm 66
Make a joyful noise to God, all the earth. Sing glory to God and praise the Lord!
Come and see what God has done: how awesome the deeds among mortals.
Bless the Lord, O peoples, let the sound of God’s praise be heard.
Truly God has listened; he has given heed to the words of my prayer.
Let us worship God!
PRAYER OF THE DAY
*HYMN # 482 Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty Lobe Den Herren
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION
God our Father: you led our ancestors to this land, and, out of conflict, created in us a love of peace and liberty. We have failed you by neglecting rights and restricting freedoms. Forgive pride that overlooks national wrong, or justifies injustice. Forgive divisions caused by prejudice or greed. Have mercy, God, on the heart of this land. Make us compassionate, fair, and helpful to each other. Raise up in us a right patriotism, that sees and seeks this nation’s good; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
*ASSURANCE OF PARDON
We belong–body and soul, in life and in death–not to ourselves, but to our faithful Savior, Jesus Christ, who at the cost of his own blood has fully paid for all our sins and has completely freed us from the dominion of evil. By the Holy Spirit, Christ assures us of eternal life, and makes us wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him. Give thanks to God, for:
In Jesus Christ we are forgiven!
*CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE Gloria Patri Hymn # 579
NEW TESTAMENT LESSON II Timothy 2:8-15
A MOMENT WITH THE CHILDREN OF THE CHURCH
ANTHEM Knowing You
OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURE Jeremiah 29:1,4-9
*HYMN # 386 O for a World Azmon
*PRAYER FOR OUR COUNTRY
Almighty God, you have given us this good land as our heritage. Make us always remember your generosity and constantly do your will. Bless our land with honest industry, sound learning, and an honorable way of life. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion; from pride and arrogance, and from every evil way. Make us who come from many nations with many different languages a united people. Defend our liberties and give those whom we have entrusted with the authority of government the spirit of wisdom, that there might be justice and peace in our land. When times are prosperous let our hearts be thankful; and in troubled times, do not let our trust in you fail. We ask all this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
PRAYER CONCERNS AND A TIME FOR SHARING
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE & THE LORD’S PRAYER
DEDICATION OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS
OFFERTORY Song Without Words Wolford
*DOXOLOGY AND PRAYER OF DEDICATION
*HYMN # 432 Song of Hope Argentina
*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
*CHOIR RESPONSE The Lord Bless You and Keep You
*POSTLUDE Wonderful Words of Life Bliss
*All who are able may stand.
This worship service is broadcast on WKTS 90.1 FM at 12:30 p.m. today.
Bethel offers Sunday school for children and four educational opportunities for adults at 9:45 AM. Childcare (babies and preschool age) is offered at 9:45 and 11 AM. Restrooms are located in our Educational Building, first floor and lower level. Ushers can provide large print hymnbooks and activity sheets for children.
The flowers today are given by Bill & Betty Ulrich in memory of loved ones no longer here.
The Liturgist today is Mary B. Hines.
Our Ushers/Greeters are Jane Walsh & Nancy King.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FUN LUNCHEON – this Tuesday at the Hettrick’s. Please bring your favorite dish to the church by 11:30 from where we will carpool to the Hettrick’s. If you need a ride, please call Ruth Ann @ 376-5333 or the church office @ 376-6340.
Please make checks payable to Bethel Presbyterian Church (earmark: Trainride) for America's Most Unique Trainride on Saturday, October 16th, 3 p.m. (be there by 2:30). Directions: Take exit 356 off I-40 and follow Hwy 58 six miles to the park. Turn left at the traffic light onto Hwy 327 (Blair Road). The parking lot is 2 miles ahead on the left.
“COMMUNICATING ACROSS THE GAPS” Sponsored by the Peacemaking Committee of the Presbytery of East Tennessee for ministers and church members, “The American/African Spirituality Gap” October 14, 10:00-11:30 a.m. Farragut Presbyterian Church.
DESSERT RECEPTION – Friends of the Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Wambugu of Limuru, Kenya, are invited to a dessert reception in their honor Tuesday, October 12, at 7 p.m. Come to the Fellowship Hall of First Presbyterian Church, 620 State Street, and have a delicious good time. The Wambugus are founders and operators of the Grace School, which educates and ministers to street children, many of whom are AIDS orphans. They will return to Limuru on Oct. 15, ending a month-long visit to Knoxville.
COMING SOON! Sunday Worship & Lunch at John Knox Center, October 31, 2004. (Replaces our regular 11 a.m. worship service at Bethel, but 5th Sunday Healing and Wholeness at 9 a.m. continues as scheduled.) More details to come!
The daughter of Amy and Joe Coen is collecting new or gently used books for the Women’s Shelter in Roane County and for the Head Start Program. Girl Scout Troop 435 is participating in a READING ROCKS community service project to supply books for children ages 6 months to 14 years old and for women served by the shelter and Head Start. A box will be available during October for collecting the books. She will also carry a bag during October if you wish to give them to her personally. Please help support the love of books and improving literacy.
JERRY & JENNY MORRIS – 425 North Fairmont Ave., Morristown, TN 37814-3801(while Jerry is convalescing from surgery)
| PLEASE PRAY FOR: JJerry Morris, Doris Barber, Ginny Warlick, Carol Jane Row, Tora Phillips, Fred Meers, Christine Woods, Al & Dot Davis, Ivy Basalone, Mary Sykes, Justin Winsbro, Ruth Moutoux, Susan Todd, Presbyterian Churches - Etowah First (Mark P. Downs) & Greenback First (David A. Bell) |
THIS WEEK
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY: BODY RECALL – 9-10 AM
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YOUTH GROUP THIS WEEK – 5:00 PM
REA – 6:00 PM
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FUN LUNCH – CARPOOL TO HETTRICK’S; LEAVE AT 11:30 AM
ALPHA – 6:30-9:30 PM
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HANDBELLS – 5:30 PM
SESSION – 7:00 PM
CHOIR – 7:00 PM
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GET FIT, ROANE COUNTY – 6:30 PM |
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