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Upcoming Events and Meetings
Please
call the Church Office (828-464-4421) for additional information about
Scheduled
meetings and activities.
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Announcements for the Week of September 5th – September 11th
are located near the bottom of this page.
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GRACE
United Church
of Christ
Sunday
Worship Service Bulletin
for
September
5, 2010
Whoever you are or wherever
you are on life’s journey you’re welcome here at
Grace
Reformed United Church of Christ
117 East J Street Newton,
NC
28658
828.464.4421 gracechurchnewtonnc@gmail.com
Visit
us at www.graceuccnewton.org
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Fifteenth
Sunday after Pentecost
W Indicates
to please stand if so able
Gathering
Greeting
and Announcements
W The
Peace
We invite each of you to
greet those around you with the words “the peace of Christ be with you.”
Introit
Trio on “All Creatures of Our God and
King” David Chamberlain
W Call to Worship
O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I
rise up; you discern my thoughts from far
away.
I praise
you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. My frame was not hidden
from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the
depths of
the earth.
W Hymn
His Eye Is on the Sparrow No. 624 (blue
hymnal)
W Invocation
We give thee humble thanks most
merciful Father, that thou dost graciously
hear the prayers of thy servants who
call upon thee, and hast done for us great
things whereof we
rejoice; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
First Reading Jeremiah
18:1-11
Time with the Children
Second Reading Philemon
1-21
W Hymn
O Perfect Love
No. 356
W Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God the Father
Almighty, maker of heaven and earth:
I believe in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son, our Lord; who was
conceived by
the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius
Pilate, was
crucified, dead, and buried; he descended
to the dead. On the third day he
rose again; from the dead; is seated at the right hand of the
Father, and will
come again to judge the living and the
dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit; the holy catholic Church; the
communion
of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body and
the life
everlasting. Amen.
W Gloria
Patri No. 492
W Third
Reading Luke 14:25-33
Sermon
Collect
O God, who hast prepared for those who
love thee such good things as pass our
understanding: Pour into our hearts such love toward thee, that we,
loving thee
above all things, may obtain thy promises, which exceed all that we
can desire;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Offering
Offertory Chorale in A
Minor
Louis Bottazzo
W Doxology
& Prayer of Dedication
Old Hundredth
Praise
God from whom all blessings flow!
Praise
Him all creatures here below!
Praise Him above ye heavenly hosts!
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost!
Amen.
The Great Thanksgiving
This is the joyful feast of the Lord, where people come from the
east and west, from north
and south to gather around and eat at the
table of the Lord.
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up you hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our
God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
It is right and a good and a joyful
thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to You, God
Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. In the beginning Your Spirit moved over
the face
of the waters. You formed us in Your image and breathed
into us the spirit and the breath
of life.
When our love failed, Yours remained steadfast and Your Spirit came
upon proph-
ets and teachers
anointing them to speak Your word.
And so with Your people on earth
and all the
company of heaven, we praise Your name.
You may be seated
Holy are you O God and blessed is Your Son, Jesus Christ. Your Spirit anointed Him to
preach good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives,
and recovering of sight
to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed and to
announce that the time had
come when You would save Your people. He healed the sick, fed the hungry, and
ate with
sinners.
By the baptism of His suffering, death and resurrection, You gave
birth to Your
church, delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made with us
a new covenant by
water and the Spirit. When our Lord ascended, He promised to be
with us always and sent
us forth to serve and love all peoples.
And so we remember that on the night He
gave Himself for us, He took bread,
gave thanks to You, broke the bread, gave it to His disciples and
said:
Take and eat; this is my body which is
given for you.
Do this in remembrance of me.
When the supper was over He took the
cup, gave thanks to You, gave it to His disciples
and said:
Drink from this all of you; this is my
blood of the new covenant,
poured out for you and for many for the
forgiveness of sins.
Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
And so in remembrance of these Your
mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in
praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice, in union
with Christ’s offering for us,
as we proclaim the mystery of faith:
Christ has died, Christ has risen,
Christ will come again.
Pour out your Holy Spirit on us
gathered here, and on these gifts of bread and wine. Make
them be for us the body and blood of Christ, that we may be for the
world the body of
Christ, redeemed by His blood.
By Your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with each
other, and one in ministry to all the world, until Christ comes in
final victory and we feast
at His heavenly banquet. Through Your Son Jesus Christ, with the
Holy Spirit in Your Holy
Church, all honor and glory is Yours, Almighty God, now and forever.
Now as the children of the Almighty, let us pray the prayer our Lord
taught us to pray:
Our Father,
who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done, on earth as it is
in heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread.
And forgive us our sins as we
forgive our sinners. And lead us not
into temp-
tation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is
the kingdom and the power and
the
glory, forever. Amen.
Sharing the Elements
W Hymn O God, Whose Law from Age to Age
No. 79
W Benediction
W Postlude Fugue in E Minor Guillaume Lasceus
Our thanks
and appreciation to Rev. Lutz Keller for his leadership and message today.
Welcome to
all who are
worshipping with us today. We are
glad you have come and we want you to know that you are always welcome here
at Grace. We ask members and
visitors alike to please sign the Friendship Registers found at the end of
the pews.
Committee
members needed: Sign up sheets, along with a brief
description of the duties of each committee, has been placed on the table
in the hallway. Please stop by the
table, see where you can help and sign up.
We are small in number now and everyone’s help is needed.
Hymn selections will be from the Red Hymnal each
Sunday unless otherwise stated.
Birthdays this week
Carrie
Underwood—Sept. 5
Mark Geitner—Sept. 9
Albert Lofland
III—Sept. 6 Maude McRee—Sept.
10
Ed Gurley—Sept. 8 Millicent Rowe—Sept. 11
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Sunday School
Classes – 9:45 to 10:40 am
Two Classes
Chapel Class taught by Angela Phillips and Jackie Hendricks
and Parlor Class taught by Larry Bolick
A children class is also provided as well as a worship
nursery.
Choir Practice
Choir Practices Every
Wednesday Night at 6 to 7 pm in the sanctuary - come make your voice be
heard!
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