33^rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

November 18, 2007 - 10:30 AM

GATHERING FOR WORSHIP

"Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple,

they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts..." Acts 2:46

ANNOUNCEMENTS

*PASSING THE PEACE OF CHRIST

CHORAL INTROIT:

"We Have Come to Worship the Lord," Charles Yannerella

Please join me in praising the Lord using the Response printed in your bulletin: (From Isaiah 65)

Leader: "For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth;

People: The former things shall not be remembered, or come to mind.

Leader: But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating;

People: For I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight...

Leader: The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox...

People: They shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, says the Lord." (After reciting the Response, indicate with your hands for the congregation to stand for the first hymn. DO NOT announce the hymn.)

*SONGS OF PRAISE AND WORSHIP: #559 (Blue Hymnal)

"We Gather Together"

(Lector Only) If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. But if we confess our sins, God who is faithful and just, will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. In humility and faith let us confess our sin to God, using the prayer printed in your bulletin.

**COMING CLEAN BEFORE OUR CREATOR

Lord God:

We thank you for another harvest from your creation,

Which sustains us in spite of our careless

stewardship of it.

Forgive our greed, our desire to have more and more,

When many struggle for enough to simply live.

Forgive us for focusing more on what we have,

Than on what you have done for us!

Forgive us for thanking ourselves

instead of your providence.

Let us praise you not only with our lips, but our lives!

Amen

RECEIVING FORGIVENESS:

(Lector Only)

As far as the east is from the west, so far does God remove our sin from us! In Christ, we find forgiveness.

*SONG OF GRATITUDE FOR FORGIVENESS RECEIVED:

(Red Hymnal #247, Blue Hymnal #322, "Spirit of the Living God")

ANTHEM: "Give Thanks," Henry Smith/arr John F Wilson

A SPECIAL TIME WITH CHILDREN: Pastor David

(Red Hymnal #580 "Jesus Loves the Little Children")

WORSHIP IN ACTION

GOD'S WORK IN THE WORLD:

Presbyterian Women Honorarium

Christmas Joy Offering

SHARING OUR GIFTS

(Prayer requests may be placed in the offering plate; please sign the fellowship pad)

AN OFFERING OF MUSIC:

"Come, Ye Thankful People, Come," Joel Raney

*PRAISING GOD AS SOURCE OF ALL, #593 (Blue Hymnal)

*DEDICATING OUR GIFTS WITH PRAYER

LISTENING FOR GOD'S WORD TO US

SPEAKING TO GOD IN SONG: #555 (Blue Hymnal)

"Now Thank We All Our God"

PRAYING TO GOD, LORD'S PRAYER (debts/debtors)

(Blue Hymnal, Page 16, Traditional version)

BIBLE READING: Isaiah 12, Pew Bibles pg. 641

Acts 2:42-47, Pew Bibles pg. 120

Leader: "The Word of the Lord," All: "Thanks be to God"

MESSAGE: "Eating Around the Table," Pastor David Layman

*DECLARING OUR FAITH:

(Apostles' Creed, Traditional, pg. 14, Blue Hymnal)

*SONG OF RESPONSE: #554 (Blue Hymnal)

"Let All Things Now Living"

*BLESSING

CHORAL RESPONSE:

"Father, Give Thy Benediction," S Longfellow/arr Clayton Lloyd Moore

DEPARTING TO SERVE

*As able please stand

Large print bulletins and hearing devices are available. Please ask an usher.

END OF WORSHIP - BEGINNING OF SERVICE

Pastors ~ David A Layman, John Hollis

Youth Director ~ Bonnie Browning

Choir Director ~ Lynn Kennedy

Organist ~ Linda Hood

Pianist ~ Carol Lou Woodward

Lector ~ Neal Carroll

Nursery ~ Alice Henry & Lorna Timmerman

SPECIAL MISSION INTERESTS

Hunter and Ruth Farrell, Peru

Charles and Diane Wonnenberg, South Dakota

Bill Yoder, Thailand

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