Prayer Requests January 5, 2020 Sunday Claudia Adams (Connie Eteo’s sister) The Family of Chuck Bowden Kelli Gilles Annie Ruth Hammonds The Family of J.W. Goodwin (Diane Goodwin’s brother -in-law) Dorothy Hendricks The Family of Mart Page Cierra Rees Ron and Hannah Shaw The Family of Linda Sharpe Monday Jean Crouch Rick Ervin The Family of Madison Fedak Terri LaRue (Doris Denney’s daughter) Lucille Martin Lonnie McCaskill Jason Norton B.T. Phillips Billy Reynolds Robert Yates Tuesday C.W. and Bobbie Dulin Audrey Ewing Barbara Goodman Faye Herring Priscilla McCormick Landry Moseley Sam Moser Dotsy Reynolds William Sidebottom Kay Vance Cathy Wilson Wednesday Gaby Campbell Ricky Cox (Mary Anna Cox’s husband) Lisa Johnson Gabriel Martin (Lucille Martin’s granddaughter) Sandra McKenzie (Cornelia McKenzie’s daughter-in-law) The Family of Tommy Currie Thursday Our Military The Family of Danny McLean (Jimmy McLean’s father) The Family of Gita Williams (Virginia Auman’s sister-in-law) Friday Charles Auman and I-252 nd Armor Regiment in Kuwait Margie Cannon The Family of Cheryl Doolittle (Linda Boyette’s aunt) The Family of Shirley Freeman Helen Goodman Patricia Huffman (Martha Butler’s mother) Dathia Lee (Daphne Thomas’ mother) Virginia McDuffie Cornelia McKenzie Barbara McLain Gaynelle Moon Regina Witherspoon Roger Staley Bible Study at Morrison Correctional Institute Saturday Beverly Crotts (Benton Crotts’ sister) Clara Heath Linda Sharpe Kristi Parks (Perry and Gale Parks’ daughter) The Family of John W. Thomas, III Monty Weaver Church Staff Senior Pastor: Allen Bingham [email protected]Minister of Congregational Life: Mary Griffith [email protected]Financial Secretary: Cornelia McKenzie [email protected]m Secretary: Beth McQueen [email protected]Choir Directors: Statha Osborne [email protected]Chuck Wright [email protected]Organist/Pianist: Helen Alexander [email protected]Church Maintenance: Al Floyd Intern: Gary Boyette Ministers: The Baptized of the Congregation Presence Sunday School: 48 Worship: 128 Family Experience: Christmas Eve Service: 204 Gifts Operating Budget for 2020 $489,139.00 Operating Budget Needed to Date Given to Date for 2019 Budget $484,530.00 Percentage Given for 2019 Budget 102.05 Amount needed each week to meet 2020 budget $9,406.52 Budget offering last week Pennies for Zoe (Total to Date Collected) $20,121.00 Zoe pennies collected in December $2,096.00 Servers for January 5 Ushers: Benson Crotts Team TV Ministry: Randall Mace Heat/AC: Tim Capel and Steve Webb Crucifer: Lilly Matheson Acolytes: John Patrick Hutchinson and Alex Hutchinson Nursery: Heather Deane Greeters: Debbie Taylor Diane Goodwin Soup Kitchen Leader: Shelia Webb and Leone McLester Hedge Prayer: Discovery Young Adult Class Sunday Morning Fellowship: This Sunday: Glenn Alexander Next Sunday: Benson Crotts Calendar for January 5 Sunday Jan 5 9:30 am Sunday School Fellowship 9:45 am Sunday School for all ages 10:55 am Worship Hour Monday Jan 6 10:00 am First Place, BB Tuesday Jan 7 10:00 am Bible Study 5:30 pm Girl Scouts, BB 7:00 pm God’s Gorgeous Butterflies, BB Wednesday Jan 8 3:30 pm Wonderful Wednesday 5:30 pm Worship Design Team 7:00 pm Choir Rehearsal Thursday Jan 9 12:00 – 3:00 pm Merry Makers! Lunch and Movie, BB 12:30 pm Art Guild, BB Friday Jan 10 Saturday Jan 11 BB Bynum Building (400) CR Conference Room FH Fellowship Hall First United Methodist Church Loving God – Loving Others – Loving the World PO Box 637 – 410 East Washington Street Rockingham, North Carolina 28380 Telephone No. 910-895-4027 Service is broadcast live on WAYN 900 AM Radio at 11:00 am Service is shown one week tape delayed on TWC Channel 15 Sundays at 7:00 pm
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Prayer Requests January 5, 2020
Sunday
Claudia Adams (Connie Eteo’s sister) The Family of Chuck Bowden
Kelli Gilles Annie Ruth Hammonds
The Family of J.W. Goodwin (Diane Goodwin’s brother-in-law)
Dorothy Hendricks The Family of Mart Page
Cierra Rees Ron and Hannah Shaw
The Family of Linda Sharpe
Monday Jean Crouch Rick Ervin
The Family of Madison Fedak Terri LaRue (Doris Denney’s daughter)
When the music begins, please prepare for worship in silent prayer and meditation.
Following the service, greet one another with joy and affection!
(*) Please stand as you are able.
ENTRANCE
GATHERING
WELCOME and Announcements Lisa Ledford, Lay Leader
Let us prepare our hearts and minds for worship!
CHIMING OF THE HOUR
PRELUDE I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light Burkhardt
INTROIT Rejoice, the Lord is King Darwall
OPENING PRAYER
*HYMN All Things Bright and Beautiful UM Hymnal, 147
PROCLAMATION AND RESPONSE
*AFFIRMATION The Apostle’s Creed UM Hymnal, 881 I believe in God the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth;
And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord:
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead, and buried;
the third day he arose from the dead;
he ascended into heaven,
and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from thence he shall come to judge the quick 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.
*GLORIA PATRI Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, in now, and ever shall be, world without end.
PSALTER from Psalm 72 Give the king your justice, O God,
and your righteousness to a king’s son.
May he judge your people with righteousness,
and your poor with justice.
May he defend the cause of the poor of the people,
give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor.
May he live while the sun endures,
and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.
May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass,
like showers that water the earth.
In his days may righteousness flourish
and peace abound, until the moon is no more.
CHORUS Through It All Crouch Through it all, through it all,
I’ve learned to trust in Jesus, I’ve learned to trust in God;
Through it all, through it all,
I’ve learned to depend upon God’s word.
CALL TO PRAYER The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Let us pray.
THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
WORSHIPING GOD WITH OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS
OFFERTORY Morning Has Broken Larson
*DOXOLOGY Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow UM Hymnal, 95 Praise God from Whom all blessings flow
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host;
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
LESSON Matthew 2:1-12
ANTHEM In Remembrance Red
SERMON Gifts to Last Eternity
THANKSGIVING AND COMMUNION
INVITATION
CONFESSION
THE GREAT THANKSGIVING UM Hymnal, 13
THE LORD’S PRAYER UM Hymnal, 895 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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
GIVING THE BREAD AND THE CUP
RESPONSE The Covenant Prayer in the Wesleyan Tradition UM Hymnal, 607 I am no longer my own, but thine.
Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt.
Put me to doing, put me to suffering.
Let me be employed by thee or laid aside for thee,
exalted for thee or brought low by thee.
Let me be full, let me be empty.
Let me have all things, let me have nothing.
I freely and heartily yield all things to thy pleasure and disposal.
And now, O glorious and blessed God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
thou art mine, and I am thine. So be it.
And the covenant which I have made on earth, let it be ratified in heaven.
Amen.
SENDING FORTH
*HYMN Blessed Assurance UM Hymnal, 369
*DISMISSAL WITH BLESSING
*BENEDICTION As We Go Johnson
*CHIMING OF THE HOLY TRINITY
*POSTLUDE Fanfare in G Dixon
The flowers on the altar today are presented to the glory of God.
No Children’s Time or Children’s Church Today.
UMW Circle 8 will meet Wednesday, January 8, at 6:00 pm in the back
room at Bella Italy. All members and guests are invited to attend.
Merry Makers! are going to the movies! Well…we are going to the Bynum Building for a movie. Join us on Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 11:00 am for Lunch and a Movie. Come enjoy time with your friends and a movie. Cost for our lunch time matinee is $7 and the movie should end at 2:00 pm. Make your reservations by Monday, January 6 for the best seats in the house! The Gateway District Lay Leadership Workshop Training will be Sunday, January 12, 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm at Prospect UMC, Maxton, NC. Training sessions will be offered for all laity and pastors.
The Roger Staley Prison Disciple Class is planning its work at Morrison
Correctional Institute to begin in the Fall of 2020. Contact Steve Webb at
in supporting this ministry. The 2020 Flower Calendar is placed in the Narthex closest to the Chapel.
Space is still available to honor and/or memorialize your loved ones by
placing flowers on the altar during Worship Service. Please sign up for the
Sunday(s) you would like to place flowers on the altar or organ during 2020.
Cost of altar flowers is $38 and organ flowers are $28.
Youth Chrysalis trip is January 18-20, 2020. This is a 3-day spiritual renewal time for 11th and 12th graders. The point is to inspire challenge and equip youth for a closer friendship with Christ and for Christian action at home, church, school, and community. Please be in prayer for our youth and leaders who will be attending Chrysalis 2020. Merry Makers! are going back to the wonderful Midtown Café in Winston-Salem – home of those awesome desserts! Then we’re off to the Hanes Mall to get in on some winter sales. The trip will be Friday, January 24. Leaving at 8:30 am, take a rest stop, have lunch, shop, another rest stop, then plan to return by 6:00 pm. Cost for the trip is $5. All purchases are up to you. Reservations are due by Monday, January 20. The youth Annual Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser will be held in February. All proceeds will go towards the youth trips and missions. If you would like to be a part of the entertainment, please call Mary Griffith.
