Bethany United Methodist Church The Church with Open Hearts, Minds, and Doors 1860 Hayes Road • PO Box 527 • Gloucester Point VA 23062 Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8:00 a.m.‒4:00 p.m. Phone: 804.642.2110 Fax: 804.642.2114 Email: [email protected]Website: www.bethanyumc-gp.org INTRADA The Star-Spangled Banner Our National Anthem The Washington Post John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) Celebrating Presidents’ Day WELCOME Pastor Robin *CALL TO WORSHIP Leader: The Lord is my shepherd. What more can I ask? People: The Lord leads me. He guides me. He inspires me. I am blessed abundantly. ALL: Rejoice in the Lord. Glory to God in the Highest! Amen. *OPENING HYMN (hum) Hail to the Lord's Anointed (vs. 1, 2, 3) UMH 203 *UNISON PRAYER Loving and Ever-Present God: Your Word is constant and sustaining through all of our victories and defeats, through days of warm, golden sunshine and of cold, gray mist. Your guidance is cosmic and universal, while being personal and intimate. Please, Holy One, help us along the paths of our lives so that we may walk in your footsteps, and not stumble in sin and discontentment. Oh Lord, we need you this day and every day to love us completely -- warts and all. You know us in our getting up and our lying down; you know our wants and needs even before we do ourselves. Creator of all life, thank you for your immensity and for your proximity. Thank you with our whole hearts that you create and embody LOVE today and always. Amen. SHARING OF JOYS AND CONCERNS PRAYERS AND THE LORD’S PRAYER VOLUNTARY Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Celebrating Transfiguration Sunday CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Where is Love? Pastor Robin ANNOUNCEMENTS Pastor Robin STEWARDSHIP MOMENT STEWARDSHIP 2/7 General Fund Total 5807.79 Pastor’s Discretionary Fund 450.00 Capital Improvement Fund 310.00 ATTENDANCE 10:00 In-person Service 38 YouTube Viewers 24 Total in Worship 62 BUMC STAFF DIRECTORY Mike Derflinger, Pastor call/text 540.631.4469, email: [email protected]M-TH 8-4, and by appt. Adel Trevino, Church Office Administrator office 804.642-2110 email: [email protected]M-TH 8-4 closed for lunch, 30 min. Sandra Fox, Director of Music call/text 757.329.6128, email: [email protected]Works from home, by appt. Dr. Rudy Shackelford, Organist home 804.642.5938 By appt. Robin Moscati, Director of Children & Youth Ministries call/text 571.218.8236, email: [email protected]M-W 9-4, Sun. available after Worship VOLUNTEERS SERVING TODAY Media: Jeremy Nardozzi, Beth Cook, Susannah Hogge Altar Guild this month: Peggy Lewis, Laura Glaze, Laura Vaughan Trustee Contact this week: M.E. Thomas Lay Leader: Judy Burner Counting Team: Doris Luther, Debbie Robins, Susan Rollins WELCOME, GUESTS! We’ve been expecting you! CELL PHONES: Please remember to silence your cell phone before the service begins. Thank you. *Please stand as you are able. And it’s okay to sit. UPCOMING COUNTING TEAMS Team 3: Al Burner, Judy Burner, Donna Andersen Team 6: Charlotte Cecil, Betty Durrette, Clair Hillard Team 1: Mary Kaylor, Ann Byrd, Pat Hasty TRANSFIGURATION SUNDAY 55 TH SUNDAY OF COVID 26 TH SUNDAY OF RETURNING TO IN-PERSON WORSHIP February 14, 2021 10:00am 2/21 3/7 2/28
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Bethany United Methodist Church The Church with Open Hearts, Minds, and Doors 1860 Hayes Road • PO Box 527 • Gloucester Point VA 23062 Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8:00 a.m.‒4:00 p.m. Phone: 804.642.2110 Fax: 804.642.2114 Email: [email protected] Website: www.bethanyumc-gp.org
INTRADA The Star-Spangled Banner Our National Anthem
The Washington Post John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
Celebrating Presidents’ Day
WELCOME Pastor Robin Pastor Robin
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: The Lord is my shepherd. What more can I ask? People: The Lord leads me. He guides me. He inspires me. I am blessed abundantly. ALL: Rejoice in the Lord. Glory to God in the Highest! Amen. *OPENING HYMN (hum) Hail to the Lord's Anointed (vs. 1, 2, 3) UMH 203 UMH 452
*UNISON PRAYER Loving and Ever-Present God: Your Word is constant and sustaining through all of our victories and defeats, through days of warm, golden sunshine and of cold, gray mist. Your guidance is cosmic and universal, while being personal and intimate. Please, Holy One, help us along the paths of our lives so that we may walk in your footsteps, and not stumble in sin and discontentment. Oh Lord, we need you this day and every day to love us completely -- warts and all. You know us in our getting up and our lying down; you know our wants and needs even before we do ourselves. Creator of all life, thank you for your immensity and for your proximity. Thank you with our whole hearts that you create and embody LOVE today and always. Amen.
SHARING OF JOYS AND CONCERNS
PRAYERS AND THE LORD’S PRAYER
VOLUNTARY Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Celebrating Transfiguration Sunday
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Where is Love? Pastor Robin
ANNOUNCEMENTS Pastor Robin
STEWARDSHIP MOMENT
STEWARDSHIP 2/7
General Fund Total 5807.79
Pastor’s Discretionary Fund 450.00
Capital Improvement Fund 310.00
ATTENDANCE
10:00 In-person Service 38
YouTube Viewers 24
Total in Worship 62
BUMC STAFF DIRECTORY
Mike Derflinger, Pastor call/text 540.631.4469, email: [email protected] M-TH 8-4, and by appt.
Media: Jeremy Nardozzi, Beth Cook, Susannah Hogge Altar Guild this month: Peggy Lewis, Laura Glaze, Laura Vaughan Trustee Contact this week: M.E. Thomas Lay Leader: Judy Burner Counting Team: Doris Luther, Debbie Robins, Susan Rollins
WELCOME, GUESTS! We’ve been expecting you! CELL PHONES: Please remember to silence your cell phone before the service begins. Thank you.
*Please stand as you are able. And it’s okay to sit.
UPCOMING COUNTING TEAMS
Team 3: Al Burner, Judy Burner, Donna Andersen
Team 6: Charlotte Cecil, Betty Durrette, Clair Hillard
OFFERTORY PRAYER (taken from 1 Corinthians 16:2) “On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up,” so that a tithe and offering can be made to support the ministry of our Lord and Savior. May our gifts be of use to our brothers and sisters in need. May our offerings be an honor to you, oh Lord. Amen.
ANTHEM (prerecorded) Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus Music by Helen H. Lemmel Janet Chapin, soloist
*SCRIPTURE Mark 9:2-9 (Transfiguration Sunday) Pastor Robin
THE MESSAGE Who Am I, and Why Am I Here? Pastor Robin
*CLOSING HYMN (hum) I Stand Amazed in the Presence (vs. 1, 3) UMH 371
*BENEDICTION Pastor Robin
EXODUS Love Divine, All Loves Excelling UMH 384
Celebrating St. Valentine’s Day
Our Usher will escort you out pew by pew.
Just a Reminder…
• Sun. 2/21—First Sunday in Lent • The Church office will be closed on Mon., 2/15 in observance of Presidents’ Day and will reopen on Tues, 2/16 at 8am. • Focused Prayer will resume the last week in Feb. on 2/22. • The deadline to submit information to be included in the March Banner is Mon., 2/15.
A special thanks to our Guest Preacher, Robin Moscati…
The Rev. Robin Johnson Moscati is a member of Olive Branch Christian Church (Disciples of
Christ) in Williamsburg. She was Assistant Minister at Aspen Hill Christian Church (MD), and was
a licensed minister working with the Youth at Bethany Christian Church (Fort Washington,
MD). Upon completion of her Master of Divinity degree at Wesley Theological Seminary, she
was ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Capital Area Region. After serving
Washington Farm United Methodist Church (near Mount Vernon, VA) as the Director of Youth
Ministry, she volunteered with Higher Achievement in the public school system as an academic
mentor. Rev. Moscati preached in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia as her dual
career while working in local government in Human Resources and Historic Alexandria
Museums.
Bethany UMC Prayer List BETHANY FAMILY 02.14.21
CANCER/CHEMO: Krista Chase, Carol Johnson, Ted Peterman (NC), Linwood Rowe, Matt Shackelford GRIEVING: Families of David Lewis, Lana Loring, and Marsha Poland HEALTH ISSUES: Cliff Beach, Irene Brown, Woody Brown, Bessie Conner, Jimmy Greene, Ann Hogge, Bonnie Lewis, Marshall Lewis, Paige Mitchell, Sue Morecock, Peggy Peterman (NC), Nancy Smith, Rosemarie Tong, Rick Wilson HOMEBOUND: Linda Booth, Sid Dixon, Katherine Jordan, Alice McGee, Jack Wallace PARKINSON’S: Mike Andersen , Doris Courtney, Kathleen Greene, Fred Townsend RECOVERING FROM SURGERY: Duane Cecil (PA), Dylan Chapin, Dawn Cluts, Judy Hudgins, Nancy Kendall, Kris Kiley, Joy Long, Bob Wharen, PRAYERS: Jeannie Meisner, Jennie Lipscomb EXPECTING: Rob & Sam Hornsby HOSPITALIZED: Charlotte Cecil (in PA); Isabella Wheat, ICU at VCU ANTICIPATING SURGERY: Jeannie Harrell, kidney surgery on 2/16 @ Big Riverside COVID-19: Lorraine Brown, Archie Leigh, Charlotte Cecil
BETHANY FRIENDS
CANCER/CHEMO: Susan Burnett, Roger Ferguson, Traci Greene, Karen Hendrix, Martin Kulik (NY), Jeanette Nichols, Angie Williams (NY) GRIEVING: Families of Stephanie Curtin, Steele Kirwan, Jerlene Grant, and Dorothy Drachenburg. The sister of Josh Morris (Kelli) passed. HEALTH/OTHER ISSUES: Soren Andrews, Hernan Mares, Les Breen, Cathy Brown, Shawn Chase, Peggy Kearney, Tim Sullivan, Lindsey Watson, Charlie West, Ruth Whitmore RECOVERING FROM SURGERY: Kay Foster, Rev. Tom Lee, Diane Owens, Dottie Myers (PA), Dawn Phillips, Michael Trevino, Larry Wilkinson RECUPERATING AT HOME: Bonnie Burton (MA), Bernice Greene SURGERY: Sabrina Wilke, malignant mass in colon; Kris Townsend (AZ), mastectomy 2/22; Mary Moscati, heart bypass 2/15 COVID-19: Josh Fulgham, Shawn Thomason (TN) HOSPICE: Ben Seawell PRAYERS: Clare Hall’s nephew and family
BUMC’S ACTIVE MILITARY AND THEIR FAMILIES (italics—Bethany friends)
Edward Bailey, Michael Brown, Peter Demetriades, Meagan Demetriades, Kevin Jacobs, Cory Long (Okinawa), Jim Minor (deployed until May 2021), all members of the military.
THANK YOU for your prayers and concern for our daughter and her family when they tested positive for COVID. They are all out of quarantine now. Praise God! Also thank you for your prayers, calls, and cards when Nancy had surgery to remove her infected little toe. The foot is healed now, the bandages are off, and she's back to walking around the neighborhood. --Paul and Nancy Kendall
Note on Transfiguration in Music
Today is Transfiguration Sunday, the church festival commemorating the
supernatural and glorified change in the appearance of Christ on the mountain,
as described in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 17, verses 1-9. The feast of
Transfiguration always occurs on the last Sunday before Lent.
But did you know that the phenomenon of transfiguration also plays an
important rôle in music? From the early medieval period up to the 21st century,
composers have structured their works as series of variations on a motif or
phrase stated at the beginning. Each variation is a transfiguration of that initial
musical idea, related to it yet evolving from it in new and often surprising ways.
One of the greatest examples of transfiguration in music is the Passacaglia in
C Minor for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, which will be our Voluntary this
morning. This monumental work opens with a statement of its 8-measure theme
in the bass, played on the pedals, as it will continue to be repeated throughout
most of the 20 variations that follow. Bach borrowed this melody from a 1688
setting of the Catholic Mass by French composer André Raison, specifically from
verse 2 of the Kyrie eleison:
“All powerful Father, Lord, Creator of all:
have mercy upon us.
Christ, Lord, splendor and wisdom of the Father:
have mercy upon us.
Sacred spirit of both, united in love:
have mercy upon us. Bach drew the strongest possible inspiration from the apparently barren soil
of self-imposed restrictions and limitations. What in the hands of a smaller mind
might have developed into a sterile mathematical tour de force was transformed
by him into an immortal creation. The technical mastery is as nothing compared
to the power and magnificence of Bach’s inspiration, embracing both joy and
suffering in what the philosopher Spinoza called “the intellectual love and God.”!
--Rudy Shackelford
Black History Month Highlight
Richard Allen (02.14.1760-03.26.1831)
Richard Allen was born into slavery in Delaware and attended local Methodist worship
services called “Societies” with his brother and sister which welcomed enslaved and free Black
people. In 1780 he bought his freedom and changed his name from “Negro Richard” to “Richard
Allen.”
In 1784 Allen was qualified as a preacher in Baltimore MD at the 1784 Christmas Conference
when Methodism established itself as a denomination distinct from the Church of England. In
1786 he became a preacher at St. George’s Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia PA, but
Allen was restricted to preaching at the early-morning services. As the number of Black
congregants grew and to reduce racial tensions in the post-war years, church leadership ordered
them to be in a separate area for worship. After several requests to the leadership to establish a
Black church and their refusals, Allen’s response was to lead the Black members out of St.
George’s. Allen and others would form the Free African Society (FAS) which was not a church
but would become an interdenominational mutual aid society that assisted fugitive, enslaved,
and new migrants to the city.
In 1794 while worshipping at St. George’s, Allen and two others were stopped in the midst of
their prayers, asked to leave, and were escorted from the church. This event caused them to
break ties and seek another place of worship. That same year, he and the other leaders
converted a blacksmith shop and started Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) using
the Methodist Book of Discipline for governance and organization with very few changes.
Francis Asbury ordained Allen in 1799 and the church grew to over one-thousand members in
twenty years. The Mother Bethel Church grew out of Allen’s participation in the Free African
Society.
Allen started the AME Church denomination which is the oldest and largest formal institution
in Black History in America. He was also elected the first AME Bishop at its 1816 General
Conference. He and his wife Sarah would also operate a station on the Underground Railroad
until his death. He is buried at Bethel Church.
Today, St. George’s UMC remains the oldest and continually-used United Methodist Church in
America and a reconciling and LQBTQUI+ affirming United Methodist Church, and the Mother
Bethel AME Church continues its claim as the oldest continuously Black-owned plot of land in
America. The AME denomination has 2.5 million members and 7,000 churches.
