“MOSES: PRINCE OF EGYPT” is the great theme for Eusebia’s wonderful Vacation Bible School this year: three Fridays July 11, 18, & 25, 5:30 to 8 p.m.! Directed by Nancy Chance and Keela Paulsen, VBS is open to children and youth of all ages. Children’s Bible stories, crafts, games, songs--all will carry the theme, with DVD excerpts of the famed DreamWorks movie musical “Prince of Egypt.” Each evening begins with supper for adults and children. At 6:30 each evening will be a discussion class for adults on Presbyterian beliefs, government, heritage (see above announcement). To register children, youth, grandchildren, and/or wards for VBS, please telephone the church (number below) and, speaking slowly, leave your name and phone number on the answering machine, or contact Nancy or Keela in person, or phone (865-982-8959) or (847-830-3518). Tell/bring your friends, neighbors, relatives! NEXT SUNDAY, JULY 6, WE GATHER AT THE LORD’S TABLE, for Holy Communion. Our regular first-Sunday, 9 a.m. breakfasts won’t resume until October.

YOU MAY STILL JOIN OUR DISCUSSIONS of Presbyterian beliefs, church government, and heritage each Sunday, 9:30 a.m., and, on the last three Fridays of July (the 11th, 18th, and 25th), at 6:30 p.m. during Vacation Bible School. We are especially concentrating on the 450+-year-old

Heidelberg Catechism, the most personal and Christ-centered of our creeds. See Dr. Mounger.

Eusebia Presbyterian Church –Founded 1786

Our Mission: TO GROW IN AND SHARE GOD’S LOVE 1701 Burnett Station Rd., Seymour, TN 37865-3241 - (865) 249-7731

On the web www.eusebiachurch.com Webmaster Eric Turner eric@knox-mma.com

Weekly Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Weekly Sunday Worship 10:45 a.m. Holy Communion first Sunday of each month and on special days.

Interim Pastor...........................................................................................................................Dr. Dwyn Mounger Clerk of Session................................................................................................................................Tim Crawford Treasurer.................................................................................................................…………………...Jill Hedrick Director of Music…………………………………………………………………………………….Katrin Riggs Pianist ……………………………………………………………………………………………….Gaye Henley Elder of the Month…………………………………………………………………………………….Eric Turner

Future Elders of the Month: July Katrin Riggs, August Sherry Hedrick, September John Redwine, October Connie Olschewske

WELCOME, ANNOUNCEMENTS Elder of the Month Eric Turner RINGING THE CHURCH BELL LIGHTING THE CANDLES

CHORAL INTROIT

*PROCESSIONAL HYMN Presby, Hymnal #564 O Beautiful for Spacious Skies, sts.1-3 (Please remain standing.)

*OPENING SENTENCES (Pss. 33:12; 2:10-11) led by Mr. Turner One: Let us worship God. Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, All: the  people  whom  he  has  chosen  as  his  heritage.  One: Now  therefore,  O  kings,  be  wise;  be  warned,  O  rulers  of  the  earth.  All: Serve  the  Lord  with  fear,  with  trembling  kiss  his  feet,  or  he  will  be  angry,  and  you    

will  perish  in  the  way.  One: Praise the Lord. All: The Lord’s name be praised.

*PRAYER OF CONFESSION (unison) led by Mr. Turner O God: you led people to this land, and, out of conflict, created in us a love of peace and liberty. We have at times failed you by neglecting rights and restricting free- doms. Forgive pride that overlooks national wrong, or justifies injustice. Forgive divisions caused by prejudice and greed. Have mercy, O God, on the heart of this BODY – MIND - SPIRIT

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. All sing (Kyrie, Presby. Hymnal #572):

(silence for personal confession)

*ASSURANCE OF GRACE, PASSING OF THE PEACE The peace of Christ be with you.

*RESPONSE O Beautiful for Spacious Skies, stanza 4 only, all sing: O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam, Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

FIRST LESSON Deuteronomy 28:1-9 read by Mr. Turner

TIME WITH YOUNG WORSHIPERS Keela Paulsen

SINGING CH. HYMNAL #39 (Psalm 90:1-5) O God, Our Help in Ages Past ST. ANNE

(Please remain seated as we sing God’s written Word, in paraphrase.)

ANTHEM My America arr. Laura Farnell Eusebia Singers

SECOND LESSON Luke 13:31-35 read by Dr. Mounger

SERMON Jesus the Patriot Dr. Mounger

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (unison); Apostles’ Creed (traditional) p. 14, front of Presby. Hymnal

*GLORIA PATRI, Singing Church Hymnal #559 Greatorex

LITANY FOR THE NATION (Please see last page of this bulletin.)

CALL TO DISCIPLESHIP, PRESENTATION OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS OFFERTORY

*DOXOLOGY (Presbyterian Hymnal #592) OLD HUNDREDTH

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION Dr. Mounger

*PRESBY. HYMNAL #561 My Country, ‘Tis of Thee, sts. 1-3 only AMERICA

*BENEDICTION The Rev. Dr. John Wakefield, Chaplain, Tennessee Sons of the American Revolution

*RESPONSE (all sing) My Country, ‘Tis of Thee, st.anza 4: Our parents’ God, to Thee, Author of liberty, To Thee we sing: Long may our land be bright With freedom’s holy light; Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King.

POSTLUDE (We  cordially  invite  all  to  sit  for  this  last  part  of  worship,  in  further  praise  to  God.)  

*All who are able, please stand.

ON THE COVER OF TODAY’S BULLETIN IS A PHOTO OF THE GRAVE of one of the most distinguished of the 15 known Revolutionary War veterans in Eusebia Cemetery, Joseph Black, Sr. Born on a farm in Virginia, Black later moved to the “Wolf Hills” becoming a judge and a charter member of Sinking Springs Presbyterian Church. In 1774 he built Black’s Fort (today’s Abingdon, VA), the oldest English-speaking settlement west of the Blue Ridge. A lieutenant in the Virginia Militia, he joined volunteer soldiers from what later became Tennessee, including Col. John Sevier and the father and uncles of Davy Crockett, at Watauga Sycamore Shoals (now Elizabethton) in September 1780. These “Overmountain Men” marched in an October snowstorm to meet and defeat the British and Tories at King’s Mountain.. In 1784 Black moved with other Scotch-Irish settlers and, later, founders of Eusebia Church, to what is today west Blount County, TN. Commissioned a captain in the Knox County Militia by Territorial Governor William Blount in 1793, Black, with Andrew Jackson and 53 other men, was a delegate to the state Constitutional Convention, in Knoxville, three years later. He was a member of the commission that chose Maryville as Blount County seat. WE ARE GRATEFUL TO ALL who help make this festive service before Independence Day so special, and especially to the Eusebia Singers, directed by Katrin Riggs, to flag-bearers ? and ?, and to ? who precedes them with the colorful banner from 1976, Eusebia’s 190th anniversary year, and the U.S.A.’s 200th.

DID YOU KNOW THAT 12 PRESBYTERIANS signed the Declaration of Independence, including the assembly’s only clergyman, Scottish native Dr. John Witherspoon (left), president, the College of N.J. (Princeton); mentor there to James Madison (“father of the U.S. Constitution”); and, later, first moderator of the PCUSA General Assembly? The Scotch-Irish took the lead in the Revolution. Presbyterians of Mecklenburg County (Charlotte area), N.C., issued the county’s own “declaration of independence” from the crown more than a year before July 4, 1776. Such zeal for freedom partly came from their previous prolonged persecution for

their faith in Scotland and Ireland, including the attempt to force English-style, lordly bishops on those who cherished equality of ministers and elders in the rule of the Church. This ideal indirectly led to the division of powers under the U.S. Constitution: executive, judicial, and legislative. Can you locate the graves of the Revolutionary War veterans who rest in Eusebia’s historic cemetery?

LITANY FOR THE NATION (From the Worshipbook, 1970; adapted)

Mighty God: the earth is yours; nations are your people. Take away our pride; remind us of your goodness, so that, living together here, we may thankfully enjoy your gifts; Amen. For clouded mountains, fields and woodland; for shoreline and running streams; for all that makes our nation good and lovely; Thank you, God. For the harvests and animals from farms and ranches to feed our people; Thank you, God.

For factories and shops that shape those things we need for living; Thank you, God. For explorers, planners, researchers, governmental leaders; for prophets who speak out, for silent faithful people; for men and women in armed services who guard freedom;

Thank you, God. For vision to see your purpose hidden in our nation’s history, and courage to seek it in sisterly and brotherly love exchanged; Thank you, God. O God, your justice is like rock, and your mercy like pure, flowing water. Judge and forgive us. If we have turned from you, restore us to your way; for without you we are lost. From brassy patriotism and a blind trust in power; Deliver us, O God. From public deceptions that weaken trust; from self-seeking in political places; Deliver us, O God. From divisions among us of class or race; from wealth that will not share, and poverty that feeds on the food of bitterness; Deliver us, O God.

From neglecting rights; from overlooking the hurt, the imprisoned, and the needy among us; Deliver us, O God. From a lack of concern for other lands and peoples; from narrowness of national purpose; from failure to welcome the peace you promise on earth; Deliver us, O God. Eternal God: before you nations rise and fall; they grow strong or wither by your design. Help us to repent our country’s wrong, and to choose your right in reunion and renewal.

Amen. Give us a glimpse of the Holy City you are bringing to earth, where death and pain and crying will be gone away; and nations gather in the light of your presence.

O God, renew our nation. Teach us peace, so that we may plow up battlefields and pound weapons into building tools, learning to converse across old boundaries as brothers and sisters in your love.

O God, renew our nation. Talk sense to us, so that we may wisely end all prejudice, and may put a stop to cruelty, that divides and wounds the human family. O God, renew our nation. Draw us together as one people who do your will, so that our land may be a light to nations, leading the way to your promised kingdom, which is coming among us.

O God, renew our nation. (Pastor completes the prayers, that end with unison Lord’s Prayer, p. 16, Presby. Hymnal.)

LITANY FOR THE NATION (From Presbyterian Worshipbook, 1970; adapted)

Mighty God: the earth is yours; nations are your people. Take away our pride; remind us of your goodness, so that, living together here, we may thankfully enjoy your gifts; Amen. For clouded mountains, fields and woodland; for shoreline and running streams; for all that makes our nation good and lovely; Thank you, God. For the harvests and animals from farms and ranches to feed our people; Thank you, God.

For factories and shops that shape those things we need for living; Thank you, God. For explorers, planners, researchers, governmental leaders; for prophets who speak out, for silent faithful people; for men and women in armed services who guard freedom;

Thank you, God. For vision to see your purpose hidden in our nation’s history, and courage to seek it in sisterly and brotherly love exchanged; Thank you, God. O God, your justice is like rock, and your mercy like pure, flowing water. Judge and forgive us. If we have turned from you, restore us to your way; for without you we are lost. From brassy patriotism and a blind trust in power; Deliver us, O God. From public deceptions that weaken trust; from self-seeking in political places; Deliver us, O God. From divisions among us of class or race; from wealth that will not share, and poverty that feeds on the food of bitterness; Deliver us, O God.

From neglecting rights; from overlooking the hurt, the imprisoned, and the needy among us; Deliver us, O God. From a lack of concern for other lands and peoples; from narrowness of national purpose; from failure to welcome the peace you promise on earth; Deliver us, O God. Eternal God: before you nations rise and fall; they grow strong or wither by your design. Help us to repent our country’s wrong, and to choose your right in reunion and renewal.

Amen. Give us a glimpse of the Holy City you are bringing to earth, where death and pain and crying will be gone away; and nations gather in the light of your presence.

O God, renew our nation. Teach us peace, so that we may plow up battlefields and pound weapons into building tools, learning to converse across old boundaries as brothers and sisters in your love.

O God, renew our nation. Talk sense to us, so that we may wisely end all prejudice, and may put a stop to cruelty, that divides and wounds the human family. O God, renew our nation. Draw us together as one people who do your will, so that our land may be a light to nations, leading the way to your promised kingdom, which is coming among us.

O God, renew our nation. (Pastor completes the prayers, that end with unison Lord’s Prayer, p. 16, Presby. Hymnal.)