Saturday, March 16, 2024

Sunday, March 17, 2024

 Blessings


May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.  Romans ~ 15:13


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Good Morning!

 

 Lenten Awakening 

“Jesus Uniting Us”

 Call to Worship and Prayer 

 Hymn  “Onward Christian Soldiers” 

 Tithes and Offerings 

 Doxology

 Hymn “How Firm A Foundation” 

 Praise and Prayer

 Responsive Reading: Jesus Prays for All Believers

 Leader: We can thank Paul for teaching us that the church is like a human body made up of its different parts. We are those parts, working together to enable the church to fulfill its purpose. God has made Christ the head of this body, and when the body follows the head, it expresses “the fullness of Christ” himself (Ephesians 1:22-23)

 Women: The gifts are given to members of the body to equip the church for service and to build up the members of the body (Ephesians 4:11-13).

 Men: And we grow, joined and held together by Christ, the head, as we build ourselves up in love and make our important contributions (Ephesians 4:16).

 Leader: Sounds wonderful, but as Paul learned quickly, it doesn’t always work to perfection, because of both our own imperfections and sinfulness. Paul himself acknowledges this again and again in his letters.

 All: I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the minds of naive people. (Romans 16:17-18).

 Leader: Jesus prayed for all believers: “Father, may they all be one as You are in Me and I am in You: may they be in Us, for by this unity the world will believe that You sent Me. All the glory You have given to Me, I pass on to them. May that glory unify them and make them one as We are one, I in them and You in Me, that they may be refined so that all will know that You sent Me, and You love them in the same way You love Me. (John 17:21-23).

 Special Music: “Somebody Prayed For Me” by Dorothy Norwood 

 Sermon: “Jesus Uniting Us”

 Hymn  “Crown Him With Many Crowns” 

Benediction

 

 

Prayer

 Mary Sherwood, Jim and Donna Glenn, Unspoken prayers, Don Baker’s African Mission , Roger and Pat Polsley, Riverton family, house fire, Larry and Betty Moyer, Beth Lueth, Bev Powles, Phyllis Layman, Crystal and Andrew

 

 

 

 Happy Birthday Mary Z., 18th, and Phyllis Layman, 22nd 

 Board meeting after the service.

 Monetary donations are being accepted for the new stove.

 March 23 Percival Hometown Pride: Firehouse pancakes and Easter egg hunt at the park. 

 March 24 Palm Sunday: pancake breakfast, bring a side dish to share. 

 May 1st: Pastor Donna invites the ladies to a Tea Party in Malvern.

 

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Another spring table by Phyllis Layman

 


 Thanks Phyllis!


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Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. ~ unknown

 

 

 Today's Sunday Church Share..

 

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Percy's Tidbit
 

 

Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.

 

 

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Have a good week

 

 

Saturday, March 9, 2024

Sunday, March 10, 2024

 Blessings

 


Good Morning!

 

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 Lenten Awakening
 “Jesus Re-Creating Us”

 Call to Worship, Prayer 

 Hymn  “Love Devine, All Love Excelling

 Tithes and Offerings, Doxology

 Hymn “Holy, Holy, Holy

 Praise and Prayer

 Responsive Scripture: Jesus Re-Creating Us

 Leader: He is the exact image of the invisible God, the firstborn of creation, the eternal. It was by Him that everything was created: the heavens, the earth, all things within and upon them, all things seen and unseen, thrones and dominions, spiritual powers and authorities. Every detail was crafted through His design, by His own hands, and for His purposes. 

All: He has always been! It is His hand that holds everything together. He is the head of this body, the church. He is the beginning, the first of those to be reborn from the dead, so that in every aspect, at every view, in everything - He is first, God was pleased that all His fullness should forever dwell in the Son who, as predetermined by God, bled peace into the world by His death on the cross as God’s means of reconciling to Himself the whole creation - all things in heaven and all things on earth. (Colossians 1:15-20)

 Leader: Christ came in the flesh and blood of Jesus to show us how to be fully human (holy) again. He suffered for us and died for us so that we could die to our false selves and find in him our true selves that we call souls. He was resurrected so that his Spirit could abide with us and even in us, guide us, and enable us. 

All: The spirit of truth will come and guide you in all truth. He will not speak His own words to you; He will speak what He hears, revealing to you the things to come and bringing glory to Me. The Spirit has unlimited access to Me, to all that I possess and know, just as everything the Father has is Mine. That is the reason I am confident He will care for My own and reveal the path to you. (John16:13-15)

 Leader: But now make sure you shed such things: anger rage, spite, slander, and abusive language. And don’t go on lying to each other since you have sloughed away your old skin along with its evil practices for a fresh new you, which is continually renewed in knowledge according to the image of the One who created you.

 All: …Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian and conqueror, or slave and free because the Anointed is the whole and dwells in us all.

 Special Music: “This Is Our God” by Phil Wickham 

 Sermon: “Jesus Re-Creating Us"

 Hymn “He Touched Me” 

 Benediction

 

Praise and Prayer

 Mary Sherwood, Jim and Donna Glenn, Penny Warren, Unspoken prayers, Mike Shipley, Don Baker’s African Mission , Roger and Pat Polsley, Pastor Donna, The family of Gary Shining, Crystal and Andrew, Barb Handy, Larry and Betty Moyer, Beth Lueth, Tom Shull, Bev Powles, Joan Tiemeyer, Phyllis Layman, The family of Barbara Benton

 

 

 Happy 64 Anniversary to Lynn and Barb Handy

 Happy 35 Anniversary to Rusty and Mindy Raymond

 March 23 Percival Hometown Pride: Firehouse pancakes and Easter egg hunt at the park. 

 March 24 Palm Sunday: pancake breakfast, bring a side dish to share. 

 May 1st: Pastor Donna invites the ladies to a Tea Party in Malvern

 

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 Another spring table, this one by Jo Ann Birkby


Thanks Jo Ann!


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Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. ~ unknown

 

 

 Today's Sunday Church Share..

 

 

Picture via Pinterest

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Percy's Tidbit


 It's a beautiful day to stop dwelling on things you can't control.

 

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 Praise and Prayer are powerful weapons

 

 

 





And speaking of prayer and praise, let's close with the following prayer from "women of prayer." 


 
THIS!.......... 'Though life has given me many reasons to sigh, You have given me more reasons to smile.'      and   'Thank You for Your blessings and gifts the world can't give or take away.'                          
 
 
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Have a great week!