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

 

 

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!                                                                                                                         

Sunday, March 3, 2024

 Blessings

March has arrived.  Spring is on the way!

 

Lord, continue to watch over us and guide our every step.  Amen

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 Lenten Awakening

 “Jesus Healing Us”

  Hymn “Praise The Lord, The Almighty”

  Hymn  “Beneath The Cross Of Jesus"

  Praise and Prayer 

  Responsive Scripture: The Suffering and Glory of the Servant

 Leader: Isaiah describes a very different kind of suffering. It’s the suffering of someone called a “servant,” a person who is “exalted and lifted very high” and yet now “appears disfigured, inhuman.” He will “astonish many nations” and silence kings.

 All: See, my servant will act wisely: he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. Just as there were many who were appalled at him - his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness - so he will sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him. (Isaiah 52:13-15)

 Leader: Israel will see in this servant “what they haven’t seen before.” It will cause them to “ponder.” This suffering servant will grow up in their midst, an expression of “the Lord’s arm.” And yet, because he has no hint of “splendor” or attractiveness, He will be “avoided by others,” and people will hide their faces from him, despise him, and try to get him off their minds.

 All: Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty of majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. (Isaiah 53:1-3

 Leader: This suffering servant will carry their sickness and bear their sufferings, even though they “thought him afflicted, struck down by God and tormented.” This suggests that the person Isaiah is describing will take upon himself their pain and sufferings, their unwellness. He does this because of their “rebellions and … crimes.” He’s a kind of scapegoat, carrying their sins well into the wilderness of their forgetfulness. 

 All: Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, Yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted, (Isaiah 53:4)

 Leader: The prophet doesn’t stop there. He now plunges forward with the preposterous claim that the servant will bear their punishment and by doing so, make them whole. His wounding will bring their healing. Not only does the servant suffer for them, his suffering actually heals them.

 All: But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:5-6)

 Leader: Centuries later, the early Christians came to see that this prophecy described their savior, Jesus

 All: This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took up our infirmities and bore our diseases.” (Matthew 8:17)

  Special Music: “Jesus Heal Me” by Carman 

  Sermon: “Jesus Healing Us” 

  Hymn “He Hideth My Soul”

  Benediction

 

 Prayer

 Mary Sherwood, Jim and Donna Glenn, Presidential election, Unspoken prayers, Mike Shipley, Don Baker’s African Mission, Roger and Pat Polsley, Families and children, Nancy Newlon, Crystal and Andrew, Pastor Donna, Larry and Betty Moyer, Gary and Alice Shoning, Tom Shull, Bev Powles, Joan Tiemeyer, Phyllis Layman, Ellie Warren

 

 

 Nancy’s address: 702 Fort Crook Rd. S

 #241 Bellevue, NE 68005

 March 3rd Annual Meeting after the service in the Fellowship room.   Chicken and noodles served. Bring a side dish to share. 

 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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Tables ready for spring!

 

This table centerpiece was done by Mary Zach

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 This centerpiece done by Marcia Little

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This centerpiece done by Pastor Donna

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This centerpiece done by Mindy Raymond

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This centerpiece was done by Barb Handy

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And this centerpiece was done by Penny Warren

Good job ladies! Thank you!

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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

 

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Have a great week!