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Prayer List: Ed Tennon (chemo treatments), David (Ann DiTullio’s son), Diane Olson (eyesight),
Merritt Fish (HealthSouth), Sherry (Barb & Merritt Fish’s daughter), Bunny Copeland (Barb Fish’s
sister), Betty Lou Albright (stroke), Lella Seibel (Golden Living)
In the Military: Michael Reim, Dustin Witsch, and Thomas Pilson
UM Mission: McCurdy Ministr ies, Espanola, NM; dormitory for vulnerable women in
vocational training, Monrovia, Liberia
Submit a prayer request by filling out a prayer request card, or by calling the office at
814•452•3300, or after hours by calling Barbara Gaither at 814•454•0762.
Today’s Greeters:
Brauns Doors: Katharine Hoffman Elevator: Ed & Mary Lu South Entrance: Leona Easly
Radio Broadcast: Listen to our 10:30 a.m. worship service at 7:00 p.m. (EST) Sunday
evenings on WERG 90.5 FM and on the web (link from www.fumcerie.org).
CCLI License# 11242638
Our Church Staff Home/Office Cell Email
Pastor Jim Parkinson 814•920•4113 814•449•4431 [email protected]
Director of Youth
Ministries
Susan Bartlett 814•969•1468 814•384•4836 [email protected]
Director of Music
& Organist
Bruce R. Gingrich 814•314•0714 814•460•9229 [email protected]
Office & Financial
Administrator
Melodye McFadden 814•452•3300 814•881•2035 [email protected]
Nursery Care
Giver
Sammi Rosswog 814•816•2063
Custodian Fred Nicklas 814•459•7106
Worship Volunteers:
Today: Next Week:
Liturgist Eric Arndt Loretta Nosko
Acolyte Makenna Farley Elliot Arndt
Projectionist Elliot Arndt Charlie McNamara
Sound Tom Faber Tom Faber
Birthdays This Week
12 Merritt Fish
14 Don Smith
First United Methodist Church in Downtown Erie
A downtown church for downtown people
On the Corner of Seventh and (707) Sassafras Streets Erie, Pennsylvania 16501 Telephone: 814•452•3300
Mother’s Day
May 8, 2016
10:30 a.m. Worship
OUR PURPOSE STATEMENT: “To share our passion for Jesus Christ with Erie’s next generations.”
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ORDER OF WORSHIP
*Indicates the people may stand if able.
WELCOME & GREETING ONE ANOTHER IN CHRISTIAN LOVE Pastor Jim
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Pastor Jim
(If you have a prayer request, please fill out the prayer card, found on the back
of the pew in front of you, and give it to an usher during the prelude.)
BRINGING THE LIGHT: Makenna Farley
PRELUDE: “Our Parent, by Whose Name R. Vaughn Williams
Bruce R. Gingrich, Director of Music Ministries and Organist
WELCOME TO OUR COLLEGE STUDENTS AND THOSE LISTENING ON
90.5 FM WERG & THE WEB
*CALL TO WORSHIP: Eric Arndt
(Let us stand for the Call to Worship)
Liturgist: Welcome home.
People: God bids us to come,
Liturgist: Find rest for our weariness,
People: Find peace deeper than our worry.
Liturgist: Welcome home,
People: All you lost, wandering or stuck in despair.
Liturgist: Welcome,
All: To God’s arms, as wide as a father's care, as warm as a
mother's love. Amen.
*OPENING HYMN: “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” Red Hymnal No. 384 Verses 1, 2, and 4 (Please be seated)
College Student Spaghetti Dinner update: It was a gloomy, chilly, rainy evening when 167
hungry students entered Fellowship Hall on April 28. They left with full stomachs, smiles and
encouragement from our volunteers to successfully complete their exams and enjoy their summer
activities. YOUR support through prayers, cash donations, purchasing soda, and especially the
wonderful desserts have made this dinner program very popular as it continues to grow. We'll
resume in September and new volunteers are always welcome.
Today is the final day for donations of new underwear to be donated to the Rainbow Connection -
underwear for all ages is needed; please keep original packaging and tags on. Donation baskets
remain near the altar rail - let's fill 'em up!
Worship Leader: We are looking for a worship leader for our new Sunday morning worship
service “Light for the City” starting this summer. This person will lead singing and accompany with either a keyboard or guitar. An applicant must be personable and familiar with praise and worship music. Apply by email to [email protected] or see Pastor Jim.
In Honor of Mother’s Day….the women present today are invited to take a potted
flower at the close of the worship service. These tokens of love are a gift from
Carol and Howard Wright with Best Wishes for a wonderful Mother’s Day!
Upcoming Schedule
This Week Next Week Sun 08 9:00 am
10:30 am Sunday School Worship-”Mother’s Day”
Sun 15 9:00 am 10:30 am
11:45 am
Sunday School Worship-Pentecost Simdau Lunch/Prayer Walk
Mon 09 9:00 am 9:30 am 3:30 pm 7:30 pm
Rummage Sale set-up Clergy Book Club Kids’ Café at Kingsley Naranon
Mon 16 3:30 pm 7:30 pm
Kid’s Café at Kingsley Naranon
Tue 10 9:00 am Noon
Rummage Sale set-up OCY—Yoga
Tue 17 12:00 pm Noon
Finance OCY—Yoga
Wed 11 9:00 am 2:00 pm 6:30 pm
Rummage Sale set-up St. Joseph’s Service Book Study
Wed 18 6:30 pm Council
Thu 12 9:00 am Rummage Sale set-up Thu 19 9:00 am OCY –Fellowship Hall
Fri 13 9:00-3:00 pm
Rummage Sale Fri 20
Sat 14 9:00-Noon Rummage Sale— $2 bag day
Sat 21
First United Methodist Church in Downtown Erie 707 Sassafras Street, Erie, PA 16501 ■ 814•452•3300
A Downtown Church for Downtown People
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Restrooms are located on the lower level, below the sanctuary, or upstairs in the lobby of
Oxford Center (through the door to the left of the chancel). Accessible restrooms are on the first
floor (level L) near the elevator.
Nursery Care is available dur ing the worship service for children through kindergarten age .
Please see an usher for assistance.
Personal listening devices are available! Either you may use a headset provided by the
church or you can plug your own favorite headset (with a 1/8” audio jack) into one of the
church’s portable receivers. Please see an usher for assistance.
CONGRATULATIONS to all High School and College Graduates! Please notify the office
by May 22nd via phone (453-3300) or email ([email protected]) if your son or
daughter is graduating this month or next so we can be sure to recognize them during the service
on Sunday June 5th. Include in your message your child’s name, where they are graduating
from and any future plans (college, graduate school, work, etc…..). THANK YOU!
MAY 15th — remember to wear RED for Pentecost Sunday. We are also asking for donations of red
flowers (preferably geraniums) to plant in the gardens around the outside of the church in honor of
Pentecost Sunday. These flowers can be brought to the church next Sunday and placed on the altar railing.
RUMMAGE SALE SET-UP will start Monday, May 9th and continue through the week. We
need lots of folks to work on getting things ready and especially on our sale days Friday, May 13
and Saturday, May 14. "Come When You Can" is our volunteer motto: we'll be working from 9
AM till as long as people want to stay. Don't think your two or three hours won't make a
difference - IT WILL! There are tasks for every level of ability or strength. You'll have fun
working with other volunteers, sharing chores and smiles. THANK YOU—THANK YOU–
THANK YOU - 167 times!
THE ALTAR FLOWERS this week are given in loving memory of Mike & Larry Sturgis by their mother Flo Sturgis.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The special flower arrangement placed on the altar table
by Joe Bolash is in loving recognition of his wife Anne on their
50th Wedding Anniversary celebrated Saturday May 7th.
“We love because He first loved us.” - John 4:19
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OPENING PRAYER: Eric Arndt
Unison: Father, we come to you and welcome you into this sanctuary.
You are our Creator and Provider. You formed us in our moth-
er’s wombs. We are thankful for our mothers! We ask you to
lead and guide and shepherd us this morning. Our desire, Father
is to know and love and worship you! In Jesus Name, Amen!
MORNING PRAYER FOR THE PEOPLE Pastor Jim
FOLLOWED BY THE LORD’S PRAYER (Unison):
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.
AFFIRMING TOGETHER: “Mothers” Eric Arndt Genesis 3:20; Exodus 20:12; 2 Timothy 1:5; Psalm 131:1-2
Unison: WE BELIEVE that the man named his wife Eve, Life, because she
was the mother of all living things.
WE BELIEVE that we should honor our mothers, “so that your
days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving
you.”
WE BELIEVE that mothers give us life, and pass on to us their life
of faith, even as Paul said to Timothy, “I am reminded of your sin-
cere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your
mother Eunice, and now, I am sure, lives in you.”
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WE BELIEVE that God’s love for us is like a mother’s love, com-
forting us and giving us life, even as the psalmist says: “O LORD,
my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not
occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But
I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its
mother; my soul is like the weaned child that is with me.” Amen.
RESPONSE HYMN: “Happy the Home When God is There” Red Hymnal No. 445 Verses 1 and 2.
Hap-py the home when God is there,
and love fills ev-ery breast;
when one their wish, and one their prayer,
and one their heaven-ly rest.
Hap-py the home where Je-sus’ name
is sweet to ev-ery ear;
where chil-dren ear-ly speak his fame,
and par-ents hold him dear.
THE MINISTRY OF MUSIC: “A Parent’s Prayer” Boyd Bacon
Chancel Choir; Bruce R. Gingrich, directing
PRAYER HYMN: “Help Us Accept Each Other” Red Hymnal No. 560 All Four Verses
Please feel free to stop at the chancel rail to pray during the hymn.
If you’d like to pray alone with God, come to the pulpit (left) side.
If you’d like the pastor or lay leader to pray with you, come to the lectern (right) side.
KIDS’ TIME: Pastor Jim Children 12 and under may come to the chancel area for some time with Pastor Jim.
Parents: If your little one needs some encouragement,
please feel free to come and sit with them.
BIBLE LESSON: John 17:20-26 Pew Bible N.T. Page 105
THE MESSAGE: “One in Ministry”
Rev. Jim Parkinson, preaching
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TITHES & OFFERINGS
OFFERING CALL Pastor Jim
OFFERTORY “One Day At A Time” Wilkin/ Kristofferson Fred Erickson, soloist
Bruce R. Gingrich, Director of Music Ministries and Organist
(Please pass the Attendance Pads so all may sign and know with whom
they worship today. Please return to the center aisle. Thank you!)
*DOXOLOGY Red Hymnal No. 95
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
praise him, all creatures here be-low;
praise him a-bove, ye heaven-ly host;
praise Fa-ther, Son, and Ho-ly Ghost. A-men.
*THE OFFERING PRAYER Pastor Jim
*CLOSING HYMN: “We Are One in the Spirit” Black Hymnal No. 2223 Verses 1, 2, and 3.
*SENDING FORTH Pastor Jim
*PARTING CHORUS: “Fill Our Cups Lord” Red Hymnal No. 641 Change “singular” to “plural”
Fill our cups, Lord, we lift them up Lord.
Come and quench this thirst-ing of our souls.
Bread of heav-en, feed us till we want no more;
Fill our cups, fill them up, and make us whole.
*POSTLUDE: “The Rejoicing” Charles Callahan
Bruce R. Gingrich, Director of Music Ministries and Organist
