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“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace — only that it
meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.” -
Anne Lamott
GATHERING GATHERING
GREETING Sarah Chancellor-WatsonVOLUNTARY Steven
BlackmonANNOUNCEMENTS
Minute for Mission: PW Thank Offering Ann Van Horn (8:30); Ebie
Strauss (10:30)*CALL TO WORSHIP (responsive, from Psalm 90) Mary
Malone
Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth, before you formed the
earth and the world, even from everlasting to
everlasting, Thou art God.For a thousand years in your sight are
but as yesterday when it is past. The years sweep us away as with a
flood. Even our years are like grass that grows up while we sleep.
In the morning
they flourish and grow only to wither by evening.For all our
days pass away. Our years are like a tale that is told.Teach us,
Eternal God, to number our days that we may apply our hearts to
wisdom.
•*PRAYER OF THE DAY †•*HYMN 363 “Rejoice, the Lord Is King!”
Darwall’s 148th•CALL TO CONFESSION
Your love, O God, is a refiner’s fire. The bellows raise its
flames to a brightness that dims the sun. All that is within us
that would harm our neighbors, your world, and us, cries out in
fear before that fire, knowing your love only as a burning wrath.
But we submit ourselves to your love, longing, yearning, for you
utterly to burn from us all that is unworthy. Thus we confess, and
thus we may know your fire to be pure love.
•CONFESSION OF SIN (unison) The beauty of your holiness speaks
to our inner hearts. The small fingers of your Spirit work their
way into the cracks
in our hardened shells. We long to yield to you. And yet we do
resist. We know you wish only to fulfill in us that image in which
you made us, the image and likeness of your Son, our Lord, Jesus.
We know this, and we have no doubt that this change would bless us
and all we know. But we fear yielding to you, because we fear how
much this yielding will cost. Enter into the secret places of our
hearts, slip past the sentries we have posted, and calm our fears
and anxieties, that we may know in full that love we have
experienced in part. Amen.
SILENT REFLECTIONKYRIE Lord, have mercy upon us; Christ, have
mercy upon us; Lord, have mercy upon us. Blackmon•ASSURANCE OF
PARDON
God’s mercy always meets us where we are. Of this we can be
assured. But God’s love is never content to leave us where God
found us. This is the good news. In the name of Jesus Christ, I
assure you, our sin is forgiven. His path opens before us.
THE WORD THE WORD
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION THE OLD TESTAMENT LESSON (response:
Thanks be to God.) Ecclesiastes 11:1-7 (KJV) †MESSAGE FOR THE
CHILDREN Nevada Paxton•SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM (8:30 service only)
Warner Monroe Stillwagon•THE NEW TESTAMENT LESSON (response: Thanks
be to God.) II Corinthians 4:6-10•SERMON “Fragile Things” Michael
Jinkins*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH: The Apostles’ Creed*GLORIA PATRI
(Hymn 581) “Glory Be to the Father” Gloria PatriINVITATION TO
DISCIPLESHIP•THE OFFERING
Offertory Anthem “Thanks Be to Thee” Handel, arr. Shaw The
Chancel Choir
•CELEBRATION OF THE LORD’S SUPPERInvitation to the Lord’s
TableGreat Prayer of Thanksgiving and The Lord’s Prayer (Hymnal,
page 35)Words of InstitutionCommunion of the PeoplePrayer after
Communion
SENDINGSENDING•*HYMN 834 “Precious Lord, Take My Hand” Precious
lorD•*CHARGE AND BLESSING*CHORAL RESPONSE “A Scottis Blyssing”
Blackmon/Willcox*VOLUNTARY
November 24, 2019 | Christ the King8:30 and 10:30 a.m.
Services
•8:30 service | *Please stand as you are able | †Latecomers
seatedLarge print hymnals and hearing devices are available. Please
see an usher.
st. charles avenue Presbyterian church
LB - Land Building | FFH - Frampton Fellowship Hall
TODAYTODAY
8:30 AM | Worship with communion in the Chapel8:30 AM | Nursery
open until 12:00 PM8:30 AM | Ringers & Singers Rehearsal9:30 AM
| Sunday School for all ages10:30 AM | Worship in the
Sanctuary11:45 AM | Cherub Choir Rehearsal5:00 PM | Youth Group
SUNDAY SCHOOLSUNDAY SCHOOL
Classes for all ages meet at 9:30 AM. For details on classes for
youth and children, visit www.scapc.org/sunday-school.
ADULT CLASS TODAY:ADULT CLASS TODAY:Meditation for People Too
Busy to MeditateThis one-session class is designed to teach basic
skills to calm the mind and to practice a wakefulness that can
enrich our lives and relationships. | Chapel | led by Michael
Jinkins
ADULT CLASS BEGINNING NEXT WEEK:Advent Study: The Paradox of
ChristmasReflect upon and anticipate the wonderful day when “the
Eternal could do a temporal act and the Infinite become a finite
fact.” Dec. 1-22 | Phifer Library | led by Beth Poe
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SCAPC NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
THE FLOWERS IN THE SANCTUARY are given to the Glory of God in
loving memory of Kenneth Chew Kennedy, Sr., and Wendy Ann Kennedy
Monsted, by his wife and her mother, Rosemary G. Kennedy and her
family: Linda and Theodore Gugert Kennedy, Theo, Dylan and Stirling
Kennedy, and Kenneth C. Kennedy, Jr., Caitlin and Madison.8:30
USHERS: Mayson Buffington, Charlie King, Thomas Schulingkamp, and
Wesley Simon 10:30 USHERS: John Pearce, captain; Randy Evans,
Jackie Derks, Billy and Carro Gardner, Rick Grubb, Hunter Hill,
Mimi Koch and Katie KuhnsACOLYTESS: Frances Hill and Annie Hill
S T . C H A R L E S A V E N U E P R E S B Y T E R I A N C H U R
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1545 State Street, New Orleans, LA 70118 | 504-897-0101 |
www.scapc.org | www.facebook.com/SCAPCNOLAFor more information on
our beliefs, missions, ministries, programs, or staff contacts,
visit www.scapc.org.
ANNOUNCEMENTSANNOUNCEMENTS
Each year, SCAPC Presbyterian Women host a Thanksgiving Dinner
for the residents of Eden House with dishes that the ladies have
requested. This year’s dinner will take place on Sunday, December 1
at 3:30 PM. We are seeking volunteers to provide dishes and help
clean up. To sign up, go to www.scapc.org/pw.
Advent Poinsettias: To make a $15 donation toward the purchase
of Advent poinsettias in memory or honor of a loved one, please use
an order card from your pew and place your card with payment in the
offering plate. You can also pay online via Paypal at
www.scapc.org/adventflowers. The order deadline is Tuesday,
December 10. Acknowledgements will be printed in the Dec. 15, 22,
and Christmas Eve bulletins. Please note that each individual
poinsettia order represents only one individual or couple.
PW Christmas Program: Please join Presbyterian Women for their
annual Christmas Program on Tuesday, December 10 at 6:00 PM in the
Chapel, followed by a reception at the home of Laurie and Jeff
Young, 1727 State Street. The program will be officiated by Sarah
Chancellor-Watson and will include communion as well as music by
Steven Blackmon and Kameron Lopreore. We are seeking volunteers to
provide desserts for the reception and/or donations for wine, so
please go to www.scapc.org/pw to sign up.
SMALL GROUPSSMALL GROUPS
For further details on the groups below, please refer to
www.scapc.org or to the “Getting Involved” brochures in your
Friendship Register, and feel free to take one home! Please note,
LB = Land Building.
Aden Elder Care Tuesdays & Thursdays | 10 AM-2 PMCBD Study
Group Wednesdays | 7 AM | 625 St. Charles Ave.Mid-Week Bible Study
Wednesdays | 5 PM | Phifer LibraryMiddle School Girls Small Group
(MSGSG) Next event:
December 3, 6-7:30 PM, McCann homePresbyterian Women’s Book Club
Third Thursdays | 12:30 PM |
LB LakesidePresbyterian Women’s Needleworks Group Thursdays
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10 AM-Noon | LB, LakesidePresbyterian Women’s Circles (monthly
Bible Studies)
Second Mondays at Noon (LB) and 2 PM (Lambeth House) Second
Tuesdays at 5:45 PM (LB)
Senior High Small Group Alternating Thursdays | 7-8 PM |3 rd
Floor Youth Room | Next meeting: December 5
Spiritually Hungry Women Wednesdays | 12:30-1:45 PM |LB,
Lakeside (no meeting, 11/27)
TMBS&PG (Thursday Morning Bible Study & Prayer Group) |7
AM | LB, Lakeside
YAF PINTS | Wednesday evenings, 6:45 PM | LB
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11/25 | Session Meeting11/26 | Uptown Interfaith Thanksgiving
Service (Touro Synagogue)11/27 | Church office closes at 12:30
PM11/28-29 | Church Office closed12/1 | PW Eden House Thanksgiving
Dinner12/3 | Middle School Girls Small Group (McCann home)12/3 | PW
Evening Circle12/4 | WNO: Gingerbread House Building12/5 | Senior
High Small Group12/8 | Ordination & Installation of Elder Class
of 202212/9 | PW Noon and Lambeth House Circles12/10 | Deadline for
poinsettia orders12/10 | PW Christmas Service and Reception12/11 |
WNO: White Gift Wrapping Party12/15 | White Gift Sunday12/15 | YAF
Christmas Brunch & Gift Exchange12/16 | Session Meeting12/19 |
PW Book Club12/19 | Senior Adults Christmas Party12/19 | Senior
High Small Group
This year’s Advent devotional books have arrived! Copies of
Hopes & Expectations,
published by Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, can be
picked up in the Narthex
or on the table outside of the Chapel.
THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISMTHE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISMis being
administered today at the 8:30 service
to WARNER MONROE STILLWAGON, son of Claudia and Brad
Stillwagon.
IN FRAMPTON FELLOWSHIP HALL:IN FRAMPTON FELLOWSHIP HALL:
White Gift Tree with ornaments for local missions to be
dedicated Sunday, December 15
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RHINO Christmas Cards available•
Forms for PW Retreat (January 27-28, 2020)
