Suffo lk Chr istian Church Fifth Sunday After P enteco st

Our Mission is to go and make disciples of Jesus Christ

by sharing God’s grace, love, and forgiveness.

Because we love Christ we worship.

Because we believe in His grace we disciple.

Because we follow His commandments we serve.

Worship 11:00 a.m. Sunday, June 28, 2015Please enter into a spirit of prayer and meditation as the Prelude begins.

Prelude To God Be the Glory (Hustad) Mary Huber, Organist

Carmen Halley, Pianist

Chiming of the HourGreetings and Welcome*Congregational Introit Holy Is He #74

Holy is He and great is His glory; Holy is He and worthy of our praise.

I stand in His presence amazed, And crown Him with worship and praise!

Holy is He, Holy is He, Holy is He.

*Call to Worship Leader: God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,People: So that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may

have eternal life.Leader: We have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens,People: Jesus, the Son of God.Leader: We have Jesus, our High Priest, who in every respect has been

tested as we are, yet without sin.People: Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness,

so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time ofneed. (John 3:16, Hebrews 4:14-16)

*Hymn of Praise Love Divine, All Loves Exce lling #648(With optional last stanza setting)

*The Invocation and Lord’s Prayer (trespasses)

*Gloria PatriMission Moment Gathering Our Tithes and Offerings

Offertory I Walked Today Where Jesus Walked (O’Hara)

*Doxology

*Unison Offertory PrayerGive us, Lord, a heart that gladly gives. Even as You gave Your all forus, so may we give our all to You. May we give out of joy andthanksgiving, honoring and praising your holy name. In the name ofthe risen Christ we pray. Amen.

Time With the Children

Call to Prayer Pastoral Prayer & Choral Response

Choral Anthem Chancel Choir

Untitled Hymn (Come to Jesus) (Arr. Rice/Sterling)

Scripture Lesson Matthew 3:13-17 (Pew Bible pg. 682) The Word of the Lord: Thanks b e to God! Sermon All That God Ever Asks of You Rev. Halley

The Sacrament of Baptism *Hymn of Dedication Must Jesus Bear the Cro ss Alone? #673*Benediction

*Postlude Toccata (Scarlatti) Mary Huber, Organist

When the postlude begins, please greet the worshipers around you*Please stand as you are able

The Flowers on the Altar given by John, Kim and Christine Comer

Welcom e to Suffo lk Christian Church ! May the love of God bless you

in this time with us. We invite you to worship with us again next week. Ifyou are a guest today, please fill out a guest card and place in the offeringplate.

Care and Concern Outreach Ministry - Please complete a card, located

in pew holder, to identify any needs of our members and place it in the

offering plate.

***Serving Th is Sunday***

Deacons Greeting: Tom Savage, Jim Thorsen, Jim Topping

Jennifer Worrell, Billy Wyatt

Deacons Delivering CDs: Cheryl Griffin, Jim Topping

Early Worship Deacon: Corky Harry

Acolyte: Zachary Harry

Audio Technician: Jim Goben

Ushers: Charles Johnson, Robert Bangley, James Culliton

John Harry, IV, Thomas Savage, Dave Remy

Substitutes: Bob James, P. J. Fowler, Jimmy Fanny

Jim Goben, Kenny Griffin, Calvin Jones

House of Worship: Calvin Jones (today)

Brandon Upright (next week)

Counters: Pat Bristow, Becky Bradshaw

Sanctuary Guild: Nita Wyatt, Pat Bristow

Care/Concern Volunteer: Edie Matthews (335.2260)

Children’s Church: No Children’s Church

Beginners Workers: Claudia Salmon, Sarah Rhodes

Nursery Workers: Logan Masters, Julia McBride

Greeters After Worship: Rev. Halley - North exit

Kim & John Comer - Side exit

Robert Bangley - Front exit

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Stewardship Report“We Are Walking By Faith”

Needed Weekly to Deliver Our Ministries: .............................................$ 6,862.03

Received on June 14................................................................................ $ 4,710.26

Needed Year To Date: $ 164,688.72

Received Year To Date: $ 145,274.00

Difference: - $ 19,414.72

Dimes for Missions ...........................................$331.00

May Mission Offering (Food Pantry) ..............$583.00

June Mission Offering (Scripture Memory Mountain Mission) - $266.00

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Sunday School ......................................... .................................85

8:45 am Worship Service...........................................................13

11 am Worship Service............................................................152

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Website: www.suffolkchristian.org

Pat Hawn (webmaster@suffolkchristian.org)

Worship on the Lord’s DaySunday, June 28, 2015

11:00 a.m.

Suffolk Christian ChurchRev. Michael D. Halley, Pastor

216 North Main Street

Suffolk, Virginia 23434

757-539-9182

You are welcome to participate in any of the following activities at

Suffolk Christian. Please call the contact person or the church office if

you need more information.

This week at

Suffolk Christian Church

Sunday 8:45 am Early Worship

June 28 10:00 am Sunday School

11:00 am Worship Service

Monday 6:00 pm Mfuge and CentriKid Share and Tell

June 29 Night - Come for dinner, a slide show,

and hearing about the experiences the

youth and children had at camp. Sign

up sheet located on bulletin board

outside church office. Dinner will be

pizza and there will be no cost. (Erin Kessinger, 934.2325; Priscilla Bunch, 539.8930)

Tuesday 2:00 pm Saints Alive (Carmen Halley, 539.3922)

June 30 3 - 5 pm Food Ministry DistributionPat & Jim Mann, 539.1751; Stephanie Remy, 285.5708)

Wednesday 6:30 pm Christian Education BoardJuly 1 (Bennett McBride, 537.7109)

7:30 pm Narcotics Anonymous Meeting

Thursday 10:30 am Soup Kitchen at the Salvation Army

July 2 Pat Bristow, 539.3832, June Hood, 539.3898)

7:30 pm Chancel Choir (Janet Rock, 925.5777)

Friday Church Office Closed in Observance

July 3 of Independence Day

6:00 pm Young Adult Fellowship Group, “Go

and Tell” - Saints Alive Center(Neal Davis, 434.637.3520; Jes, 757.235.6905)

Sunday Sixth Sunday after P en teco stJuly 5 8:45 am Early Worship

10:00 am Sunday School

11:00 am Worship Service

Coming Events

July 12 - 16 Vacation Bible School “Journey Off The Map”

5:30 pm Dinner6:00 pm VBS

There will be classes for allages, including adults.(Priscilla Bunch, 539.8930; Erin

Kessinger, 934.2325)

July 19 Scholarship Sunday12 noon A luncheon will be held to support

Katy Johnson who will be leaving forAmman, Jordan to do mission work.Ticket donation is $10. The menu isBBQ, Baked Beans, Cole Slaw, Rolls

and Dessert. (Priscilla Bunch, 539.8930

July 21 9:00 am Ocean Breeze Waterpark for childrenand youth

July 21 1:00 pm Saints Alive Patriotic Cookout(will be eating inside)

July 25 6:30 pm Community Movie Night and Supper -north lawn

July 28 7:00 pm The Praying Church - Sanctuary

June 28, 2015

Prayer ConcernsSara Heuberger .... Carter Ferguson ....Heather Ferguson .... Kevin Beale ....Jackie Dudley .... Jane Pritchard ....KittyMartin .... Jenny Smith .... Debra Carr ...Tom Ashcraft .... Margaret Heuberger

On Going PrayerKaitlin Johnson - preparing to leave forAmman, Jordan the end of August for a year of mission workDebbie SpiveyDavid & Dot DardenForrest CatheyRobin Riddick Blanchard (wife of Randell Blanchard)

Milton Liverman (friend of Jim Thorsen)

Prayers of PraiseCPL Spencer Best, USMC (husband of Lindsay Goben Best)

Deployed Lt. Edward G. Chalkley (grandson of Nancy & Milton Chalkley)

LCPL Langdon Conklin, USMC (grandson of Jack & Eloise Byrd)

Extended Family & Friends Prayer Concerns Rick Pearce (son of Riddick Pearce & nephew of Judy Eure) .... Edna Earl Carter (sister

of Eloise Byrd) .... Shirley Bryant (friend of Priscilla Bunch) .... Wes, Karen & Ben

Rose (family of Margaret Saunders) .... Bernard Bangley (brother of Robert Bangley) ....

Lawrence Pugh (father of Pat Hawn) .... Landon Smith (son of Hillary & Jason Smith;

1 year old neighbor of Jim & Wanda Thorsen) .... Phil Gibbs (brother of Joyce Ralph and

father of Gretchen Jones) .... Laura Hawn (daughter of Pat Hawn) .... Harvey Parker

(brother of Margaret Herring & Sarah Burford) .... Martha Britt (sister of Margaret Herring &

Sarah Burford) .... Suzanne Forester (friend of Sarah Burford) .... Jimmy Parr (son of

Sue Parr) ...Patsy Morris Vance (friend of Eloise Byrd) .... Melinda Gregory (sister

of Earl Scott, friends of Evelyn & Calvin Jones) .... George Lazarus (neighbor of T im &

Lynne Copeland) .... Memory Williams (friend of Carman Goben) .... Rosalind

Cutchins (neighbor of the Worrell’s) .... Louie Vanderslice (son of Hannah Fleming’s

dance teacher) .... Wayne Turner (cousin of Cheryl Griffin) .... Frank Foster (friend of

Curtiss & Betty Johnson) ..... Lyndia Horton Wagner (former co-worker of Pat Hawn)

.... Elaine Abernathy (Rob Abernathy’s aunt) .... Richard & Linda (friends of Shirley

Talbert) .... Jeannie Arado (friend of Nita Wyatt) .... Samantha Bright (granddaughter of

Jimmy & Becky Bradshaw) .... Chris and John .... Norm King (friend of Judy & Floyd

Twiford) .... Joseph Murphy (husband of Marion Murphy) .... Sydnee Christensen

(granddaughter of co-worker of Bob James) .... Brian Ringgold (the husband of Terry McGahee’s

niece) ....Conrad Upright (grandfather of Brandon Upright) ...Lisa Gray (niece of Betty

Mazie) ....Bill (neighbor of the Rogge Family) .... Clark Thompson and Patrick Annas(friends of Jim Hancock, Mills Staylor, Glenn Ellis, Linda Culliton) .... Peggy Bass (friend of Curtiss

& Betty Johnson) ....Phyllis Cornell (friend of June Hood) .... Doris Bailey (sister of Margaret

Saunders) ....Buddy & Lynne Wood (friends of Jane Marie & Jim Dailey) .... Dot Rhodes

(friend of Anne Potter)

In order to keep our list updated, our prayer requests will remain on the list for 4 weeks and

then will be removed unless the prayer request is renewed. Please call the church office

539.9182 or email office@suffolkchristian.org to renew a request.

Skilled Care (Nansemond Pointe) – Doris Gardner (aunt of Priscilla Bunch)

(Autumn Care) -- Patricia Griggs; Joe Duke (former member of church staff)

(Lake Prince Woods) – Randolph Copeland, Louise Boone, Howard Boone(Consulate Health, Windsor) – S. A. Pylan

Home BoundShirley Crump, Nancy Fulgham, Dorothy Judkins, Margaret Ramsey, RitaRedfern, Vernon Taylor, Margaret Herring

Assisted Living (Hillcrest) Marjorie Wilkinson; Nancy Chalkley(Village at Woods Edge) Pete Kidd(Chesapeake Place) – Millie Strickland

In SympathyOur Christian love and sympathy to:

_ Gary & Louise Werkheiser and family on the death of his brother,Richard W. Werkheiser, on June 18, 2015.

_ Mary Catherine and Benjamin Kowalski, upon the death of their son,Gabriel Benjamin Kowalski, on June 16, 2015. Gabriel is thegrandson of Judy and David Parker and the great-grandson of MaryE. Parker.

Matthew 3:13-17New International Version (NIV)

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptizedby John. But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptizedby you, and do you come to me?”

Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do thisto fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented.

As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water.At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of Goddescending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice fromheaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am wellpleased.”

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God!

Love Divine

Love divine, all loves excelling, Joy of heaven, to earth come down!Fix in us Thy humble dwelling; All Thy faithful mercies crown.Jesus, Thou art all compassion; Pure, unbounded love Thou art,

Visit us with Thy salvation; Enter every trembling heart.

Breathe, O breathe Thy loving Spirit Into every troubled breast!Let us all in Thee inherit; Let us find Thy promised rest.

Take away the bent to sinning; Alpha and Omega be.End of faith, as its beginning, Set our hearts at liberty.

Come, Almighty, to deliver; Let us all Thy life receive.Suddenly return, and never, Never more Thy temples leave.

Thee we would be always blessing, Serve Thee as Thy hosts above,Pray and praise Thee without ceasing, Glory in Thy perfect love.

Finish then Thy new creation; Pure and spotless let us be.Let us see Thy great salvation Perfectly restored in Thee:

Changed from glory into glory, Till in heaven we take our place,Till we cast our crowns before Thee, Lost in wonder, love and praise.

Charles Wesley | John Zundel

© Words: Public Domain

Music: Public Domain

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Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone

Must Jesus bear the cross alone And all the world go free?

No, there's a cross for everyone, And there's a cross for me.

The consecrated cross I'll bearTill death shall set me free,

And then go home my crown to wear,For there's a crown for me.

Upon the crystal pavement,Down at Jesus' pierced feet,

Joyful I'll cast my golden crownAnd His dear name repeat.

O precious cross! O glorious crown!O resurrection day!

Ye angels, from the stars come downAnd bear my soul away.

George N. Allen | Thomas Shepherd

© Words: Public Domain

Music: Public Domain

CCLI License # 563168