Rev. R. Len Walker, Jr. Senior Pastor

Rev. V. Lamar Helms

Associate Pastor, Director of Music

Lindsey Wesseling

Director of Children

and Youth Ministry

Dr. Vernon S. Broyles Founding Chaplain

Dr. James McCormick Chaplain Emeritus

10455 Big Canoe

Big Canoe, GA 30143

470.273.6768

www.bigcanoechapel.org

We are a Stephen Ministry Congregation.

“Stand-Around” is a 30 minute fellowship gathering from 10:00am to 10:30am in Cousins Hall. Refreshments are served every Sunday. It is a wonderful opportunity to meet and greet new friends as well as long time friends. If you worship at 10:30am, come early and enjoy the fel-lowship and refreshments.

The Celebration of Worship and Communion First Sunday of Lent

March 1, 2020

Today we affirm the presence of God: “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with Me.”

Revelation 3:20

The Gathering

Welcome and Announcements Rev. R. Len Walker

Voluntary “Grace Greater Than Our Sin” arr. Smith and Hustad

Invocation Rev. V. Lamar Helms

* The Hymn of Praise page 622

“There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood” (Verses 1, 2, 3, and 5)

* The Apostles Creed page 881 Petition and Thanksgiving

Pastoral Prayer Rev. Walker

Offering and Anthem “Poor Wayfaring Stranger” J. Leavitt The Chapel Choir

* Offertory Response “Were the whole realm of nature mine, that were an offering far too small; love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.”

* Prayer of Thanksgiving

Proclamation of the Word and Response

* The Hymn of Preparation “There Is a Balm in Gilead” (Verses 1 and 2) page 375

Sermon “A Really Dynamic Witness”

Acts 2:42-47

The Sacrament of Holy Communion Invitation

Prayer of Confession Rev. Walker Lord, we have sinned and fallen short of Your glory. Our hearts are troubled and our spirits are crushed. We seek Your grace for forgiveness. In Your name we pray for healing and whole- ness. Restore mind, body, and spirit. Free us to be the persons You have called us to be. Amen.

All are encouraged to offer personal prayers of confession in silence.

The Great Thanksgiving (The Hymnal, pp. 13-14)

The Lord’s Prayer 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 tres-passes, 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.

Giving the Bread and the Cup “He Leadeth Me” Charles Callahan

* Invitation

The Sending

* Benediction Rev. Walker

* Benediction Response 593, refrain “Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord? I have heard you calling in the night. I will go, Lord, if you lead me. I will hold your people in my heart.”

Postlude “Celebration” Robert Hughes

* Please stand, if you are able. * You are invited to attend Stand-Around at 10:00 AM.

The Celebration of Worship and Communion First Sunday of Lent March 1, 2020

“I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.”

Psalm 104:33

SERMON NOTES

Today at the Chapel Chapel Announcements

This Week at the Chapel

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Please note;

The Nursery is available downstairs during the 9:00 & 10:30 am services.

Remember to turn your cell phones back on at the end of the service!

Welcome!

Big Canoe Chapel is a multi-denominational Christian con-gregation united in our faith in Jesus Christ as Lord. Would you like to learn more about Chapel membership? Please call the church office at 470.273.6768 to set an appointment or express your interest on the Friendship Pad (attendance reg-ister) as it is passed at your pew. A pastor will contact you this week.

8:30 AM Prayer with Senior Pastor-Chapel 109 8:45 AM Fellowship Class Coffee-McCormick Hall 9:00 AM Fellowship SS Class-McCormick Hall 9:00 AM Grace Walk SS Class-Broyles 102 9:00 AM Worship Service-Chapel

10:00 AM Chapel Stand-Around-Cousins Hall 10:30 AM Seekers SS Class-McCormick Hall 10:30 AM Koinonia SS Class-Room 102 10:30 AM Book by Book SS Class-Board Room 10:30 AM Youth Sunday School-Teen Room 10:30 AM Children K-5-Chapel 107 9:00 AM Nursery-Chapel 101 10:30 AM Nursery-Chapel 101

10:30 AM Worship Service-Chapel

Serving Today at the Chapel… 9:00AM 10:30AM

Pianist: Dr. Sam Holmes Dr. Sam Holmes

Organist: James Garner James Garner

Ushers: Tom and Jayne Greene Bob and Lynn Cooper Richard and Janet Hubbard Jeanann Kibler Julie Ventress

Communion Servers: Louis and Trish Alderman Parish and Melissa Lowrie

Guest Hosts: Verna Rauschenberg xx

Cart Driver: Henry Moldt

Stand-Around: Win and Jan Cates Ray and Brenda Bedingfield

Head Usher: Dick Girdler Technical Ministry Team: Paul Wright, Randy Lewis

Mon. 3/2 Men’s Journey Group #3-Room 102 9:00AM Mon. 3/2 Visitation/Membership Meeting-Board Rm. 1:00PM Tues. 3/3 Bella Voce-McCormick Hall 9:00AM Tues. 3/3 Pine Needle Quilt Guild-McCormick Hall 9:00AM Tues. 3/3 Men’s Fellowship/Leadership Mtg.-B. Room 2:00PM Tues. 3/3 Chapel Bell Choir Rehearsal-Cousins Hall 2:00PM Wed. 3/4 Women’s Guild Bible Study-McCormick H. 9:30AM Wed. 3/4 Creative Stitchery-Room 101 1:00PM Wed. 3/4 Witness Breakthrough-Stretch 2-Room 102 4:00PM Wed. 3/4 Bible Study of Luke/Acts-Board Room 4:30PM Wed. 3/4 Vespers-Cousins Hall 6:00PM Wed. 3/4 Stephen Ministers Meeting-Room 107 6:00PM Wed. 3/4 Youth Worship Night-McCormick Hall 7:00PM Thurs. 3/5 Artist Club Meeting-McCormick Hall 10:00AM Thurs. 3/5 Journey Group #1-Room 102 10:00AM Thurs. 3/5 Journey Group #2-Room 107 10:00AM Thurs. 3/5 Women’s Guild Board Meeting-Board Room 1:00PM Sat. 3/7 AA Meeting-Teen Room 9:00AM Sun. 3/8 Bella Voce sings 9:00 & 10:30AM

Chapel Member Prayer List

Boys and Girls clubs of North Georgia: Pray for children that they may grow into successful adults.

Home: David Holmes, Debbie Goldman, Cathy Scott, Liz Moldt, Alison Holmes.

Independent Living: Linda Lee Gordon, Rock Creek Manor, 70 Cagle Mill Rd., South, Apt. 9, Jasper, GA 30143.

Up-coming surgery: Eric Goldstein, (nephew of Sandra Gadd).

Continuing Prayers: Milton Hood, (Kathy Brigman’s brother), David Schofield, (Mary Jones nephew, and her son-in-law, Frank Giordano).

In Assisted Care: Margie Hunter, Benton House, Alpharetta; Frances Smith, Hallmark at Phipps, Atlanta; Ben Johnson, Mt. Vernon Village, 475 Mt. Vernon Rd., A201 Sandy Springs, GA 30043, Richard Krajec, 925 Spring Rock Dr., Lawrenceville, GA 30043, Peggy Lehmberg, Brightmore of South Charlotte, 10225 Old Ardrey Kell Rd., Charlotte, NC 28277; John Thurman, Garden Plaza, Lawrenceville, GA, Harry Yarbrough, Wesley Commons, Room 6403, 1110 Marshall Rd., Greenwood, South Carolina 29646, Lou Chester, Bill Fraker, Shirley Schumacher, The Retreat at Jasper, Jasper, GA, Lois Carter, Windsor House Assisted Living, 3333 East Cherokee Dr., Canton, GA 30115, , Ray and Miki Roth, Inspired Living, 1450 Morris Rd., Alpharetta, GA 30005.

Prayer Blankets: Remember prayer blankets are always a blessing for people needing comfort. They are in a cabinet along with spiritual music CDs in Room 103 in the Broyles Center.

The Witness Breakthrough STRETCH class...Wednesday March 4th for 6 Wednesdays in room 102..4-5:45pm....a Stretch 2 booklet $7 is needed for the 6 week class ...attendance at every Wednesday session is suggested but op-tional....to register witnessbreakthrough@gmail.com

Our Journey Toward Easter has begun! Visit our Chapel’s Easter website: easterinbigcanoe.org. for a full schedule of Easter Activities at Big Canoe Chapel. Here you can also find some of the history of our great Easter celebra-tions during Lent and Holy Week.

This morning we will conclude this sermon series entitled, “Step Up.” Hopefully it has been a reminder that we have been called and supernaturally equipped to witness to our faith. Re-member, a witness for Christ often means the simple planting of a seed. I believe the opportunity for planting a seed takes place every day. A prayer asking God to continually make us aware of the open doors in our daily lives will lead us to share the transforming grace of Jesus. Perhaps the key to a witness involves a simple “step up” by faith.

What I hope we avoid is the idea that witnessing and evan-gelism is merely an extra-curricular religious activity assigned to people who are comfortable with that sort of thing. As we move forward from this series, I plan to keep the call to “make disciples” at the forefront of ministry at Big Canoe Chapel. I have ordered 25 copies of the gospel of John. Consider this---you have a friend skeptical about the Christian faith. You give that person a copy of John’s gospel as a gift. You simply ask them to read it. I might say, “after you read this, and I hope you will, you might have some questions. Let’s talk about those.” How’s that for a step up? And remember---the gospel is a matter of life and death. Plant a seed so that others may know life abundant and eternal.

You can do this. We all can. The song says it well, “People need the Lord.”

Grace and peace,

Len