Round Hill Community Church
ORDER OF SERVICE
June 7, 2015
Second Sunday after Pentecost
PRELUDE Andante Albinoni
Bouree Bach-Swingle
David Glukh, Trumpet
Glenn Rhian, Percussion
WORDS OF WELCOME
INTROITCome Sunday Duke Ellington
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: Gods truth shines in the light of a new day!
All: We come wanting Gods truth to be our guide.
Leader: Gods truth leads us to a place of holiness and light.
All: We come wanting Gods truth to be our home.
Leader: Gods truth lives in songs of praise and joy!
All: We come wanting Gods truth to be our feast.
Leader: Gods truth deepens our life as our thirst for God deepens.
*The congregation is invited to stand
*HYMN No. 16Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Verse 1: Congregation
Verse 2: Choir
Verse 3: Congregation
*OPENING PRAYER
Christ, whose insistent call
disturbs our settled lives,
give us discernment to hear your word,
grace to relinquish our tasks,
and courage to follow empty-handed
wherever you may lead;
that the voice of your gospel
may reach to the ends of the earth. Amen.
*THE LORDS 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 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 and ever. Amen.
*GLORIA PATRI
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning,
is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
CHILDRENS MESSAGE The Rev. Dr. Ed Horstmann Children may now leave for Church School.
SCRIPTURE LESSON Philippians 4: 4-7
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
ANTHEM My Help Comes From the LordZimmerman
(Psalm 121; based on the hymn tune God of our Life Through All the Circling Years)
SCRIPTURE LESSON Mark 8: 27-29
Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, Who do people say that I am? And they answered him, John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets. He asked them, But who do you say that I am?
SERMON And Yet The Rev. Dr. Ed Horstmann
*HYMN No. 623 Woke Up this Morning
OFFERING
Invitation
Anthem Rejoice in the Lamb Benjamin Britten
Rejoice in God, O ye Tongues; give the glory to the Lord, and the Lamb. Nations, and languages, and every Creature, in which is the breath of Life. Let man and beast appear before him, and magnify his name together.
Let Nimrod, the mighty hunter, bind a Leopard to the altar, and consecrate his spear to the Lord.
Let Ishmael dedicate a Tyger, and give praise for the liberty in which the Lord has let him at large.
Let Balaam appear with an Ass, and bless the Lord his people and his creatures for a reward eternal.
Let Daniel come forth with a Lion, and praise God with all his might though faith in Christ Jesus.
Let Ithamar minister with a Chamois, and bless the name of Him, that cloatheth the naked.
Let Jakim with the Satyr bless God in the dance.
Let David bless the Bear The beginning of victory to the Lord the Lord the perfection of excellence Hallelujah from the heart of God, and from the hand of the artist inimitable, and from the echo of the heavenly harp in sweetness manifical and mighty.
*Doxology Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host: Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
*Hymn No. 721 My Country, tis of Thee (verse 4)
ANTHEM Standin In the Need of Prayer Gwyneth Walker
PASTORAL PRAYER
*HYMN Hes Got the Whole World in His HandsHayes
He's got the whole world in his hands, he's got the whole wide world in his hands. He's got the whole wide world in his hands, he's got the whole world in his hands
He's got the wind and the rain in his hands, he's got the wind and rain in his hands. He's got the wind and the rain in his hands, he's got the whole world in his hands
He's got the tiny, little baby in his hands, he's got the tiny, little baby in his hands. He's got the tiny, little baby in his hands, he's got the whole world in his hands
He's got you and me brother in his hands, he's got you and me sister in his hands. He's got you and me brother in his hands he's got the whole world in his hands
He's got the whole world in his hands...
CHURCH PRAYER
Our Heavenly Father, shed forth thy blessed spirit upon all our lives. Make each one of us an instrument in thy hands for good. Purify our hearts, strengthen our minds and bodies, fill us with Christian love. Let no pride, no self-conceit, no rivalry, no ill-will ever spring up among us. Make us earnest and true, wise and prudent, giving no just cause for offense and may thy holy peace rest upon us this day and every day throughout the coming week, sweetening our trials, cheering us in our work, and keeping us faithful to the end, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
BENEDICTION
CHORAL RESPONSE
POSTLUDE Fanfare for the Common Man Copland
ROUND HILL COMMUNITY CHURCH MISSION STATEMENT
We, the members of the Round Hill Community Church, a self-governing, non-denominational body, seek to foster a community of faith where people of all ages and backgrounds pursue spiritual growth; where God is worshipped in Word and praised in music; where friends are made and hurts are healed. We seek to be a community where individuals commit their time and resources to education, fellowship, and to helping those in need among our Church family and in the broader world. We are a church where faith, hope, justice and love are valued, and above all, Jesus is Lord.
ROUND HILL COMMUNITY CHURCH CREED
I believe in God, the one universal Father of all mankind, revealed supremely in Jesus Christ, our Lord, and present with us to guide, comfort and inspire in the Holy Spirit. I believe in the Kingdom of God; and in the mission of the Christian Church to proclaim the Gospel to all the world, exalting the worship of the Lord our God, and laboring for the progress of knowledge, the promotion of righteousness, the reign of peace, and the realization of human brotherhood. United in Christian love, we pray and labor for the coming of the Kingdom, the triumph of righteousness and the life everlasting. Amen.
CHURCH NEWS
Thank you to Dick Bergstresser and Chuck Zoubek for ushering today.
The beautiful flowers in the Sanctuary today were given in loving memory of Barbara Engel Dixon by her family. Keep in mind that fresh flowers for Sunday services are possible due to your generous contributions. Please consider making a gift to the 2015 Flower Fund. Donation forms can be found on the secretary in the parlor.
Please join us under the tent immediately following the service for our annual picnic!!
RHCC will join in an Interfaith Blood Drive onSaturday, June 27, 8:00 a.m.-1:15 p.m.at First Presbyterian Church. If you are at least seventeen years of age, meet height and weight requirements, and are in generally good health, you may be eligible to be a lifesaving blood donor. To make an appointment: contact Outreach Chair Steve Fuzesi [email protected], call 1-800-RED-CROSS(1-800-733-2767), go online towww.redcrossblood.org, orsign up TODAYin the parlor following worship. Faith in Action!!
The Meditation/Stress Reduction Group will be on hiatus until June 25, 2015.
Todays cover is a picture of the Christ the Redeemer icon, discovered by accident in a dilapidated woodshed nearZvenigorod, Russiain 1919. With several other icons stored nearby, it was attributed as the work of the greatAndrei Rublev, painted for one of Zvenigorod cathedrals in the 1420s. It is exhibited in theTretyakov GalleryofMoscow.
REFLECTION
We have to keep looking for the spiritual questions if we want spiritual answers.
-Henri Nouwen
Be patient with regard to all that in your heart is still unresolved and try to love the questions themselves like closed parts and books written in an extremely foreign language. Do not seek for the moment of the answer because you would not be able to live through it. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will live thereafter and gradually without realizing it, one day, live your way into the answer.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Senior Minister: The Rev. Dr. Edward G. Horstmann
Minister Emeritus: The Rev. Dr. Ralph Ahlberg
Minister of Music: Christopher Kabala
Church School Coordinator: Connie Blunden
395 Round Hill Road, Greenwich, CT 06831203.869.1091 roundhillcommunitychurch.org
