WESTMINSTER CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN 1 Park Place, Westminster, Maryland 21157

410-848-8090; 410-848-0735 (fax) www.westminsterbrethren.org

Glenn A. McCrickard, Pastor Carol Cormany, Administrative Assistant Nancy McCrickard, Community Spirit Coordinator

MISSION STATEMENT We are a biblically grounded community committed to

Continuing the work of Jesus. Peacefully. Simply. Together. By: ~creatively worshiping God with a unified Spirit;

~expansively studying what it means to be Christian; ~willingly reaching out to others in service, locally and globally;

~intentionally supporting each other; and ~honoring Christ’s call to be peacemakers.

WORSHIP INFORMATION Early Service – 8:25am; Sunday School – 9:30am; Late Service – 10:45am 1st Sundays: Worship – 9:30am; S.S. – 10:30am; Carry-In Meal – 11:30am

Hearing Assistance Devices are available from an Usher.

We welcome all who are seeking and who desire to live out a faith in Jesus Christ. This is a place to learn, to grow, to serve and to love. We strive together to be a loving and supportive fellowship.

For those who are visiting, thank you for blessing us with your presence. May your time with us be a source of inspiration. We invite to you to join us again for worship or any activity. Please sign the attendance pad found on the pew; Include your address, contact number, and email so we can stay in touch.

There are Activity Bags at each sanctuary entrance for children who are in pre-school through 5th grade to use during worship. Nursery care is available for infants and children who do not turn 3 before September 1.

Persons interested in committing their lives to the way of Jesus and becoming members of this congregation are invited to an INQUIRER’S CLASS; to enroll, talk with the Pastor. Individuals may unite with us in one of three ways:

Believer’s Baptism, Transfer of Church Letter, or Renewal of Baptismal Vows

LAST WEEK’S PARTICIPATION Worship Attendance Sunday: 11/16/14 100 Loaves and Fishes (soup kitchen) on Saturday 11/15/14 Meal prepared by: Westminster Church of the Brethren Hosts: Mark Woodworth & Jeanne Dussalut

Needed Each Week in 2014: $5,941.00 Offering on Sunday: $4,228.65 Average giving through 10/26: $4,670.64

CONTEMPORARY SERVICE Message with a Beat!

November 23, 2014 8:25am

“Perhaps we’re too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway?

Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation for reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one

day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.” (Princess Diana)

WELCOME to a time of Joyous Worship!

WELCOME & GREETING ONE ANOTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

(Everyone is encouraged to take a moment to sign the attendance pad.)

GATHERING SONGS: “I Love You Lord” (Klein)

“You Are My All In All” (Jernigan)

INVOCATION

SONG: “All for Love” (LeBlanc) CHILDREN’S TIME

READING FROM THE EPISTLES: Phillipians 2:1-8 SHARING OUR JOYS & CONCERNS

TIME FOR SILENT PRAYER COMMUNITY PRAYER - #721

PRAYER SONG: “We Humble Ourselves” (Baloche & Duplessis)

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 7:12 MEDITATION: “Quietly Serve” RESPONSE TO MEDITATION

SENDING SONG: “The Same Love” (Baloche & Rossback) CLOSING WORDS

Preacher: Nancy McCrickard Worship Leader: Courtney Larrick Music Coordinator: Don Rowe Nursery: Musicians: Scott Hodgdon, guitar; Matthew Hodgdon, bass, Thaddeus Franzén, keyboard Vocalists: Liz Haff, Don Rowe, Lisa Pirone, John Rinehart, Judy Braune

Please use the offering plates at the sanctuary entrances to share your tithes and offerings. Thank you.

TRADITIONAL SERVICE

November 23, 2014 10:45am

“Perhaps we’re too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway?

Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation for reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one

day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.” (Princess Diana)

GATHERING MUSIC

WELCOME & GREETING ONE ANOTHER (Everyone is encouraged to take a moment to sign the attendance pad.)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

PRELUDE “Thanks Be to Thee” Handel

*CALL TO WORSHIP One: Come, let us worship God in our midst. All: We come seeking God, who is in this place. One: Yet God is not only found in brick and stone. All: We see God in our neighbors and our friends — even the strangers

we pass every day. One: Come, let us honor God through sharing ourselves with one another. All: We come, honoring God by honoring our brothers and sisters here

in our church, out in our community, and throughout the world. Come, let us worship God together. (Stephen Hershberger)

*HYMN “Here in this place” 6

GATHERING PRAYER

CHILDREN’S TIME

INVITATION TO GIVE Open our hearts and hands, Lord, to recognize our own role in the healing of your world. (Church United Women, 2014)

OFFERTORY “Come ye Thankful people” Callahan

OFFERTORY PRAYER

SPECIAL MUSIC “All Thanks to our God” Parker/Smith

READING FROM THE EPISTLES: Philippians 2:1-8

HYMN “Will you let me be your servant?” 307

BIG BAND MERRY CHRISTMAS CONCERT

Featuring the Carroll County Jazz Ensemble Directed by Glenn Patterson

Benefiting Access Carroll

Saturday, December 6, 2014

7:30pm

Snow Date: Wednesday December 10, 2014

(Doors Open at 7:00pm)

Westminster High School Auditorium 1225 Washington Road, Westminster

Advance Tickets: Adult $12, Children/Student $7

(Closing Date for Advance Ticket Sales: Friday, December 5, 2014)

At the door Ticket Prices: Adults $15, Child/Student $10

Ticket Outlets

Menchey Music

Coffey Music

Hess Music

Carroll Arts Center

Sponsored opportunities & group tickets are available!

Call 410-848-5581 for details

Souper Bowl Sunday

February 1, 2015

What services could you use?

The Souper Bowl Committee intends to sell services at the Souper Bowl Luncheon again this year. Please let us know what services would be useful to you. Check all that apply.

___ housecleaning help

___ gardening help

___ handyman help

___ babysitting

___ lessons on ________________________

___ tutoring, subject ____________________

___ other_____________________________

___ other_____________________________

___ other_____________________________

Please return this slip to Dave Flora or to

his folder outside the office.

SHARING OUR JOYS & CONCERNS

COMMUNITY PRAYER 721

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 7:12

MEDITATION “Quietly Serve”

RESPONSE TO MEDITATION

*HYMN “Christian let your burning light” 402

SENDING

*POSTLUDE *Please stand in body or spirit.

Preacher: Nancy McCrickard Worship Leader: Linda Ibex Children’s Time: Liz Haff Organist: Ann Young Head Usher: Martina Lane Pianist: Betsy Yount Nursery: Senior Choir Directors: Julie Richard & Barbara Groff Greeters: Ted & Pat Burnett Streams of Joy Director: Don Rowe Closer: Ernie Rice Belle Grove Legato Director: Ronald Douglass

Flower on the Communion Table are

Weekly Calendar Today: - Pick up your pies in the Fellowship Hall - Last Day for Boxwood Orders Tuesday: 8:30am - XYZ to SERRV 10:00am - Ministerium Meeting Wednesday: 5:00pm - NO C.A.N. Thursday: - HAPPY THANKSGIVING Friday: - Office Closed

There will be no C.A.N. Wednesday night due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

The Conversation Series scheduled today at Cedarhurst Unitarian has been canceled.

Announcements

Today is the last day to order your Christmas Boxwood Trees. You can pick up your trees on December 14.

If you ordered a pumpkin or apple pie from the youth, please pick it up today after our worship service.

Donations of Cliff bars (energy bars) & small cans of juice are needed by Wednesday for the care packages we'll be sending at the end of the Fall semes-ter to our college students.

Erma Frock will celebrate her 95th birthday on November 28. Let’s help her cele-brate this birthday milestone with a card shower! Erma’s mailing address is: 206 Allendale Road, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055.

Shepherd’s Spring Holiday Cookie Camp is coming up on November 29 from 9:00-11:30am & 1:30-4:00pm; November 30 from 2:00-5:00pm; December 1, 8, & 9 from 9:00-11:30am & 1:30-4:00pm; and December 7 from 2:00-5:00pm. Call Shepherd’s Spring at 301-223-8193 to register. Each session is $48.

Join us for our Congregational Business Meeting next Sunday, right after the First Sunday worship service. Items on the agenda are an amendment to the constitution regarding the moderator, confirmation of additional leadership for 2015, and the church budget for 2015.

XYZ Christmas luncheon reservations DUE BY NOON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5. Because this luncheon is being catered, reservations are needed early, so please RSVP on time. Kountry Kafe will be serving strawberry/spinach salad, homemade breads, roast turkey with dressing, mashed potatoes with gravy, mixed peas & carrots. pumpkin pie with whipped topping, iced tea & coffee. Cost is $18 per person plus a donation of canned goods to Loaves & Fishes food pan-try. Along with other activities, Connie Davis will share about their trip to the Holy Land. The luncheon is Tuesday, December 16 @ 12:30pm.

All children (preschool and up) are invited to attend the Children’s Christmas Party on December 14 from 4:30-7:00 pm. Sign-up in the church library to come enjoy food, fun, and games. Please see Virginia Hodgdon if you are interested in volunteering to help make this a fabulously fun time for the children.

Shepherd's Spring Outdoor Ministry Center has released a new cookbook. Featured sections include: Heifer Global Village, Meatless Monday & Special Diets, and Camper Favorites. If you are interested in supporting this fundraiser for the camp, Nancy McCrickard has copies available for $10 each. They would make great Christmas gifts.

The Shepherd’s Staff Twenty-First Annual Community

Thanksgiving Day Dinner

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Once again, The Shepherd’s Staff is asking for your assistance in making our Twenty-First Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner a success on Thursday,

November 27 at St. John Roman Catholic Church, Westminster 12:00-2:00pm

Donations needed:

Butter Sandwich Bags Onions Paper Towels Paper Lunch Bags Brownies Wrapped Candy Lemonade/Ice Tea Mix Cookies 5 Gallon Trash Bags Celery, Salt & Pepper Apples 10 oz Cold Cups Fruit Pies 10 oz Hot Cups Pecan Pies

All donations must be dropped off on Wednesday, November 26th

between 3:00-8:00pm at St. John Roman Catholic Church, 45 Monroe Street, Westminster

Bring donations to the church’s School Cafeteria area only.

Please do NOT bring donations to the church office.

Monetary donations are also welcome especially to purchase items needed. Please make checks payable to The Shepherd’s Staff with the

Designation Thanksgiving Dinner and mail to

The Shepherd’s Staff, P. O. Box 127, Westminster, MD 21158

Many, many thanks for your continued support!!!

This year our “Angel Tree” will be ringing out with glad tidings to those in need of our support and encouragement. Beginning next Sunday, you are invited to take a bell, and purchase the item listed on its tag. The items will become a part of a Take Home Christmas Dinner Food Box to be distributed in support of the eight children/families enrolled in the Head Start program that meets here at the church or a CWS (Church World Service) Baby Kit to be distributed during natu-ral disasters to needy families here in the US and around the world. Items are due by Sunday, December 21, 2014.

Our 2014 Advent Devotionals, Awake, have arrived and will be given out over the next few Sundays. Be sure to get your copy of this inspirational devotional booklet. Advent begins on Sunday, November 30.

Each Sunday of Advent, there will be Christmas cards for BVSers (different cards each week) available to sign in the church library.

This holiday season, the children's Sunday School class will be radiating the light of God's love through service to the world beyond Westminster, by donating funds from their aluminum can drive to purchase Flocks of Hope (chickens, ducks, and geese) for Heifer Project International. The gift of chicks, ducks, and goslings from Heifer International (HPI) will help provide a family in need with both nutrition and income. As the children raise funds, a chicken will be placed on the Angel Tree for each $5 donation received for Heifer Project International. Monetary donations are being accepted to help the children with this project - please designate donations as for HPI. Thank you for your support.

Have partial skeins of yarn or flannel fabric laying around your house that you’d like to get rid of? If so, please bring them to Nancy…she’ll coordinate put-ting them to good use.

It's Messenger renewal time! Messenger is our denominational magazine which inspires, informs and connects us with the work of the Church of the Brethren. To renew or subscribe for the first time make a check to the Westminster COB and put Messenger in the info line. Please drop the check off in the church office, or the office box by the office. If you did not get an email or a phone call then your current subscription does not need renewal this year. One year renewal is $14.50 and two year renewal is $27.00. For a first time subscription it is only $7.25. Call or email David Braune if you have questions. REMOVED.

There is one copy of the Inglenook Cookbook left at $22.89 per copy. If you are interested, please see Nancy McCrickard.

Donations needed at the Westminster Cold Weather Shelter at this time are: warm socks, sweatpants & sweatshirts (adult sizes L, XL and XXL - espe-cially for men). Donations can be brought to Nancy or the church office.

The Food Distribution Program at the Westminster Rescue Mission is look-ing for drivers to pick up surplus food from partners like Safeway, Food Lion, Walmart & Target. Please call Michael Reigner, the Food Program Director at 410-848-2222 x11 if you are able to help.

Hold in prayer these new requests: REMOVED FOR PRIVACY REASONS

Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN) (Church of the Brethren in Nigeria). Their

church headquarters was overtaken by Boko Haram extremist insurgents. Al-so, continue to pray for Deborah Abbas and the other abducted girls.

We extend our deepest sympathy and prayers to the families of…

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