Announcements 7/7/2024
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FAVORITE HYMNS: Do you have a favorite hymn that you would like for us to sing this summer? Please email your requests to Kelly at kelly.cuppett@johncalvinchurch.org
MONTHLY FOOD PANTRY DONATION: Each month we are asking you to donate one or two items to the food pantry. This month we are asking for shelf-stable breakfast items and canned goods. Please see the flyer on the bulletin board in the narthex.
DEACON UPDATE: If you are in need of prayer and/or any pastoral care, please contact one of our deacons. Names and information are located at the back of the bulletin under staff.
DIRECTORY: The 2024 John Calvin Presbyterian Church Directory has been printed. You can get your copy from the welcome table near the front entrance in the Narthex.
2024 SUNDAYS @ SIX: Thank you to our generous sponsors, who have fully funded this years’ concert series! All of the concerts (and a small reception afterwards) are free. Come and bring a friend!
July 7: Fourth Wave Women’s Choir
July 14: Dody Piper, voice & Sam Garnett, organ
July 21: David Sigler, guitar
July 28: Crescent City Swing Band
August 5: Crescent City Sound Chorus
CALENDAR:
7/7 Sunday Worship 10:30a
1st Sundays @ Six Concert- Fourth Wave Women’s Choir 6p
7/8 Playschool Committee Meeting 12:15p
Outreach Committee Meeting 6:30p
7/11 PW Game Day 10a
7/12 Patima P.Shah Graduation Party 6p
Order of Worship 6/30/24
SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
June 30th, 2024 Ten Thirty in the morning
Preacher: Elder Patricia Ellzey
Liturgist: Joan Albright
Please silence all cell phones.
Please stand, in body or spirit
THE PEOPLE ARE GATHERED IN
PROCESSIONAL HYMN [*Blue #262][GTG#331]
God of the Ages, Whose Almighty Hand
1 God of the ages, whose almighty hand
leads forth in beauty all the starry band
Of shining worlds in splendor through the skies,
our grateful songs before thy throne arise.
2 Thy love divine hath led us in the past.
In this free land by thee our lot is cast.
Be thou our ruler, guardian, guide, and stay:
Thy word our law, thy paths our chosen way.
Lead us from night to never ending day.
Fill all our lives with love and grace divine,
And glory, laud, and praise be ever thine.
WORDS OF WELCOME
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ADORATION
CALL TO WORSHIP Lam. 3:22
ONE: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
MANY: the mercies of God never come to an end.
PRAYER OF THE DAY
O God, light of the minds that know You, life of the souls that love You, strength of the thoughts that seek You: Help us so to know You that we may truly love You, so to love You that we may fully serve You, whose service is perfect freedom; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
HYMN [Blue#564][GTG#338] O Beautiful for Spacious Skies
1 O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!
Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life!
America! America! God mend thine every flaw;
Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law!
REPENTANCE
CALL TO CONFESSION
SILENT CONFESSION
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart and mind and strength. We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. In your mercy, forgive what we have been, help us amend what we are, and direct what we shall be, that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways to the glory of Your holy name. Amen.
GLORIA PATRI [Blue#579[ [GTG581]
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,
THE WORD READ AND PROCLAIMED
1st SCRIPTURE John 3:16-21
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”
2nd SCRIPTURE John 8:31-32
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
ONE: The Word of the Lord
MANY: Thanks be to God
RESPONSE
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day, he rose again;he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church,
the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins,
RECEIVING OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS
OFFERTORY
DOXOLOGY [GTG#606]
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Praise God, all creatures here below;
Praise God above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
THE LORD’S PRAYER
HYMN [*Blue #366][GTG#703] Jesus, Thy Boundless Love to Me
1 Jesus, thy boundless love to me no thought can reach,
no tongue declare;
O knit my thankful heart to thee, and reign without a rival there!
Thine wholly, thine alone, I’d live; myself to thee entirely give.
2 O grant that nothing in my soul may dwell, but thy pure love alone;
O may thy love possess me whole, my joy, my treasure, and my crown!
All coldness from my heart remove;
may every act, word, thought be love.
3 O Love, how gracious is thy way All fear before thy presence flies;
Care, anguish, sorrow melt away where’er thy healing beams arise.
O Jesus, nothing may I see, nothing desire, or seek, but thee.
PARTING PRAYER
RESPONSE [*Blue #525][GTG#69]
I, The Lord of Sea and Sky (Here I Am, Lord)
I, the Lord of sea and sky, I have heard my people cry.
All who dwell in dark and sin my hand will save.
I, who made the stars of night, I will make their darkness bright.
Who will bear my light to them? Whom shall I send?
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 La Caprifolia Victor Macarty
*Note: the hymn lyrics in the bulletin and on the projection screen are from the Glory To God Hymnal (© 2013 Westminster John Knox Press), which we are transitioning to. Words in the “Blue” Presbyterian Hymnal (© 1990) in your pew may differ slightly.
The Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved.
STAFF |
Church Office: 504.888.1375 Playschool Office: 504.888.1378
Briana Mayfield – Church Office Assistant
Kelly Cuppett – Music Director
Lauren Crisler – Playschool Director
Stephanie Galliano – Playschool Admin. Asst.
Deacons
Linda Lowry 504-874-3266 llowry321@gmail.com
Bill Bottomley 504-885-3850 pslclerk@earthlink.net
Mary Antill 504-247-5720 buzz2moosetaco@gmail.com
Tony Hill 504-214-8095 rolandohill2003@yahoo.com
Laurie Hill 504-344-9079 la.tres@yahoo.com
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