FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHwww.fpcnorfolk.org

AUGUST 19, 2012

SPECIAL PRAYERS THIS WEEK:

Kenya Joy Home Creation Care Tip Persecuted Churches

David, 3 years oldConsider alternative like baking soda and vinegar

and water to clean.Oman

FPC Missionaries: Jeff & Marilyn Greenway in Nicaragua

FPC Local Missions: International Student Ministries at ODU

Pastors at First Presbyterian Church:Jim Wood, Senior Pastor - jim@fpcnorfolk.org

Valena Hoy, Executive Associate Pastor - valena@fpcnorfolk.org Jim Gates, Associate Pastor of Evangelism - jimgates@fpcnorfolk.org

Permission to Rest!

(Permission to not worry about your tongue

changing colors.)

Back by popular demand!

Enjoy FREE COTTON

SEEKING CHRIST

Congregational Meeting TODAY Aug 19 at 10:45 in First Hall - Join us for a brief meeting to elect new elders, deacons, nominating committee members and trustees.

Nursery Renovations Underway - Thanks for your patience while our nursery undergoes minor renovations. Please bring your babies (birth to 23-month-olds) to the main Children’s Check-In located outside our main Preschool wing.

SHARING HIS LOVE

Go 2 Blocks! - 1 Block Sunday School + 1 Block Worship; please park 2 blocks away to make room for guests.

Sunday School Teachers Needed - FPC Children’s Ministry is looking for Sunday School teachers beginning September 9th for both the 9:30 and 11:00 worship hours. If you have a heart for Christ and a love for kids, contact Hunter Johnston at hunter@fpcnorfolk.org for more information.

Opportunities for YOU in FPC’s Hospitality Ministries - We would love your help with making our church increasingly more warm and welcoming! Would you consider serving:

_____ as a Greeter with a 20 minute shift once a month?

_____ as an Usher on a team for the service of your choice?

_____ at the Welcome Desk for one hour on a Sunday morning?

_____ in The Loft before and after one service?

Please indicate interest by email to jimgates@fpcnorfolk.org or on the Connection Card.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHwww.fpcnorfolk.org

AUGUST 19, 2012

First Time Guests - Stop by the Common for a free copy of Donald Miller’s Searching for God Knows What

Free NIV Bibles - are available in the Loft for anyone who would like one.

Cross in The Common - A hand-made cross will be added to the cross in The Common each time the Lord blesses us with a first-time guest. We celebrate that 525 first-time guests have been with us in worship since 9.11.2011. Please remember to invite your friends to church. “...and day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.” Acts 2:47

Pra•x•is

SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY AUGUST 19, 201220th Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary

Welcome

Call to Worship: Psalm 95: 1-2, Page 550, O.T., NRSV

*Hymn: All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name! #142

Prayer of Confession: God of love, it is your will that we should love you with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbor as ourselves, but we are not sufficient for these things. We confess that our affections continually turn away from you: from freedom to slavery, from compassion to indifference, from fullness to emptiness. Have mercy on us. Order our lives by your holy Word, and make your commandments the joy of our hearts. Conform us to the image of your loving Son, Jesus, that we may be His ambassadors before the world to your glory. Amen.

Silent Confession

Confessional Response: Kyrie Kyrie eleison; Christe eleison; Kyrie eleison. Translation: Lord have mercy; Christ have mercy; Lord have mercy.

Assurance of Pardon: 2 Corinthians 5: 20-21, Page 181, N.T., NRSV

*Congregational Response to God’s Grace: Gloria Patri #579 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, Amen.

Greeting and Connecting Children through Grade 5 are invited to come forward to receive a Children’s Worship Packet designed especially to involve them in worship.

Anthem: Greater Love by John Ireland

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. Love is strong as death. Greater Love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Who His own Self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness.

Ye are wash'd. Ye are sanctified, ye are justified, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,

that ye should show forth the praises of Him Who hath call'd you out of darkness into His marvelous light. I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Old Testament Reading: Esther 4: 1-17, Page 446, O.T., NRSV

New Testament Reading: John 15: 1-17, Page 109, N.T., NRSV

The Preached Word: Permission to Rest Jim Wood

Presentation of our Gifts

Offertory: Recitative and Aria But Who May Abide The Day of His Coming? from "Messiah" by G.F. Handel

Soloist: Jermaine Woodard

Recitative: Thus saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts; Yet once, a little while, and I will shake the heav'ns and the earth, the sea and the dry land; and the desire of all nations shall come; the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, ev'n the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.

Aria: But who may abide the day of his coming and who shall stand when he appeareth? For he is like a refiner's fire.

*Doxology and Prayer of Dedication 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.

*Affirmation of Faith: The Apostles‘ Creed Hymnal, Page 14 I believe in God, the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Amen.

Concerns and Prayers of Our Church Family

The Lord’s Prayer (in unison) 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 debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and power, and glory, forever.

*Hymn: What Wondrous Love Is This #85

*An Invitation to Christian Discipleship

*Benediction and Congregational ResponseCeltic Alleluia: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia

Flowers in the Sanctuary: To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Donna Ramsey, Marc McSaen Ramsey, 1st Lt. Louis Selig and Carmen Ramsey, given by Dr. Laurie Ramsey and Dr. John Ramsey.

CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP AUGUST 19, 201220th Sunday in Ordinary Time 9:30 in First Hall

(Please silence your digital devices)

ENTERING INTO THE WORD

Songs of Praise and Prayer: You are Good

Rain Down

Greeting & Prayers Children through Grade 5 are invited to come forward

to receive a Children’s Worship Packet designed especially to involve them in worship.

Sacrament of Baptism: Child of the CovenantDrew Westover Dobratz, son of Eric and Melanie (Mel) Barnes Dobratz

Apostles’ Creed (in unison)

Songs: I Call Your Name

Mercy

ENCOUNTERING THE WORD

Old Testament Reading: Esther 4:1-17, Page 446, O.T., NRSV

New Testament Reading: John 15: 1-17, Page 109, N.T., NRSV

The Preached Word: Permission to Rest Jim Wood

ENGAGING THE WORD AND THE WORLD

Offering Our Gifts & Prayers

Benediction and Song of Response: I Call Your Name — Reprise

For help finding a class for yourself or your child, please stop by the Welcome Center.

Children and Youth Sunday School

Children and Youth will be promoted to their new Sunday school classes on Sunday, September 9.

Bethlehem Babies Nursery 8:20am - 12:10pm: Nursery Renovations Underway - Thanks for your patience while our nursery undergoes minor renovations. Please bring your babies (birth to 23-month-olds) to the main Children’s Check-In located outside our main Preschool wing.

Little Lambs Sunday School 2-4 years old ~ 9:30 & 11:00am Check your child in at computers outside the children’s wing.

R.A.D.I.C.O.L Sunday School (Raising Awesome Disciples in Christ Our Lord) RADICOL children, ages kindergarten through fifth grade, will check in at the computers and begin worship at 9:30 in the Old Fellowship Hall with “Praise Kids”.

(In August there will be no 11:00 Children’s Sunday School classes. ALL are welcome to worship during the 11:00 service!)

Jr. and Sr. High Sunday School At 9:30, Junior and Senior High Sunday School will meet in the Catacombs, for the month of August.

Adult Sunday School 9:35 classesFirst Class - James (Northminster House)Basic Bible - Paul's Epistles (Rabbi Room, Main building)

11:05 classesThe Reason for God - Video Study of Tim Keller’s book (The Center)Journeyers Sunday School - Lessons from the Holy Land. 2nd & 4th Sundays (The Center)

In The Common Bibles & Sermon DVDs in The Loft, free for guests.

A Special Gift for Guests: First-time guests receive a copy of Donald Miller’s book, Searching for God Knows What, found on the table in The Common.

Program Staff:Annie Blakey, Director of Youth Ministries - annie@fpcnorfolk.org Andrew Callan, Minister of Administration - andrew@fpcnorfolk.orgLucy Gates, Director of Family & Children’s Ministries - lucy@fpcnorfolk.orgHunter Mackey Johnston, Director of Children's Ministries - hunter@fpcnorfolk.org

Kristine Rand, Director of Prayer & Spiritual Growth - kristine@fpcnorfolk.orgSheryl Wood, Mission Outreach Coordinator - sheryl@fpcnorfolk.org

SUNDAY MORNING CLASSES AUGUST 19, 2012