Ogden Presbyterian Church

Rev. Tedd Pullano 2400 South Union Street Spencerport, NY 14559

585-352-6802

Worship and Fellowship Assistants

Today Next Sunday

BELL CHOIR DIRECTOR .................................... Bonnie Bush CHOIR DIRECTOR/ORGANIST……….. ...... Ellen Bristol CHRISTIAN EDUCATION DIRECTOR .......... Donna Metherell

WELCOME TO OGDEN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

We are glad you came today.

For your convenience, nursery care is available in Room #1 from 9:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. If needed, the room off the Narthex can be used for a cry room or for infant care. Sunday School for children through 8th grade is held during the worship service after the children’s time. Restrooms are located past the Fellowship Hall on the right. Please join us in the fellowship hall for a coffee/tea fellowship following the service.

OPC Mission Statement: Our purpose is to equip ourselves and others to be Disciples of Christ as we seek God’s will for our church and beyond.

REMEMBER: April 2020 Oracle deadline is Monday, March 16th.

Pastor ............................ Rev. Tedd Pullano Pastor’s email ................ ogdenprespastor@gmail.com Pastor’s cell…………… 750-9775 Pastor’s Office Hours ... Call ahead; available by appointment

Secretary ........................ Brandon Arva Secretary email ............... ogdenpresbyterian@gmail.com Secretary Office Hours . Tues/Fri 1:30—5pm

Office phone: ............... 352-6802

Website: http://www.ogdenpresbyterian.org (if you misplace your bulletin or Oracle, they can be found on the website)

Greeters Suzanne Ewell TBD

Ushers Kathy & Jim Case Barbara Pratt & Sharon Pittman

Liturgist Mark McDaniel Mark McDaniel

Fellowship Sandy Frieday Michelle Rosipayla & Sandi Mandarano

SS Teacher Sharon Pittman Carol Newman

Nursery Cindy Anderson TBD

Writing of Joys and Concerns There is a prayer request card in the pew. Please write down your prayer or praise request for us. (Please print legibly). Please put the prayer card into the offering

plate during the offering so the pastor will include your joys and concerns in Prayers of the People.

Trustee of the Month — February — Randy Spilberg — 721-9702 One trustee is assigned per month to take care of any building issues

that may arise. Please call the designated Trustee if you have something that needs to be addressed. Thank You!

Please use the time before worship starts to personally meditate, prepare or center your mind for worship.

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, contact John Caloritis (Clerk of Session) at 723-1285, or Sim Mulford (Deacon Chair) at 426-5308.

This Week at the Ogden Presbyterian Church

Today ............... Worship, 10am Monday............ Men’s Bible, 12:30pm Tuesday ........... Women’s Bible, 9:30am Wednesday ...... ASH WEDNESDAY .......................... Home Bureau, 9:30—2:30 .......................... Choir, 4pm .......................... TOPS, 5:30pm .......................... Bells, 6pm .......................... Ash Wednesday Service,

6:30pm, Ogden Baptist Thursday ......... Stitchin’ for Mission, 10am Next Sunday .... Worship, 10am .......................... 1st Sunday in Lent

Upcoming OPC Events

March 2 Fellowship, 6:30pm March 5 Lenten Series, 7pm March 7 Frieday Birthday Party

(FH), 10-3 March 9 Men’s Bible, 12:30pm March 11 Home Bureau, 9:30-2:30 March 12 Stitchin’ for Mission, 10am Lenten Series, 7pm March 14 Spaghetti Dinner

Fundraiser, 4:30-6:30pm March 16 Lunch Bunch, Noon Worship & Music, 4pm Deacons, 6:30pm Trustees, 6:30pm ORACLE DEADLINE March 17 Session, 6:30pm March 19 Lenten Series, 7pm March 22 TWYG, 8:30am March 23 Men’s Bible, 12:30pm March 24 CE, 6:30pm, Gaskills March 25 Home Bureau, 9:30-2:30 March 26 Stitchin’ for Mission, 10am Lenten Series, 7pm March 28 OPC Potluck Dinner &

Talent Show April 2 Lenten Series, 7pm

TOUCH CARDS Please take a moment to send a thought or well wishes to the designated person listed below. The cards can be found in each pew. Drop them in the collection plate or in the little basket in the Library. The Deacons will make sure they get to that person.

This week’s touch cards are for -

Average Worship Attendance for January 2020: 93 January 2019: 102

COMING SOON IN MARCH… Women and friends, you are invited to attend a Women’s Series, moderated by

Dr. Kerri Wemett, Ph.D in Biblical Counseling, LMSW. The topics will be “Developing Healthy Relationships,” “Managing Conflict,” and

“Setting Boundaries/Learning to Say No, With Grace”. This series is made possible by an OPC Endowment Grant submitted by the CE Committee, and approved by Session. We are tentatively looking at Wednesday evenings: March 4, 11, 25, and

April 1 from 7:15-8:30pm. Location TBD.

Beginning next Sunday, March 1st, the Mission Committee is going to resume putting out the coin jar to collect loose change and other donations to go towards the SEM Human Needs Fund. The jar will be on the Mission Table. Thank you for your generosity, which helps SEM meet tangible needs within our community.

Welcome to Ogden Presbyterian Church Sunday, February 23, 2020 — Transfiguration of the Lord Sunday

GATHERING AROUND THE WORD

CAMBRIDGE CHIMES

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

GREETING EACH OTHER Ringing of Bell

PRELUDE “It Is Well With My Soul” arr. Whitsett Lighting of the candles

SCRIPTURE READING Psalm 42 p. 447

*CALL TO WORSHIP (from Psalms 62, 42)

L: For God alone our souls wait in silence, for our hope is from the Lord. P: Only God is our rock and our salvation; in him we shall not be shaken. L: Yet sometimes we say to God: “Why have you forgotten us?” P: Sometimes we cry out: “When shall we come and behold the face of

God?” L: Yet the Scriptures tell us: trust in the Lord at all times; pour out your hearts

before God. P: Yes, our trust is in the Lord. God is a sanctuary for us. L: Once God has spoken: that power and steadfast love belongs to God; P: Today we gather to experience that power and love in healing. L: Hope in God for healing! P: Hope in God, for we shall again praise him, our God and healer!

*HYMN #390 “O Savior in this Quiet Place”

*PRAYER OF CONFESSION Please take a moment to reflect and offer up to God your personal areas where you have brought brokenness and sin into the world.

*ASSURANCE OF PARDON L: We hear in the Scriptures that if we confess our sins, he who is faithful and

just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Know this day you are forgiven by God’s great loving mercy.

P: Hallelujah! In Christ we are forgiven. Thanks be to God.

CHOIR ANTHEM “You Raise Me Up” Martin

PROCLAIMING THE WORD

SCRIPTURE READING Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 p. 537 L: This is the word of the Lord. P: Thanks be to God!

SERMON “A Time to Heal” Rev. Tedd Pullano

SERVICE OF HEALING & ANOINTING Offering of Our Lives Opening Words Prayers for Healing (a time of silence is kept after each petition)

L: For all who are in need of healing... P: Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. [moment of silence...] L: For all who struggle with injury or illness, in body, mind or soul... P: Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. L: For all who are troubled by confusion or burdened by pain... P: Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. L: For all whose increasing years bring weariness... P: Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

*Worshipers please stand (as you are able)

L: For all about to undergo surgery... P: Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. L: For all who cannot sleep... P: Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. L: For all who are grieving loss... P: Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer. L: Into your hands, gracious God, we place all for whom we pray,

trusting in your mercy. Amen. Laying On of Hands & Anointing with Oil Prayer over Oil & the Deacons (Those desiring anointing with oil, please approach a Deacon) Prayer

*HYMN #384 “O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go”

OFFERING OUR GIFTS TO GOD

OFFERING INVITATION OFFERING OUR GIFTS TO GOD

OFFERTORY “Ave Verum” Mozart

*DOXOLOGY #542, v.4

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION (unison) Gracious God of Ogden, you offer us so much: love, mercy, healing. You grant us so much: places to live, good income, financial security. At this moment, we offer back to you a portion of your bountiful blessings. Please accept them, bless them, and use them to bring healing to all who need it. Amen.

RESPONDING TO THE WORD

JOYS AND CONCERNS PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE PASTORAL PRAYER

THE LORD’S PRAYER (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 the power and the glory, forever. Amen.”

BEARING AND FOLLOWING THE WORD INTO THE WORLD

*HYMN #539 “Savior, Again to Thy Dear Name We Raise”

*BENEDICTION

*POSTLUDE “Jesus Shall Reign” arr. Hopson

TALENT SHOW & POT LUCK DINNER

The OPC Fellowship Team is hosting a Pot Luck Dinner & Talent Show on Saturday, March 28th.

Please sign up on the sheet on the Fellowship Board if you plan to attend.

ALL AGES ARE WELCOME TO & ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE!!!

AURORA HOUSE CASINO NIGHT FUNDRAISER

Saturday, February 29th @ 6:30pm Plantation Party House

1875 N. Union St., Spencerport

Tickets: $50/ea, or 2 for $90

Celebrate the Aurora House’s 10th Anniversary — play casino games for a cause. Your ticket includes: hors d’oeuvres, and $500 in playing chips for casino games.

Chips can be redeemed for Door Prizes, and the Grand Prize is a trip to Las Vegas! Cash bar available. 50/50 raffles and Chinese raffles. Visit aurorahousewmc.com to

purchase tickets & for more information.

LENTEN STUDY: THE PATH TO THE CROSS

Ray Vander Laan’s The Path to the Cross: Embracing Obedience and Sacrifice will be the subject of OPC’s 2020 Lenten

Study. Another outstanding entry in Vander Laan’s much loved DVD series filmed on-site in the Holy Land, this book highlights the tremendous love of the Lord for each of his followers and the

importance of developing our relationship with him. It is also packed with revealing details about the culture and customs of first-century life in Judea. Our five-session series begins on

Thursday, March 5th at 7pm in the Oak Room and continues on March 12, 19, 26, and April 2. We hope you will plan on

joining us! Please sign up on the Discipleship Bulletin Board and indicate if you wish to purchase a book ($5).

THE LINUS PROJECT

I, like many of you, have lots of crocheted and knitted blankets that I no longer use. I am collecting them for the veterans, and

would love any donations. At this point I have about seven. I talked to Bill Cecere, and they currently have 15 residents.

I will hold off on bringing them to him until I have that amount. My thought is that when residents transition to other living

arrangements they could take their blanket with them… something someone took the time to make would mean a lot, I think.

After Pastor Tedd’s Christmas Eve service ending with the Charlie Brown Christmas story, I could not stop thinking about the comfort of the blanket to

Linus… who came to the rescue for Charlie Brown.

If you have any blankets that are homemade, please call me at 352-4475. If you can’t bring them to church, I will pick them up.

Thank you! ~Barbara Pratt

ATTENTION OPC YOUTH: The Bible Study Group at Churchville-Chili High School is sponsoring a movie night on Friday evening, February 28th, from 6-10pm. It will be held at Churchville-Chili High School. All youth are welcome! Parents/guardians are welcome to stay for

the movie as well. Snacks will be served. Please email Jason or Samantha Tucker at jasonctucker77@gmail.com or see them at church with any questions you have.

SPAGHETTI DINNER FUNDRAISER The Men’s Bible Study group is holding a Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser on Saturday, March 14th from 4:30-6:30pm.

In addition to being available for purchase at the door, tickets can also be purchased on each Sunday before and after the

worship service. See Dennis Dupree. Seniors — $8; Adults — $9; Children under 12 — $5.

Sight & Sound Theatre in Lancaster, PA has filmed its 2019 live performance of “Jesus” and will be showing it in local theatres April 7 (6:30pm), April 9 (6:30pm) and April 11 (12:55pm). Local participating theatres include Tinseltown Gates, Regal Henrietta, and AMC Webster. Tickets can be purchased online at jesusevent.com for $12.50, if you are interested.