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FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday School – 9:30 a.m.
Casual Worship – 8:30 a.m. Traditional Worship – 10:45 a.m.
February 24, 2008
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Ministry Sunday
WORSHIP PREPARATION THOUGHT: “ We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.” Thomas Merton
GATHERING
CALL OF CHURCH BELL
REGISTRATION OF ATTENDANCE & COMPLETION OF PRAYER REQUEST CARDS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
OPENING VOLUNTARY
CHORAL INTROIT
OPENING PRAYER
PASSING OF THE LIGHT Pastor Joy
*SONG OF PRAISE “All Creatures of Our God and King”
As we sing, please hold up completed Prayer Request Cards so the ushers may collect them.
PRAYER & PROCLAIMATION
PRAYERS
THE LORD'S PRAYER
CHILDREN'S MOMENT Heidi Komorech
*SONG OF PREPARATION “Open the Eyes of My Heart”
MESSAGE “Coffee” Chris Komorech
*SONG “Grace Like Rain”
RESPONSE
OFFERING
OFFERTORY “The Journey is Our Home” By Allen Pote
*DOXOLOGY “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow” Page #95
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION “Still Here Waiting” By Todd Agnew
SONG “Amazing Grace”
(My Chains are Gone)
*DISMISSAL WITH BLESSING
*CLOSING VOLUNTARY
* Indicates those in the congregation who are able will please stand.
Following worship, our Stephen Ministers are available for one-on-one prayer.
Please come to the communion area, and someone will meet you.
The candle on the altar burns in celebration of the baptism anniversary
of Quentin Nasir Haupt, baptized on February 22, 2004.
OUR WORSHIP LEADERS
Joy Caschetta , Pastor Richard Boyd, Diaconal Minister of Music
Chris Komorech , Worship Assistant Susan Niederer, Musician
Bill and Stephen Gregory, Greeters Bob Homan, Sound
Kathy Clayton, Visitation Person Caitlin Brown and Meral Jobes , Acolytes
Geneva Bennet and Kay Dunn, Flowers
Ushers: Dean Heer , Captain ; Mike Acheson, Joe Diliberto, Al Doty, Bob Homan, Warren Keller, and Ed Warren