WELCOME TO YOUTH SUNDAY!

Thank-you for all the support you have ever given to us!
Our experiences this summer and the whole year wouldn’t be possible without you. You shared God with us, and we hope that
through this worship experience, we shared God with you!
WELCOME TO YOUTH SUNDAY!
Planned and led by the youth of
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
JEFFERSON CITY, MO
August 14, 2016
FPC Youth Sunday
August 14, 2016
GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Cole Ahrens and Josh Hickman
PROCESSIONAL OF LEADERS WITH THE WORD & LIGHT
“Only Love”
*CALL TO WORSHIP IN MOTION
*SINGING AS CHRIST’S BODY
by Shaggy ft. Gene Noble & Pitbull
Rachel Holt, Valerie Holt, Amy Naaman
“You Are Holy (Prince of Peace)”
By Marc Imboden & Tammi Rhoton
OPENING PRAYER
Liz Lehmen
God of Life, prepare our hands for a new touch… A new and different touch… Prepare our lives for an
authentic encounter… An experience of awakening… Many are the worn out gestures… Many are the
movements frozen in time… Many are the useless excuses just to repeat attitudes… God of Life, give us daring
to create new ways of being community… New links of understanding… Breaking away from old ways of
relating… Encourage us to find true, meaningful ways to be your people… Draw us into your truth… Amen.
SINGING AS CHRIST’S BODY
“Come As You Are”
By David Crowder
PRAYER OF CONFESSION (From 2016 Presbyterian Youth Triennium)
Valerie Holt
God of Life, every second we exist is a gift. Gone in a whisper, it will not come again… So, God of us all, we
come to you and ask that you help us unwrap this gift, And teach us to share it, and call us to cherish it – this
precious life we’ve been given. And there are gifts we can offer each other: time, forgiveness, consideration…
Things we cannot purchase, but which are priceless. And there are lessons we desperately need to learn – about
love that does what it says, about advocacy that changes our behavior, about this life that we’ve been given that
explodes in beauty when we understand how to give it up. When we withhold forgiveness, forgive us. When we
withhold help or mercy or a kind word, forgive us. When we relax in our comfort zones even though it causes
others pain, move us that we may GO where you lead. In the name of the One who goes before us – even to
the ends of the earth. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON (From 2016 Montreat Youth Conference)
Albert Naaman
Friends, hear and believe this good news. Each of us has been engrafted into Jesus’ family tree, a family much
bigger, wider, and messier than we can imagine. In this family, there is nothing you can do to make God love
you any more. And there is nothing you can do to make God love you any less. You belong in God’s family
just as you are.
All: Alleluia, Amen.
*PASSING OF THE PEACE
Aydan Henry
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE
Rachel Holt and Niles Nichols
SINGING AS CHRIST’S BODY
“Praise Arise”
By Hannah Olson & Jeff Parshall
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
Matt Nickolaus
SCRIPTURE READING
Luke 10:25-37
Leader: This is the word of the Lord
All: Thanks be to God.
George Burson
SCRIPTURE READING
James 2:16-17
Leader: This is the word of the Lord
All: Thanks be to God.
Ben Krause
SCRIPTURE READING
Matthew 28:18-20
Leader: This is the word of the Lord
All: Thanks be to God.
Patrick Rogers
SENIOR MESSAGES
“Faith In Works”
“Masterpieces In Progress”
Rae Nichols
Josh Hickman
SINGING AS CHRIST’S BODY
“How He Loves”
By John Mark McMillan
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND LORD’S PRAYER (Adapted from 2016 Presbyterian Youth Triennium)
Amy Naaman
Turn to your neighbor and say, Neighbor, O neighbor (Neighbor, O neighbor…)
You may think you know me (You may think you know me)
But you have no idea (But you have no idea)
About my story (About my story)
Neighbor, O neighbor I may think I know you (Neighbor, O neighbor I may think I know you)
But I have no idea of the journey you have taken (But I have no idea of the journey you have taken)
And the struggles you bear (And the struggles you bear)
Neighbor, O neighbor you are not alone (Neighbor, O neighbor you are not alone)
God will show you, God will lead you (God will show you, God will lead you)
God will guide you (God will guide you)
And we can journey together In the way you should GO (And we can journey together in the way you should
GO)
Neighbor, O neighbor, let us pray together as our Lord taught us to pray: 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.
SHARING OUR TITHES AND OUR OFFERINGS
Song
“10,000 Reasons”
By Matt Redman
*SENDING SONG
By Tim Timmons
“Everywhere I Go”
*BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE AND PROCESSION
Becca Hickman
Rae Nichols and Josh Hickman
“Be One”
By Natalie Grant
RECOGNITIONS & SLIDE SHOW from REACH, Montreat and Triennium (Created by Josh Hickman)
Ushers: Cody Epema, Evin Henry, Kimberly Kliethermes, Andrew Naaman, Chris Nickolaus, Patrick Rogers
OUR 2016 SUMMER YOUTH TRIP PARTICIPANTS were:
Montreat Youth Conference participants:
Cole Ahrens, Becca Hickman, Josh Hickman, Rachel Holt, Valerie Holt, Ben Krause, Liz Lehmen, Amy Naaman,
Niles Nichols, Marilyn Hofmann and Zac Wolfe.
REACH Workcamp participants:
George Burson, Cody Epema, Becca Hickman, Josh Hickman, Stacie Holt, Todd Holt, Valerie Holt, Kimberly
Kliethermes, Liz Lehmen, Albert Naaman, Amy Naaman, Andrew Naaman, Niles Nichols, Patrick Rogers, and
Zac Wolfe.
Presbyterian Youth Triennium:
Cole Ahrens, George Burson, Aydan Henry, Josh Hickman, Valerie Holt, Liz Lehmen, Albert Naaman, Amy
Naaman, Andrew Naaman, Chris Nickolaus, Matt Nickolaus, and Zac Wolfe.
**Join us for brunch in Knox Hall immediately following this service.**
It will be provided by the FPC families and youth who went to REACH, and Montreat. This meal is free for all
who participated in the “Take Stock in Our Youth Program” and free will donations will be accepted from anyone
who wishes to join us. Everyone is invited, so join us after the service!**