First United Methodist Church in Downtown Erie

Prayer List: Ed Tennon (chemo treatments), David (Ann DiTullio’s son), Diane Olson (eyesight),
Merritt Fish (HealthSouth), Sherry (Barb & Merritt Fish’s daughter), Bunny Copeland (Barb Fish’s
sister), Betty Lou Albright (stroke), Lella Seibel (Golden Living)
In the Military: Michael Reim, Dustin Witsch, and Thomas Pilson
UM Mission: McCur dy Ministr ies, Espanola, NM; dor mitor y for vulner able women in
vocational training, Monrovia, Liberia
Submit a prayer request by filling out a prayer request card, or by calling the office at
814•452•3300, or after hours by calling Barbara Gaither at 814•454•0762.
First United Methodist
Church
in Downtown Erie
A downtown church for downtown people
Today’s Greeters:
Brauns Doors: Katharine Hoffman
Elevator: Ed & Mary Lu
South Entrance: Leona Easly
Today:
Next Week:
Birthdays This Week
Liturgist
Eric Arndt
Loretta Nosko
12 Merritt Fish
Acolyte
Makenna Farley
Elliot Arndt
14 Don Smith
Projectionist
Elliot Arndt
Charlie McNamara
Sound
Tom Faber
Tom Faber
Worship Volunteers:
On the Corner of Seventh and (707) Sassafras Streets
Erie, Pennsylvania 16501
Telephone: 814•452•3300
Mother’s Day
May 8, 2016
10:30 a.m. Worship
Radio Broadcast: Listen to our 10:30 a.m. wor ship ser vice at 7:00 p.m. (EST) Sunday
evenings on WERG 90.5 FM and on the web (link from www.fumcerie.org).
Our Church Staff
Home/Office
Cell
Email
Pastor
Jim Parkinson
814•920•4113
814•449•4431
[email protected]
Director of Youth
Ministries
Susan Bartlett
814•969•1468
814•384•4836
[email protected]
Director of Music
& Organist
Bruce R. Gingrich
814•314•0714
814•460•9229
[email protected]
814•452•3300
814•881•2035
[email protected]
Office & Financial Melodye McFadden
Administrator
Nursery Care
Giver
Sammi Rosswog
Custodian
Fred Nicklas
814•816•2063
814•459•7106
OUR PURPOSE STATEMENT:
“To share our passion for Jesus Christ with Erie’s next generations.”
CCLI License# 11242638
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College Student Spaghetti Dinner update: It was a gloomy, chilly, rainy evening when 167
hungry students entered Fellowship Hall on April 28. They left with full stomachs, smiles and
encouragement from our volunteers to successfully complete their exams and enjoy their summer
activities. YOUR support through prayers, cash donations, purchasing soda, and especially the
wonderful desserts have made this dinner program very popular as it continues to grow. We'll
resume in September and new volunteers are always welcome.
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Today is the final day for donations of new underwear to be donated to the Rainbow Connection underwear for all ages is needed; please keep original packaging and tags on. Donation baskets
remain near the altar rail - let's fill 'em up!
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Worship Leader:
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ORDER OF WORSHIP
*Indicates the people may stand if able.
WELCOME & GREETING ONE ANOTHER IN CHRISTIAN LOVE Pastor Jim
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Pastor Jim
(If you have a prayer request, please fill out the prayer card, found on the back
of the pew in front of you, and give it to an usher during the prelude.)
BRINGING THE LIGHT:
PRELUDE:
We are looking for a worship leader for our new Sunday morning worship
service “Light for the City” starting this summer. This person will lead singing and accompany
with either a keyboard or guitar. An applicant must be personable and familiar with praise and
worship music. Apply by email to [email protected] or see Pastor Jim.
Makenna Farley
In Honor of Mother’s Day….the women present today are invited to take a potted
flower at the close of the worship service. These tokens of love are a gift from
Carol and Howard Wright with Best Wishes for a wonderful Mother’s Day!
“Our Parent, by Whose Name
R. Vaughn Williams
Bruce R. Gingrich, Director of M usic M inistries and Organist
WELCOME TO OUR COLLEGE STUDENTS AND THOSE LISTENING ON
90.5 FM WERG & THE WEB
*CALL TO WORSHIP:
Eric Arndt
(Let us stand for the Call to Worship)
Liturgist:
People:
Liturgist:
People:
Liturgist:
People:
Liturgist:
All:
Upcoming Schedule
This Week
Next Week
Sun
08
Mon
09
Tue
10
Wed
11
Thu
12
Fri
13
Welcome home.
God bids us to come,
Find rest for our weariness,
Find peace deeper than our worry.
Welcome home,
All you lost, wandering or stuck in despair.
Welcome,
To God’s arms, as wide as a father's care, as warm as a
mother's love. Amen.
*OPENING HYMN:
“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” Red Hymnal No. 384
Verses 1, 2, and 4
(Please be seated)
Sat
9:00 am Sunday School
10:30 am Worship-”Mother’s Day”
9:00 am
9:30 am
3:30 pm
7:30 pm
9:00 am
Noon
9:00 am
2:00 pm
6:30 pm
9:00 am
Rummage Sale set-up
Clergy Book Club
Kids’ Café at Kingsley
Naranon
Rummage Sale set-up
OCY—Yoga
Rummage Sale set-up
St. Joseph’s Service
Book Study
Rummage Sale set-up
9:00-3:00 Rummage Sale
pm
14 9:00-Noon Rummage Sale—
$2 bag day
Sun
15
Mon
16
Tue
17
Wed
18
Thu
19
Fri
20
Sat
21
9:00 am Sunday School
10:30 am Worship-Pentecost
Simdau
11:45 am Lunch/Prayer Walk
3:30 pm Kid’s Café at Kingsley
7:30 pm Naranon
12:00 pm Finance
Noon OCY—Yoga
6:30 pm Council
9:00 am OCY –Fellowship Hall
First United Methodist Church in Downtown Erie
707 Sassafras Street, Erie, PA 16501 ■ 814•452•3300
A Downtown Church for Downtown People
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OPENING PRAYER:
Eric Arndt
Unison: Father, we come to you and welcome you into this sanctuary.
You are our Creator and Provider. You formed us in our mother’s wombs. We are thankful for our mothers! We ask you to
lead and guide and shepherd us this morning. Our desire, Father
is to know and love and worship you! In Jesus Name, Amen!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
 Restrooms ar e located on the lower level, below the sanctuar y, or upstair s in the lobby of
Oxford Center (through the door to the left of the chancel). Accessible restrooms are on the first
floor (level L) near the elevator.
 Nursery Care is available dur ing the wor ship ser vice for children through kindergarten age .
Please see an usher for assistance.
 Personal listening devices are available! Either you may use a headset pr ovided by the
church or you can plug your own favorite headset (with a 1/8” audio jack) into one of the
church’s portable receivers. Please see an usher for assistance.
 CONGRATULATIONS to all High School and College Graduates! Please notify the office
by May 22nd via phone (453-3300) or email ([email protected]) if your son or
daughter is graduating this month or next so we can be sure to recognize them during the service
on Sunday June 5th. Include in your message your child’s name, where they are graduating
from and any future plans (college, graduate school, work, etc…..). THANK YOU!
 MAY 15th — remember to wear RED for Pentecost Sunday. We are also asking for donations of red
flowers (prefer ably ger aniums) to plant in the gar dens around the outside of the church in honor of
Pentecost Sunday. These flowers can be brought to the church next Sunday and placed on the altar railing.
 RUMMAGE SALE SET-UP will start Monday, May 9th and continue through the week. We
need lots of folks to work on getting things ready and especially on our sale days Friday, May 13
and Saturday, May 14. "Come When You Can" is our volunteer motto: we'll be working from 9
AM till as long as people want to stay. Don't think your two or three hours won't make a
difference - IT WILL! There are tasks for every level of ability or strength. You'll have fun
working with other volunteers, sharing chores and smiles. THANK YOU—THANK YOU–
THANK YOU - 167 times!
THE ALTAR FLOWERS this week are given in loving memory
of Mike & Larry Sturgis by their mother Flo Sturgis.
---------------------------------------------The special flower arrangement placed on the altar table
by Joe Bolash is in loving recognition of his wife Anne on their
50th Wedding Anniversary celebrated Saturday May 7th.
“We love because He first loved us.” - John 4:19
MORNING PRAYER FOR THE PEOPLE
Pastor Jim
FOLLOWED BY 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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.
Amen.
AFFIRMING TOGETHER:
“Mothers”
Eric Arndt
Genesis 3:20; Exodus 20:12; 2 Timothy 1:5; Psalm 131:1-2
Unison:
WE BELIEVE that the man named his wife Eve, Life, because she
was the mother of all living things.
WE BELIEVE that we should honor our mothers, “so that your
days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving
you.”
WE BELIEVE that mothers give us life, and pass on to us their life
of faith, even as Paul said to Timothy, “I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your
mother Eunice, and now, I am sure, lives in you.”
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WE BELIEVE that God’s love for us is like a mother’s love, comforting us and giving us life, even as the psalmist says: “O LORD,
my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not
occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But
I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its
mother; my soul is like the weaned child that is with me.” Amen.
RESPONSE HYMN: “Happy the Home When God is There” Red Hymnal No. 445
Verses 1 and 2.
Hap-py the home when God is there,
and love fills ev-ery breast;
when one their wish, and one their prayer,
and one their heaven-ly rest.
PRAYER HYMN:
“Help Us Accept Each Other”
Pastor Jim
OFFERTORY
“One Day At A Time”
Wilkin/ Kristofferson
Fred Erickson, soloist
Bruce R. Gingrich, Director of M usic M inistries and Organist
(Please pass the Attendance Pads so all may sign and know with whom
they worship today. Please return to the center aisle. Thank you!)
*DOXOLOGY
Red Hymnal No. 95
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
praise him, all creatures here be-low;
praise him a-bove, ye heaven-ly host;
praise Fa-ther, Son, and Ho-ly Ghost. A-men.
Hap-py the home where Je-sus’ name
is sweet to ev-ery ear;
where chil-dren ear-ly speak his fame,
and par-ents hold him dear.
THE MINISTRY OF MUSIC: “A Parent’s Prayer”
Chancel Choir; Bruce R. Gingrich, directing
TITHES & OFFERINGS
OFFERING CALL
*THE OFFERING PRAYER
*CLOSING HYMN:
Pastor Jim
“We Are One in the Spirit” Black Hymnal No. 2223
Verses 1, 2, and 3.
Boyd Bacon
*SENDING FORTH
Pastor Jim
Red Hymnal No. 560
All Four Verses
Please feel free to stop at the chancel rail to pray during the hymn.
If you’d like to pray alone with God, come to the pulpit (left) side.
If you’d like the pastor or lay leader to pray with you, come to the lectern (right) side.
KIDS’ TIME:
Pastor Jim
Children 12 and under may come to the chancel area for some time with Pastor Jim.
Parents: If your little one needs some encouragement,
please feel free to come and sit with them.
BIBLE LESSON:
John 17:20-26
THE MESSAGE:
“One in Ministry”
Rev. Jim Parkinson, preaching
Pew Bible N.T. Page 105
*PARTING CHORUS:
“Fill Our Cups Lord”
Red Hymnal No. 641
Change “singular” to “plural”
Fill our cups, Lord, we lift them up Lord.
Come and quench this thirst-ing of our souls.
Bread of heav-en, feed us till we want no more;
Fill our cups, fill them up, and make us whole.
*POSTLUDE:
“The Rejoicing”
Charles Callahan
Bruce R. Gingrich, Director of M usic M inistries and Organist