First United Methodist Church 516 Kellogg Ave. 515-232-2750

www.fumcames.org Online at 8:30 November 1, 2020

Rev. Dr. Kerrin Kirkpatrick and Rev. Nikki Ross Bishop

THE GATHERING OPENING VOLUNTARIES---PRELUDE “For All the Saints” Ralph Vaugn Williams (arr: Mark Hayes/Marvin Gaspard)

“How Firm a Foundation” (arr: Mark Hayes/Marvin Gaspard) Piano/Organ Duets: Barb Mittman/Myrna Cakerice

GREETING SHARING NEWS OF THE CHURCH ALIVE PASSING OF THE PEACE OF CHRIST CALL TO WORSHIP (based on Isaiah 1:16-18; 2:3c,5; Hebrews 4:16) “Come – wash yourselves and be clean,” says the Lord. “Give up your evil ways.” “Learn to do good, to seek justice, to help the oppressed.” “Come now,” says the Lord. “Let’s settle this. Though your sins are like scarlet I will make them white as snow.” We come to the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need! Come – let us now walk in the light of the Lord. We come, so that the Lord may teach us His ways and that we may walk in His paths!

HYMN “O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee”

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OPENING PRAYER Loving and Gracious God, thank You for loving me more than I will ever understand. I accept Your love, Your forgiveness, and Your grace. Thank You for sending Jesus to rescue me when I have been lost, and to show me, by example, how to walk with You. Help me as I seek to walk with You individually and in community with this local church. Guide and direct our steps as we practice the vital spiritual disciplines of worship and prayer, Bible study and listening, serving others, giving generously, and sharing our story. Grow us into faithful followers of Jesus Christ, our crucified King. It is in His name we pray. Amen.

(“The Walk,” pg 159 & Leaders’ Guide, pg 58, by A. Hamilton)

SHARING OF JOYS, CONCERNS, & GOD-SIGHTINGS Stewardship Moment (Video – Bruce Wight) PASTORAL PRAYER THE LORD’S PRAYER

WELCOME TO OUR GUESTS (Welcome & Marketing Video) FIRST SCRIPTURE Matthew 27:45-46; Luke 23:34, 40-43 A TIME WITH OUR CHILDREN Nicole Smith ANTHEM “The Power of the Cross”

Keith Getty/Stuart Townend. (Arr: Larry Shackley) Piano Solo: Barb Mittman

SECOND SCRIPTURE John 19:26-30 WITNESS TO THE WORD “Five Essential Practices From the Cross” CELEBRATION OF THE LOVE FEAST Sharing Song “There is Room at the Table” Carrie Necomb

(Sing and Dance along!) Introduction to the Love Feast

Centering Prayer Reflections: video Dedication of 2021 Commitments Gracious and loving God, Giver of all that is good and true, beautiful and life-giving: These pledge cards represent our sweat, our lives, our dreams. The pledges we make on these cards represent all the awesome gifts that You have given us. They are pledged in thanksgiving for all we have received, for all we have been inspired to be, for all we are challenged to become, in this place. May they be the first fruits of all we have and not what we have left over, for we want to give with the same generosity that You have given to us. May we see them as our offering to You, filled with possibilities. May we hold this image in our hearts and minds so that as we watch our offerings come each week to Your church, we can see our very selves as a part of those offerings. We come together as Your church; may we be a living sacrifice to You through our prayers, our presence, our gifts, our service, and our witness, in Christ’s name. Amen. - The Rt. Rev. Greg Rickel Diocesan Bishop Diocese of Olympia, edited Passing the Bread

Offertory Video Bruce Wight Time of Prayer & Reflection Myrna Cakerice

DISMISSAL WITH BLESSING

HYMN “Precious Lord, Take My Hand/ Just a Closer Walk with Thee” Selah

Volunteers are critical to providing the 11:00 Sunday morning in-person worship. If you are comfortable and able

to participate in person, please visit the website: https://tinyurl.com/AmesFUMCinperson to volunteer your help with the precautionary measures needed to make the service possible. Thank you very much for considering! If there are not enough volunteers signed up by Thursday, the in person service will have to be cancelled for that particular week.

CLOSING VOLUNTARY “The Rejoicing” Charles Callahan

LEAVING FOR SERVICE

UMW Fundraising opportunity: Featuring Real Christmas Trees For Sale!

We have four Black Hills (short needle) spruce trees about 7' tall available...you can come pick yours out and we will cut and deliver or cut for you to take home. These are lovely trees i planted too close to other plantings so this is their chance to become lovely Christmas trees. They will be $50 delivered. Please contact Joan Peterson for details at 515-451-3011.

Frozen Pies for sale from my home. All proceeds donated to United Methodist Women. Call me at my home for details, 232-2597. Marlene Bell

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Children's Zoom Sunday School will continue their unit on Compassion for our neighbors and be having Art with Ms. Suann! Check email for the zoom link or contact Nicole if you'd like to be included in this. The Hair-Raising Fundraiser has begun! Go to www.fumcamesevents.com to donate in honor of one of the participants or you can send a check to the church with Hair and "Participant Name" in the memo. All funds raised will go with the hair donations to Children With Hair Loss to help make the free wigs and hairpieces they provide for children up to age 21 facing hair loss due to cancer treatment, alopecia, or burns.

Hello from Youth Ministries! Please again accept our thanks for those that helped with the Thank you bags project. You will see a slide during the service on Sunday that has a few of the kids in it as they deliver the bags to Northcrest. Such a great project! Next up is Christmas! Our youth will be working to prepare a gift that will be included in the Christmas bags and boxes that will be picked up/sent out from the church this Christmas. It's wonderful to have so many hands on opportunities for the youth to get involved in purpose driven community events. Up with Puppets will be meeting this Sunday (Nov. 1) at 11am via Zoom. Please plan to join! If this is your first meeting (or 100th), make sure to join. We are so glad to have Puppets back. Yay! Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83502204550

As a reminder, HS meets at 9:45am on Sundays. Here is the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86183625219

MS meets on Wednesdays at 6:30pm. Here is the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81320445063

Thanks always for all your support! -From the Youth, Youth Leaders and Youth Ministries Team

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Please keep my daughter, Karen Boland in your prayers. She left today for her and her husband's mission, My Kinsmen Ministries in Sierra Leone, Africa for the next 18 days. Pray for a safe and healthy trip for her. Thank You. Marlene Bell

Glenys Anderson would like to give everyone a great big thank you for all of the prayers, cards, calls and visits that she has had since her son, Tom, was put in the hospital and later transferred to the Polk City Nursing and Rehab Center.

On Wednesday Glenys called to let me know that she had received the best birthday present ever. Tom will be transferring from Polk City to Bethany Life in Story City.

Dear Church Friends, Thank you for the 90th birthday cards that Paul received...It made our week of quarantine, go much faster and it was fun to open all of the cards and notes. I’m sorry to have given some of you the wrong address. We still got them!! The correct address is: 2200 Hamilton Drive, Unit 503 Ames, Iowa 50014 Thanks again from Diane and Paul

Just a reminder…..the mail is delivered in all conditions - even Covid! Many of the committee mailboxes are filling up. If you would like to pick up your committees mail, call the office and let me know when you would like to come by. I will bag it up and have it in the entry way for you! You don’t even have to come in for it. Thanks! Deb

ALL SAINTS DAY Ames First United Methodist Church will be observing All Saints Day on Sunday, November 8. Service times are 8:30 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. During the worship celebrations we will name and remember all members and friends of the church who have died during the past year. On this day we will also dedicate any memorials and gifts that have been given to the church for service to this congregation and to the glory of God. We invite you to be present as we remember your deceased loved one in a meaningful ritual during the liturgy. Please notify other members of your extended family to be present as well.

Due to COVID-19, we will only Livestream the 8:30 a.m. service. Our 11:00 a.m. service will be in-person only, as long as the Ames schools are having in-person classes on Friday, November 6. (We use the Ames Community School District as a guide for in-person worship.) If you attend the 11:00 a.m. service, face masks will be required along with social distancing. Families will be invited to stand while their loved ones candle is lit.

It is easy to access our Livestream by going to the church website: fumcames.org. The worship service will also be available on the church’s YouTube channel which is also easily accessed from the website home page under “Worship” then “Recordings”.

We hope that you and your family and friends will be able join us for worship either live or virtual on November 8 as we celebrate your loved ones life. May the presence of God continue to give you strength, peace, comfort and love.

Masks for Sale

Have you noticed the masks that the church staff have been wearing? These are the masks that the children and leaders received at the start of the school year as a gift from Children, Family, & Intergenerational Ministries. We have 25 masks left! CFIM has decided to try to sell the remaining masks as a fundraiser to help adopt a family this holiday season. These masks have a cotton inner layer with a poly/cotton outer layer. They have adjustable ear loops and an adjustable nose piece. They are very comfortable too! If you’d like to purchase one for $8, please contact Nicole at nicole@fumcames.org or call the church office. If there is still interest after the 25 are gone, we might work on placing another order! They could make some great Christmas gifts for family and friends!

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Stewardship -

Don't forget to return your Stewardship Commitment form to the church office as soon as you are able. If you did not receive a Stewardship letter this past week, please contact the church office (515-232-2750 or office@fumcames.org). Check out the our "Give" webpage (http://fumcames.org/ways-to-give/) that describes the different ways you can make a gift to the church.

THANK YOU

We would like to thank those of you that participated in our Silent Auction. We didn’t receive any bids on the 2 desserts a month or the 2 homemade ice cream offers. We will propose a bake sale of the items listed for each quarter of the calendar year to help our fundraising for Alzheimer’s. Next summer we will have an ice cream social. Our goal for donations for 2020 was $7,500 and we are presently as $10,460.

What a blessing our church family has been in 2020! Judy & Dean Sampson

MISSIONS OPPORTUNITY

MICA FOOD PANTRY: The Missions Committee challenged our congregation to donate 1200 pounds to the MICA Food Pantry this year. We’re making progress in spite of the pandemic! Thank you to those who have faithfully put things in the basket for delivery. We’ve donated 500 pounds so far with 2+ months left. Given the crazy year, we may need to adapt our goal a little, but let’s see how close to that 1200 we can come! The needs are definitely still there!

MISSIONARY BIRTHDAY! One of the missionaries our church supports, Doug Williams (Argentina), has his birthday November 18. You may remember when he visited us two years ago, he mentioned how much it meant to be remembered by folks on his big day. Let’s try to fill his email box with good wishes! His email address is: dwilliams@umcmission.org

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To view church services live, go to http://bit.ly/amesfirstumclivestream. To view past services and other church events, go to Ames First United Methodist Church's YouTube page at http://bit.ly/amesfirstumcyoutube.

AFFIRMATION OF WELCOME

As a community of the people of God, we are called to minister to ALL people of the world, knowing that the world is often an unloving place, a place of alienation and brokenness. Christ calls us to reconciliation and wholeness, and we are challenged by the Gospel to be agents of healing within our society.

We stand in affirmation with the Apostle Paul that “in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female.” ALL are ONE IN CHRIST. We at Ames First UMC acknowledge that this reconciliation encompasses ALL within the community of faith who exhibit differences in race, gender, and ethnicity, as well as age, culture, physical ability, educational level, economic status, personality, marital status, and sexual orientation.

In response to the often hostile social climate with respect to diversity within our society and the resulting feelings of alienation from the Church, we wish to make known our caring and concern. It is for this purpose that we affirm the following:

ALL persons share the worth that comes from being unique individuals created by God;

ALL persons are welcome within the membership of this congregation upon making an affirmation of faith; and,

ALL persons are encouraged and expected to share in the sacramental and general life of this congregation as members of this church.

Send your anthem video information to Myrna Cakerice (mcakerice @aol.com)

Audio/Video/Streaming Marty Sankey Mike Evans

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