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Service for the Lord’s Day First Presbyterian Church, Starkville Second Sunday of Advent December 9, 2018 10:00 a.m. PRELUDE Still, Still, Still arr. Mansfield Jennifer Blackbourn WELCOME, SHARING OF FRIENDSHIP REGISTER, AND INVITATION TO CHRISTMAS MISSION Martin Lifer and Kirk Kinard CALL TO WORSHIP LIGHTING THE CANDLE FOR THE SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT William Henry, Elizabeth Ryder, Chloe Hardin * ADVENT HYMN 176 Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus HYRFRYDOL *AFFIRMING OUR FAITH from The (Westminster) Larger Catechism (in Modern English) Q. 1 Simon Banzhaf FPC Youth: What is the primary and highest purpose of human beings? ALL: The primary and highest purpose of human beings is to glorify God and to enjoy Him completely forever. PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING, CONFESSION, PETITION, AND INTERCESSION 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. GOOD NEWS OF GOD’S GRACE Martin Lifer * RESPONSIVE HYMN 668 - THE DOXOLOGY *BRINGING GOD’S TITHE, BLESSED TO BLESS 2019 PLEDGES, and Christmas Mission Blessings Special Offering+ OFFERTORY The Sussex Carol with Gesu Bambino arr. McDonald Jennifer Blackbourn _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *The congregation is invited to stand. Visiting with Us? We warmly welcome you to our worship of God this Lord’s Day. We hope you can be back in worship with us on upcoming Sundays and also connect with other study and fellowship opportunities at FPC. To learn more about faith in Jesus Christ, as well as about church membership, and ways to learn, serve & grow at FPC – please speak to Pastor Lifer following the service, or call him this week at the church office. You may also send a message to him via email ([email protected]). FIRSTConnect Cards! Visitors, … including MSU and other university students …and Members – to update your contact information, prayer requests or ministry questions: Please complete a FIRSTConnect Card and place it in the Offering … or in a FIRSTConnect Box in the entranceways. +The Christmas Mission Blessings Special Offering+ This year’s Christmas Missions Blessings Offering will be directed to provide additional FPC year-end support (co-equally) to the following missions and missionaries: Starkville Habitat for Humanity; The Father’s Child Ministries; French Camp Academy and the Rising Son Camp; the Palmer Home for Children Mission; as well as two “Children of the Church” working overseas – Aretta Zitta (Director of Young Life/Club Beyond Ministry to children living on US military bases and housing in Europe and parts of the Middle East) and Chip Bobbitt. Today and throughout December, feel free to give – above and separately from your regular tithe and offerings – to this special offering. Checks should be made to FPC Starkville, but please designate in the check’s Memo line “Christmas Blessings Mission Offering” or simply “Christmas Blessings.” Deacon of the Week: Joel Downey Today’s Ushers: Tate Ferguson, Jack Aarhus, Mary Cameron Martin, Cline Kemp, Molly Kate Aarhus, Katie Clay George Today’s Greeters: Hayes Ferguson, Collier Martin, Drew George, Luke Iglay, Davis Banzhaf The First Presbyterian Church Children’s Choirs Present An Offering to God of Readings from His Word and Carols of His Son’s Birth Kathy McGill – Director Michele Rackley – Accompanist Christmas Bells Preschool Choir – 3’s, 4’s and 5’s Luke 2:1-3 Jack Aarhus and Madeline Rackley O Little Town of Bethlehem Solos – Collier Martin, Ella Walters, Ann Carlton Holditch, Cathryn Ryder Luke 2:4-5 Carson Mullen and Cathryn Ryder Mary Did You Know? Luke 2:6-7 Mary Neel Hearnsberger and Mary Cameron Martin Away in a Manger Luke 2:8-14 Cline Kemp, Elle Lacey, Ann Carlton Holditch, Anna Rackley, Addison Rackley, Ella Walters, Audrey Walters Glory to God Solo – Jack Aarhus Luke 2:15-18 James Rackley, Maddie Riffle, Collier Martin, Preston Lewis Go, Tell It on the Mountain! Solos – Carson Mullen, Elle Lacey, James Rackley Matthew 2:1-2 Barrett Lewis, Finnley Murdock We Three Kings of Orient Are Solos – Barrett Lewis, Finnley Murdock, Maddie Riffle Silent Night GOOD NEWS MESSAGE Martin Lifer *CHRISTMAS HYMN 181 Joy to the World ANTIOCH *BENEDICTION POSTLUDE Voluntary On An Old English Carol arr. Dixon Jennifer Blackbourn ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Children’s Choirs Jack Aarhus, Molly Kate Aarhus, Davis Banzhaf, Tanner Chance, Tucker Chance, Elizabeth Fair, Kate Fair, Anne Elise Hearnsberger, Mary Neel Hearnsberger, Mary Gresham Henry, Ann Carlton Holditch, Grace Holditch, Ross Hubbard, Cline Kemp, Edie Kemp, Elle Lacey, Barrett Lewis, Preston Lewis, Wade Luke, Collier Martin, Henry Martin, Mary Cameron Martin, Reese McAfee, Sally McAfee, Alli Beth McElmore, Carson Mullen, Finnley Murdock, Hawkins Murdock, Addison Rackley, Anna Rackley, James Rackley, Madelyn Rackley, Maddie Riffle, Cathryn Ryder, Ava Simmons, Jon Kyle Skinner, Audrey Walters, Ella Walters, Julia Weiskopf, Abigail Wolfe, and Madeline Wolfe Join us TODAY, following worship for 11:15 a.m. Breakfast/Brunch Fellowship Our FPC Youth invite you to a Fellowship Breakfast/Brunch Fundraiser following today’s worship service, as our Youth seek to raise funds for FPC benevolence missions. ___________________________________________________________________ UPCOMIMG DECEMBER SUNDAY & CHRISTMAS EVE WORSHIP SCHEDULE: Sunday, December 16 & 23, 2018 – Two Worship Services (8:30, 11:00 a.m.) 8:30 a.m. Worship Service 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Fellowship Gathering (Fellowship Hall) 11:00 a.m. Worship Service Christmas Eve/Monday, December 24, 2018 – *One Candlelight Communion Service, *5:00 p.m. Childcare available Sunday, December 31, 2018 – Two Worship Services (8:30, 11:00 a.m.) 8:30 a.m. Christmas Worship Service 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Fellowship Gathering (Fellowship Hall) 11:00 a.m. Christmas Worship Service
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Service for the Lord’s Day First Presbyterian Church, Starkville
Second Sunday of Advent December 9, 2018
10:00 a.m.
PRELUDE Still, Still, Still arr. Mansfield Jennifer Blackbourn
WELCOME, SHARING OF FRIENDSHIP REGISTER, AND INVITATION TO CHRISTMAS MISSION Martin Lifer and Kirk Kinard
CALL TO WORSHIP LIGHTING THE CANDLE FOR THE SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT William Henry, Elizabeth Ryder, Chloe Hardin
* ADVENT HYMN 176 Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus HYRFRYDOL
*AFFIRMING OUR FAITH from The (Westminster) Larger Catechism (in Modern English) Q. 1 Simon Banzhaf
FPC Youth: What is the primary and highest purpose of human beings? ALL: The primary and highest purpose of human beings is to glorify God and to enjoy Him completely forever.
PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING, CONFESSION, PETITION, AND INTERCESSION 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.
GOOD NEWS OF GOD’S GRACE Martin Lifer
* RESPONSIVE HYMN 668 - THE DOXOLOGY
*BRINGING GOD’S TITHE, BLESSED TO BLESS 2019 PLEDGES, and Christmas Mission Blessings Special Offering+
OFFERTORY The Sussex Carol with Gesu Bambino arr. McDonald Jennifer Blackbourn
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
*The congregation is invited to stand.
Visiting with Us? We warmly welcome you to our worship of God this Lord’s Day. We hope you can be back in worship with us on upcoming Sundays and also connect with other study and fellowship opportunities at FPC. To learn more about faith in Jesus Christ, as well as about church membership, and ways to learn, serve & grow at FPC – please speak to Pastor Lifer following the service, or call him this week at the church office. You may also send a message to him via email ([email protected]).
FIRSTConnect Cards! Visitors, … including MSU and other university students …and
Members – to update your contact information, prayer requests or ministry questions:
Please complete a FIRSTConnect Card and place it in the Offering … or in a FIRSTConnect Box in the entranceways.
+The Christmas Mission Blessings Special Offering+ This year’s Christmas Missions Blessings Offering will be directed to provide additional FPC year-end support (co-equally) to the following missions and missionaries: Starkville Habitat for Humanity; The Father’s Child Ministries; French Camp Academy and the Rising Son Camp; the Palmer Home for Children Mission; as well as two “Children of the Church” working overseas – Aretta Zitta (Director of Young Life/Club Beyond Ministry to children living on US military bases and housing in Europe and parts of the Middle East) and Chip Bobbitt.
Today and throughout December, feel free to give – above and separately from your regular tithe and offerings – to this special offering. Checks should be made to FPC Starkville, but please designate in the check’s Memo line “Christmas Blessings Mission Offering” or simply “Christmas Blessings.”
Deacon of the Week: Joel Downey Today’s Ushers: Tate Ferguson, Jack Aarhus, Mary Cameron Martin, Cline Kemp, Molly Kate Aarhus, Katie Clay George Today’s Greeters: Hayes Ferguson, Collier Martin, Drew George, Luke Iglay, Davis Banzhaf
The First Presbyterian Church Children’s Choirs Present
An Offering to God of Readings from His Word and Carols of His Son’s Birth
Kathy McGill – Director Michele Rackley – Accompanist
Christmas Bells Preschool Choir – 3’s, 4’s and 5’s Luke 2:1-3 Jack Aarhus and Madeline Rackley O Little Town of Bethlehem Solos – Collier Martin, Ella Walters, Ann Carlton Holditch, Cathryn Ryder Luke 2:4-5 Carson Mullen and Cathryn Ryder
Mary Did You Know?
Luke 2:6-7 Mary Neel Hearnsberger and Mary Cameron Martin Away in a Manger
Luke 2:8-14 Cline Kemp, Elle Lacey, Ann Carlton Holditch, Anna Rackley, Addison Rackley, Ella Walters, Audrey Walters
Glory to God Solo – Jack Aarhus
Luke 2:15-18 James Rackley, Maddie Riffle, Collier Martin, Preston Lewis Go, Tell It on the Mountain! Solos – Carson Mullen, Elle Lacey, James Rackley
Matthew 2:1-2 Barrett Lewis, Finnley Murdock We Three Kings of Orient Are Solos – Barrett Lewis, Finnley Murdock, Maddie Riffle
Silent Night
GOOD NEWS MESSAGE Martin Lifer
*CHRISTMAS HYMN 181 Joy to the World ANTIOCH
*BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE Voluntary On An Old English Carol arr. Dixon Jennifer Blackbourn ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Children’s Choirs Jack Aarhus, Molly Kate Aarhus, Davis Banzhaf, Tanner Chance, Tucker Chance, Elizabeth Fair, Kate Fair, Anne Elise Hearnsberger, Mary
Neel Hearnsberger, Mary Gresham Henry, Ann Carlton Holditch, Grace Holditch, Ross Hubbard, Cline Kemp, Edie Kemp, Elle Lacey, Barrett Lewis, Preston Lewis, Wade Luke, Collier Martin, Henry Martin, Mary Cameron Martin, Reese McAfee, Sally McAfee, Alli Beth
McElmore, Carson Mullen, Finnley Murdock, Hawkins Murdock, Addison Rackley, Anna Rackley, James Rackley, Madelyn Rackley, Maddie Riffle, Cathryn Ryder, Ava Simmons, Jon Kyle Skinner, Audrey Walters, Ella Walters, Julia Weiskopf,
Abigail Wolfe, and Madeline Wolfe
Join us TODAY, following worship for 11:15 a.m. Breakfast/Brunch Fellowship
Our FPC Youth invite you to a Fellowship Breakfast/Brunch Fundraiser following today’s worship service, as our Youth seek to raise funds for FPC benevolence missions.
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UPCOMIMG DECEMBER SUNDAY & CHRISTMAS EVE WORSHIP SCHEDULE:
Sunday, December 16 & 23, 2018 – Two Worship Services (8:30, 11:00 a.m.) 8:30 a.m. Worship Service
9:45 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Fellowship Gathering (Fellowship Hall) 11:00 a.m. Worship Service
Christmas Eve/Monday, December 24, 2018 – *One Candlelight Communion Service, *5:00 p.m. Childcare available
Sunday, December 31, 2018 – Two Worship Services (8:30, 11:00 a.m.) 8:30 a.m. Christmas Worship Service
9:45 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Fellowship Gathering (Fellowship Hall) 11:00 a.m. Christmas Worship Service
If you are interested in ordering Poinsettias, please find an order form in the pew racks. These purchases benefit the Palmer Home for Children. Final deadline for ordering – Wednesday, Dec. 12.
Prayer List Charles Atkinson Janet, Gary, and Jay Bardwell Ashleigh Murdock and Hawkins Murdock Paula Elliott Morris Taylor Allison Jackson Robert McDavid Ross Collins Gerlene Lifer Tom King (co-worker of Janice Kinard) Cindy Stewart (friend of Jane Vemer) Thomas Guest (grandson of Charlie & Rubye Guest). Frances Knoll Waltman and Cissy Knoll Thomas (Libby Gill’s sister and mother)
Cynthia Ware, together with her parents, Donna and Herman Ware Marjorie Malone Michael Tubb – Anna Ray Gassaway’s nephew Dan Ryder (Jason Ryder’s father) David Skinner (Kyle Skinner’s father) Billy and Brenda Harrington Jane Zitta Frances Ellis and Brett Horton (Ellen Mauldin’s sister and her brother Leslie’s grandson)
Diane Daniels, her sister, Delores Irvin, and Sarah Helen McCloskey and Craig D. Campbell (family friends of Bob & Diane Daniels) Marie Tubb and John Gassaway (Anna Ray Gassaway’s sister-in-law & brother-in-law)
Brenda Pratt, Cheryl Kay Linder (Beth Ann Dunlap’s stepmother & sister)
Carl Ivey, Sr. (Dukedom, Kentucky); Anderson Ivey (Carl and Paula Ivey’s grandson in
Birmingham); and Traci Hardin (wife of a manager of the Iveys’ Village Center Cycle)
Danny Carlisle (Loren Zimmerman’s friend)
Health Care / Assisted Living Prayer List Bessie Montgomery – Montgomery Gardens
Louise Haddigan – The Claiborne
Cattie Taylor – Beehive, Starkville
Thelma Gentry – Vicker’s Personal Care Home
Jane Lusk – The Claiborne
Jetta Kuykendall – The Grove, Columbia
Frances Oakley – Sunnybrook Estates, Madison
Marie Tramel – Beau Ridge, Ridgeland
Maxine Eastland – Franklin, TN
Elizabeth Duffey – Presbyterian Village, GA
Jewel Jacobs (Cindy Walker’s mother) – Montgomery Garden
Lu Graham (Jane Zitta’s sister) – The Hermitage, Richmond, Virginia
ADDITIONAL MISSION NOTES
BE AN ANGEL THIS CHRISTMAS! Buy gifts for our
FPC Child Care Center workers’ dependent children. Tags with suggested gifts and sizes are on the Angel Christmas Tree in the Fellowship Hall. Please take one or more of these tags from the tree, buy and wrap the gifts, and then bring the wrapped gifts (tags attached) to the church office by Wednesday, December 19.
Please pray for our Officers and Officers-Elect as
they serve the Lord’s Ministry through FPC. See the insert for a list of current and newly elected Officers and for further information on Leadership and Ministries at FPC.
CASSEROLE KITCHEN MISSION MEAL HOSTS AT FPC THIS WEEK
Dec 11 – Rebecca Banzhaf Dec 13 – Ross Collins
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FPC/EPC Women’s Ministry
Janice Kinard, Moderator Coordinating Team: Tuesday, December 4th at noon , Church Office, Major Johnson Room
Circle Meetings & Leaders 12/09/18, Sunday morning @ 8 am, Leader: Lynda Forbus, place: FPC Parlor
12/10/18, Monday afternoon @ 1:30 pm: Members check with Leader: Sara Wilson
Wednesday, 12/12/18, Tuesday evening group (Note date change): Sandy Jackson’s home, Leader: Vivian Cade
12/17/2018, Monday evening: Members check with Leader: Amy Weiskopf
Mission : * no financial offering given at circle. Women of the church will join the congregation to support local charities – FPC Angel Tree, Adopt a Child, Salvation Army Bell Ringing, Christmas Cantata etc.
Lesson: Each circle will enjoy their time together and the Advent season.
Service for the Lord’s Day Second Sunday of Advent
December 9, 2018
10:00 a.m. Unified Worship Service
FURTHER ADVENT & CHRISTMAS HAPPENINGS THIS WEEK:
Star(k)filled Christmas 2018 – THIS AFTERNOON & EVENING, 4:30 pm, City Hall Plaza - Multi-church Choir and
instrumental presentation, Live Nativity. Celebrate Christmas with your friends from all over Starkville! Hosted by participating Starkville churches, including FPC! 4:30 pm Refreshments; Children’s Choirs 4:45 pm; Program begins at 5:00 pm Includes: Welcome from the Mayor, Scripture reading.
Church Family Advent Night – THIS Wednesday, December 12, 5 pm, Fellowship Hall Family fun and Christmas crafts for Children
Join us for a VIP Merry Christmas Party! This Thursday, December 13, at 11:30 a.m., at Nelson and Beverly Jones' home - J-3 Ranch Please call Peggy Branch or the Church Office to RSVP or if you need a ride from the church.
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