THIRD SUNDAY AFTER
PENTECOST JUNE 29,
2003
Welcome to South
Roanoke United Methodist Church. Our mission is to bring persons to know
the love of Jesus Christ, to provide opportunities for a growing personal
relationship with God, and to provide biblical and theological training in
order that persons may discover and develop their talents to serve Christ
and share His love in our world.
ORDER OF SERVICE-10:00
A.M.
+ Indicates the people standing
ENTRANCE
Gathering
Music
Rondo
Mouret
As the prelude plays, please use this time
for quiet reflection in preparation for worship.
Chiming of the Hour
Words of Welcome, Registration of Attendance and Announcements
(We encourage all of our worshipers to please
sign the registration pad as it is passed along the pew; visitors are
requested to also list their address. After it has been passed, please
return it to the center aisle. If you wish to join this church by letter
of transfer or profession of faith, please check “wish to join” on the
registration pad.)
An Order for the Celebration of an Appointment (see insert)
+Call to Worship
Psalm 130
Hymnal, No. 848
Minister: Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! Lord, hear my
voice!
Congregation: Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my
supplications!
Minister: If you, O Lord,
should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
Congregation: But there is forgiveness with you, that you may be
worshiped.
Minister: I wait for the
Lord, my soul waits, in the Lord’s word I hope;
Congregation: my soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the
morning, more than those who watch for the morning.
Minister: O Israel, hope in
the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
with the Lord is plenteous redemption.
Congregation: And the Lord will redeem Israel from all iniquities.
+Opening Prayer
Minister: The Lord be with you.
Congregation: And also with you.
Minister: Let us pray
Make us
worth, Lord, to serve those throughout the world who live and die in
poverty or hunger. Give then, through our hands, this day their daily
bread; And by our understanding love, give peace and joy. Amen.
-Mother Teresa
of Calcutte, Yugoslavia, 20th cent.
+Hymn 266
Heal Us, Emmanuel, Hear Our Prayer
Grafenberg
Children’s Time
(Children leave for Children’s Church. See * below)
Anthem
Praise Ye the Name of the Lord
Young
Sharing of Joys and Concerns
-Mark and Reuben Knopf -Ross Lemon -Jess Kent -Phyllis Dickey
-Helen Crumpler (South Roanoke Nursing Home) -Jeanne
Hogan
-Martha Babb -Mickey Babb
Pastoral
Prayer
The Lord's
Prayer
Hymnal, No. 895
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.
Offering of Tithes and Gifts to God's Work
Offertory Prayer
Offertory
Give Thanks
Smith
(Tom Miller)
Doxology
Hymnal, No. 94
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise God,
all creatures here below: Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise God, the source of
all our gifts! Praise Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts! Praise the
Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
+Hymn 510
Come, Ye Disconsolate
Consolator
Scripture Lesson (N.T. pg.
39)
Mark 5:21-43
The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
Thanks be to God.
Sermon
“A
Tale of Two Daughters”
Bill Davidson
+Hymn
367
He
Touched Me
He Touched Me
+Benediction
+Postlude
+Indicates the people
standing
THOSE
SERVING TODAY:
Acolytes: Katherine Witt and Taylor Dayton
Greeters: Wilma Spangler and Katherine Jacocks
June Altar Guild Chairmen: Sandi Clemmer and Margaret Nedrow
Ushers: Captain-William Brenton, Jr., Prentice E. Moran, Joseph L.
Austin,
William Richardson, Jay Williams, Ross Jeffries, William P. Wallace, Jr.
The
Altar Flowers Are Given
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
In Honor of Bill, Cheryl, Chris and Salina Davidson
*CHILDREN (AGES 3 through 1st GRADE),
may meet the acolyte to recess to Children’s Church. Please ask
your child to line up behind the acolyte who will lead all children out
together. After the worship service, parents must pick up their child in
the Children’s Department; children will not be allowed to leave the room
until their parents arrive.
WELCOME! We're glad to have all
who have joined us for this time of worship. Especially to our guests and
visitors, we welcome you to South Roanoke and to our fellowship. We invite
those who have no church home to make South Roanoke your church and add
your witness to ours.
OUR SUMMER SCHEDULE HAS BEGUN AND WILL
CONTINUE THROUGH AUGUST 31. Sunday School for all ages begins at
9:00 a.m. followed by the morning worship service at 10:00.
TODAY immediately following the
10:00 a.m. worship service you are invited to come to the Fellowship Hall
for a reception honoring our new minister and his family. You will have
the opportunity to welcome Bill and Cheryl Davidson and their children,
Chris and Salina, as they begin their ministry at South Roanoke United
Methodist Church.
PLEASE SIGN UP on the bulletin
board by the church parlor to serve as a greeter. There are still several
Sundays open during the summer months. All that is required is to be at
the front door 15-20 minutes before the start of worship. Please check
your calendars and volunteer to be a greeter!
MEMBERS WHO HAVE FAMILY who grew up
in South Roanoke United Methodist Church are asked to turn their names and
addresses into the church office as part of our 50th Anniversary
Celebration.
REQUESTS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS are now
being taken. If you are a member of SRUMC, and have a student who will be
attending college this fall and would like to apply for a scholarship,
please come by the church office to pick up an application form. The
deadline for requests to be turned in to the church office is July 1.
THE CHILDREN (K-6TH GRADE) of
SRUMC are invited to join with Southview UMC for a very special M.A.D.—Music,
Art, and
Drama—week this summer.
Joe Kennedy will be teaching handbell classes and assisting in the
direction of this week. The week will culminate in the presentation of the
musical Down By The Creek Bank.
M.A.D week will be held Monday, July 21 through Friday, July 25 from
9:00-12:30 at Southview Church. The cost is $15.00 per child (max $35.00
per family.) Call Joe Kennedy, 344-4437, for more information.
THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE TOWER TIMES
will be a July/August issue. Please send articles to Joe Kennedy, or email
to joesrumc@aol.com by July 1.
VBS REHEARSALS—There will be an
Anthem Rehearsal TODAY from 11:00-11:15 a.m. in the choir room for all
children, youth and adults participating in VBS. This will be to prepare
us to sing at the worship service on July 6.
AN
ORDER FOR THE CELEBRATION OF AN APPOINTMENT
Reference: United Methodist
Book of Worship, 1992
Leader: Dear
friends, today we welcome Bill Davidson, who has been appointed to serve
as our pastor. We believe that he is well qualified and has been
prayerfully appointed by our bishop, Joe Pennel.
Leader: Bill Davidson, you have been sent to live among us as a
bearer of the Word of God; a minister of the Sacraments; and a sustainer
of the love, order, and discipleship of the people of God.
Pastor: Today I reaffirm this commitment in the presence of this
congregation.
Leader: Brothers and sisters in Christ, as a people committed to
participate in the ministries of the Church by your prayers, your
presence, your gifts, and your service, will you who celebrate this new
beginning support and uphold Bill Davidson in these ministries?
Congregation: We reaffirm our commitment to support you with our prayers,
presence, gifts and service.
Leader:
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger
Congregation: who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces
salvation.
Leader:
Let us pray. Almighty God, you still call us to go into your service and
spread the message of the salvation of your Son. Bless richly, we pray,
your servant, Bill Davidson’s entrance into our fellowship. Fill him with
the power of your Holy Spirit and let him find with us an open door for
the Word. We also pray for your Church on earth. Equip us all with a
spirit of willingness, that we with courage can witness about you by the
profession of our mouths and through our way of living. Grant us all to
partake in your strength and joy, so that we can enter into the anxiety
and suffering of the world, to be radiating and make alive that hope which
Christ gives. All this we dare to pray of you; for you are to us the
Father of mercy and the God of all grace; you are the Son, the Savior and
the Redeemer; you are the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Helper and the Giver
of Life. Blessed be you. Amen.
Congregation: Lord God, bless the ministries of your Church. We thank you
for the variety of gifts you have bestowed upon us. Draw us together in
one Spirit, that each of us may use our differing gifts as members of one
body. May your Word be proclaimed with faithfulness, and may we be doers
of your Word and not hearers only. As we who have died and risen with
Christ in baptism gather at his table and then scatter into the world, may
we be one in service to others, in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
All: The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to
shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance
upon you, and give you peace. Amen.
Pastor: The
peace of the Lord be always with you.
Congregation: And also with you.
