BEHOLD ! ITISGOOD Introit Holy Spirit, come. Make my eyes to see

To the weak I became weak, so
that I might win the weak. I have
become all things to all people,
that I might by all means save
some. I do it all for the sake of
the gospel, so that I may share in
its blessings.
Apostle Paul
(1 Corinthians 9:22-23)
Those who wait for the LORD
shall renew their strength, they
shall mount up with wings like
eagles, they shall run and not be
weary, they shall walk and not
faint.
Isaiah 40:31
BEHOLD! IT IS GOOD
Memorial Prayer
Introit
Holy Spirit, come. Make my eyes to see. Make my ears to hear.
Make my mouth to speak. Make my heart to sing and my hands
to reach out and touch the world with your love.
Interlude
Proclamation
In life and in death we belong to God.
Through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
The love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit,
We trust in the one triune God, the Holy One of Israel,
Whom alone we worship and serve.
Call to Worship
Lift up your hearts
We lift them up to the Lord
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In the morning, while it was still
very dark, Jesus got up and went
out to a deserted place, and
there he prayed. And Simon and
his companions hunted for him.
When they found him, they said
to him, “Everyone is searching
Mark 1:35-37
for you.”
Prayer
In the Light of the Morning (3x)
In the light of the morning the love of God fills our hearts
In the light of the morning the love of God fills our hearts
And we shall sing for joy and we shall sing for joy
And we shall sing for joy and we shall sing for joy
GRACE ABOUNDS
Organ/Piano
Dianne Holliman
Assistants
Philip Watts
Logan Rolfe
Charlotte Baker-Shenk
Prayer of Confession
Merciful God, we confess that so often we doubt your presence
and your love. We are weary and afraid. We fail to trust in
you. Forgive us. Lift us up on eagle’s wings and renew us in
your love, that we might learn to love others as you love us.
Kyrie Eleison (Ghanian)
(Lord, have mercy)
Declaration of Grace & Gratitude
We will love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength,
And love our neighbors as we love ourselves.
To O u r G u e s t s
So glad you’re with us today.
Please sign the guest book in
the Narthex and fill in a visitor’s
card from the pew pocket.
After the service enjoy a cup
of “fairly traded” coffee or tea
with friends in the Fellowship
Hall.
Gloria, gloria, in excelsis deo.
Gloria, gloria, alleluia, alleluia.
Welcome
Blessing the World
Hymn 367 (vs. 1-3)
“Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love”
First Pew
Parish Life
HEARING THE WORD
Reading
Lesson
Mark 1:29-39
Homily
“Prayerful Service”
Sing the Faith 2197
“Lord of All Hopefulness”
SHARING THE GIFTS OF LIFE
Eucharistic Prayer
Communion
Come and fill our hearts with your love.
You alone O Lord are holy.
Come and fill our hearts with your love. Alleluia.
S E RV I N G T H E W O R L D
I don’t believe in prayer. But
when I pray the most interesting
coincidences occur.
Bishop Leslie Weatherhead
The problem of this culture is
that we make natural enemies
out of prayer and transforming
action when the two are really
Siamese twins: either without
the other is incomplete.
Joan Chittister
The Lord doesn’t look so much
at the greatness of our works as
at the love with which they are
done.
Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
I know if you
Pray
Somewhere in this world—
Something good will happen.
Hafiz
Presenting Tithes and Offerings
Offertory
“Kyrie”
“Messe Breve” by Leo Delibes
Affirmation
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Acclamation
With believers in every time and place
we rejoice that nothing in life or in death
can separate us from the love of God
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Holy Spirit, come. Make my eyes to see. Make my ears to hear.
Make my mouth to speak. Make my heart to sing and my hands
to reach out and touch the world with your love.
Charge & Benediction
Flowers placed by
Chris Cubby
in memory of
Jan Pierson Chadwick
Sermons
www.spcworks.org
narthex and office foyer
Sunday flowers
sign up in office
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Postlude
“Fugue on the Kyrie”
Francois Couperin
In the Light of the Morning,
Canticle of the Sun by Bro. Stefan Waligur.
Minister of Word & Sacrament
Rev. Dr. Randall Tremba
[email protected]
Director of Spiritual Formation
& Campus Ministry
Ethel Hornbeck
[email protected]
Administrator
Carl Moore
Office Manager
Kathy Reid
[email protected]
Treasurer
Bonnie Casely
Youth Director
Joshua Nolen
[email protected]
Sunday Studio Director
Karen Waugh
Parish Nurse
Merry Morgan
Adult Choir Director
Dr. Georgiann Toole
Psalm 150 Singers
Terry Tucker
Property Managers
John Burns (inside)
David Springer (outside)
Newsletter Editor
Rie Wilson
GSIVC Coordinator
Vicki Smith
Session
Jerry Thomas, Clerk
Charlotte Baker-Shenk
Gene Bayer
John Burns
Rosemarie Coy
Paul Kradel
Melinda Landolt
Kay Schultz
Mike Williams
Ministers-at-large
All our members
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Office hours
Monday through Thursday
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
304-876-6466
Pastor
By appointment
Ethel Hornbeck
By appointment
Sun 5
8:15 a.m.
9:25 a.m.
9:25 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
10:45 a.m.
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy of the Word & Table
Blood Pressure Clinic. Lower Level
Seminar: Exploring Nonviolence
Middlers in the Morning. Youth lounge
Liturgy of the Word & Table
Tues 7
7:30 p.m.
Choir practice
Wed. 8
7:30 p.m. Psalm Singers
Thurs 9
4:30 p.m. Connections @ The Blue Moon
7:00 p.m. Worship committee meeting
Sun 12
6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
2 Kings 5:1-14; Ps. 30; 1 Cor. 9:24-27; Mark 1:40-45
8:15 a.m. Liturgy of the Word
9:25 a.m. Seminar: Exploring Nonviolence
9:30 a.m. Middlers in the Morning. Youth lounge
10:45 a.m. Liturgy of the Word
COMMUNION BREAD is entirely gluten free today. The “wine” is
non-alcoholic.
NEXT BOOK DISCUSSION Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher
Stowe. Sunday, February 19, 4:00 p.m. at Christine Librizzi’s house.
Potluck supper; sign up sheet in Fellowship Hall.
ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICE February 22, 7:30 p.m. Imposition of
ashes is optional.
LENTEN SUNDAY EVENINGS February 26, March 4, 11, 18, 5:30
p.m. Soup and Bread Supper in Fellowship Hall. (It helps the kitchen
crew to bring your own bowl, spoon and cup.) 6:15 p.m. program in
Sanctuary: “Notes from My Spiritual Journey” by various SPC members. Sign up in Fellowship Hall to bring soup and bread.
WALK TO JERUSALEM. The Parish Care Committee is presenting
a challenge, walk to Jerusalem by Easter. Jerusalem is roughly 5,930
miles from here as the crow flies. If we can get a minimum of 100 members to participate, each of us will have to walk about 60 miles, which
is about 10 miles a week. Sign up in the Fellowship Hall starting Feb.
12.
Ordinary Time
Fifth Sunday
February 5, 2012
10:45 A.M.
Groundhog Day
Celebrate this unlikely oracle,
this ball of fat and fur,
whom we so mysteriously endow
with the power to predict spring.
Let’s hear it for the improbable heroes who,
frightened at their own shadows,
nonetheless unwittingly work miracles.
Why shouldn’t we believe
this peculiar rodent holds power
over sun and seasons in his stubby paw?
Who says that God is all grandeur and glory?
Unnoticed in the earth, worms
are busily, brainlessly, tilling the soil.
Field mice, all unthinking, have scattered
seeds that will take root and grow.
Grape hyacinths, against all reason,
have been holding up green shoots beneath the snow.
How do you think spring arrives?
There is nothing quieter, nothing
more secret, miraculous, mundane.
Do you want to play your part
in bringing it to birth? Nothing simpler.
Find a spot not too far from the ground
and wait.
Lynn Ungar
S HEPHERDSTOWN P RESBYTERIAN C HURCH
100 W. Washington Street
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Established 1743
Faithfulness Sustains the Generations
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