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 This week's bulletin includes the order of worship, announcements, prayer requests and calendar items, Rev. Green's sermon is entitled “Discovering Joy"...
The Worship of God
Enter with Reverence
Leave to Share God’s Love and Serve Others
Sunday, July 24, 2011 – 10:30 A.M.
Opportunities Henry Green
Prelude “Tranquility” Ellen Welker
Psalm 105:1-2
Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name;
make known among the nations what he has done.
Sing to him, sing praise to him;
tell of all his wonderful acts.
Call to Worship Hymn No. 574 My Tribute
“My Tribute”
Invocation Jack Sturgis
+Hymn No. 339 Coronation
“All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name”
+Greetings and Grace to You
Grace to you, grace to you, God’s great grace to you.
As you walk through your life in joy or strife,
God’s grace, God’s grace to you.*
Reading No. 547 Romans 8:35, 37-39; John 3:16-17
“More than Conquerors”
+Hymn No. 619 Assurance
“Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine”
Pastoral Prayer and Lord’s Prayer
Offering and Offertory “Andantino in A-Flat”
+Hymn No. 705 Gloria Patri
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, amen.
Anthem Summer Choir
“Joy Unspeakable”
The Gospel Lesson Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52
The Heritage Pulpit
“Discovering Joy”
What are some of the lessons we learn from these six (5 in our reading today, weeds and wheat were last week) parables telling us what the kingdom of heaven is like?
The Kingdom of God is like a circus…
The unbridled joy of watching a child at a circus inspires us to become messengers of joy, helping others to discover:
Spiritual Transformation
Suffering that does not become Debilitating
Satisfaction with God’s Love and Grace as Mystery
When we discover the joy of God’s love in Christ, we realize:
This joy emerges from our yearning for God
This joy delights in the blessing of God – Grace
This joy must be shared – Engaging Others in Love
+Hymn No. 364 I Love Thee
“I Love Thee”
Introductions
+Benediction
Postlude “Church Procession”
+Congregation Standing
We ask that you please turn off, or put on silent mode, all cell phones and other electrical devices. Additionally, please no food or drinks in the sanctuary.
*The Baptist Hymnal, No. 663, Copyright © 1975 Broadman Press.
CCLI #1662915. Used by permission.
OPPORTUNITIES
Our youth are away at Passport. They left this morning for Boston and will be back on Saturday, July 30th. Please be in prayer for them and their sponsors.
There will be no youth fellowship this evening.
Be in prayer for Melissa Manuel who will be leaving on a mission trip to Brazil on Tuesday, July 26th. She will be serving as an interpreter for a group from First Baptist Church of Garland, Texas. Melissa will return on August 6th.
Copies of the Treasurer’s Report for June are available on a table in the narthex.
Financial Statements for the first six months of 2011 have been mailed. They are sent to everyone for whom we have a record of contribution. If there is an error in yours, or you did not get one, and should, please call Edie Stucker, our Financial Secretary. She is in the office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.
The 66th annual Annapolis Rotary Crab Feast will be on Friday, August 5th, from 5-8 pm, at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Come join with 3000 people from Annapolis and around the country. All money raised goes to help non-profit groups in Annapolis. Tickets are available in the church office or on line at annapolistickets.com web site. Cost: Adults $60.00; Children: (3-12 years of age) $20.00. This includes all you can eat and drink, including male crabs plus Maryland vegetable crab soup, sweet Maryland corn on the cob, beef barbecue sandwiches, all-American hot dogs and assorted drinks. Anyone interested from Heritage going as a group see Sally to sign up.
Attention, Senior Adults: We will be going to Harris’ Crab House on Tuesday, August 9th. The church bus will leave from the church parking lot at 10:30 am. For crab lovers, the cost for the “all-you-can-eat feast” including steamed crabs, steamed shrimp, barbecue chicken, corn-on-the-cob, cole slaw, potato salad, corn muffins and drinks is $37.00. This includes tax and gratuity. Your money for eating crabs is due by Sunday, August 7th. You may also order from the menu. A sign up sheet is posted on the bulletin board by the chapel.
Food Pantry Distribution: Tuesday, July 26 – Pat Pope and Thursday, July 28 – Belle Ferchak.
July 31: Extended Care Workers: Nursery – Erin Busch; Preschool 2’s and 3’s – Everett Golihew and Andrew Cogliano; 4’s and 5’s – Jennifer Pope and Patrick Green.
Bus Driver: Clyde Morehead. Pianist: Irene Green.
JULY 24-30
Today 9:15 am - Sunday School
10:30 - Morning Worship
Monday 6:00 pm - TOPS
Tuesday 11:30 am - Lunch Bunch
8:30 pm - Alcoholics Anonymous
Wednesday 6:00 pm - Pizza and Drinks
6:30 - Summer Bible Study
- Children’s Activities
7:15 pm - Youth Fellowship
- Summer Choir
Friday 8:30 pm - Alcoholics Anonymous
The Mission of
Heritage Baptist Church
As followers of Christ, we share God’s love and serve others.
Pastor: Henry Green
Minister of Music: Ralph Manuel
Director of Education: Everett Golihew
Minister to Senior Adults: Charles Barnes
Interim Youth Director: Melissa Manuel
Organist: Eleanor Sturgis
Assistant Organists: Ruth Anne Shiplette
Ellen Welker
Learning Center Director: Helen Holmboe
Secretary: Sally Morehead
Financial Secretary: Edie Stucker
Facilities Manager: Clair Morehead
Relief Custodian: Clyde Morehead
Nursery Coordinator: Amy Henry
PRAYER CONCERNS
Missionaries serving in crisis areas of our country and the world, our military and civilian personnel, their families, and leaders; Miriam Johnson in the loss of her husband Dave; Bill and Pat Wilson in the loss of their good friend Jack Clydesdale; Faye Mager, Henry Gamp, Chuck Creager, Donna Manuel, Becky Caldwell, Keith Mattison, Bill Wilson, Vicki Robertson, Fred Wagner, Adele Stockett, Hamilton Nunnally, Rachel Hall, Ed and Hilda Copeland, Faye Smith, Milton Jernigan, Tena Quesada, Joan Sumner, Mario Vidotto, Esther Settembrini, Cheryl Lijewski, Andrew Patterson, Dana Killendenz, Joan Blandford, Ellie McCabe, Bill Snyder, Bruce Fullerton, Paul Bobbitt, Jonathan Pickett, Cynthia Worley, Edgar Weedon, Bud Windham, Kathryn George, Morgan Creek, Tad and Thaeda Franz, Margie MacClay, Bernie Morris, Delores Shepherd, Hazel Dillow, Darlene Raines, Mike Williams, Coralee Adkins, Evelyn Cabral, Janet Cogliano, Tommy Pittman, Tom and Alex Hall.
We update our Prayer Concerns on a regular basis. Please make us aware of any individuals that we need to include on our list. Thank you.
Sixth Sunday after
Pentecost
July 24, 2011
For now I create a new heaven and a new earth and the past will not be remembered and will come no more to mind. Be glad and rejoice for ever and ever for what I am creating because I now create Jerusalem “Joy” and her people “Gladness.” I shall rejoice over Jerusalem and exult in my people. No more will the sound of weeping or the sound of cries be heard in her… They will build houses and inhabit them, plant vineyards and eat their fruit… My people shall live as long as trees… the wolf and young lamb will feed together… they will do no hurt, no harm on all my holy mountain.
– Isaiah 65:17-25 (NJB)
“Joy is divinity dancing in us.”
Wendy M. Wright, Two Faces of Joy (Weavings, November/December 1993)
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