July 24, 2016

ORDER OF WORSHIP

JULY 24, 2016

 

PRELUDE:      Prelude    Frank Asper     

SALUTATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

* PASSING OF THE PEACE

* SANCTUS (pew card)             

* CALL TO WORSHIP        Maureen Saepia-Chen

Leader:    Who may worship in your sanctuary, Lord?

People:    Who may enter into your presence?

Leader:    Those who live with righteousness and truth.

People:    Those who honor you and love their neighbor.

Leader:    Lord, you alone are our God! Every good thing in us comes from you.

People:    Show us the way of life, and grant us the joy of your presence.

* HYMN No. 799    God Himself is With Us

* PRAYER OF CONFESSION  (unison)     

Most gracious and most merciful God, we confess to you and to one another that time after time we have entered your presence with countless prayers but with hearts that have been closed to your grace.  We have lifted our hands to you in praise, but our feet have still walked in the ways of evil.  We have rehearsed your commandments but have refused to see your face in the needs of our neighbor.  We pray, Lord, that you forgive our lack of faith and pardon our acts of injustice.  Grant us healing that comes from your presence and cleansing of your all-powerful Word, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.  Amen.

* KYRIE (pew card)

* ASSURANCE OF PARDON

* SUMMARY OF THE LAW

Leader:    Herein is wisdom.

People:    Glory be to God.

* Gloria Patri (pew card)

THE ACT OF PRAISE    

    Sora Choi, soprano

    Maureen Saepia Chen, soprano

    Elizabeth Mahowald, soprano

    Emerson Chen, baritone

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

    Lord’s Prayer (pew card)

    Prayer Response                 

* HYMN No. 547    O For a Closer Walk With God

SCRIPTURE READINGS    

                Amos 8:1-12    Pew Bible, pg. 748

                Luke 10:38-42    Page 845

This is the Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

SERMON                     “Just” Worship    Stacey Duensing

* CONFESSION OF FAITH     Belhar Confession, Article 4     

We believe that God has revealed himself as the one who wishes to bring about justice and true peace among people.  We believe that God calls the church to follow him in this, for God brings justice to the oppressed and gives bread to the hungry. We believe that God wishes to teach the church to do what is good and to seek the right.  The church must therefore stand by people in any form of suffering and need, which implies, among other things, that the church must witness against and strive against any form of injustice, so that justice may roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

OFFERING OURSELVES AND OUR GIFTS

         Offertory                  

    * The Doxology(pew card)      

    * Prayer of Dedication

* HYMN No. 702    I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord

* BENEDICTION

      * Response  

POSTLUDE:      Trumpet Tune    David N. Johnson    

 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

JULY 24, 2016

APPRECIATIONS: Today we thank Emerson Chen, Sora Choi, Elizabeth Mahowald and Maureen Saepia-Chen for sharing their musical talents to enhance our worship service.

OUR WORSHIP HOURS will continue at the 10:00 AM hour through Labor Day Sunday, September 4.  We hope you will give our worship your support through prayer and attendance.   

BIBLE STUDY – Wednesdays, 7:30-9:00 PM, Folensbee Lounge

WOMEN'S SHELTER

Our church provides shelter every Friday night, year round, for up to 10 grateful women. This ministry needs your assistance to provide dinner, stay for a few hours or sleepover. The work is easy and fulfilling. Seasonal professional clothes, socks and underwear donations are appreciated as well. Please contact Maureen Saepia-Chen at 917-797-3031 or email msaepia@gmail.com

YEAR-ROUND COLLECTIONS:

Donations for the Food for Kids Ministry should be brought to the Church office.  During the school year, this food will be given to families in need in Jamaica, New York. 
Donations for pets brought to the church office will be given to Worthy Pause to be distributed to local animal shelters.   

PRAYER REQUESTS: Jorel Andaluz, Bermudez Family, Helga Brenner-Khan, Donald Calfa, Marilyn Cooney, Jaynie d’Agostino, Allegra DeMelo, Dombrowski Family, Jim D’Oria, Jolie Dunham, Jenny Hampton, Richard Holm, Lynne Johnson, Robert Keller, Karen Krieg, Fritz Kunisch, Marie Mark, Ann McCaffrey-Amalfitano, James McCreary, Claudia Mellett, John Molino, Denise Moran, Eva Munoz, Joan Pearson, Keith Pearson, Dorothy Rama, Dorothy Reid, Josephine Rivera, Isabelita Rueda, Peter Schumacher, Carmela Stocchia, Lynne Sullivan, Emily Testut, Joan Wagner, Joan Werbel

July 17, 2016

PRELUDE:  God’s Time is the Best, Johann Sebastian Bach

SALUTATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
* PASSING OF THE PEACE
* SANCTUS (pew card)             

* CALL TO WORSHIP, Emerson Chen

Leader:    Come, let us return to the LORD.
People:    For it is God who will lift us up and heal us.
Leader:    Let us press on to know the LORD
People:    For God’s Word is as sure as the dawn.
Leader:    God will come to us like showers
People:    And we shall be like the earth watered by the spring rain.      

* HYMN No. 52: I Sing the Mighty Power of God

* PRAYER OF CONFESSION(unison)     

Compassionate God, you have loved us with unfailing, self-giving mercy, but we have not loved you. You constantly call us, but we do not listen. You ask us to love, but we walk away from neighbors in need, wrapped in our own concerns. We ignore and condone evil, prejudice, and greed that surrounds us. God of grace, as you come to us in mercy, we repent in spirit and in truth, admit our sin, and gratefully receive your forgiveness through Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. Amen. 

* KYRIE (pew card)
* ASSURANCE OF PARDON
* SUMMARY OF THE LAW
Leader:    Herein is wisdom.
People:    Glory be to God.
* Gloria Patri(pew card)

THE ACT OF PRAISE, Maureen Saepia-Chen, soprano and Emerson Chen, baritone

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
    Lord’s Prayer (pew card)
    Prayer Response

* HYMN No. 555: More Love to Thee, O Christ

SCRIPTURE READINGS

Hosea 11:1-11, Pew Bible, page 737

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. The more I called them, the more they went from me; they kept sacrificing to the Baals, and offering incense to idols. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them. I led them with cords of human kindness, with bands of love. I was to them like those who lift infants to their cheeks. I bent down to them and fed them. They shall return to the land of Egypt, and Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me. The sword rages in their cities, it consumes their oracle-priests, and devours because of their schemes. My people are bent on turning away from me. To the Most High they call, but he does not raise them up at all.
How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender. I will not execute my fierce anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and no mortal, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath. They shall go after the Lord, who roars like a lion; when he roars, his children shall come trembling from the west. They shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria; and I will return them to their homes, says the Lord.

Luke 12:13-21, Pew Bible, page 847

Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?” And he said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.” Then he told them a parable: “The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?’ Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, ‘Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.”

This is the Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

SERMON: God of Wrath?, Rev. Blaine Crawford

* CONFESSION OF FAITH: Adapted from Heidelberg Catechism     

    Q&A 26

The eternal Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who out of nothing created heaven and earth and everything in them, who still upholds and rules them by his eternal counsel and providence, is my God and Father because of Christ the Son. I trust God so much that I do not doubt God will provide whatever I need for body and soul, and will turn to my good whatever adversity I experience in this world.  God is able to do this because he is almighty God and desires to do this because he is a faithful Father.

OFFERING OURSELVES AND OUR GIFTS
         Offertory:             
    * The Doxology(pew card)      
    * Prayer of Dedication

* HYMN No. 669: God of Grace and God of Glory

* BENEDICTION
      * Response

POSTLUDE: Trumpet Tune, Henry Purcell

ANNOUNCEMENTS

APPRECIATIONS: We thank Maureen and Emerson Chen for sharing their musical talents to enhance our worship service.

OUR WORSHIP HOURS will continue at the 10:00 AM hour through Labor Day Sunday, September 4.  We hope you will give our worship your support through prayer and attendance.   

BIBLE STUDY – Wednesdays, 7:30-9:00 PM, Folensbee Lounge

Women’s Homeless Shelter

Our church provides shelter every Friday night, year round, for up to 10 grateful women. This ministry needs your assistance to provide dinner, stay for a few hours or sleepover. The work is easy and fulfilling. Seasonal professional clothes, socks and underwear donations are appreciated as well. Please contact Maureen Saepia-Chen at 917-797-3031 or email msaepia@gmail.com

YEAR-ROUND COLLECTIONS – 

  • Donations for the Food for Kids Ministry should be brought to the Church office.  During the school year, this food will be given to families in need in Jamaica, New York. 
  • Donations for pets brought to the church office will be given to Worthy Pause to be distributed to local animal shelters.   
  • Christmas cards (with Forever Stamps on the envelopes) are collected in a basket at the back of the sanctuary.  These cards will enable inmates at the Nassau County Correction Center to correspond with their loved ones.

PRAYER REQUESTS: Jorel Andaluz, Bermudez Family, Helga Brenner-Khan, Donald Calfa, Marilyn Cooney, Jaynie d’Agostino, Allegra DeMelo, Dombrowski Family, Jim D’Oria, Jolie Dunham, Jenny Hampton, Richard Holm, Lynne Johnson, Robert Keller, Karen Krieg, Fritz Kunisch, Marie Mark, Ann McCaffrey-Amalfitano, James McCreary, Claudia Mellett, John Molino, Denise Moran, Eva Munoz, Joan Pearson, Keith Pearson, Dorothy Rama, Dorothy Reid, Josephine Rivera, Isabelita Rueda, Peter Schumacher, Carmela Stocchia, Lynne Sullivan, Emily Testut, Joan Wagner, Joan Werbel

February 7, 2016, Transfiguration Sunday

PRELUDE:

Prelude, Fugue and Chaccone, Dieterich Buxtehude
From God I Ne'er Will Turn Me, Dieterich Buxtehude

SALUTATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
* PASSING OF THE PEACE
* Gloria Patri  (pew card)     

* CALL TO WORSHIP, Emerson Chen

Leader:     God is our light and our salvation; whom shall we fear?
People:     God is our shelter and refuge in the days of trouble, and our hope and joy on the days of celebration.
Leader:     Day after day, we seek God’s face and the assurance of God’s holy love:
People:    O God, do not turn from us nor hide your face from us.  Be our guide and our light instead.
Leader:    One thing we ask of God:
People:    That we may live in God’s dwelling place all the days of our life,     and never cease to behold the beauty of God’s home.
Leader:     Beloved of God, enter this worship in thanksgiving, for God is among and within us.
All:         Thanks be to God!        

* HYMN No. 115: Fairest Lord Jesus

* PRAYER OF CONFESSION  

God of all glory, beauty, and grace, we have tried to hide from you- to hide our faces, to hide our sin – yet you have never hidden your love for us. We have tried to search for you – in temples, in clouds, on mountaintops – yet you have already revealed yourself to us in the face of Jesus Christ. Forgive us, and transform us so that our lives may shine with your glory, beauty, and grace, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

* KYRIE (pew card)
* ASSURANCE OF PARDON
* SUMMARY OF THE LAW

Herein is wisdom.
Glory be to God.

JUNIOR SERMON                   

ANTHEM: From the Rising of the Sun, F. A. Gore Ouseley

From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same my Name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered up unto my Name: for my Name shall be great among the heathen, thus saith the Lord!

SCRIPTURE READINGS

Psalm 27: 1-4, Pew Bible, page 437

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
When evildoers assail me to devour my flesh— my adversaries and foes— they shall stumble and fall.
Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war rise up against me, yet I will be confident.
One thing I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.

Mark 8:27 – 9:8, Pew Bible, page 820

Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.” And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.
Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”
He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” And he said to them, “Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”
Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them. And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, who were talking with Jesus. Then Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” He did not know what to say, for they were terrified. Then a cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud there came a voice, “This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him!” Suddenly when they looked around, they saw no one with them any more, but only Jesus.

This is the Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

SERMON: Crossroads and Cross Words, Elder Sally Ann Castle

* CONFESSION OF FAITH: The Apostles’ Creed (pew card)

OFFERING OURSELVES AND OUR GIFTS
    Offertory: With a Voice of Singing, Martin Shaw

With a voice of singing declare ye this, and let it be heard, Alleluia. Utter it even unto the ends of the earth.  The Lord hath delivered his people, Alleluia.  O Be joyful in God, all ye lands, O sing praises to the honor of his name, make his praise to be glorious.

    * The Doxology(pew card)      
    * Prayer of Dedication

SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION
    * Remembering with Love and Hope  (pew card)
    Invitation
    Communion Prayer
        Sanctus  (pew card)
        Mystery of the Faith (unison)
            Christ has Died, Christ is Risen, Christ will come again. 
    Words of Institution

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
    Lord’s Prayer (pew card)
    Prayer Response, Georg Friedrich Handel

Lord, I trust thee, I adore thee, Ah! thou friend of man, restore me! On thy loving grace relying, For the bread of life I'm sighing. Quench my thirst and let my hunger cease, Fill my heart with joy and endless peace. When the breath of life has left me, May my soul be blessed with thee.

* HYMN No. 721: Shine, Jesus, Shine         

* BENEDICTION
    Response, Martin Shaw              

And the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost be among you and go with you forever and ever. Amen.

POSTLUDE: Trumpet Dialogue, Louis Clerambault

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Our worship this morning will be led by Sally Ann Castle, a New Brunswick Theological Seminary student under the care of the Classis of Queens. Sally Ann is an Elder currently serving on the Consistory of the Church on the Hill.

THE COFFEE HOUR is hosted by the Congregational Care Committee to honor everyone with a birthday in January and February.  Please join us in this time of fellowship.

SOUPER BOWL SUNDAY – TODAY, the Sunday School is participating in the national “Souper Bowl of Caring” campaign.  The cans of soup collected will be given to the Queens Federation of Churches food pantry.  Monetary donations will go to the Greenpoint Reformed Church Food Pantry and Soup Kitchen.

OUR APPRECIATION FOR TODAY’S VOLUNTEERS:

Van Drivers: Jean and Gerry Mendler
Greeters: Angela Edward and Eva Munoz
Ushers: Ginny and Hong Chan, Judie and Buck Kellaway, Jeanne and Steve Sarran, Adriene and Bill Toy and Jerry Good
Children and Worship: Monique Jethwani and Sharon Rivilli

Lenten Book and Bible Study

Feb. 17, 23;  Mar. 1, 8, 16 , 22 at 7:30 P.M. in the Folensbee Lounge

During the season of Lent, Pastor Blaine will be leading a mid-week book and Bible study. Guided by Henri Nouwen’s book Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life, the class will explore three practices commonly associated with the season of Lent: solitude, hospitality, and prayer. These practices are intended for us to better connect with ourselves (solitude), one another (hospitality) and with God (prayer). 

Please let Pastor Blaine know by February 10, if you would like him to order you a book for the class. The cost of the book is $8. You are also free to purchase the book on your own.  

PRAYER REQUESTS: Jorel Andaluz, Grace Attanasio, Carolyn Brunjes, Donald Calfa, Marilyn Cooney, Allegra DeMelo, Dombrowski Family, Edythe Durney, Bob Gessner, Jenny Hampton, Richard Holm, Robert Keller, Karen Krieg, Fritz Kunisch, Ann McCaffrey-Amalfitano, Rev. John H. Meyer, John Molino, Denise Moran, Michael Patras, Keith Pearson, Dorothy Rama, Dorothy Reid, Josephine Rivera, Isabelita Rueda, Matthew Schulman, Peter Schumacher, Carmela Stocchia, Lynne Sullivan, Emily Testut

October 18, 2015

PRELUDE: Suite for Organ, Seth Bingham

SALUTATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
* PASSING OF THE PEACE
* SANCTUS (pew card)

* CALL TO WORSHIP, Emerson Chen

Leader:    Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
People:    What did God do to help us?
Leader:    God gives us a family when we are widowed and a people when we are alone.
People:    God gives a home to the homeless and a hope to the hopeless.
Leader:    Let us worship the God of all people.

* HYMN No. 17: Praise the Lord! O Heavens Adore Him

* PRAYER OF CONFESSION(unison)     

Lord God, we have given more weight to our successes and our happiness than to your will. We have eaten without a thought for the hungry. We have spoken without an effort to understand others. We have kept silence instead of telling the truth. We have judged others, forgetful that you alone are the Judge. Within your church we have been slow to practice love of our neighbors. And in the world we have not been your faithful servants. Forgive us and help us to live as disciples of Jesus Christ, your Son, our Savior. Amen.

* KYRIE (pew card)
* ASSURANCE OF PARDON
* SUMMARY OF THE LAW
    Herein is wisdom.
    Glory be to God.
    * Gloria Patri(pew card)

ANTHEM: Feed My Lambs, Natalie Sleeth

The Junior Choir

JUNIOR SERMON

ANTHEM: Jesus, Grant Me This I Pray, C. H. Kitson

Jesu, grant me this, I pray, Ever in Thy heart to stay: Let me evermore abide Hidden in Thy wounded side. If the evil one prepare, Or the world, a tempting snare, I am safe when I abide In Thy heart and wounded side. If the flesh, more dangerous still, Tempt my soul to deeds of ill, Naught I fear when I abide In Thy heart and wounded side. Death will come one day to me; Jesu, cast me not from Thee: Dying let me still abide In Thy heart and wounded side.

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
    Lord’s Prayer (pew card)
    Prayer Response, George Whelpton

Hear our prayer, O Lord; incline thine ear to us, and grant us thy peace.

* HYMN No. 289: Holy Spirit, Ever Dwelling

SCRIPTURE READINGS

Ruth 1:1-17, Pew Bible, page 210

In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion; they were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. When they had lived there about ten years, both Mahlon and Chilion also died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.
Then she started to return with her daughters-in-law from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab that the Lord had considered his people and given them food. So she set out from the place where she had been living, she and her two daughters-in-law, and they went on their way to go back to the land of Judah. But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back each of you to your mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me. The Lord grant that you may find security, each of you in the house of your husband.” Then she kissed them, and they wept aloud. They said to her, “No, we will return with you to your people.” But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters, why will you go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb that they may become your husbands? Turn back, my daughters, go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me, even if I should have a husband tonight and bear sons, would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, it has been far more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of the Lord has turned against me.” Then they wept aloud again. Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. So she said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” But Ruth said, “Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; Where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die — there will I be buried. May the Lord do thus and so to me, and more as well, if even death parts me from you!”

Mark 3:33-35, Pew Bible, page 815

And he replied, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” And looking at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”

This is the Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God. 

SERMON: Finding Belonging in God’s People, Rev. Blaine Crawford

* CONFESSION OF FAITH, Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 55     

Q.     What do you understand by “the communion of saints”?

A.     First, that believers one and all, as members of this community, share in Christ and in all his treasures and gifts.  Second, that each member should consider it a duty to use these gifts readily and joyfully for the service and enrichment of the other members.

OFFERING OURSELVES AND OUR GIFTS
    Offertory: The Majesty and Glory of Your Name, Tom Fettke

When I gaze into the night skies and see the work of Your fingers; the moon and stars suspended in space.  Oh, what is man, that You are mindful of him?
You have given man a crown of glory and honor, and have made him a little lower than the angels.  You have put him in charge of all creation: the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, the fish of the sea.
But what is man that You are mindful of him?
O Lord, our God, the majesty and glory of Your name transcends the earth and fills the heavens.  
O Lord, our God, little children praise You perfectly, and so would we. Alleluia!

    * The Doxology(pew card)
    * Prayer of Dedication

* HYMN No. 661: Be Strong in the Lord

* BENEDICTION
      Response, John Newton

May the grace of Christ our Savior and the Father's boundless love, with the Holy Spirit's favor, rest upon us from above. Thus may we abide in union with each other and the Lord, and possess in sweet communion joys which earth cannot afford.

POSTLUDE: Voluntary, Seth Bingham

ANNOUNCEMENTS

OUR APPRECIATION FOR TODAY’S VOLUNTEERS:

Van Drivers: Gary LiBert (AM), Gerry Mendler (PM)
Coffee Hour Host: Rhoda Jabbour
Greeters: Linda Diez and Angela Edward
Children and Worship: Kathleen Bracken, Monique Jethwani-Keyser

BIBLE STUDY will not meet this Tuesday, October 20 and will resume October27 at 7:30 PM in the Folensbee Lounge.

MEN’S COMMUNION BREAKFAST: Next Sunday, October 25 at 9:30 AM in Gessner Hall. Pastor Blaine will be the speaker.  All men and boys are invited to attend. Cost $5 per person, no charge for Sunday School students and staff.

SYNODICAL ASSESSMENT (Pink Offering Envelope)

Last installment was due on October 5th. If you have not given a special offering for your assessment ($101.00 per member), please help us by making the payment.  The assessment is the amount we owe RCA for your membership.

CONGREGATIONAL CARE MAILBOX

If you have any concerns regarding a church member, please drop us a note in the special mailbox in the back of the church.  It will be checked regularly.

VAN MINISTRY: Volunteers are needed to assist with driving members to worship services. If you can help, speak with Gerry Mendler after church or call (917) 362-6284 (day) or (718) 464-3464 (evening).

Also, if you need a ride to church on Sunday, speak with Gerry Mendler. 

COFFEE HOUR VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – Please pick a date on the sign-up sheet on the bulletin board in Gessner Hall or speak with Rhoda Jabbour.

PRAYER REQUESTS: Jorel Andaluz, Grace Attanasio, Donald Calfa, Allegra DeMelo, Ed Diercks, Dombrowski Family, Edythe Durney, Lucy Leung-Eng, Rob Gessner, Jenny Hampton, Richard Holm, Robert Keller, Karen Krieg, Fritz Kunisch, Ann McCaffrey-Amalfitano, Rev. John H. Meyer, John Molino, Keith Pearson, Dorothy Rama, Dorothy Reid, Josephine Rivera, Matthew Schulman, Peter Schumacher, Janice Serra, Carmela Stocchia, Emily Testut