Order of Worship and Announcements
September 5, 2010 — What’s the Gospel word on global wealth ?
HWB = Hymnal: A Worship Book; STJ = Sing the Journey; STS = Sing the Story
Gathering
Extended Prelude: Virginia Bethune, harp; Ed Gant, cello
Lighting the peace lamp
Call to Worship: Psalm 146:5-7a, then . . .
One: Listen! Listen, my children. Incline your ears to hear.
All: We wait for the voice of the Lord.
One: Hear now the sweetest sound, the holy invitation.
All: Show us your ways, O Lord.
One: There is a path to follow; there is a work to do.
All: We open our eyes to the light of God.
Passing the Peace of Christ
HWB 87 Great is the Lord
HWB 102 To God be the glory
Dedicating
Parent-Child Dedication
Steve and Sari Bontrager, and Leo Bontrager
Amanda and David Hughes, and Stella Hughes
Elizabeth Phelps and Terry Jantzi, and Gabriel Jantzi
Sung response: “Child of blessing”
Congregational response:
You have offered your child
to the strong and tender providence of God.
We rejoice with you and give thanks
for the gift of your child.
We promise, with humility and seriousness,
to share in your child's nurture and well-being.
We will support, by our example and words,
your efforts to provide a loving and caring home,
where trust in God grows and Christ's way is chosen.
Our prayers will be with you and for you.
May our shared life and witness
help make your task both joyful and fruitful.
Hearing the Word
Old Testament reading: Isaiah 58:1-9a
HWB 367 For the healing of the nations
Epistle reading: I John 4:19-21
Gospel reading: Luke 16:19-31
Prayer of Illumination
Sermon: “Eat, pray, love . . . like God”
Responding
Confession and sung response: “If only I had known” [insert]
Litany of dedication
Leader: God’s work in the world is our work, and God gave us gifts to do it. As council, commission, and committee members, as individual workers, as Sunday School teachers, caregivers, and small group leaders, you are called by this congregation to use your gifts to serve God, the church, and the world.
Individual workers: We commit ourselves with joy to the ministries you entrust to us. Pray for us, encourage us, as we contribute to the life of the church.
Congregation: Thank you for saying “yes” to the call.
We affirm your gifts, we pledge our support and prayers.
Challenge us. Ask us to help you.
Together let us serve God, each other, and the world.
Councils, commissions, committees: We commit ourselves with joy to plan and administer the congregational ministries, and to find ways for all persons to participate in the life of the church.
Congregation: Thank you for working on our behalf.
We affirm your gifts, we pledge our support and prayers.
Challenge us. Ask us to help you.
Together let us serve God, each other, and the world.
Leaders of Sunday School classes, small groups: We commit ourselves with joy to the ministry of teaching, nurture, and mutual care. We will strive to make space for children, youth, and adults to discover their role in God’s kingdom. In our classrooms and living rooms, we call on God’s Spirit for wisdom, courage, and sensitivity.
Congregation: Thank you for accepting the call to teach, nurture, and help us grow as Christian disciples.
We affirm your gifts, we pledge our support and prayers.
Challenge us. Ask us to help you.
Together let us serve God, each other, and the world.
ALL PERSONS: May we all go now and serve,
commissioned to do the will and work of God,
through Christ’s body, the church.
Offering our “First-fruits” and “Penny Power”
In gratitude and worship, we offer the first and best of who we are and what we have, to be used for God’s mission in the world. [Deuteronomy 26:1-11]
Offertory: “Ave Maria” (Bach / Gounod)
Doxology [stand if you are able . . . words and music in HWB 119]
Prayers of the congregation
[when leader says, “In your mercy, Lord”. . . respond, “hear our prayer”]
Ending with the Lord’s Prayer . . .
Sending
Announcements
Benediction (Psalm146:7b-10)
STJ 73 The Lord lift you up
Barbara Moyer Lehman, worship leader • Judy Bomberger song leader • Phil Kniss, sermon • John Fast, organ • Virginia Bethune, harp • Ed Gant, cello • Adam Shenk, piano • Caitlin Miller, Robert Maust, Greg & April Sachs, quartet • Tom Barner, Susan King, readers • Lynn Smith, visuals • Pastors Phil, Barbara and Ross, post-service greeters
• Missed a sermon? Want to listen to it again? watch the video? read it? make a comment? subscribe by email? Visit www.pvmcsermons.com.
• The entire service can be watched or listened to later by checking out a DVD, CD or audiotape in the library.
Metal flowers and cattails sculptures were made by the Shenandoah Valley Blacksmith’s Guild to be donated to MCC Relief Sale. They are on loan from Larry Martin.
PVMC PRAYER OPPORTUNITIES
Week of September 5, 2010
PRAY FOR THESE PERSONS AND SITUATIONS
• Marie and Calvin Shenk and their family, as Marie’s situation remains much the same, and they continue to support one another in many ways.
• Karen Li Wheeler, born last Sunday, and parents Greta Ann Herin and Diek Wheeler, and brother Andreas, and they celebrate being a family of four.
• Carolyn Hartman’s extended family, as they deal with tragic loss of brother-in-law Maynard Bontrager, of Hutchinson, KS, in a truck accident.
• Christian Baptist Church in New Orleans, and Pastor Walter Jones, as they wait for permitting, and mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
• Courtney Miller, as she settles into her new role working at a homeless shelter in Washington, D.C. through Mennonite Voluntary Service.
• Parents yearning for healing in relationships with or between their children.
• Those who struggle with depression or anxiety.
• Those needing employment, or a change of employment.
• Our leaders in the church, community, nation, and world.
PRAY FOR THOSE HAVING BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK
• Lillian Ray, Lee Moyer, Jared K. Stoltzfus, Herb Swartz, Ina Mae Meadows, Elizabeth Anderson, Jessica May, Steve Nyce, Jackson Werner
PRAY FOR THE CHURCH IN MISSION
• Pray for Ervin Stutzman, as he helps commission Terry Shue today in Kidron, OH for his new leadership development role in MCUSA, and as he leads a consultation in Elkhart, IN on structure for the missional church.
• Pray for Mary Raber, her fellow teachers and students as they prepare for fall classes at the Odessa Theological Seminary in the Ukraine, and ask that Mary would be able to develop closer friendships with her neighbors.
PRAY FOR THOSE LEADING UPCOMING SERVICES
• “What's the gospel word on Christian-Muslim relations?” • Phil Kniss, sermon • Shirley B. Yoder, worship leader
OTHER PRAYER CONCERNS
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This Morning at Park View
WORSHIP (9:30-10:45 a.m.) Nursery attendants: Lynette Mast, Leah Jacobs, Candace Willis; next Sunday: Tara Kishbaugh, Claire Cmeltzer, Nadis Ndayizigiye
FELLOWSHIP BREAK (15 min.) Blood Pressure Screening in the library.
All are invited for beverages and visiting in fellowship hall. Please exit promptly when buzzer sounds.
SUNDAY SCHOOL (11:00-12:00) – Classes for all ages. Everyone welcome.
Infant Nursery attendants: Irene Kniss & Mamie Mellinger
Toddler Nursery: (room 6) Jen Keim
Ages 3& 4: (room 4) Jeongih Han
Kindergarten & Grade 1: (room 5) teachers: Deb Nyce, Gloria Mast
Grades 2&3: (room 10) teachers: Ethan Zook, Mark Brubaker
Grades 4 & 5: (room 9) teachers: Peyton Erb, Linda Matheny
Grades 6 - 8: (room 18) With MYF
MYF [high school]: (room 14) This is my story - Lisa Mast
College-age young adults:(room 19): Sherwyn Smeltzer, Peter Fairfield, Cathy Smeltzer Erb
Colloquy: (fireplace room) Uniform Lesson: “No excuses”
Faith and Issues: (sanctuary) Reta Halteman Finger: “The Narrative of Acts: Can we apply prescriptive AND descriptive literature to our lives?”
Logos: (balcony) Discussion of sermon and worship service
Prayer: Prayer Room is available downstairs for silent meditation
SALT: (room 11) teacher: Don Taylor; Uniform Lesson: “No excuses”
Shalom: (Room 7): Lee Yoder : “Perceptions: A Key to Our Effectiveness”
SupportNet.com: (room 16) “Martyr Stories 100s/0s”
Yalla: (room 12) Discussing Money Mania
This Week;
TODAY: Meditative music, beginning 9:10 a.m., sanctuary; see below
Alive!Lounge, 3 p.m., Lawson and Mary Yoder’s home
TUESDAY: Men’s Bible study begins, 7 a.m., fellowship hall, with Beryl Jantzi: “The Sacred Journey: Seeking the Abundant Life”
THURSDAY: Council, 7 p.m., conference room
NEXT SUNDAY: All-Church potluck to welcome college students, 12 noon, fellowship hall. Bring generous amounts of one hot and one cold dish to share, and your own table service.
Upcoming Events
SEPTEMBER
26 Congregational Council, Elders & Commission Chairs Retreat, 2 - 6 p.m., fireplace room.
OCTOBER
10 Virginia Mennonite Conference 175th Anniversary event: “History of Education in VMC,” 7 p.m., sanctuary; more info to come
Announcements
The duo of Ed Gant, cello, and Virginia Bethune, harp, who are playing before (beginning at 9:10) and during worship today, have a new CD, Healing Harp Melodies: Classical Tunes and Loveabyes, with harp, flute, and cello, to be released this fall. Beneficiary is the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for research into blood cancers and cures for them.
“I have returned from a wonderful year in Seattle. It was a year filled with life changing experiences. Through your support and your prayers, I have felt a connection with Park View throughout the year. I am now entering a second year of voluntary service through MVS in Washington DC. I will volunteer at Joseph’s House working with homeless men and women with terminal illness. I anticipate some difficult situations and would be grateful for your prayers in the coming year. Being away from home made me realize how much I appreciate this congregation. It will be nice to be on the east coast so I can visit more often. Thanks, and God bless!” – Courtney Miller
A Sunday School class for College-age young adults is beginning in Room 19 this Sunday. Come and join in fellowship, discussion, and growth.
Live Video Feed to VMRC has begun, airing the Sunday morning service live to VMRC and re-broadcasting again at 1:30 p.m. We do still need $2,000 to cover costs of this project. Any size gift welcome. Please make your check payable to PVMC with “VMRC video connection” in the memo line. Thank you. -- The Finance Committee
Volunteers are needed to perform a “replay” of the worship service to VMRC each Sunday afternoon at 1:30. You will be put on a rotating schedule. Persons living near the church would be ideal, who could come back to the church after lunch, and “push a few buttons.” It is not highly technical. Anyone can be trained. If available, contact Phil Kniss or Nathan May.
Service Opportunities: A caregiver is needed to help with child care during women’s Bible study, mid-September -- mid-November from 8:30 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday mornings. A small stipend is available. All ages welcome. Also needed is someone to help with food preparation and serving (no stipend). If willing, contact Linda Matheny: lmatheny@comcast.net or 828-6809.
4th Annual Harrisonburg CROP Walk will take place on Sunday, Sept. 19th at 4pm. This 3-mile walk to raise funds for Church World Service will begin and end at the Farmer’s Market parking lot. Last year our church had 46 walkers and raised over $4,000. The 2009 Walk brought in $10,579. Of that amount, 25% remains in the community for hunger needs. Be a walker or sponsor a walker! If interested, see Sherwyn Smeltzer for sponsor sheet.
Back-to-School book display is on the front of the A-frame in the library. New books are on the back side.
Flyers for two upcoming women’s retreats were in your mailboxes, both for the same weekend, October 29-31:
• Park View’s “Fall Weekend Away” provides an unstructured time to relax among friends at Highland Retreat (ivory flyer).
• Mennonite Women of Virginia’s “Encountering God in the Ordinary” is at Best Western in Waynesboro (yellow flyer); register by October 12.
Worship attendance last Sunday: 332; Faith Promise offering: $14,768.32; Climbing to the Peak (building) offering: $6,780.30; VMRC Video donations: $525.