announcements church missions & benevolences Please write to encourage them, and pray for them. Welcome Visitors - Please take a moment to complete the Visitor Welcome card THE WORSHIP OF GOD located on the back of the pew in front of you and place it in the offering plate as it Local Missions Sunday, June 4, 2017, 10:50 a.m. is passed. If you are looking for a church, we invite you to make Grace your church RUF – Mississippi State University home. If you are from out of town, we hope you will worship with us whenever you Brian Sorgenfrei – Campus Minister, RUF MSU ([email protected]) are in the area. Matthew Roelofs – Intern, RUF MSU ([email protected]) Prelude Allie Harmon– Intern, RUF MSU ([email protected]) Church Wide Luncheon Honoring the Sorgenfrei Family – Next Sunday, June Wilson and Callie West – Covenant Theological Seminary Greetings and Announcements 11, we will have a luncheon after church honoring Brian Sorgenfrei and his family. Starkville Pregnancy Care Center ([email protected]) (Visitors, please fill out a Welcome Card and place it in the offering plate.) The church will provide chicken, rolls, and drinks. We are asking members of the Deacons’ Fund * Trail Life USA * Mission Sundays * Casserole Kitchen small groups to bring the following sides: Allison/Nolen Group - desserts; Regional Missions Choral Call to Worship: “Worship Christ the Risen King” v1 Heard/Craven Group - salads; Turnage/Joe Group - desserts; Clayton/Thomas Covenant Presbytery ([email protected]) Group – side dishes. If you are not in a small group, please choose one of the sides Palmer Home for Children ([email protected]) Rise, O, Church, and lift your voices, Christ has conquered death and hell. to bring. Please bring enough to feed at least 12 people. All are invited to stay for Disaster Response Ministry * French Camp Academy Sing as all the earth rejoices; resurrection anthems swell. lunch and fellowship. Come and worship, come and worship; worship Christ, the Risen King. National Missions
Deacon Election – The church will hold an election for deacons next Sunday, June Mark Casson – Metanoia Prison Ministries ([email protected]) Prayer Kristen Spink Thompson – RUF Washington University ([email protected]) 11. Please be in prayer. Eligible for election are: Jonathan Adams, Logan Link, Harold Mashburn and Terry Wagner. Laura Whitten – RUF Stanford University ([email protected]) Austin McCann – RUF Auburn ([email protected]) Call to Worship: Psalm 104:31-34 (ESV)……………….………………………. Responsively Service and Mission Tuesdays - Every Tuesday morning in June (6, 13, 20 and Ross Lockwood – RUF Western Kentucky ([email protected]) 27) school aged kids (completed K-6th grade) are invited to the church to learn about Anna Grider – RUF East Carolina University ([email protected]) May the glory of the LORD endure forever; God's promises and how people just like us are used to tell the truth of those Madeline Hogue – RUF University of Georgia ([email protected]) promises to the ends of the earth. We will meet in the education building each week Anna Kristen Mitchell – RUF University of Florida ([email protected]) May the LORD rejoice in his works, who looks on the earth and it trembles, from 9:30-11:30. Please contact Amelia Nolen ([email protected]) if you have PCA General Assembly Who touches the mountains and they smoke! children planning to attend so supplies and snacks can be ordered. International Missions I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; Outreach opportunity - Crossroads International Friendship House is a local Betsy Aeschliman– MTW Medical ([email protected]) Dale and Susan Ellison – Peru Mission ([email protected]) I will sing praise to my God while I have being. ministry that helps international students and their spouses in a variety of ways. They Richard and Brenda Harman – Wycliffe Bible Translators ([email protected]) are looking for volunteers to serve as conversation partners. For more information, Ellie Honea – MTW Tokyo ([email protected]) May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the LORD. see cifhstarkville.blogspot.com. Craig and Stacy Pohl –MTW Santiago, Chile ([email protected]) Disaster Response Trailer – Thank you to those that have helped with supplies for Alex and Irina Ponomarev – Ministry to Slavic Tribes ([email protected]) “Come Thou Almighty King” #101 the Disaster Response Trailer. The follow items are still needed: Bruce and Barbara Wannemacher – MTW Africa ([email protected]) Linda Wixon – MTW Japan ([email protected]) Come, Thou Almighty King, help us Thy name to sing, help us to praise. Fan rakes Brooms/Mops Evan and Bonnie – MTW West Aftrica ([email protected]) Father, all glorious, o’er all victorious, Square Shovels Round Shovels Come and reign over us, Ancient of Days. Spades Portable Electric Generator Pancake Air Compressor Chainsaw and equipment servant leadership Come, Thou Incarnate Word, gird on Thy mighty sword, our prayer attend. Pole Saw Plastic Saw Horses The Staff Come, and Thy people bless, and give Thy Word success; Hammers/ Small Hand Tools Large Tarps Bill Heard, Pastor, 662-722-1726, [email protected] Spirit of holiness, on us descend. Extension Cords Ropes Lisa Vaughan, Church Administrator, [email protected] Chains Water Hose- heavy duty Amelia Nolen, Children’s Ministry Director, 662-312-5454, [email protected] Come, Holy Comforter, Thy sacred witness bear in this glad hour. Garbage Bags-heavy duty Paper Towels-heavy duty Emily Benson, Youth Leader, 256-460-9713, [email protected] Thou who almighty art, now rule in every heart, Nathan Lowery, Youth Leader, 229-591-4018, [email protected] And ne’er from us depart, Spirit of pow’r. Small Groups – Small Group is a great place for lasting friendships, ministry and Cliff Taylor, Music Director, 662-418-8224, [email protected] spiritual growth. They meet the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month in homes and at Carolyn Rodgers, Organist/Pianist, 662-323-1632 To the great One in Three eternal praises be, hence evermore. the church. We encourage everyone to be involved in one, if possible. A nursery Gwyen Elizabeth Sutphin, Choir Accompanist His sovereign majesty may we in glory see, is provided here at the church from 5:15 to 7:15 p.m. For more information, speak Daniel Neely, Band Coordinator, 256-322-1212, [email protected] with the pastor, one of the elders or call the church office (662-324-0180). And to eternity love and adore. The Session (Board of Elders) Wednesday Night Hour of Prayer – Prayer is needed for each person, family and Bill Heard, Moderator Anthony Craven Kenneth Thomas “All Authority and Power” - #453 ministry of Grace and also for lifting up Christ in our church, in Starkville, the nation Timothy Allison Johnny Joe and the world. We invite you to join us this week at 5:45 p.m. in the conference room. Charles Clayton David Nolen, Clerk All authority and power, ev’ry status and domain, The Diaconate Now belongs to Him who suffered our redemption to obtain; Nursery – We welcome your infants and toddlers in the worship service and in the Tom Jackson Jason Townsend Gray Turnage Angels, demons, kings and rulers, over all shall Jesus reign! church nursery where we provide a safe, nurturing and friendly environment. Treasurer Children’s Sunday School – We encourage you to bring your children to Dennis Baird All the nations owe Him worship, ev’ry tongue shall call Him Lord; Sunday School where we seek to shepherd every child toward a growing faith in Reformed University Fellowship How are men to call upon Him if His name they have not heard? Jesus Christ. Brian Sorgenfrei – Campus Minister, 662-418-6928, [email protected] Therefore go and make disciples, preach His gospel, spread His word.
Adult and College Sunday School – Sunday School is a place within the larger Allie Harmon – RUF Intern, 334-782-1534, [email protected] All the clear commands of Jesus must be heeded and obeyed; body of Christ where people are prayed for and cared for, where biblical community A ministry of the Presbyterian Church in America on the MSU campus Full provision for our weakness in His teaching He has made; is experienced, and a place where new people are welcomed and can develop Large Group Bible Study – 7:00 p.m. Thursday, Dorman Auditorium In the gospel words and symbols, saving truth to us conveyed. relationship in our church family. We invite you to join us each Sunday morning at Grace Presbyterian Church
9:45 in the Fellowship Hall. 525 Academy Road, Starkville, MS 39759, phone 662.324.0180, Fax 662.324.8391 email: [email protected] website: www.pcagrace.org All the time He will be with us, always, to the end of days, The Grace Presbyterian Church Library Catalog for Books is available on our web/social media contact, Tracy Craven, [email protected] With His own believing people, who keep steadfast in His ways; church website. Visit our website at www.pcagrace.org. God the Father, Son, and Spirit, bless us, and to Him the praise! gracestarkville @gracestarkville GracePresbyterianChurchStarkville
Confession of Faith : Nicene Creed (325 & 381 A.D.) “Wonderful, Merciful Savior” evening worship
I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things Wonderful, Merciful Savior, Precious Redeemer and Friend. Pastor Bill Heard will be preaching from the book of Haggai. visible and invisible. Who would have thought that a Lamb could rescue the souls of men?
Oh, You rescue the souls of men. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, Counselor, Comforter, Keeper, Spirit we long to embrace. being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. Who, for us You offer hope when our hearts have hopelessly lost the way. and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of Oh, we hopelessly lost the way. the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Chorus Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He You are the One that we praise; You are the One we adore. the week at grace shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have You give the healing and grace our hearts always hunger for. no end. Oh, our hearts always hunger for. Bible Readings This Week 1 Peter 2:7-10; Hebrews 10:11-14; Mark 14:3-10; Psalm 118:22-24; And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Almighty, Infinite Father, Faithfully loving Your own. Matthew 26:63-68; Isaiah 8:13-15; Mark 12:1-12; Romans 9:31 - 10:4 Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and Here in our weakness You find us falling before Your throne. glorified; who spoke by the prophets. Oh, we're falling before Your throne. (chorus) Birthdays This Week
Susan Felker – June 5 And I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for Alice Marie Kraker – June 9 the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world The Worship of God with Our Tithes and Offerings Johnny Joe – June 9 to come. Amen. Doxology Today The Pastoral and Congregational Prayer ………………………..…… Pastor Bill Heard 9:45 a.m. Sunday School Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise him, all creatures here below; 10:50 a.m. The Worship of God The Lord’s Prayer 6:00 p.m. Evening Worship Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy Praise him above, ye heav’nly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen. will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And Tuesday forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, Benediction 9:30 a.m. Service and Mission Tuesdays but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. Scripture is taken from the New American Standard Bible unless otherwise indicated. Wednesday Pastor Heard’s sermons are available on our website: www.pcagrace.org 5:45 p.m. Hour of Prayer “In my Life, Lord, Be Glorified” (The congregation will sing at the closing of the prayer.) In my life, Lord, be glorified, be glorified. Next Sunday In my life, Lord, be glorified today. 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 10:50 a.m. The Worship of God In Your Church, Lord, be glorified, be glorified. 6:00 p.m. Small Group Fellowship In Your Church, Lord, be glorified today. Bob Kilpatrick Ministries © 1978, CCLI License No. 3121203 Volunteers for Today
Nursery – Ashley Simmons “Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove” - #332 missionary spotlight Children’s Church – Laurie Hersey Deacon of the Week – Jason Townsend Come, Holy Spirit, heav’n-ly Dove, with all your quick-‘ning pow’rs; Ross and Anne Todd Lockwood Ushers – Ben Ardahl, Austin Dye and Nathan Simmons Kindle a flame of sacred love in these cold hearts of ours. Ross Lockwood is the RUF Campus Minister at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Volunteers for Next Sunday In vain we tune our formal songs, in vain we strive to rise; Green, Kentucky. RUF at WKU exists to reach students with the Good News of Christ Nursery – Janet Baird Hosannas lan-guish on our tongues, and our devotion dies. and equip them to love and serve others in the way Christ first loved and served Children’s Church – Michelle Tabor us. They want to remind students that the Bible tells us we are both fully known and Deacon of the Week – Jason Townsend And shall we then forever live at this poor dying rate? fully loved in Christ. They strive to be a safe place where anyone, no matter what they Ushers – Ben Ardahl, Austin Dye and Nathan Simmons Our love, so faint, so cold to you, and yours to us so great! believe or where they are from, can come to hear, doubt, process and learn the message of the Gospel. Ross and his wife Anne Todd are graduates of Mississippi Sunday School Teachers Come, Holy Spirit, heav’n-ly Dove, with all your quick-‘ning pow’rs; State University and former members of Grace Presbyterian Church. If you would like 2 and 3 year olds - Amelia Nolen Come, shed a broad a Savior’s love, and that shall kindle ours. to contact Ross you can email [email protected]. Pre-K and Kindergarten - Carolyn Clayton 1st and 2nd grades – Allie Harmon Children ages K3 through K4 may be dismissed to go to Children’s Church. 3rd - 5th grades – Dave Nolen Youth (6th - 12th grades) – Gray and Jeannie Turnage The Preaching of God’s Word: 1 Peter 2:4-6 ……...... Pastor Bill Heard Adult/College Class - Brian Sorgenfrei and Jim West
“Christ, the Living Stone”
4 And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, 5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For this is contained in Scripture:
“BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A CHOICE STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER stone, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”