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10TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Bethany United Methodist Church The Salvation Army and Laurel Shelter have an August 13, 2017 8:30 & 11:00 AM 1860 Hayes Road • PO Box 527 ongoing need for the following items: Household Gloucester Point VA 23062 cleaners, paper products, over the counter medicines, WELCOME, GUESTS! We are delighted to worship with you today Office Hours: M- and personal hygiene items. and invite you to participate as fully as you feel comfortable. Phone: 804.642.2110 Available for Your Use: Please ask an usher for assistance if you Email: [email protected], 9 a.m.‒3 p.m. Please place donations in the baskets beside the church require a large print hymnal, large print bulletin, or hearing aid. Website : www.bethanyumc-gp.org office and in the narthex. Thanks! Cell Phones: Please remember to silence your cell phone before the service begins. Thank you. STEWARDSHIP 8/6 SUNDAY WORSHIP 8/6 *Please stand as you are able. General Fund Total 9673.50 8:30 48 Capital Improvement 75.00 11:00 113 Pastor’s Discretionary 100.00 TOTAL WORSHIP 161 Our youth are away on a road trip today in Richmond that includes worship, then lunch at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Youth Sunday School and Altar Flowers 90.00 SUNDAY SCHOOL The Children’s Time resume next Sunday. Upper Room 6.00 Adults 52 LemonAid Fundraiser 317.70 Youth 5 CHIMING OF THE HOUR Hymn: “Aurelia” (UMH No. 545) Samuel Sebastian Wesley Helping Hands 25.00 Children 6 Loreen Paiva Homebound Ministries 50.00 TOTAL in SS 63 WELCOMING OUR GUESTS ANNOUNCEMENTS, CELEBRATIONS, AND REGISTRATION OF ATTENDANCE Loreen Paiva COUNTING TEAMS August Children's Church 6 2—Robins, Nardozzi, Harvey 13 NURSERY MEDITATION Larghetto (moderately slow) from Samuel Sebastian Wesley (14 August 1810-1876) 4—Dixon, LeMay, Riggin 20 8:30 0 “Three Pieces for a Chamber Organ” “I listened, motionless and still; and, as I mounted up the hill, 1 3—Burner, Burner, Andersen 27 11:00 The music in my heart I bore long after it was heard no more.” — William Wordsworth We offer a full range of study and fellowship opportunities for children, youth, young *CALL TO WORSHIP Loreen Paiva adults, and older adults. The time has come again for us to worship the Lord our God! We are here to sing praise, to pray and to listen for what the Lord has in store for Sunday School meets from 9:45-10:45 a.m. each Sunday morning, with several different us. classes for adults, one class for youth, three classes for children, and a nursery. For more We also learn much from being in community with one another. information please visit www.bethanyumc-gp.org. Today let us have open minds and hearts that we may grow beyond what we were Our Nursery — For the convenience of parents with small children, a nursery is provided yesterday. during both worship services, as well as during the Sunday school hour. The maximum suggested age for the nursery is four years old. Please see an usher or greeter for directions. *HYMN OF PRAISE Rock of Ages UMH No. 361 SHARING OF OUR PRAYER CONCERNS Loreen Paiva Pastor: Mike Derflinger Chaplain in Residence: Carol Johnson Director of Children & Youth Ministries: Kris Kent Lay Leader: Judy Burner CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER Loreen Paiva Assistant Director: Dawn McDade Associate Lay Leaders: Roy Bauschatz Surely God you make the light and the darkness, and when our day darkens You Director of Music: Sandra Fox & Archie Leigh are still the Light. Draw near, then, to us, that in all our changing circumstances Organist: Dr. Rudy Shackelford Church Office Administrator: Dee Dee Wike Liturgists: Loreen Paiva we may be of good cheer and know how gracious are Your purposes, how sure Acolytes: 8:30 Shelton Glaze 11:00 Makena Bontrager and deep your love, and strengthen us to follow You through all our days, that we Sound Room: Kirk Bell may see You and your Light in the midst of our darkness. In Jesus’ name. Amen. August Altar Guild: Nerine Hickman, Lynda Blubaugh Trustee Contact for the Week: David Lewis MORNING PRAYER Loreen Paiva THE LORD’S PRAYER UMH No. 895 Bethany UMC Prayer List 8/9/2017 (Submit changes to church office by calling 804-642-2110 or email [email protected].) THE ANTHEM There Is a River Max and David Sapp BETHANY FAMILY Steve Wike, soloist Roy & Darlene Bauschatz, Mary Linda Brooks, Alice Cruz, Chris Denton, Gene & Jeannie Harrell, Mike PRAYER OF ILLUMINATION Hearon, Nancy Kendall, Patrick & Rebecca Kiley, Archie Leigh, Bonnie & Marshall Lewis, Jeannie Holy Spirit, breathe into the heart and mind of our preacher that message which Meisner, Ted & Peggy Peterman, Marie Reynolds, Debbie Robins, Tom Sawyer & family, Gerlinde will be fit for each of us, and shall bring peace and power, conviction and rebuke, where we need them, and strength and grace for all our duties, for our Savior Stevens Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen. BETHANY FRIENDS Sarah & Chris Anderson and baby Nathaniel, Scott Balderson, Barbara Berry, Sue Blake, Janie *SCRIPTURE John 11:1-4, 20-24, 32-35 Loreen Paiva Blanchard, Les & Jan Breen, Martha Bruette, Andrew Brunson, Cancer Patients (Susan, Jeanette, and The Word of God for the people of God. Pew Bible NT, page 99 Claire), Jeff Carino, Bonita Chaplin, Kathi Christiansen, Kristen Collier, Mary Ann Costa, Greg and Lizz Thanks be to God. Epperson, Robert Ervi, Bill & Ruth Fenstermacher, Jerry Hall, Walt Hayden, Brian Hudson, Loretta Germek, Pal Jackson, Margaret Kearney, Vanessa Kellum, Donna Kidd, Thom Ligon, James Marshall, THE MESSAGE Is God Ever Late? Carol Johnson Richard Martin, Lydia Newman, Evelyn Owens, Mr. Palmer, Jack Perhac, K.C. Powers, Tess Robins, Bonnie Sandahl, Rhonda Simmons, Steve Smith, Rebecca Sutphin, Father Kevin Sweeney, Suzanne *HYMN OF RESPONSE Faith, While Trees are Still in Blossom UMH No. 508 Trio, Vela Webb, Deborah West, Vicky Whitney, Kandee Willis, Joy Wood, Charlotte Wright BUMC’S MILITARY RECEIVING GOD’S TITHES, GIFTS AND MORNING OFFERING Edward Bailey, Todd Bontrager, Michael Brown, Peter Demetriades, Meagan Demetriades, Thomas Howse, Kevin Jacobs, Bernard Johnson, Lamont Johnson, Jim Minor, Kyle Nichols, all members of the Rudy Shackelford THE OFFERTORY Fuguing Tune on “Lenox,” military and their families from CHARLES WESLEY ORGANBOOK (composed 2007) “Blow ye the trumpet, blow! The gladly solemn sound ASSISTED LIVING Let all the nations know, to earth’s remotest bound: Gloucester House: Esther Marie Jordan, Rm 509 Bessie Emory, Rm 101 The year of jubilee is come! The year of jubilee is come! 7657 Meredith Dr., Gloucester CH 23061 Jean Heywood, Rm 110 Sanders Assisted Living: Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.” Harry Jordan, Room 201 — Charles Wesley, UMH No. 370 7407 Walker Ave., Gloucester CH 23061 Stonebridge at Woodbury (Memory Care) *THE DOXOLOGY UMH No. 95 Gloria Wallace 2778 Country Club Dr., Hampstead NC 28443 Sunrise Senior Living: UMH No. 133 Pauline Harris , Apt. 107 *CLOSING HYMN Leaning on the Everlasting Arms 2015 Cranbeck Rd., Richmond 23235 Walter Reed Convalescent Center: Mary Field, Room 13B *BENEDICTION Carol Johnson 7602 Meredith Dr., Gloucester 23061 York Convalescent & Rehab Center: Alice Doggett, Room 24A Mary Poland, Room 27A *CLOSING CHORUS Shalom to You UMH No. 666 113 Battle Rd., Yorktown 23692 Jerri Doggett, Room 32A Shalom to you now, shalom, my friends. May God’s full mercies bless you, my friends. CHRISTIAN LOVE AND SYMPATHY In all your living and through your loving, Christ be your shalom, Christ be your shalom. Family of Linda Diane DeBolt DuBose, who passed away on July 26. Special thanks to Carol Johnson for delivering God’s message today while Pastor Mike and his family are away. ALTAR FLOWERS are given by Don & Carol Schultz for the love of Jesus. “G O N E F I S H I N G“ THIS WEEK AT BETHANY UMC THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF SAMUEL SEBASTIAN WESLEY TODAY 8:25 & 10:55 a.m. Prayer Time—Mary Lotsey Room 9:15 a.m. Church and Culture in Richmond (Youth) Born 207 years ago on August 14th, Samuel Sebastian Wesley was the foremost English organist and composer of church music in the mid-19th century. Grandson of Charles Wesley, 9:30 a.m. Sunday School Breakfast the prolific hymn writer, and great nephew of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, he 9:45 a.m. Sunday School for all ages inherited a full measure of both the genius and the often difficult temperament which ran in 1:15 p.m. Holly Society (Lacey Martin) that illustrious family. Monday, August 14 6:30 p.m. BSA Troop 75 His father, Samuel Wesley, was a musical prodigy who composed a sacred opera, Ruth, at age eight! Like Felix Mendelssohn in Germany, Samuel Wesley later played a pivotal rôle in 7:00 p.m. Women’s Bible Study reviving Johann Sebastian Bach’s music in England. In a letter of 1808 he called Bach “Saint Tuesday, August 15 SEPTEMBER BANNER ARTICLES DUE TODAY Sebastian” and characterized his works as “a musical Bible, unrivaled and inimitable.” 2:00 p.m. Rockin’ Readers Book Club Small wonder then that Samuel’s son bore the middle name Sebastian and followed in Thursday, August 17 9:30 a.m. C.A.R.E. Ministry his father’s footsteps as an organist and composer of anthems in the venerable English choral tradition. He had a vision of the worship service as an art form, amalgamating music, liturgy, 10:00 a.m. House of Prayer architecture, and religious ceremony. Unfortunately, together with his dedication to this cause 2:00 p.m. UMW Executive Board went a knack of falling out with those in a position of authority — a character trait shared with Saturday, August 19 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.