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SERVICE OF WORSHIP SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 2017 EPIPHANY SUNDAY GOD’S VISION FOR US To be a community of faith Inviting all to encounter Jesus, Preparing believers to deepen their dependence on God, Caring for those who are hurting, Sending ordinary people into the world equipped to do extraordinary things. 3 WELCOME TO EDENTON STREET We hope that all who pass through our doors will sense the love of Christ! It is in community with others that we grow in faith and serve the world. You are invited to learn more about this congregation and how we are in ministry to the world and one another by contacting Joy Owen, Director of Welcoming Ministries. Interested in becoming a member of Edenton Street? Contact Joy for more information at [email protected]. PRAYER AND CARE Fill out a prayer request card in the pews or email [email protected]. We also have trained Care Ministers to talk and pray with you, email [email protected]. 4 PASTORS ROBERT J. “BOB” BAUMAN Senior Pastor LISA N. YEBUAH Pastor, Southeast Raleigh Campus JUSTIN A. MORGAN Pastor, Church on Morgan WILLIAM S. “WILL” HASLEY Pastor of Discipleship Ministries WILLIAM M. “WILL” MCLEANE Pastor, Original Campus MUSICIANS JOSHUA D. DUMBLETON Organist & Associate Director of Music ELLEN KAEHLER Choir Director GABRIEL RAMOS Cellist CHANCEL CHOIR 5 LITURGY GUIDE Bold Black Text - SPOKEN BY CONGREGATION Black Text - SPOKEN BY LEADER + CROSS INDICATES WHEN TO STAND, IF ABLE UMH # - PAGE NUMBER OF THE HYMNAL FOUND IN PEWS HEARING AIDS AND LARGE PRINT HYMNALS These are available from the ushers. Our sanctuary is fitted with an induction loop system for those with hearing aids. Please switch your device to “T.” Your provider can upgrade your device with this option. 6 THE WORSHIP OF GOD THE GATHERING OF GOD’S PEOPLE WELCOME Rev. Diane Amidon VOLUNTARY SHEEP MAY SAFELY GRAZE | J. S. BACH INTROIT THE LORD IS MY LIGHT (PSALM 27) | MICHAEL BEDFORD + CALL TO WORSHIP LEADER: A new year has come and God is with us in our loving, our caring, our hoping and our expecting. God is with us and never lets us go. PEOPLE: God, live in us, with us, and through us in this New Year. LEADER: God, keep us faithful through the days that lie ahead. Keep us caring as we see the pain that fills your world. Keep us serving as we seek to do your will. PEOPLE: God, live in us, with us, and through us in this New Year. LEADER: God, keep us loving toward our neighbors near and far. Keep us trusting through the uncertainties of life. Keep us sharing from your generous abundance. PEOPLE: God, live in us, with us, and through us in this New Year. + PRESENTATION OF THE CROSS & THE LIGHT OF CHRIST 7 + PROCESSIONAL LOVE DIVINE, ALL LOVES EXCELLING | UMH 384 8 OPENING PRAYER Creative God, you make all things new in heaven and on earth. We come to you in a new year with new desires and old fears, new decisions and old controversies, new dreams and old weaknesses. Because you are a God of hope, we know that you create all the possibilities of the future. Because you are a God of love, we know that you walk with us as you lead us into new life. Because you are the God of our faith, we enter your gates with thanksgiving and praise, as we seek to serve and bless you in this new year. We make our prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. CELEBRATION OF OUR LIFE TOGETHER PASSING OF THE PEACE + 9 OFFERING OF OUR GIFTS TO GOD OFFERTORY CAROL OF THE MAGI | JOHN RUTTER We rode all night thro’ fields of darkness, Our guiding light, the eastern stars; We came to Bethlehem, we all were weary: We’d travelled far that night, we’d travelled far. We’d travelled far. We heard that here we’d find Messiah Foretold by seers from days of old; We looked for palaces: we found a stable Could it be here, so bare and cold? So bare and cold? We entered in and there we saw him; It seemed we’d known him from long before. A child like any child, yet somehow different: The face of every child in him we saw The face of every child we saw. We brought him gifts and now we offer them, We knelt down low in silent prayer. With eyes that seem to know both joy and sadness; The child looked down as we knelt there The child looked down as we knelt there. So long ago, yet I remember, That child who lay at Mary’s knee. How strange that every child seemed so much like him His is the face I seem to see His is the face I seem to see. GIVING TO EDENTON STREET CAN BE DONE IN FOUR PRIMARY WAYS. 1. In Person: Make a gift in person during a Sunday worship service via cash or check made out to “Edenton Street UMC.” 2. Via Text: Make a one-time gift with your debit card via Text to Give by sending a text to 919-373-5005 with a dollar amount. 3. Online: Make a one-time or regular gift online with your debit card by visiting esumc.org/give. 4. Bank Draft: Set up automatic bank draft by contacting Theresa Martin at 984-200-2605. 10 WIGGLER WORSHIP During the Doxology the 3, 4, and 5 year olds leave for Wiggler Worship in room 206. They will leave through the door by the lectern. + DOXOLOGY UMH 95 (PLEASE TURN TOWARD THE CROSS) 11 + HYMN TAKE MY LIFE, AND LET IT BE | UMH 399 12 CHILDREN’S LESSON SCRIPTURE LESSON JOHN 5:2-9 NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Bethzatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.” Jesus said to him, “Stand up, take your mat and walk.” At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath. SERMON Rev. Bob Bauman CREATING A LENS: THE IMPORTANCE OF ONE WORD 13 + HYMN THIS IS A DAY OF NEW BEGINNINGS | UMH 383 (PLEASE SING VERSES 1-4) 14 + BLESSING NOTES + CHORAL RESPONSE SENT FORTH BY GOD’S BLESSING ASH GROVE + CHIMES IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT + POSTLUDE CHORALE PRELUDE: IN THEE IS GLADNESS | J.S. BACH 15 + NOTES 16 NOTES 17 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR WORSHIP TODAY! Feel free to take this bulletin with you to keep track of events at Edenton Street. Interested in becoming a member of our church? Contact Joy Owen at jowen@esumc. org for more information. We also welcome you to join our eStreet Communities, home gatherings with a missional purpose. Contact Ashley Griffith, Director of Inviting Ministries, at [email protected] for more information. SERVE WITH US! Do you consider Edenton Street your spiritual home? If so, we hope you will find a place to serve at least one Sunday a month. We currently have a need for parking guides and greeters for entrances to our new Garden Gallery and the first floor lobby. If you want to help us extend radical hospitality in this way, contact Joy Owen, Director of Welcoming, at [email protected]. If you’d like to serve in other ways, or need help figuring out where to serve, contact Renae Newmiller, Director of Sending, at [email protected]. SERVING IN WORSHIP TODAY A huge thank you to our parking guides, greeters, nursery helpers, ushers, musicians, wiggler worship leaders, AV techs, prayer team, worship committee, and everyone else who is serving this morning! SYMPATHY TO: Howard Cummings, whose brother, Harry Cummings, Jr., died December 13, 2016. 18 UPCOMING SERMONS JANUARY 8 TRADITIONAL REV. BOB BAUMAN GATHERING REV. WILL McLEANE CHURCH ON MORGAN REV. JUSTIN MORGAN SOUTHEAST RALEIGH REV. ASHLEY GRIFFITH JANUARY 15 TRADITIONAL REV. BOB BAUMAN GATHERING REV. WILL HASLEY CHURCH ON MORGAN REV. JUSTIN MORGAN SOUTHEAST RALEIGH REV. LISA YEBUAH Attendance from December 25, 2016 will be available at a later time. SUNDAY MORNINGS AT EDENTON STREET 8:40 A.M. Traditional (Sanctuary) 9 A.M. Church on Morgan (136 E. Morgan Street) 9:30 A.M. The Gathering, Contemporary (Kerr Hall) 9:45 A.M. Sunday School 10:55 A.M. Traditional (Sanctuary) 11 A.M. Church on Morgan (136 E. Morgan Street) 11 A.M. Southeast Raleigh Table (301 W. Jones Street) 11 A.M. The Gathering, Contemporary (Kerr Hall) THANK YOU FOR YOUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS $121,149.24 DECEMBER 18, 2016 OFFERING $3,286,702.06 RECEIVED YEAR-TO-DATE (2016) $3,456,988.13 RECEIVED YEAR-TO-DATE (2015) $3,993,511.00 ANNUAL BUDGET (2016) $4,269,487.69 OPENING DOORS RECEIVED (SINCE 2013) 19 NOTE FROM THE PASTORS “We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.