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June 13, 2021 Bethany United Methodist Church 10:00am The Church with Open Hearts, Minds, and Doors 1860 Hayes Road • PO Box 527 • Gloucester Point VA 23062 Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8:00 a.m.‒4:00 p.m. FAREWELL SUNDAY Phone: 804.642.2110 Fax: 804.642.2114 Email: [email protected] THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST ND 72 SUNDAY OF COVID Website: www.bethanyumc-gp.org RD 43 SUNDAY OF RETURNING TO IN-PERSON WORSHIP VOLUNTEERS SERVING TODAY Acolyte Ella & Emily Ward WELCOME, GUESTS! We’ve been expecting you! CELL PHONES: Please remember to silence your cell phone before the service begins. Thank you. Media: Jeremy Nardozzi, Beth Cook, Susannah Hogge *Please stand as you are able. And it’s okay to sit. Altar Guild this month: Jackie Hampton, Patsy Bell Trustee Contact this week: Al Burner Ushers: Milton Hudgins, Jon Kent INTRADA Psalm 19: “The Heavens Declare” Benedetto Marcello Counting Team: Al Burner, Judy Burner, Donna Andersen “The heavens declare the glory of God, (1686-1739) and the firmament showeth his handiwork.” UPCOMING COUNTING TEAMS WELCOME Pastor Mike 6/20 Team 4: Doris Luther, Debbie STEWARDSHIP 6/6 Robins, Susan Rollins *CALL TO WORSHIP (based on Matthew 5) Team 5: Jackie Hampton, Sue General Fund Total 6439.89 6/27 Leader: All who hunger and thirst for righteousness will be blessed and satisfied. Morecock, Don Thomas Pastor’s Discretionary Fund 520.00 People: All who are merciful will be blessed and will obtain mercy. Team 6: Charlotte Cecil, Betty Capital Improvement Fund 200.00 7/4 Leader: All who are pure in heart will be blessed and see God. Durrette, Clair Hillard Homebound Ministries 150.00 People: The peacemakers will be blessed and called the sons and daughters of God. ATTENDANCE Total in Worship 72 UPCOMING ACOLYTE SCHEDULE *OPENING HYMN (sing or hum) All Hail the Power of Jesus Name (vs. 1, 3, 4, 6) UMH 154 YouTube Viewers 40 6/20 Justus & Josiah Minor Total in Worship 112 6/27 *AFFIRMATION OF FAITH The Apostles’ Creed, traditional UMH 881 7/4 Baum Hogge 7/11 Ella & Emily Ward ANTHEM He Touched Me William Gaither BUMC STAFF DIRECTORY Steve Wike, Pastor Mike Derflinger call/text 540.631.4469, SHARING OF NEW PRAYER CONCERNS, ANSWERS TO PRAYER, AND UPDATES Mike Derflinger, Pastor email: [email protected] M-TH 8-4, and by appt. UNISON PRAYER Adel Trevino, office 804.642-2110 M-TH 8-4 Almighty God, thank you for the ministry of prayer these past four years. Thank you for your love Church Office Administrator email: [email protected] closed for lunch, 30 min. that bids us to pray, and for answered prayers in its many forms. Thank you for faith and peace to call/text 757.329.6128, Sandra Fox, Director of Music Works from home, by appt. stand firm in your faithfulness when we needed patience, and when the outcome was not what we email: [email protected] were hoping for. As we confess our sins to you, consider and hear us, O Lord our God. Show us Dr. Rudy Shackelford, Organist home 804.642.5938 By appt. that in every woe that you still are with us, and in every moment, you are still loving us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Robin Moscati, Director of call/text 571.218.8236, M-W 9-4, Sun. available after Children & Youth Ministries email: [email protected] Worship WORDS OF ASSURANCE, PRAYERS, AND THE LORD’S PRAYER CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Changes Pastor Robin AN ORDER OF FAREWELL FOR OUR PASTOR I thank you, the members and friends of Bethany United Methodist Church, for the love and support AN ORDER OF FAREWELL TO STAFF MEMBER REV. ROBIN MOSCATI, DIRECTOR OF you have shown me while I have ministered among you. CHILDREN’S AND YOUTH MINISTRIES I am grateful for the ways my leadership has been accepted. I ask forgiveness for the mistakes I have made. UNISON PRAYER As I leave, I carry with me all that I have learned here. O God, you are the strength and the protector of your people. We humbly place in your hands Rev. We receive your thankfulness, offer forgiveness, and accept that you now leave to serve as Pastor Robin Moscati, our Director of Children’s and Youth Ministries for these past nine months, who is at St. Paul United Methodist Church in Christiansburg, Virginia. We express our gratitude for your about to leave us. Undergird your servant Robin during this time of transition. May she continue time among us. We ask your forgiveness for our mistakes. Your influence on our faith and to be a disciple of Jesus Christ who is a lifelong learner who influences others to serve. Keep and faithfulness will not leave with your departure. preserve her, O Lord, in all health and safety, in both body and soul, and continue to direct her steps for the glory of your Church and Kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. I accept your gratitude and forgiveness, and I forgive you, trusting that our time together and our parting are pleasing to God. I release you from turning to me and depending on me. I encourage your VOLUNTARY Venetian Gondola Song No. 1, Felix Mendelssohn continuing ministry here and will pray for you and for your new Pastor Paul Song. from “Songs without Words” (1809-1847) Let us pray. June: Barcarolle, from “The Seasons” Peter Tchaikovsky Eternal God, your steadfast love for us is from everlasting to everlasting. We thank you for (1840-1893) cherished memories in our ministry together, and commend one another into your care as we “Resignedly beneath the sky move in new directions. Keep us one in your love forever, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The melancholy waters lie. So blend the turrets and shadows there *CLOSING HYMN (sing or hum) Hymn of Promise UMH 707 That all seem pendulous in air, While from a proud tower in the town *BENEDICTION Pastor Mike Death looks gigantically down.” --Edgar Allan Poe, The City in the Sea *EXODUS Lord, Dismiss Us with Thy Blessing (Sicilian Mariners) UMH 671 ANNOUNCEMENTS Our Usher will escort you out pew by pew. OFFERTORY PRAYER (based on Mark 4:26-34) UpcomingFAREWELL Worship LUNCHEON Schedule FOR :PASTOR MIKE AND SHEERI—Today after Worship Lord of all bounty and blessing, the gifts we offer to you are like seeds. Some will take root nearby, JunePlease 20 –joinFather’s in as weDay. express Ann Byrd our willgratitude be our and Guest fondly Preacher. wish Pastor Doe Breen Mike andwill beSherri our farewellLiturgist. TODAY and we will see them grow and bear fruit. Some will be carried far beyond where we can see, and Juneafter 27 the –Prayer worship and service Song Service. until 2pm Doe at Breenthe home will beof Jasonour Guest and SusannahPreacher andHogge Liturgist. at 1333 Laurens Rd, we have faith that they will find good soil and thrive. We thank you for the privilege of being JulyGloucester 4 – Pastor Point. Paul Song’s first service, Independence Day weekend, Holy Communion TBD. called to sow. Bless with the joy of good fruit the seed we will see and the seed we will never see. July 11 – Order for the Celebration of Appointment. Bring your favorite potluck dish to share. Drinks will be provided. Please bring your own chairs. The We pray this in the loving name of Jesus, Gardener and Savior. Amen. driveway will be used as handicap/special assistance parking. All others can park in the grassy triangle across from the driveway and along the street. Anyone who needs to drop off someone *HYMN OF PREPARATION (sing or hum) What Wondrous Love Is This UMH 292 may do so at the driveway and park elsewhere. Hope to see you there! PASTOR’S THANK-YOUS FATHER’S DAY TRIBUTES—Deadline today Want to honor or memorialize your Father, Uncle, Grandfather, Brother, friend, etc. this Father’s Day? See order form insert in today’s bulletin. 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Kathleen Greene, Academic Fred duties Townsend gave ,him Although founded in 421 A.D., Venice would wait a millennium for the golden age of painting uninterruptedYvonne White time for creative work only during the summers, which he spent as artist-in-residence at and music that blossomed in the 16th century with Titian and Tintoretto and the Gabrielis.