FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH A community-minded congregation living out the love of Christ as we serve one another with humility, gentleness, and patience through God’s grace. KIRKIN’ O’ TH’ TARTAN SERVICE October 27, 2019 RECOGNIZING THOSE WHO HAVE ENTERED THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT 2018-2019 Harold Messick Prettyman April 11, 2019 Anna Adams Carson June 7, 2019 Bertie Lee Lotts Hammer July 12, 2019 Betty Lee Huff July 23, 2019 Virginia Brown Quillen August 8, 2019 Arlene Tait Moren September 13, 2019 11TH & Wayne Avenue John Phillip Crickenberger September 20, 2019 Waynesboro, Virginia (540) 949-8366 Betty Jean Barksdale September 30, 2019 Website: www.firstpresway.org Email: [email protected] Rosalie Martin Baylor Boyd October 9, 2019 Lawrence Edward “Buddy” Bear October 15, 2019 CELEBRATION OF WORSHIP (Text may be found in Hymn 797) PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION October 27, 2019 11:00 a.m. – Kirkin’ o’ th’ Tartan SECOND SCRIPTURE LESSON Joel 2:23-32 p. 741 PRELUDE Dundee WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS SERMON What’s Your Sign? Rev. George W. Chapman, III INTROIT Highland Cathedral *AFFIRMATION OF FAITH : from The Heidelberg Catechism, Question #1 Leader: What is your only comfort, in life and in death? THE KIRKIN’ O’ TH’ TARTANS People: That I belong—body and soul, in life and in death—not to myself but to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ, who at the cost of his own blood has fully paid for all my sins and has completely freed me from PROCESSIONAL Scotland the Brave the dominion of the devil; that he protects me so well that without the will of my Father in heaven not a Piper: Denise Robinson hair can fall from my head; indeed, that everything must fit his purpose for my salvation. Therefore, by THE BLESSING OF THE TARTANS his Holy Spirit, he also assures me of eternal life, and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him. Amen. CALL TO WORSHIP (adapted from Psalm 65) *HYMN 726 Will You Come and Follow Me Kelvingrove Leader: Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion; to you all flesh shall come. When deeds of iniquity overwhelm us, you forgive our transgressions. PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE & COMMEMORATION OF THE SAINTS Happy are those whom you bring into your courts. Responsive Reading (adapted from Isaiah 40) People: By awesome deeds you deliver us, you are the hope of the ends of the earth. Leader: Have you not known? Have you not heard? Leader: You established the mountains; you are girded with might. The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. You silence the roaring of the seas and the tumult of the peoples. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. You visit the earth and water it; you provide the people with grain, blessing its growth. People: He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless. The pastures of the wilderness overflow, the hills gird themselves with abundance. Leader: Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted; People: The meadows and valleys sing together for joy. but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles. MORNING PRAYER People: they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. * HYMN 45 I to the Hills Will Lift My Eyes Dundee Prayer of Thanksgiving PRAYER OF CONFESSION (attributed to Scottish clergyman and reformer John Knox, 1513-1572) Reading of the Names Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo. Forgive what our With our families gathered, including our family in Christ, let us remember with gratitude those lips tremble to name and what our hearts can no longer bear. Set us free from a past that we cannot change; Saints of our congregation who proceeded us to Heaven since October 2018. open to us a future in which we can be changed; and grant us grace to grow more and more in your likeness Special Music Dark Island and image, through Jesus Christ, the light of the world. Concluding Prayer & The Lord’s Prayer SILENT PRAYER OFFERING ASSURANCE OF PARDON Offertory *PASSING OF THE PEACE *Doxology Leader: May the Peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. *Prayer of Dedication People: And also with you. * HYMN 649 Amazing Grace Amazing Grace (Please take a few moments to greet those around you.) *GLORIA PATRI 581 *CHARGE & BENEDICTION *RECESSIONAL FIRST SCRIPTURE LESSON Luke 18:9-14 p. 853 Leader: This is the Word of the Lord. *Please stand, if able. People: Thanks be to God! ANTHEM We Cannot Measure How You Heal Ye Bank and Braes Clan Henderson, typically wearing their own Scottish clan tartan and also wearing the tartans of Clan Gunn, Clan MacDonald, or the Northern Ireland Ulster tartan Clan Irvine, typically wearing their own Scottish clan tartan The Johnson family, typically wearing the tartans of Clan Gunn, Clan Johnston or Clan MacDonald. The Jones family, typically wearing a Welsh tartan The Kelley family, typically wearing the Clan MacDonald tartan and also the tartan of the Irish Clan O'Kelley Clan Kennedy, typically wearing their own Scottish tartan and also typically wearing various Irish County tartans or the Irish Ancestral Ties Associated with the First Presbyterian Church, Waynesboro. National tartan In Scotland, Clans have their own tartan, signifying they are a collective group of people usually, but not The Kent family, typically wearing the Clan Stirling tartan. always, bound by blood and headed by a Chieftain to whom they owe allegiance. Families are septs (a group of The King family, typically wearing the tartans of Clan MacGregor or Clan Colquhoun families, many with common surnames) allied to a Chieftain, usually by geography and marriage. The Kline family, typically wearing the Clan Sinclair tartan In Ireland, tartans are typically worn to show ties to a geographical area rather than allegiance to a The Lawrence family, typically wearing the Clan Maclauren tartan particular Chieftain. This is because Ireland had many kings. The Laughlin family, typically wearing the Irish County Clare tartan In Wales, there are only a few tartans and they are associated with a handful of families. In the modern The Leech family, typically wearing the tartans of Clan MacDonald, Clan Macbeth, Clan Maclean or Clan Macleod. era, the national Welsh Tartan is typically worn. The Lendrum family, an ancient family from Turriff, typically wearing a family tartan instead of that of a Clan Chieftain The remaining Celtic nations - Isle of Man, Brittany (France) and Galicia (Spain) - do not have a tartan Clan Lennox typically wearing their own Scottish clan tartan tradition. However, all six Celtic nations have a tradition of bagpipes. Clan MacBeth, typically wearing their own Scottish clan tartan The MacLennan family, typically wearing the tartan of Clan Logan Clan MacFarlane, typically wearing their own Scottish clan tartan Ancestral Ties Associated with the First Presbyterian Church, Waynesboro Clan Mcelrath, typically wearing their own Scottish Tartan and the Northern Ireland Ulster tartan The McGann family, typically wearing the Irish County Armagh tartan The Ayers family, typically wearing the Clan Hay tartan The Molony family, typically wearing the Irish County Clare tartan The Balderson family, a Borders Region family, ancestors being Celtic "Strathcylde Britons", typically wearing the modern The Morris family, typically wearing the Clan Buchanan tartan Scottish Heritage tartan Clan Montgomery, typically wearing their own Scottish clan tartan The Bare family, a Borders Region family, ancestors being Celtic "Strathcylde Britons", typically wearing the modern Scottish Clan Napier, typically wearing their own Scottish clan tartan Heritage tartan The Phillips family, typically wearing a family Welsh Tartan and also the tartan of Clan MacDonnell of Keppoch The Bennett family, a Borders Region family, ancestors being Celtic "Strathcylde Britons", typically wearing the modern The Powell family, typically wearing the tartan of the Irish Clan O'Carroll and also the Welsh National tartan Scottish Heritage tartan The Quillen family, typically wearing Irish County Antrim tartan The Berry family, typically wearing the Clan Forbes tartan The Seaton family, typically wearing the Clan Seton tartan Clan Boswell, typically wearing their own Scottish clan tartan The Smith family, generally Anglo-Saxon but also an ancient Celtic family originally allied with Clan Chattan and entitled to Clan Boyd, typically wearing their own Scottish clan tartan wear that tartan Clan Brown, typically wearing their own Scottish clan tartan The Spence family, typically wearing the Scottish and Irish National tartans The Bryant family, typically wearing the Irish National tartan and less frequently, the Welsh National tartan The Thomas family typically wearing the Clan MacTomas tartan and sometimes the Thomas family Welsh tartan The Callaway family, typically wearing the Clan MacFarlane tartan The Trimble family, typically wearing the Clan Turnbull tartan. Turnbull was originally Clan Rule but the name was Clan Campbell, typically wearing their own Scottish clan tartan changed by royal decree as an honor The Carson family, typically wearing the Clan MacPherson tartan The Ure family, an ancient family seat from the Ayrshire region of Scotland, probably affiliated with Clan Campbell Clan Cheyne (Cheney), typically wearing their own Scottish clan tartan The Weems Family, typically wearing the Clan Macintyre tartan The Cook family, typically wearing the Clan Stewart tartan The Williamson family, typically wearing the tartans of the Clan Gunn, Clan MacKay or Clan MacFarlane The Coon family, typically wearing the Clan Cunningham tartan The Wilson family, typically wearing the Scottish National tartan Clan Craig, typically wearing their own Scottish clan tartan Clan Wood, typically wearing their own Scottish clan tartan The Cummins family, typically wearing the Welsh national tartan Clan Cunningham, typically wearing their own Scottish clan tartan Clan Curry, typically wearing their own Scottish clan tartan Thank you to the readers, musicians, and organizers who made this day special.