ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING CHURCH CALENDAR

No Bible Study This Week Youth Group: CANCELED FOR TODAY

Cluster Lenten Services, TONIGHT, 6PM at Lightstreet UMC UMW Meeting, Monday March 14th, 7PM

CW Ministerium Lenten Lunch, WED March 16th, Noon at Christ Lutheran RCV Lenten Services, WED, March 16th, 7PM, St. Paul’s Lutheran

Next Breakfast: March 19th Next Church Council Meeting: April 7th, 7PM

Guatemala team fundraiser

Dinner at St. Paul's UCC, Numidia ('red church') It will be a a buffet-style roast beef dinner on Saturday, March 26th from 4:30

to 7PM at a cost of $10/person.

Please sign up, we need YOUR help!

We are in need of greeters to welcome folks to the church at the beginning of our services, please sign up for this vital ministry.

God has blessed us with children. Now we have to be faithful to what He asks of us. Please sign up to help one month with children’s church. There are sev-eral tasks, you can sign up to be a teacher, a helper, or to assist with the tod-

dlers. Many hands make light work.

Bible in One Year MONDAY Mar 14: Exodus 25; John 4; Prov 1; 2 Cor 13

TUESDAY Mar 15: Exodus 26; John 5; Prov 2; Galatians 1 WEDNESDAY Mar 16: Exodus 27; John 6; Prov 3; Galatians 2 THURSDAY Mar 17: Exodus 28; John 7; Prov 4; 2 Galatians 3

FRIDAY Mar 18: Exodus 29; John 8; Prov 5; 2 Galatians 4 SATURDAY Mar 19: Exodus 30; John 9; Prov 6; Galatians 5 SUNDAY Mar 20: Exodus 31; John 10; Prov 7; Galatians 6

Mt Zion United Methodist Church Catawissa, PA

Pastor Chad Carter

March 13, 2011 The Suffering Savior

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, 

so far from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, 

by night, and am not silent. Psalm 22:1‐2 

Psalm 22:1 by Linda Henke

Welcome to the Mt. Zion United Methodist Church! We are glad to have you worshipping with us this morning. If you are visiting with us, please fill out the visitor card and place it in the offering. We want to

know who is worshipping with us, and who you are!

Welcome and announcements Prelude (the gift of music helps us to prepare our hearts for worship) Lighting of the candles (the flame represents the presence of the Holy Spirit) Call to Worship (from Psalm 22)

Leader: God you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel. Congregation: In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.

*Opening Hymn 130 “God Will Take Care of You” Music ministry of the choir The Shepherd’s Psalm, 137 in your hymnal Sharing of Joys and Concerns for Prayer Invitation to Prayer, Hymn 170 “O, How I Love Jesus” Pastoral Prayer, closed with the Lord’s Prayer in Unison Children’s Message The children are invited to come up front with Pastor Chad [The children are dismissed to children’s church in the basement]

“The Suffering Savior” Psalm 22 Offering (We give our gifts to God)

. . . Give careful thought to your ways. You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.—Haggai 1:5-6

*Doxology

‘Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise Him, all creatures here below; praise him above ye heavenly host;

praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.” *Closing Hymn 402 “Lord I Want to Be A Christian” Benediction Postlude The Acolyte will take the light of Christ into the world * please stand if it is comfortable for you to do so

Pianist Eric Traupman

Pastor Chad Carter Email: ccarter@susumc.org

Office: (570) 356-7022 www.kulpmtzion.org

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