W.O.W. for children grades kindergarten through 3rd grade resumes during the 11 o’clock worship service beginning September 7.

MEMORIALS/HONORARIUMS

AUGUST 31, 2014

Honorarium In Honor of Bill Allen given by Betty and Bob Lott

Matthew 25 Fund

In Memory of Charles Wesley Copeland, Jr. given by Jenny Benefield

Memorials In Memory of Charles Wesley Copeland, Jr.

given by Mr. and Mrs. Tom Joiner given by Ann Ezell

given by Robert Brooks

In Memory of Russell Stockman given by John and Claire Brock

given by Aubrey and Anita Barton

In Memory of Wesley Shane Prater given by Billie Ruth Moore

Morgan Ray Fund In Memory of Dr. Robert Wayne Echols given by Reita R. Hall Mann

Organ Fund

In Memory of Charles Wesley Copeland, Jr. given by Ed Graves

given by Diane Condon Sumner Wilson given by Wade and Princess Miller

given by Billie Ruth Moore given by Alex and Carol Gatewood

In Memory of Jack Blankenship given by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gambrell, Jr.

In Memory of Jack Blankenship and Charles Wesley Copeland, Jr. given by Reita R. Hall Mann

In Memory of Lewis Dean, Jan Rumsey and Russell Stockman given by David and Kay Ryan

In Memory of Lewis Dean and Charles Wesley Copeland, Jr. given by Jay and Sally Masingill

In Memory of Charlie Brakefield given by Jimmie and Susie Vann In Memory of Phillip R. Mann given by Reita R. Hall Mann

In Honor of Bill Allen given by the Artos Class In Honor of James Seay and his Choir given by David and Kay Ryan

Valet Parking

In Memory of Charles Wesley Copeland, Jr. given by Mac and Marilyn DeLoach

Youth Group

In Memory of Will May given by Janice Rosenfeld

Please provide acknowledgement information for memorials

and honorariums to non-members

ABOUT OUR CONGREGATION

August 24 Attendance: Traditions: 764; Bridge: 523; Adult SS: 330; N/P SS: 41; K-5 SS: 69; Youth SS: 73.

August 24 Giving: Budget: $22,578.20; Building: $8,318.10; Organ: $8,314.00; Designated: $1,225.00

Deaths: Sympathy to Dick (Jo Ann) Zeanah in the death of his sister-in-law, Margaret Zeanah of Gainesville FL . She was also the aunt of David (Kathy) Zeanah.

In the Hospital: DCH-Stephenie Justice; Chris Kyle, Sr.; Betty Harless; Dot Win-ters; Duane Gates (Kate Gates’ grandfather); UAB: Larry Odom (frequent visitor). Washington D.C.: Julia (Ed) Williams.

It’s the 5th Sunday which means, it’s Quarter/Dollar Sunday! Donate your quarters and dollar bills in the designated jars around the church to help with the hospital goodie bags. We put lots of goodies in these bags to brighten our sick hos-pitalized folks along with $8 to help with parking which is now $2 each time you exit.

Noonday Lunch and Worship Service—Join us for our weekly Wednesday noon and worship service beginning this Wednesday, September 3rd. We will begin at 12:00 noon and wrap up by 12:50 p.m. This is an ideal time to get a refreshing devotional service in the middle of the week. There is no need to reserve a place. Drop in is fine. Bring your friends or co-workers. Lunch is buffet style.

United Methodist Women—Upcoming Circle Meetings

Celebration Circle - Tuesday, September 2 at 5:45 PM in the Parker Fireside Room

Faith & Friendship Circle - Monday, September 8 at 10:00 a.m. in the Parker Fireside Room

Charlotte Shamblin Circle - Monday, September 8 at 10:00 a.m. in the Lee Classroom

GOKids is collecting items to send to the children at Challenge Farm. Pick up a list of the items needed on the 2nd floor Children's Hall.

Hospital Changes Policy on Clergy Access to Patient List: Due to a change in hospital policy, clergy lists at DCH Health System hospitals are no longer available for the pastors to review in order to identify what church members are in the hospi-tal. Therefore, we encourage church members to notify the church at 205.345.7261 or email celesta@fumct.org during church office hours, or our pastoral phone 205.886.7177 after hours, when you know of a member of the FUMCT family who is, or will be, under local hospital care.

Pick up your complimentary portrait. For those who participated in having their photograph made for the new pictorial directory and did not place an order, your free 8ʺx10ʺ portrait is available for pick up at the receptionist's desk in the church office.

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH TUSCALOOSA

800 Greensboro Avenue Tuscaloosa, AL 35401 Phone 205-345-7261

After Hour Emergency Number: 886-7177 Website: www.fumct.org

AUGUST 31, 2014

WELCOME TO WORSHIP GOD ON BROADWAY

August 31, 2014

PRELUDE On the Willows from Godspell by Stephen Schwartz

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Dr. Ken Dunivant

Members & guests, please complete your attendance inside the red friendship pad, and pass it down to the end of the pew. Please place your attendance slip in the offering plate.

CHIMING OF THE HOUR The sounding of the three chimes symbolizes the presence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. CALL TO WORSHIP Prepare Ye from Godspell by Stephen Schwartz Avery Berry, Tenor *HYMN OF PRAISE NO. 203 Hail to the Lord’s Anointed ELLACOMBE

Stanzas 1, 2, 4 Hail to the Lord's Anointed, great David's greater Son! Hail in the time appointed, his reign on earth begun! He comes to break oppression, to set the captive free; to take away transgression, and rule in equity. He comes with succor speedy to those who suffer wrong; to help the poor and needy, and bid the weak be strong; to give them songs for sighing, their darkness turn to light, whose souls, condemned and dying, are precious in his sight. To him shall prayer unceasing and daily vows ascend; his kingdom still increasing, a kingdom without end. The tide of time shall never his covenant remove; his name shall stand forever; that name to us is love.

*PASSING OF THE PEACE Dr. Ken Dunivant

ANTHEM All Good Gifts from Godspell by Stephen Schwartz Craig First, Tenor

PASTORAL PRAYER Dr. Ken Dunivant

*OFFERTORY HYMN NO. 399 Take My Life, and Let It Be MESSIAH Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee. Take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise. Take my hands, and let them move at the impulse of thy love. Take my feet, and let them be swift and beautiful for thee.

Take my voice, and let me sing always, only, for my King. Take my lips, and let them be filled with messages from thee. Take my silver and my gold; not a mite would I withhold. Take my intellect, and use every power as thou shalt choose.

Take my will, and make it thine; it shall be no longer mine. Take my heart, it is thine own; it shall be thy royal throne. Take my love, my Lord, I pour at thy feet its treasure-store. Take myself, and I will be ever, only, all for thee.

*OFFERTORY PRAYER 9 AM-Leigh Snodsmith 11 AM-Kate Gates OFFERING OUR GIFTS TO GOD Please give the attendance slips to the usher as the offering is received.

OFFERTORY The Prayer of St. Francis arr. René Clausen

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me bring love. Where there is injury, help me to pardon. Where there is doubt, let me bring faith. Where there is despair, let me bring hope. Where there is darkness, let me bring light, where there is sorrow, let me bring joy. O Lord, master divine, grant that I not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, and it is in pardoning that we are pardoned. For in dying, we are born to eternal life. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Amen.

*DOXOLOGY LASST UNS ERFREUEN Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise God, all creatures here below: Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise God, the source of all our gifts! Praise Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts! Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

ANTHEM Save the People from Godspell by Stephen Schwartz Will Erwin, Tenor SCRIPTURE READING Matthew 13:44-45 9 AM-Leigh Snodsmith (Pew Bible, NT, p. 15) 11 AM-Kate Gates SERMON “Under God’s Spell” Dr. Gorman Houston ANTHEM Day by Day from Godspell by Stephen Schwartz *BENEDICTION Dr. Gorman Houston POSTLUDE Beautiful City from Godspell by Stephen Schwartz Mark Robison, Piano

*Congregation Standing. Please silence all pagers and cell phones.

(Hymn texts printed through permission of CCLI: 1108424)

Hearing devices are available in the Narthex. If you need one, please ask a host/usher for assistance.

GOD ON BROADWAY ENSEMBLE Sarah Kathryn Bonds, Amy Lea Todhunter, Allyson Azar, Krystal Stark, Mattie Bonds, Avery Berry, Mabs Seay, Lauren Goldfuss, Kate Gates, John David Ryan, Eryn Davis,

Daniel Velasquez, Mark Robison, Will Erwin, Craig First, Kaylee McNight

INSTRUMENTALISTS Dr. James Seay, Director of Music & Worship / Susan Goode, Accompanist

Charles Prosser, Ensemble Director / Mark Robison, Pianist Brandon Hall and Alex Woods, Guitar

Adult Chancel Choir

HOSTS/USHERS

9:00 a.m. Eleanor Boykin, Lynne Richardson, Mary Meadows

Dick Zeanah, Andrew Billings, Nathan Billings

11 a.m. Glenn Powell, Cindy Sands, Jerri McCreless

Bill Jessup, Glen Cowan, Mac DeLoach

Worship Coordinator Debby Gryska

T he play was written by John-Michael Tebelek as his Master’s Thesis project at Carnegie Mellon University. It was performed on

campus in 1970 using hymns from the Epis-copal Hymnal as the music. In 1971, Stephen Schwartz wrote the musical score of fifteen songs with many of them in-spired by an old Germanic Hymnal. Using

various musical styles including Rock n’ Roll, Pop, R & B, Ragtime and Rap, Godspell opened off Broadway in May of 1971. Over 2,000 per-formances later, the show moved to Broadway in 1976. For over 40 years, Godspell has been performed all over the world. Godspell certainly broke new ground in the 70’s with its stage treatment of Jesus Christ and a small group of followers dressed as clowns impro-vising through story and song, the parables of the Gospels of Matthew and Mark. The musical begins with nine of the ten members of the cast entering the stage and taking the roles of the greatest philosophers of the ages, Socra-tes, Luther, Nietzhe, etc. They chant fragments of their teachings as they begin to sing “The Tower of Babble.” Their singing is interrupted by blasts from a shofur blown by John the Baptist as he beckons them to “Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord!” John proceeds to baptize the company. Jesus comes to be baptized too. John asks to be baptized by Him, but Jesus says his place is not to baptize but to “Save the People.” In the first parable, Jesus explains that he has not come to abolish the law but to complete it so that we may live in His love “Day by Day!” In the cast, Jesus is the main character and does most of the teaching. Then one person plays both John and Judas. The other eight cast mem-bers use their own names and develop their characters as they go. After all the play is not just about Jesus but more about how his life and love affect us all – “All Good Gifts.” In the second act, Jesus begins to prepare his followers for his death. Parables about judgment and eternal life are explored. In the beautiful Upper Room scene Jesus tells them that he will be betrayed by someone close to him. As he breaks the bread and shares the wine he tells his fol-lowers that they will dine together in the Kingdom of Heaven. The band sings “On the Willows” which is about what has been sacrificed. In this song Jesus says good-bye to his followers and he asks that they wait while he goes to pray. The musical ends with the crucifixion of Jesus. The “Finale” begins loud and in B-minor with Jesus crying “O God I’m Dying.” Jesus dies and the music comes to an end. Then the women sing “Long Live God” and the men join in with “Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord” in counterpoint as the casts exits.