CHURCH CALENDAR for JULY 3 – JULY 10, 2016

SUNDAY Our Gifts to the Food Closet Glorify the LORD! 8:30 AM PRAYER GATHERING 9:00 AM SUNDAY SCHOOL 10:00 AM COMMUNION WORSHIP SERVICE 11:00 AM MEET & GREET

MONDAY INDEPENDENCE DAY – OFFICE CLOSED 8:00 PM Ladies’ Aerobics TUESDAY 2:00 PM CONFIRMATION CLASS with Pastor Lisa WEDNESDAY 7:00 PM Chancel Choir

THURSDAY 8:00 PM Ladies’ Aerobics

FRIDAY

“And lead us not into Temptation, but deliver us from Evil…” Matthew 6:13

SATURDAY

The Lord will keep you from all Evil; He will keep your life. Psalm 121:7

SUNDAY 8:30 AM PRAYER GATHERING 9:00 AM SUNDAY SCHOOL 10:00 AM WORSHIP SERVICE 11:00 AM MEET & GREET 2:00 PM Youth & Tweens – Beach Day!

5:30 PM Moms Group + + + + + + +

CROOKS MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

204 Cook Road + Yorktown, Va. + 23690-9637 Phone 757-898-6702 Fax 757-898-7149 E-mail: office@crooksmemumc.hrcoxmail.com Website: www.crooksmemorialumc.org

The Church Office Hours: 9 - 3 Monday – Thursday ATTENDANCE SUNDAY, June 26, 2016…………………117

Rev. Lisa Ann Barbery, Pastor Pastor e-mail: revlisab@gmail.com

Young Jin Cho – Bishop Seonyoung Kim – York River District Superintendent Katherine M. Jackson - Director of Music Sandra Mauney – Organist/Pianist

Vicki Wolz - Accounting Administrator Andrea Ley - Administrative Assistant Nancy Root – Children’s Ministry Angel Gregory – Nursery Coordinator Bob and Gloria Sedgwick – Sextons

Others Serving Today 10:00 AM

Acolyte Christopher Root Greeter George Ivey Ushers Charles Erasmi & Ed Renninger Altar Guild Members Frances Creel and Betty Custer Audio/Video Coordinator Allen Conway Meet & Greet Myrtle’s Class

ALL UPDATES for Bulletin & Insert are due by NOON on TUESDAY!

Crooks Memorial United Methodist Church

Sermon Series:

God is Holding Your Life

July 3, 2016 7th Sunday after Pentecost

Please set cell phone and all electronic devices to silence during the worship service. *Invites persons to stand as they are able

Bold Print indicates a congregational/unison reading Large Print Hymnals and Listening Devices are available from an Usher.

CHIMING OF THE HOUR

WELCOME Pastor Lisa We are blessed by all who are present this morning. Please take a moment to complete the Connection Card found in your bulletin and place it in the offering plate later in the service.

PREPARE FOR WORSHIP Meditation from Thais with Savior Like a Shepherd S. Mauney

(Arr: K. Varner)

*CALL TO WORSHIP Connie Jarvis

We have gathered here this morning to worship God. We have come seeking comfort, inspiration, community, and insight. We have come to open ourselves to the power of God’s presence in our midst. We have come to offer up the seasons and the turnings in our lives, and to ask God’s help in our learning and in our growing.

*HYMN America the Beautiful UMH 696 Please pass Green Prayer Cards to the aisles for ushers to pick up.

PRAYER FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY Connie Jarvis

God of all nations, we thank You for the life and history of our country, for its vast beauty, its wilderness, and wealth of forest, mine, and sea. We praise You for its people, the people whose ancestors have been here for thousands of years, and those who have just arrived. We thank You for the variety of our traditions and our cultures, the riches of our spiritual and religious heritage, the strength of our democratic institutions. We pray for our nation, for our citizens, residents, and governments that working together we may face the future with confident hope and faith in Your purpose for our world. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

SMALL TALK Pastor Lisa As music is played, all other children can return to their seats.

GOSPEL MEDLEY The Lily of the Valley / Since Jesus Came into My Heart Chancel Choir (Charles Fry; William Hayes)/(R.H. McDaniel; Charles Gabriel)

PSALTER Psalm 23 Norma Colton UMH 754, Response 1

SERMON Relentlessly Pursued Pastor Lisa

RESPONSIVE REFRAIN Surely Goodness and Mercy Sung 3 times

TITHES & OFFERINGS

OFFERTORY PRAYER Connie Jarvis Loving Parent, You powerfully fill the voids in our lives. You reveal Your

compassionate grace by the simple act of always being present. You unselfishly feed us when we are hungry and quietly walk with us when we feel alone. Combine this offering with others so all Your children can be filled with the power of Your redeeming spirit. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.

OFFERTORY God Bless America Sandra Mauney (I. Berlin)

* DOXOLOGY Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow UMH 95

COMMUNION See Insert

HYMN OF CONFESSION The Gift of Love UMH 408

*HYMN Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us UMH 381

*BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE Sagia Sandra Mauney

(Arr: J. Westenkuehler)

Everyone is invited to the Fellowship Hall for Meet and Greet

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ALTAR FLOWERS TODAY were provided by Tom Snively: In Memory of my Brother, Jerry Snively, on our 70th Birthday.

In Honor of my Daughter, Denise Theisen, on her 50th Birthday.

Crooks Memorial’s Prayer List – July 3rd, 2016

Please use this prayer list during your individual prayer time this week

WE PRAY FOR:

HOMEBOUND, NURSING HOME AND THOSE RECOVERING AT HOME

Willa Mae Alderman (Spring Arbor); Susan Atwood (Regency); Jim Bailey; Gerald & Rosetta Craig; Ray & Ruth

Duley (Ruth at St. Francis); Lee & Edith Lumpkin; Myrtle Soles; Bill & Joy Wallace (Colonial Harbor); Preston

& Nancy Williams; Donna Young

FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Our Bishop Young Jin Cho, our YRD Superintendent Seonyoung Kim; David & Joan Rhodes, Tommy Wakelyn;

Doug Newbill, Arnold, (Robinsons); Betty Lou Kopczynski; Melba Karas & Jim Bradberry (Giffins); Greg

Whitman (Jan Christianson’s Brother); Donna Soles; Deb Ferrell (Jacksons); Bob Tiller, Wendy Harmon & Sue

Magowan (Linda Hall); Joan Hogge (Carol Jarrett); Katherine (Daughter of Shelia Ponder); Margie Mitchem;

Judy Davis’ Sister Barbara & Joe; Mark, Julia & Shirley Cooper; my Grandmother & my Pittsburg Family (Pandie

Howell); Sue Rohrbach’s cousin, Patsy; Andrew Blackburn (Eric Hoernemann); Bill Watson and Francesca

(Callis); Patrick Kosek (Son of Debbie Kosek); Anna (Granddaughter of Beth Pile); Michelle Jarvis (Daughter of

John & Connie Jarvis); Karen (friend of Kay Callis); Chuck Eldred; Chris Owenby (Melinda Alimonos); Cyndi

Brisson (Jen Kazalski); Rev. Doug Gestwick; Jim Baughman; Stanley Thomas; Priscilla Wehmeyer (Pat Sisk’s

Cousin); Chad & John Hill & Family (Callis); Gloria Brown’s husband, Wayne;

Pray for Our Confirmands: Alyssa Grella, Lily Harr, Christopher Root & Katelyn Root

OUR MILITARY

COL Rob Dillon (Kay O’Beirne), MSgt Richard Ley (Andrea Ley), Jeffery Haddock, E-4 Victoria Davis (the

Robinson’s granddaughter), Airman E5 Jason E. Ferguson, LTC Tim Middleton (David Middleton), E6 Travis

Argue (Melissa Atwood Argue), LT Morry Jackson (Ed & Kathy Jackson), Ensign Remington Roth, (Jeff & Sherri

Roth), WO1 Mark Jordan (Susan Griffin), Col. John Redinger (Ed & Nancy Renninger), Andrew Poe, Otto Giese,

Brian Larkin (Tom & Danette Hayes); WO1 David R. Mummert VA NG (Patty Belvin); Cody Ryan Stroup

(Griffin); Airman 1st Class Brett Barley (Kimi Perry); Major Chuck Bowen (Mandeville); Capt. Dan Faughnan

(Middle East - Pandie Howell)

OUR NATION & WORLD

Victims of Terrorism

World and National Leaders

MISSIONARY WE SUPPORT

Lisa Nichols, Deaconess and Director of Henry Fork Service Center.

We are in the process of updating our prayer list Please review this list and have us add or remove needs.

COMMUNION LITURGY

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

I invite you to take a deep breath [pause] and take a moment of silence to prepare our hearts. Silence Let the people say, “Selah” Selah!

As we gather around the table, we remember all those who are not with us physically. Would you softly lift up names aloud of those you wish to gather in prayer and spirit? The people respond. Let the people say, “Selah” Selah!

Let us continue our prayers as we consider these concerns: Let us pray for the leaders of this world and this church… Lord of Lords, hear our prayer. Let us pray for those who live in conflict around the world… Prince of Peace, hear our prayer. Let us pray for those who are homeless, hungry and alone… Emmanuel, God-With-Us, hear our prayer. Let us pray for those who live in comfort, for Christ-like hospitality and generosity… Transforming One, hear our prayer. Holy and Living One, as we gather to break bread once again, break us open to Your love, to Your peace, to Your presence, to Your transformative power. In the name of the One who invites us time and again, Jesus the Christ. Let the people say, “Selah” Selah!

We are all invited to the gift of this table of grace. As a response to the invitation, we are asked to simply offer our love. Let us sing our Hymn of Confession:

HYMN OF CONFESSION The Gift of Love UMH 408

In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven! In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven! Glory to God! Amen!

GREAT THANKSGIVING

The Lord be with you! And also with you. Selah. Open your hearts, your mouths, your lives to the Holy One. We long for this communion. Selah. Let us give our greatest thanks in the company of the Beloved. It is a good and joyful thing to give our thanks and praise.

Gift of Life, Creator of All That Is, You have breathed life into us, filled our emptiness, Loved us through our resistance.

Time and again You say, Listen! Time and again You say, Live! Time and again You say, Love!

And so we gather and give thanks in this moment. We stop so we may listen, we breathe so we may live, we open so we may love.

Holy , holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of Your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

Holy are You, God, And blessed be Your work in Jesus, Peace-Giver, Life-Healer. Spirit-Anointer, do Your work in us, as in Him. May we proclaim release, recovery, liberty and the end of all oppression. May we savor the taste of goodness and offer this gift of love to all.

Jesus gathered with His disciples, His friends, His family. He took bread, said thanks over it, gave it to His companions and said, “Take, eat, this is My body. My life is given for love of you. So whenever you gather together, stop... Selah... think of Me. Be at peace. I am here.”

And after the supper He lifted His cup, gave thanks over it, and offered it to His companions, saying, “Drink from this cup, all of you. This is My life, My love poured out for you. Whenever you gather together, stop... Selah... think of Me. Be at peace. I am here.”

And so, in remembrance of Your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ’s offering for us, as we proclaim the mystery of faith.

Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.

Pour out Your Holy Spirit on us gathered here, and on these gifts of bread and wine. Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ, that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by His blood.

Holy Spirit, Breath of Wind, Fill us, transform us. Holy Spirit, Lover of Justice, Fill us, transform us. Holy Spirit, Maker of Unity, Fill us, transform us. And all God’s people say, Amen!

THE LORD’S PRAYER Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.

PRAYER AFTER RECEIVING God of all that is too deep for words, we give You thanks that, at this table of grace, You offer Your holiness, Your steadfast love. Open us often to Your Selah, give us pause to hear the needs of Your people. We pray this in the name of the Host of this Table, Jesus the Christ. Amen.