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Welcome to Worship at Federated! If you are new to Federated, please tell us on a “Visitors Card” & in a red Friendship Folder.
Children are welcome in worship at Federated. Children’s Activity Bags are at the Sanctuary entrance. The Library/“Cry Room” is child friendly. Child care is available Sundays in the Nursery. Ushers are here to help you — Please ask if you need hearing assistance devices and large print
hymnals. Ushering are Lloyd Castner, John Lohr, Terry Norris, and Tessa MIller, Youth Usher. We are called Federated because on July 2, 1914, Columbus’ Congregational (now the United
Church of Christ) and Presbyterian churches joined to serve as one congregation. The Order of St. Andrew serves as Federated’s deacons. Prayer requests can be shared on
Prayers Cards in the pew pockets or Prayer Chain requests to the Church Office (402) 564-2812 to call the Order of St. Andrew. The Prayer Chain is strictly confidential.
If you missed worship last week, visit www.federatedcolumbus.org for videos of worship and bulletins, or on Channel 1304 (HD) Mondays & Saturdays at Noon and Sunday evenings at 8pm.
In case of an emergency, the pastors’ cell phone numbers are: Annika: (402) 942-1636 / Edward: (402) 302-2812
Federated Church Clergy and Staff
Rev. Dr. Annika Lister Stroope Senior Pastor
Jim Rains Office Manager
Rev. Dr. S. Edward Yang Associate Pastor
for Children, Youth, and Families [email protected]
Chrissy Ford Bookkeeper & Publications Coord.
Lee Augustin, Organist Zach Nickolite, Custodian
Bob Arp, Chancel Choir Director Ashli Porter, Nursery Attendant
Stuart Gausman Bell Choir Director
Lay Pastor Antonio Garcia El Buen Pastor Fellowship
Governing Council 2018 - Federated Church Elders
Dave Melick, President • Bill Royer, Vice President Louise Moran, Secretary • Terry Norris, Treasurer
Class of 2018 Class of 2019 Class of 2020
Jeannie Kiser-Jensen
Julie Graham Wilma Arp
Sharon Kuncl Kathy Leischner Linda Wheatley
Bill Royer Gail Wurdeman Doug Williams
Thursday, February 22,
2018
Sunday, February 25,
2018
JOYS & CONCERNS Please keep Jim Morris in your prayers as he recovers from knee replacement surgery in Omaha. Please hold Denny Vollbracht in your prayers as he recovers from open heart surgery. Please pray for Margaret Trew as she is rehabbing at Morys Haven.
THIS WEEK AT FEDERATED CHURCH Sunday, February 25 9:30am Worship Service, Sanctuary 10:30am 103rd Annual Cong. Meeting, Sanctuary 3:00pm El Buen Pastor Worship Service, Sanctuary Monday, February 26 10:30am Staff Meeting, EC 7 12:00pm BIG PALS ~ little pals, EC 8 5:15pm Special Olympics, Gym 5:30pm Sanctuary Tech. Taskforce, Sanctuary 7:00pm Boy Scouts Troop 212, Fellowship Hall Tuesday, February 27 8:00am Tues. Morning Book Group, Fellowship Hall 8:30am VBS Planning Meeting, AD 1 1:30pm Lenten Prayer Gathering, Sanctuary 4:00pm Emerson Elementary After-school Tutoring 6:00pm Consonaires Rehearsal, Choir Room 7:00pm Governing Council, EC 8 7:00pm Cub Scouts Pack 279, Fellowship Hall Wednesday, February 28 12:05pm Lenten Worship & Lunch, First Methodist 3:00pm Wed. Youth After School, FH, Upper Rooms 6:30pm Bell Choir Rehearsal, Sanctuary 6:30pm H.I.S. Puppet Ministry, EC 3 & 8 7:30pm Chancel Choir Practice, Choir Room 7:30pm Youth Club, Upper Room, Gym Thursday, March 1 5:30pm YM Teachers Meeting, AD 1 6:15pm Boy Scouts Roundtable, Fellowship Hall 6:30pm Thursday Worship Service, Sanctuary Friday, March 2 6:00pm Latino Prayer Service, Sanctuary Saturday, March 3 8:00am Youth Pizza Prep, Kitchen & Fellowship Hall Sunday, March 4 9:15am Youth Visit to Christ Comm. Church, Omaha 9:30am Worship Service, Sanctuary 10:30am Education Hour 3:00pm El Buen Pastor Worship Service, Sanctuary
Education Hour After Sunday Worship ***No Education Hour This Week*** Annual Meeting of the Congregation
immediately follows worship on Sunday, Feb. 25
NEXT Sunday - Education Hour Resume Sunday School for pre-K to high school are welcome to Christian formation and fellowship at 10:30 a.m. in
the Education Center &Upstairs Youth Rooms
All Adults are welcome in the sanctuary for Education Hour at 10:45 a.m. Sunday, March 4, for
the series Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church with
Bible scholar and pastor N.T. Wright
Mission and Outreach Thank you for supporting Federated youth and pastors participating in 30 Hour Famine, which was a fast all day Friday through 6am Saturday to raise money for World Visions’ hunger relief programs. We
Caring & Connecting
ANNOUNCEMENTS For more details, visit www.federatedcolumbus.org,
or contact the church office (402)564-2812.
2018 Address Directories are still in production. Please inform Chrissy of input for these you may have - [email protected] or (402) 564-2812.
Tuesday Christian Book Discussion Group will meet at 8AM (instead of 7AM). All are invited to for coffee in Fellowship Hall. Lenten Reading: The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach about Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem by Marcus Borg and Dominic Crossan.
The Season of Lent
Custodial Service Update
Lent is a season to make time and space for prayer. Our sanctuary welcomes you into a quiet space for personal reflection and prayer. A selection of printed prayers will also be available. You are welcome to pray in the sanctuary any time that the church building is open (please use the south entrance of the church). A group will meet on Tuesdays from 1:30 – 2:30 PM for those wanting to be in prayer with others. Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus. (1 Thess. 5: 16-18)
Shevlin Service Master will be providing custodial services to Federated Church on a trial basis thorugh April. Please inform the church office if you find any area of the church in need of custodial attention (502) 564-2812 or [email protected].
Postcard Survey Re: Worship Times Thank you to all who have returned the postcard from Worship & Music Committee surveying the congregation about worship times. 114 postcards have been returned to the church office. So far, 66 votes are for a 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship service and 48 votes for 9:30 a.m. Sunday worship service. The Worship & Music and Christian Education Committees, along with the Governing Council, will be in dialogue about the survey results. Please mail in your postcard if you haven’t yet!
Book Exchange Youth Mission Fundraiser has begun! Find a book to enjoy and/or donate books to share. Freewill donations go to the Youth Summer Mission.
We Gather To Worship God Thursday February 22 and Sunday, February 25, 2018
Hymns, Songs, Prayers, and liturgies in Bold are for the participation of the Congregation The Prelude invites us to begin our time of worship; please take this time for silent reflection.
Prelude Help Me in My Unbelief arr. Martin How Great Thou Art arr. Swan
Lee Augustin, Organ & Piano
Welcome & Announcements (Please sign and pass Friendship Folders to your neighbors.) Moment for Mission (Sun.) Youth Summer Mission Pizza Fundraiser
* Call to Worship Psalm 22 One: From God comes our praise in the congregation; All: our vows we will pay before those who fear God. One: The poor shall eat and be satisfied; All: and all the nations shall bow before God.
* Opening Hymn No. 356 Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing (Sun.) Elizabeth Miller, Acolyte
Sung Prayer of Lenten Confession and Reconciliation ‡ Beach Spring One: Let us turn our hearts to God with a sung prayer of confession.
We have failed to love our neighbors, their offenses to forgive; Have not listened to their troubles, nor have cared just how they live,
We are jealous, proud, impatient, loving over much our things; May the yielding of our failings be our Lenten offerings.
Silent Prayers of Confession
Declaration of God’s Forgiveness One: Amen. The LORD will keep you from all evil; the LORD will keep your life. All: In Jesus Christ we are forgiven. Alleluia! Amen.
Choral Anthem (Sun.) Do Not Be Afraid for You Are Mine L. Larson
Bob Arp, Director
* The Passing of the Peace One: As children of God, we are no longer strangers, but friends. The peace of Christ be with you. All: And also with you. One: Please greet one another with a sign of peace.
Children’s Moment (Sun.) All children are invited to come forward for their special presentation. Stuart Gausman, Children’s Music Director
Love the Lord Lincoln Brewster Where Two or Three Are Gathered
Where two or three are gathered in your name, You are there, you are there.
Prayer for Illumination (Sun.) Lucas Miller, Liturgist
Reading of Scripture The Gospel According to Mark 8: 31 - 38 (pew Bible New Testament page 44)
Sermon - “Call to Follow” Edward Yang, Associate Pastor
*As you are able in body or in spirit, please rise.
* Affirmation of Faith - Excerpts from The Theological Declaration of Barmen (1934) One: Jesus Christ, as he is attested for us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God All: which we have to hear and which we have to trust and obey in life and in death. One: As Jesus Christ is God’s assurance of the forgiveness of all our sins, All: so in the same way is he also God’s mighty claim upon our whole life. One: Through him befalls us a joyful deliverance from the godless fetters of this world All: for a free, grateful service to his creatures. One: The Christian Church is the congregation of the brethren All: in which Jesus Christ acts presently as the Lord in Word & Sacrament through the Holy Spirit. One: As the Church of pardoned sinners, it has to testify in the midst of a sinful world, All: with its faith as with its obedience, with its message as with its order, One: that it is solely his property, and that it lives and wants to live solely All: from his comfort and from his direction in the expectation of his appearance.
* Responsive Hymn No. 434 Today We All Are Called to Be Disciples
Memorial for Those Who Died in 2017 God has gathered a great company of the faithful to this place. Today we name those who died in 2017, whose
membership is now in the Church Triumphant, living fully into the joy of the resurrection. Readers: Paul Sanderson (Thurs.) & Rev. Annika (Sun.) Chime: Stuart Gausman (Sun.)
* Hymn of Gratitude No. 526 For All the Saints (verses 1 & 2)
Prayers of the People and the Lord’s Prayer (Sun.) Annika Lister Stroope, Senior Pastor 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 debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Invitation to the Offering Offertory Sweet Hour of Prayer Bradbury * Doxology ‡
Praise God throughout these forty days. Praise Christ, our Lord, whom God did raise And praise the Spirit who imparts God’s love in Christ into our hearts. Amen.
* Unison Prayer of Dedication We long for the time when the meek shall inherit the earth and all who hunger and thirst after justice shall be satisfied, and we believe that, despite the persistence of evil, now is always the time when more good can be done and we can make a difference. May it be so, through the offering of these gifts and the offering of our lives. Amen.
* Hymn No. 280 Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound
* Blessing and Sending
Postlude Legions for Christ Wilson
*As you are able in body or in spirit, please rise. ‡ tune on page 592 of hymnal CCLI License #1160936
All are warmly welcome (& invite a friend!) to Lenten Lunch & Worship Services at First United Methodist Church WED. 12:05pm
Feb. 28—Pastor Adam Lassen, St. Luke’s UCC Mar. 7—Rev. Edward Yang, Federated
March 14—Rev. Cindi Stewart, First Methodist March 21—Rev. Annika Lister Stroope, Federated
Federated Church Annual Meeting immediately after 9:30 a.m. Sunday worship service (No Education Hour)
