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Twelfth Sunday After PentecostSeptember 1st, 2019
Scripture verses:Hebrews 13: 1 – 8, 15 – 16 Luke 14:1, 7 – 14 Hymns: #106 – All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name!#689 – One Bread, One Body#712 – Sent Forth by God’s Blessing
Announcements
Please email announcements to both:
Sue for the bulletins: [email protected]
Nanci for the slides: [email protected]
Nanci also welcomes suggestions and comments about the slides.
Make sure it has a descriptive subject line
Contact Information RequestWe are requesting updated information for all our college students, and any military personnel so we can stay in touch.
Parents: Please send your child’s current mailing/e-mail info to [email protected] Let us know if they would like to receive bulletins or our newsletter.
E-mail Addresses
If you need to reach us:
Pastor (Deb): [email protected]
Church office (Sue): [email protected]
Organist (Carol): [email protected]
Slides (Nanci): [email protected]
If you have any new or changed personal contact information (address, phone number or e-mail address), please let us know
Your Help Is Needed
We would like to have a nursery attendant at each church service. Please consider helping in the Nursery once a month! We welcome men and women! Please see, call, or e-mail Karen Dunn if you can help or need more information! (610-865-9279 or [email protected])
Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me.”
Altar Flowers and Bulletin Sponsors
There are many dates available on our 2019Altar Flower & Bulletin sponsor charts. If you would like to honor a special day or remember someone special, please sign the chart in the lower narthex. Envelopes are available for your payments.
• Flowers are $10.00
• Bulletins are $12.00
Slide Projector Operators Needed
Volunteers needed to operate the slide projector for Sunday services. There is a sign-up sheet in the chapel. It is easy.
Nanci McGonigal will ensure that you are shown how. Thank you!
Volunteers Needed
Sign up on in the chapel for:
• Greeters
• Lay Readers
• Ushers
• Altar Guild
• Slide Projector Operator
Blood Pressure Check
Stay healthy and check your blood pressure regularly! Stop by the office located in the chapel/multipurpose room and have one of our nurses from our congregation check your blood pressure. This service will be provided the 1st Sunday of each month.
Social Media Help Needed
We are looking for someone to maintain our presence on Social Media. If you are interested in helping with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or our website, please contact Don Ruth, Pete Weiss, or anyone on consistory.
This is a great opportunity to add experience to your resume
Prayer Circle
Our Prayer Circle will pray confidentially for your needs and concerns. Simply complete a “Prayer Request” card in the pew racks and place it in the offering plate or e-mail/call Sue during office hours
Greeting Cards
Sign the birthday cardsin the parlor and add a personal note. Help make the occasion memorable.
Thank you for all the donations.
There is a shoebox on the table for card donations.
Announcement Request
PLEASE HELP US get our story straight!
Submit your announcement for the bulletins to the church office ([email protected]) by Wednesday so we can print the announcements (and not make you listen to them all on Sunday). Our secretary, Sue prints the bulletins on Thursday mornings
News and Booklets
Care Notes booklets offer helpful ideas for coping while grieving the loss of a loved one. Most titles are in the plexiglass rack on the sign-up table in the chapel.
Copies of the Phoebe Mini Messenger News are available on the table in the Chapel. Please help yourself
Contribute to OCWM
As you heard, we had to cut the budget for Our Church’s Wider Mission (OCWM). If you would like to make a personal contribution to OCWM, you can do so by making out a check to T.G.S.UCC and marking it to be used for OCWM. Alternatively, you can send your check directly to OCWM. If you have any questions please contact the church office
Outreach Care Donations Needed
Outreach Care needs monetary donations. Funds provide shelter for our area’s homeless. Any amount you can donate is appreciated.
There is a white box in back of the church for your donations or see Pete or Joyce Weiss. Your donation is tax deductible. Thank you
Quakertown Food Pantry Volunteers
Do you have one morning a week to pick up food from area stores and deliver it to the Quakertown Food Pantry? They need volunteers to pick up food donations of meat, bread, and dairy products from Giant, Wal-Mart and Target.
For more details, call the Quakertown Pantry 215-536-0240 and ask for Carol Kidd
Suggestions? Complaints? Comments?
Communication is key to making changes… We would LOVE to hear from you. Please tell us anything you like, dislike, want changed, or other concerns.
Please gine us your name and phone no. or e-mail address so we can give you a status update. We will address everything in a timely manner.
Consistory Openings
We would like to thank Nancy and Jeff Stephenson for their time and commitment serving on consistory. We wish them well on their move to Florida. This move leaves 2 openings on consistory for 2019. If you are interested in fulfilling their term for consistory, please contact Pete Weiss, Don, Ruth, or Pastor Deb.
Support our mission trip when you do your shopping at GIANT. Use ca$h for causes cards to pay for your groceries.
Mission Trip Fundraiser
Buy Giant ca$h for causes cards from us and Giant supermarkets will contribute 5% of the cost of card to our mission trip.
It does not cost you anything!
See Bob or Wendy Quinby to purchase your cards.
2019 Mission Trip DinnersFuture 2019 Mission Trip dinners, held from 4:00 –7:00 PM
• September 21st – Pork & sauerkraut
• October 19th – Turkey gravy
• November 16th – Ham dinner
Cost:
• Adults $12.00; Children 4-12 $5; Age 3 & under free
Questions? call Bob or Wendy Quinby at 267-374-0590
Did you know that you can make your offerings to TGSUCC on the church website, www.tgsucc.org? On the “Contact Us” tab, click “Donate” and follow the instructions. You can use PayPal or a major credit card to donate.While we still want to see you all in church, this is a great way to continue to share the blessings that have been bestowed upon you by God even when you can’t attend.
Online Donations to TGSUCC
Pastoral Care
If you need pastoral care, please call the church office at 215-679-7710. Office hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. If it is after regular hours, leave a message and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.
The Christian Ed. Commission is looking for Sunday School teachers for the upcoming year for the Adult Class.
Anyone interested, please contact Cindy Booth
Sunday School Teacher Needed
Come join us for a family bonfire hosted by the youth group on Sept. 8th at 6 pm
We will be roasting marshmallows for S’mores.
Bring your chair and stick!
Welcome BackEveryone is welcome to
have breakfast and meet our Sunday School teachers as
we kick off our new Sunday School year at Trinity Great
Swamp UCC
Sunday September 8th at 10:15 AM. Hope to see you there!
Children ages 4 - 12 are invited to join Jr. Choir.
First practice will be September 11 at 6:00 –6:30. We will meet in the Adult Sunday school classroom. We hope to sing in church on September 22.
If you like singing, bell ringing, and a treat, then Jr. Choir is for you. Please ask your parents to let us know if you will be joining us. Miss Karen and Miss Joyce 215-536-7561
Junior Choir – Sept. 11th, 6:00 PM
Singers and Ringers
If you are interested in becoming part of ourAdult Choirs, choir rehearsals will begin on Sept. 18th at 6:30 PM.
Trinity Bells will also begin on Sept. 18th at 7:30 PM.
If you have any questions, please contact Carol Dzurenda at 215-603-6694
We raised $476 for Christian Education through the basket raffle. Winners are listed in the bulletin. Thank you to all of the committees and church members who donated baskets for this event.The $50.00 Target Gift Card raffle was won by Denise Fell.
CONGRATULATIONS to all!!!!!
Emergency CallsSince we are at the lovely corner of Lehigh, Bucks, Berks, and Montgomery Counties, it can be tricky when we have an emergency at church.
If there is an emergency requiring an ambulance, always call 911 first.
If a direct number is needed, call: Upper Perk Ambulance at 215-679-5989
Upcoming EventsSept. 8th – 9:00 AM Worship in the Sanctuary as we
return to regular schedule.10:15 AM Welcome back breakfast6:00 PM Bonfire
Sept. 15th – 1 – 3 PM Open house for Nancy Rosenau’s 90th birthday at 2135 Miller Road, East Greenville.
Sept. 21st – 4 – 7 PM Pork & sauerkraut dinnerOct. 19th – 4 – 7 PM Turkey gravy dinner
Your Church Needs YouOpportunities abound to fulfill your promise to support your local church. We currently have 9 openings for church members to fill on our 12-member consistory for 2020.
This is your chance to help determine what changes should be made to our church and help manage the ministries that we treasure.
Think about it. Pray about it. Call Jim Morrissey, Pearl Moyer or Pete Weis
Twelfth Sunday After PentecostSeptember 1st, 2019
Scripture verses:Hebrews 13: 1 – 8, 15 – 16 Luke 14:1, 7 – 14 Hymns: #106 – All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name!#689 – One Bread, One Body#712 – Sent Forth by God’s Blessing
Call to Worship
Leader: Sing aloud to God our strength and shout with joy:
All: God, our Host, welcomes us.
Leader: God reminds us, “I brought you out of the land of Egypt and fed you along the way:”
Call to WorshipAll: When we opened our mouths, God filled us
with good things.Leader: God calls us to walk the path of
faithfulness, trusting the promise:All: a feast for all—
freshly-baked bread, hot from the over, and sweet honey to satisfy our hunger.
Let us worship God!
Hymn#106 – All Hail the Power of Jesus’
Name!
#689 – One Bread, One Body
#712 – Sent Forth by God’s Blessing
Litany of Confession(based on Jeremiah 2)
Leader: Dear God, we have known you since the time you led our ancestors from bondage to freedom.All: We have found no fault in your promise.Leader: Yet we wander from the path that you have set and put our faith in other “gods” which lead us away from justice, compassion and hospitality. We abandon your blessing.All: Forgive our faithlessness and our arrogance. Restore us to right relationship with you and all those in our midst.
Assurance of Pardon
Leader: God is merciful and slow to anger.
God seeks the lost and extends the invitation again and again.
God welcomes us when we turn to God.
Friends, believe the Good News of the Gospel,
All: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven
Halle, Halle Hallelujah
Halle, halle, hallelujah.
Halle, halle, hallelujah.
Halle, halle, hallelujah.
Hallelujah, hallelujah.(sing twice)
Scripture Reading
Hebrews 13: 1 – 8 , 15 – 16
Luke 14: 1, 7 – 14
Hebrews 13: 1 – 3 1 Let mutual love continue. 2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. 3 Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured.
Hebrews 13: 4 – 5
4 Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled; for God will judge fornicators and adulterers. 5 Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”
Hebrews 13: 6 – 8
6 So we can say with confidence,
“The Lord is my helper;I will not be afraid.
What can anyone do to me?”7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke the word of God to you; consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Hebrews 13: 15 – 16
15 Through him, then, let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name. 16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
Scripture Reading
Hebrews 13: 1 – 8, 15 – 16
Luke 14: 1, 7 – 14
Luke 14:1, 7
1 On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were watching him closely. 7 When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable.
Luke 14: 8 – 9
8 “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host; 9 and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, ‘Give this person your place,’ and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place.
Luke 14: 10 – 11 10 But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. 11 For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
Luke 14: 12
12 He said also to the one who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid.
Luke 14: 13 – 14 13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. 14 And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Gloria Patri
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen, Amen
A Time for All
1) Overflowing pitcher - overflowing with water.
2) Road to Emmaus
3) Last Supper
4) Communion Table (not altar)
5) Crunchy and Creamy Peanut Butter
6) Inviting the beggars - the image from Vanderbilt.
Affirmation of Faith – LoveWe believe in God, who is love, whose love is manifest in all Creation, in our lives, and in all people. We follow Christ, who embodied God's love. In his life and ministry, his death and resurrection, and his granting to us of his Spirit, he filled us with that love as well. We live by the Spirit, the presence of God's love in us.
Affirmation of Faith – Love
In that love we participate in the Church, Body of Christ, in loving God by loving our neighbors through our prayers, our presence, our gifts and our service. Love is our faith, and it is a gift from God. We thank God, and ask God's blessings, that we may love in the name of Christ and the power of the Spirit, to God's glory. Amen.
Sharing Our Joys
and Concerns
The Lord’s PrayerOur Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy nameThy Kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heavenGive us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtorsAnd lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evilFor Thine is the kingdom,
And the power, and the glory forever. Amen
Doxology
All things are yours! We make that true,
when we return our gifts to you.
And so we give, and so we share,
in Christ’s strong name expressing care.
Hymn
#106 – All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name!
#689 – One Bread, One Body
#712 – Sent Forth by God’s Blessing
Eucharistic PrayerLeader: God be with you,
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts:
People: We lift them up to God.
Leader: Let us give thanks to God Most High.
People: It is right to give God thanks and praise.
Seraphic Hymn
Holy, holy, holy, God of the heavenly host;
Heaven and earth are full, are full of the majesty of your glory,
Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in the highest!
Blessed the one who comes in the name of our God,
Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in the highest!
Leader: Merciful God, as sisters and brothers in faith…
… we say boldly what we believe:
All: Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.
Sharing the Holy Meal
Unison Prayer of ThanksgivingEternal God, you have called your people from east and west and north and south to feast at the table of Jesus Christ. We thank you for Christ’s presence and for the spiritual food of Christ’s body and blood. By the power of your Holy Spirit, keep us faithful to your will. Go with us to the streets, to our homes, and to our places of labor and leisure that whether we are gathered or scattered, we may be the servant church of the servant Christ, in whose name we rejoice to pray. Amen
Hymn#106 – All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name!
#689 – One Bread, One Body
#712 – Sent Forth by God’s Blessing
Quiet Moment of Meditation
Any time we practice hospitality we follow in the steps of our lavishly hospitable God.
– from The Simplest Way to Change the World