Bulletin 5/04/08

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=160 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="04cc8c03.jpg"> <div> <IMG SRC="06e688d0.jpg" border=0 width="104" height="141" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div>  <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The United Church of Christ in North Ham">Home</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Welcome">Welcome</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Church History">Church History</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Church Council">Church Council</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id88.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Policies">Policies</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Programs">Programs</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id85.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Announcements">Announcements</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Calendar">Calendar</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Worship/Bulletins">Worship/Bulletins</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lantern">Lantern</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Members">Members</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id55.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Related Links">Related Links</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id56.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us">Contact Us</A></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="0ea8a6e0.jpg" border=0 width="138" height="110" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 style=" border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC;" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>The United Church of Christ</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Lucida Calligraphy" ><B>in North Hampton</B></FONT><B> </B> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Black-Chance" >  </FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>|</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>    </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#336600" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The United Church of Christ in North Ham"><B>Home</B></A></FONT></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=370 width="100%" colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div>  <A NAME="worship_bulletins_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>Bulletin 5/04/08</div> <div> <IMG SRC="46d57bd0.jpg" border=0 width="87" height="189" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>back to: </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Worship/Bulletins">Worship Bulletins</A></FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Bulletin 5/04/08</B><B>   ·   </B><A HREF="id96.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bulletin 4/27/08">Bulletin 4/27/08</A><B>   ·   </B><A HREF="id84.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bulletin 4/20/08">Bulletin 4/20/08</A><B>   ·   </B><A HREF="id109.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bulletin 4/13/08">Bulletin 4/13/08</A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Welcome to worship this morning.</B></div> <bR> <div> If you are with us for the first time, please know you are among friends.  We invite you to sign our guestbook on the table in the entryway and to take a Welcome Packet if you would like to know more about the ministries of the church.  No matter who you are or where you are in life's journey, please know that you are welcome here. Following worship,</div> <div> all are invited for coffee or juice and conversation downstairs in the fellowship area.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>295 Atlantic Ave.</B></div> <div> <B>North Hampton, NH 03862</B></div> <div> <B> Phone:  (603) 964-8687</B></div> <div> <B>Fax:  (603) 964-1317</B></div> <div> <B>United Church of Christ in North Hampton                   </B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Lucida Handwriting" ><B>Website: uccnorthhampton.org</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>ORDER OF WORSHIP</B></div> <div> <B>Seventh Sunday of Easter</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="75fec070.png" border=0 width="492" height="7" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>  </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>Preludes</B></div> <bR> <div> Enter His Courts With Praise                     <I>Adam Mason</I></div> <div> My Faith Looks Up to Thee               <I>Arr. Eleanor Whitsett</I> </div> <bR> <div> Welcome, Announcements & Passing of the Peace</div> <bR> <div> <B>Choral Introit and Candle Lighting</B>  </div> <div> You Satisfy the Hungry Heart                  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Call to Worship and Opening Prayer  </B></div> <div> One:       Come and gather as God's people, seeking to live in the Spirit of Christ.</div> <div> <B>Many:       We come longing for healing and reconciliation, seeking God's love and light.</B></div> <bR> <div> One:       Come with joy and thanksgiving, for the ways that God calls us into Christian community.</div> <div> <B>Many:       We come joining hearts and hands in prayer.</B>  </div> <bR> <div> One:       Come one and all to celebrate the presence of the living Christ at this table of grace.</div> <div> <B>Many:       We come to be nourished and strengthened so that we can be the hands and feet of Christ in the world.</B>  </div> <div> One:       So let us worship, and let us pray together.</div> <bR> <div> <B>All:       As we worship together, O God, may we live together.</B></div> <div> <B>As we live together, O God, may we witness together.</B></div> <div> <B>As we witness together, O God, may we journey together.</B></div> <div> <B>As we journey together, O God, may we meet together.</B></div> <div> <B>As we meet together, O God, may we worship together.</B></div> <div> <B>And may our worship be in you, O God, as you are in us.  Amen</B></div> <div>                </div> <div> <B>*Hymn 3 (Red)         </B><I>God Himself is With Us</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>*Prayer of Confession </B></div> <div> One:  Much time is wasted staring at the sky, longing for something miraculous to happen, waiting for God to step out of heaven, and make everything right.  But the messengers of God say, “Why are you wasting time looking at the sky?”</div> <div> <B>Many:  May we live in unity, and with your forgiving grace, listen to each other's experiences, and renew our call to love.</B></div> <bR> <div> One:  Much time is wasted staring at political leaders, expecting a snap of the fingers, waiting for a dictate, a law, an idea, that will solve the problems of the world.  The messengers of God say, “Why are you wasting time looking somewhere else?”  Instead live out God's justice in the world as God's people.</div> <div> <B>Many:  May we live in unity, and with your forgiving grace, listen to each other's experiences, and renew our call to love.</B></div> <bR> <div> One:     Much time is wasted staring at dogmas, searching for answers and meaning, softening the cross, easing the way of love, to make life better, and the world richer.  The messengers of God say, “Why are you wasting time looking at religion?”  Instead live out your faith in the world as God's people.</div> <div> Many:   <B>May we live in unity, and with your forgiving grace, listen to each other's experiences, and renew our call to love.</B></div> <bR> <div> Words of Grace  </div> <div> Jesus' prayer for us is for protection in God's name that we may be one.  Go, forgiven, in unity with each other, blessed by God's own son.</div> <bR> <div> Children's Message</div> <bR> <div> <B>Choral Anthem</B>   O Sing Unto the Lord     <I>Henry Purcell</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Reading from Scripture</B>     John 17:1-11</div> <div> 17After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, 2since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do. 5So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed. </div> <div> 6”I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; 8for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. 9I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. 10All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Reflection         </B><I>David O'Connor</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Time for Silent Reflection</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Invitation to Giving</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Offertory</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Times New Roman" >    </FONT>Love Lifted Me                     <I>Smith/Rowe</I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Times New Roman" >                                  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>*Response 781  (Black)</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>Praise God from whom all blessings flow</I></div> <div> <I>Praise Christ the Word in flesh born low</I></div> <div> <I>Praise Holy Spirit evermore;</I></div> <div> <I>One God, Triune, whom we adore.</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>*Unison Prayer of Dedication </B></div> <div> <B>Giving thanks for our many blessings, we offer our gifts today with thanksgiving for this community of love.  May we be united in our love and hope for the world, and serve in Jesus' name.  Amen.</B></div> <bR> <div> The Church at Prayer </div> <bR> <div> <B>Sharing of Joys and Concerns</B></div> <div> Sung Call to Prayer  250  (Black)  v. 4</div> <div>     </div> <div> <I>O my Savior, hear my need, though my love is faint indeed,</I></div> <div> <I>Still I love you and adore -oh, for grace to love you more!</I></div> <div> Silent Prayer & Prayers of the People</div> <bR> <div> <B>The Lord's Prayer  (</B><I><B>Sung)</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>*Hymn 340 (Black)     </B><I>We Are People on a Journey</I>                                   </div> <bR> <div> <B>Celebration of Communion Invitation </B></div> <div> <B>Words of Institution</B></div> <div> <B>Prayer of Consecration</B></div> <div> <B>Sharing the Bread and Cup </B></div> <div> <B>Prayer of Thanksgiving</B></div> <div>                                    </div> <div> *Benediction</div> <bR> <div> <B>*Benediction Response 236 (Black)    </B><I>Halleluja</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Postlude</B>   The Rock of Salvation             <I>Franklin Ritter</I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="75fec070.png" border=0 width="492" height="7" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>*</B><I><B>All who are comfortably able are invited to stand</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Please use language that you are comfortable with, in reference to God.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>~ Participants in Today's Service ~</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ministers to the World ~ All the Congregation</B></div> <div> <I>Minister to the Church ~ Rev. Michele Bagby Allan</I></div> <div> <I>Minister of Melodies  ~ Gail Adams Shunk</I></div> <div> <I>Guest Speaker ~ David O'Connor</I></div> <div> <I>Pianist ~ Jody Nordstrom</I></div> <div> <I>Worship Leader ~ Susan Stewart</I></div> <div> <I>Greeters & Ushers ~ Ladies placeUnion</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Portable hearing devices and large format bulletins are available.  Please ask an usher if you are in need of either.  </I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Parents, quality childcare is available in the nursery for infants and small children.  Children, pre-school through Junior High, are invited to attend a multi-aged Sunday school class and to return to the sanctuary for communion. Children may leave for class after the children's message.</I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="75fec070.png" border=0 width="492" height="7" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="87c5dba0.png" border=0 width="349" height="442" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>~ Today's Announcements  ~</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>The flowers this morning are given by the Ladies placeUnion in memory of past members.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Special congregational meeting after worship today </B>in the<B> </B>Sanctuary to approve the spending of money for the Capital Renovations Committee.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Strengthen the Church  Special Offering ~ May 11</B><B>th</B></div> <div> Your gift to Strengthen the Church builds the UCC's future.  From funding new congregations to invigorating existing ones, from fostering tomorrow's leaders to nurturing today's, Strengthen the Church grows our presence as a vibrant community of extravagant welcome.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Steve and Debbie Paul are traveling to Israel this month </B>and have offered to bring anyone's prayers to the Wailing Wall.  There are pieces of paper and pens in the pews if you would like to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity.  You can put the prayers in the collection plate or give them directly to the Pauls.<B>  </B>They leave after the 11th so the prayers should be in this Sunday or next.  Pastor Michele will send prayers for our whole church community also.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id48_database_informational_sheet.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="May 2008"><B>Thanks to all who have filled out the questionnaires</B></A><A HREF="id48_database_informational_sheet.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="May 2008"> you received in the March Lantern.  We will be printing the directory this month and we are still missing a number of families' information.  Please help us out by returning your finished forms to the office.  If you need more forms, they are downstairs on the communications table.  Thank you!</A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Bunco this coming Saturday at 7:00 pm.  We will be downstairs in Charrier Hall.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Seadogs vs Fishercats. Fireworks too!</B> Thursday, July 31 @ 7:05 We have tickets available for a group outing. They are $9 for box seats. If you are interested please contact John Dozet at 772-5326</div> <bR> <div> <B>We ask for prayers today for Karen Blaise </B>whose ordination paper is brought before the Rockingham Association at her ecclesiastical council this afternoon.</div> <bR> <div> <B>As May and June roll around </B>we know there will be many of our youth who will be graduating from college, high school and middle school.  Please let the office know if your son or daughter is graduating so we can lift them up this month and next.  Thank you.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Choir rehearsal Thursday</B><I><B>,</B></I><B> </B>7:00 pm in the music room, new members are always welcome.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>~ Church Life and Events for This Week ~</B></I></div> <bR> <div> Today          Men's Breakfast - 8 am (Charrier Hall)</div> <div>                    Worship - 10 am (Sanctuary) </div> <div>                    Congregational Mtg. - after worship (Sanctuary)</div> <div>                    Rockingham Association</div> <div>                    Ecclesiastical Council - 2:30 pm</div> <div> Thursday     Fitness Group - 9 am (Charrier Hall)</div> <div>                    Choir Rehearsal - 7 pm (Music Room)</div> <div> Saturday     Women's Book Club - 9 am (Caffe Fresco)</div> <div>                    Bunco - 7 pm (Charrier Hall)</div> <div> Sunday        Men's Breakfast - 8 am (Charrier Hall)</div> <div>                    Worship - 10 am (Sanctuary)           </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>~ Green Tip of the Week ~  </B></I></div> <bR> <div> Recycle what can't be reused.  Even if it's too much trouble to recycle your batteries & food scraps, it's easy to recycle newspaper, glass, and aluminum cans.  Recycling some of your waste is much better than recycling none.  More than a ton of waste per person living in the placecountry-regionU.S. is generated every year!</div> <bR> <div> <B>Bulletin Deadline is every Wednesday. </B></div> <div> <B>Lantern Deadline is Monday, May 19</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Lydian BT" ><B>th</B></FONT></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>As you make your way today, if you do not wish to take home your bulletin,</B></div> <div> <B>please use the baskets at the exits of the sanctuary to recycle them.</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>~ Staff Office Hours ~</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Rev. Michele Bagby Allan, Pastor</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Office hours:  Monday ~ Wednesday, 8:30 - noon.  </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>You may stop in or call the office to make an appointment.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>964-8687 or </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><A HREF="mailto:pastormichele@uccnorthhampton.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:pastormichele@uccnorthhampton.org"><I><B>pastormichele@uccnorthhampton.org</B></I></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Ellen Dozet, Office Manager</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Office Hours: Monday ~ Friday, 8:30 am to 12:30 pm</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>964-8687 or </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><A HREF="mailto:ucc@worldpath.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:ucc@worldpath.net"><I><B>info@uccnorthhampton.org</B></I></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Gail Adams Shunk, Music Director and Organist</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Studio phone: (207) 439-3861 or </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><A HREF="mailto:gfasstudio@ttlc.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:gfasstudio@ttlc.net"><I><B>gfasstudio@ttlc.net</B></I></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Janet Sanborn, Parish Nurse</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Sundays after worship, or by appointment</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>964-8568 or </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><A HREF="mailto:parishnurse@uccnorthhampton.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:parishnurse@uccnorthhampton.org"><I><B>parishnurse@uccnorthhampton.org</B></I></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>David Chase, Sexton ~ 964-5696</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>PPRC:   Bill McDill, Nancy Bergeron, Carol McCarthy</B></I></div> <div> <I><B> and John Dozet.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Website:  </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><A HREF="http://www.uccnorthhampton.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.uccnorthhampton.org"><I><B>www.uccnorthhampton.org</B></I></A></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#worship_bulletins_1" TITLE="Bulletin 5/04/08"><B>(Back to Top)</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>back to:</B></FONT><B> </B><A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Worship/Bulletins">Worship Bulletins</A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Bulletin 5/04/08</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Symbol" >   ·   </FONT><A HREF="id96.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bulletin 4/27/08">Bulletin 4/27/08</A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Symbol" >   ·   </FONT><A HREF="id84.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bulletin 4/20/08">Bulletin 4/20/08</A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Symbol" >   ·   </FONT><A HREF="id109.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bulletin 4/13/08">Bulletin 4/13/08</A></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="071d84f0.jpg" border=0 width="216" height="79" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> If there are any problems with the Web Site or Comments about the Site please e-mail: <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="mailto: webmaster@UCCNorthHampton.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto: webmaster@UCCNorthHampton.org">webmaster@UCCNorthHampton.org</A></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>