First Presbyterian Church Founded June 15, 1818

OUR VISION STATEMENT:

We seek to be a Church United in Christ, Scripturally Based, and

a Compassionate Community of Faith.

SUNDAY, June 11 TRINITY SUNDAY

8:30 AM - Worship Service/JAH 9:30 AM - Sunday School 10:30 AM - Worship Service/SAN 5:00 PM - NO PYC/ASP Team leaves MONDAY, June 12

5:30 PM - Stephen Ministry/SMR TUESDAY, June 13

6:15 AM - Outback/GBH 9:30 AM - Transformational Yoga/CH 4:00 PM - Maintain Cluster Mtg 5:30 PM - Session/FH 6:30 PM - Boy Scouts 633/GBH WEDNESDAY, June 14

6:30 PM - Salzburg Choir rehearsal/CR 7:15 PM - Chancel Choir rehearsal/CR THURSDAY, June 15

9:30 AM - Transformational Yoga/CH 11:15 AM - FPC Prayer Group/LIB 12:15 PM - Al-Anon/GBH 4:00 PM - Green Street Market FRIDAY, June 16

11:30 AM - Share Cluster Meeting/FH SATURDAY, June 17

7:30 AM - Early Christian Study Group/ LIB SUNDAY, June 18 FATHER’S DAY

8:30 AM - Worship Service/JAH 9:30 AM - Sunday School 10:30 AM - Worship Service/SAN 5:00 PM - NO PYC

JUNE June 11 - ASP group leaves, NO PYC; Saturday, June 17, ASP group returns.

June 18 - NO PYC, Happy Father's Day

June 25 - PYC out to dinner downtown

June 26-29 - Volunteer to help with VBS youth out to lunch after VBS on June 29.

Many thanks to Brandon Owens and Sherry Smith for leading worship this morning while Dr. Hacker is with our Youth on the ASP Mission trip. Salzburg Mozart Festival rehearsal is on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in the choir room.

Chancel Choir will take a well-deserved Summer break starting June 18 - July 9. They will resume rehearsals on Wednesday, July 12 and will sing on Sunday, July 16.

Calendar Legend: BR - Bell Room CH - Carriage House (GBH) CER - Christian Ed Resource upstairs CR - Choir Room FH - Fellowship Hall GBH - Gideon Blackburn House HR - Historical Room JAH - John Allan Hall (GBH) LIB - Library SAN - Sanctuary SMR - Stephen Ministry Room (GBH)

Lectionary Readings June 18, 2017

Gen. 18:1-15 (21:1-7); Ps. 116:1-2, 12-19

Rom. 5:1-8; Matt. 9:35-10:8 (9-23)

WELCOME VISITORS!

First Presbyterian is a Congregation of the Presby-terian Church (USA) and a Stephen Ministry

Congregation

We welcome you as a participant in wor-ship today. We pray that you will find this ser-vice meaningful. Worship is but one of the many ministries of First Presbyterian Church.

Please remember to turn off all cell phones and pagers. Also, please DO NOT take flash photographs during the ser-vices.

Please sign in: The red Friendship Folders will be passed during the offering.

Looking for a Church home? Please speak with the “Ask Me” person standing at the rear of the church.

Ushers serving this morning: 8:30 Jessie Guthrie 10:30 a.m.: Davis Carter, Patty Con-ley, Andi Gaskins and Joe Lundy.

The flowers this morning are given to the Glory of God and in loving memory of Devvy Mosley by the Mosley Family. Please keep the Appalachian Service Project (ASP) Team in your prayers this week.

Please welcome Dr. James Roberts as our guest pastor this morning for both services.

Join us after the late service for popcorn, lemonade, and fellowship across the street at the GBH front lawn.

Trinity Sunday

June 11, 2017

8:30 a.m./10:30 a.m. Worship Service

Summer Volunteers Needed! Gather Cluster is looking for volunteers to help with the coffee and snacks prior to the 10:30 a.m. service during the summer. This entails making coffee and putting out the supplied snacks. Contact Bo Lundy at jlundyjr@knology.net or signup at the bulletin board.

This church welcomes you no matter who you are, where you come from, or why you are here. We are Christ’s people, and this is Christ’s place with its doors open wide. If you are passing through, Godspeed; if you are looking for a home, stay here; if you

need instruction, learn from us as we learn from you. We invite visitors to join us, but most of all, to return often.

FPC MINISTRY TEAM

Dr. Patricia Hacker, Director of Music phacker@fpchsv.org Ext. 126

Dr. Frank Contreras, Organist

Angela Green, Director of Children’s Ministry children@fpchsv.org Ext. 129

Lacey Guthrie, First Friends Preschool Director ffdirector@fpchsv.org Ext. 128

Cynde Tannehill, Office Administrator/Notary administrator@fpchsv.org Ext. 132

Amber Stewart, Receptionist Ext. 130 receptionist@fpchsv.org

Finance Department Ext. 136 finance@fpchsv.org

Quentin Fitzpatrick, Sexton

In case of emergency please contact the church office at 256-536-3354, ext.132.

(The worship service is broadcast over WLOR AM 1550 or FM 98.1)

307 Gates Avenue, Huntsville, AL 35801 256-536-3354 ~ Fax (256) 536-3038

E-Mail: fpc@fpchsv.org

“Flower Dedication” enve-lopes are available at the bulletin board or in the pew racks with a small card in-

side the envelope that you will fill out and place back in the envelope with your $50.

Upcoming available dates: June 18; July 2, 9, 16, 30; Aug 6, 13, 20

Please extend a warm welcome to these area pastors who will be preaching on the following Sundays:

June 18 - Rev. John Bush, Decatur

June 25 - Rev. Peggy McClure, Huntsville

Greene Street Market

is open every Thursday 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.

May - August

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

FELLOWSHIP CAMP MARANATHA

AUGUST 11-13, 2017

The Nominating Committee is in the process of creating the slate for next class of officers (2019) for FPC. Please prayerfully consider serving or submitting a name for consid-

eration to serve as a part of the governing body of our Church. Forms are included in this week’s bulletin. Please drop your com-pleted forms into the offering plate or the Of-ficer Nominations box located on the table outside Cynde’s office. Please contact Melissa Rowe with your considerations, ques-tions, or concerns at thebullmkt@aol.com or at (256) 468-4574.

Stephen Ministers Are There to Care

Are you going through a difficult time – emotion-ally, spiritually, or rela-tionally? Are you lonely, experiencing a crisis, or simply stressed by everyday life? You don’t have to suffer alone. Our Stephen Ministers are trained caregiv-ers, ready to listen, care for and encourage you, pray with and for you, and provide confi-dential one-to-one Christian care to help you through whatever it is that you are facing. To find out more, talk with: Doug Madison or Jill Chappell. Contact the church office to schedule an appointment.

First Presbyterian is a Congregation of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and a Stephen Ministry Congregation

Assemble in God’s Name With the chiming of the bell, we quietly and prayerfully prepare our hearts and minds

to worship God.

Chiming of the Bell

Prelude (8:30) We’ve a Story to Tell to the Nations arr. Jolene Boyd

Dr. Frank Contreras, piano

(10:30) Sonata in G Minor, Andante B. Marcello Brandon Owens, trombone

Welcome and Announcements

Choral Introit (10:30) Come and Sing the Praise of the Lord HAL’LUHU

Chancel Choir

*Call to Worship Liturgists: (8:30) Charlie Bozeman; (10:30) David Smith

Leader: God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good….

People: And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and God rested on the seventh day from all of the work that he had done. Leader: So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it.

People: Because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation. Leader: On this day of rest and renewal, let us worship our Creator with praise and thanksgiving.

*Opening Prayer

*Opening Hymn 1 Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! NICAEA

Prayer of Confession Dr. James W. Roberts

Lord God, creator of heaven and earth, create in us an openness to your word, for we need desperately to hear a word of hope amid our confusion, a word of ordering reassurance amid our chaos. Things come unglued for us. The center fails to hold. We too easily lose faith and lose our way. Continue the activity in us which you began in creation—breathing over our troubled waters, speaking a word of light in the darkness, bringing life out of lifelessness. Continue to create, O God; and this day, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, forgive us and create in us a clean heart. Now hear our silent confession...

Kyrie Lord, Have Mercy Upon Us KYRIE

(8:30) Lord, have mercy upon us, Christ, have mercy upon us, Lord, have mercy upon us.

(10:30) Lord, have mercy upon us, (3 times) Christ, have mercy upon us, (3 times) Lord, have mercy upon us. (3 times)

Assurance of Pardon Dr. James W. Roberts

*Hymn 14 For the Beauty of the Earth DIX

*The Passing of the Peace (8:30)

Leader: The peace of the Lord be with you.

People: And also with you.

Proclaim God’s Word

First Lesson - Psalm 8 pew Bible, OT, pg. 492

pew Bible (large print), OT, pg. 605

*Stand as you are able.

Anthem (8:30) Sonata in G Minor, Andante B. Marcello

Brandon Owens, trombone

(10:30) Bright Canaan Shaw-Parker Chancel Choir

Time for Young Disciples Bo Lundy At this time all children will be invited to come to the chancel steps. Children ages KINDERGARTEN AND YOUNGER are dismissed to the nursery. FIRST GRADE AND UP should remain in the sanctuary with parents.

Second Lesson - Genesis 1:1 - 2:4a pew Bible, OT, pg. 1

pew Bible (large print), OT, pg. 1

Sermon “I Believe in God… Creator of Heaven and Earth” Dr. James W. Roberts

Respond To God’s Word

*Affirmation of Faith The Apostles’ Creed Hymnal pg.35

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.

And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.

*Hymn 363 Rejoice, the Lord Is King! DARWALL’S 148TH

Prayers of the People and The Lord’s Prayer Hymnal pg.35

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.

Presentation of God’s Tithes and Our Offerings

Offertory Sonata in G Minor, Allegro B. Marcello

Brandon Owens, trombone

*Doxology Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow OLD ONE HUNDREDTH

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

*Offertory Prayer

*Closing Hymn 295 Go to the World! SINE NOMINE

*Benediction

*Choral Benediction God Be With You Till We Meet Again GOD BE WITH YOU

(10:30) Chancel Choir

*Postlude NICAEA: Holy, Holy T. Tertius Noble

Dr. Frank Contreras, piano/organ CCLI # 1345744

TO ADD NAMES TO THE PRAYER REQUEST FOR SIX WEEKS, please call or

email Cynde Tannehill, Pastor’s Secretary, or use the Prayer and Care page by printing your prayer request and placing it in the offering plate. Prayer requests only remain on the list for SIX WEEKS unless you contact Cynde at the church office.

If you know of someone who is in the hospital or need to inform the church of a death in your family, you may also contact Cynde Tannehill. Thank you!

PRAYER REQUESTS

Members: Anne Boles, Emily Butler, Peggy Galloway, Marlyn Harris, David Hatch, Jeanette Hollis, J. R. Howard, Kara Howard, LaRhue and Carroll Johnson, Cay Lambert, Sage Lyons III, Sanders Pair, Anne Peters, Amy Ricks, and Dolly Shuey.

Friends & Relatives: Jerry Adams - Friend of FPC; Cam Cotney - Nephew of

Carol Cotney; Celia Duncan - Friend of Sarah Watson; Henry Howard - Great

Nephew of Woodward Howard; Martha Jones Family - Friends of Jo Recio; Kelley -

Friend of Jo Recio; Beverlee Leo - Mother of Lori Smith; Margaret Linn - Mother of

Melissa Jones; Markes Little - Brother of Peggy Galloway; Dell Page - Family of

Sheila, Katie and Natalie Fogle; Diana Rose - Mother of Serena Neely; Scott Sedlitz -

Stepson of Annewhite Fuller; Patricia Smith - Mother of David Smith.

Members and Relatives in Specialty Care: Lorinne Lilly (Magnolia Cottage);

Darwin Perkins (Brookdale Place); Ray Rose (Diversicare of Big Springs); Virginia

Rowe (Whitesburg Gardens); Marge Sharp (Birmingham).

The Church: The Pastor Nominating Committee; the Nominating Committee; First

Presbyterian Church, the Session, the North Alabama Presbytery, and for our new

Director of Youth Ministry.

Military & International: All those serving in the armed forces.

Our Nation: President Trump and our representatives.

First Presbyterian Missions & Ministries: Appalachia Service Project (ASP); Good

Samaritans; International Missionary Fellowship (HaitiHospital.org); The Vine Pastoral

Counseling Center; The Presbyterian Home for Children; Second Mile Preschool,

Kids to Love, and the CUP program.

June 26-29, 2017 9:00 a.m. - noon

Children ages Rising Pre-k (4 year old) through Rising 6th graders

Register now on the FPC website under the Ministries tab.