8060 SW Brentwood Street, Portland, Oregon 97225 503.292.3537 www.valleycommunity.org

†❖ Please stand as you are able

Bold Text is spoken by everyone

Please pass and sign the friendship folders.

Claire Bedsaul and Faith Bridges

❖ We thank the God who lights our way in the darkness. We thank the God who gives us stars to follow. Leading us from darkness to light, from confusion to understanding. We thank God who calls us and leads us into truth.

❖ Angels, From the Realms of Glory Nº 143

Riley Teed, liturgist Merciful God, you pardon all who truly repent and turn to you. We humbly confess our sins and ask your forgiveness. We have not loved you with all our heart, nor have we loved our neighbor as ourselves. We have not done justice, loved kindness, or walked humbly with you, our God. Have mercy on us, O God, in your loving kindness. In your great compassion, cleanse us from our sin. Create in us a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within us. Amen.

Silence is kept

WE ARE SUPPORTING Grass Roots Food Pantry for the fourth year with our reverse Advent calendar. For those wishing to participate during Advent through Epiphany (January 5), calendars will be available during coffee fellowship for suggested donations. You may also participate by placing something under the tree in the foyer after Christmas through January 5. Thank you from your Mission Committee.

THE STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE would again like to extend our heartfelt “thank you” to all who have returned their 2020 pledge cards. If you have not yet returned your pledge card, please consider how you might be able to support Valley and its many missions in 2020. Pledge cards can be returned to the church office or in the weekly offering. Additional cards are available in the Narthex or the church office. With gratitude, Your 2020 Stewardship Committee

DO YOU HAVE YOUR NAME BADGE YET? Wear your name badge on Sundays to welcome visitors, meet new members and identify long-time members and friends. You may order yours with a strong magnet or pin. Request forms are available on the church office counter for new or replacement name badges.

EYEGLASSES AND HEARING AIDS: Thank you for donating to the Yellow Box in the stairwell to Davis Hall. Keep bringing your old prescription glasses and aids; these are taken to Third World Countries and distributed to those who need help seeing.

VALLEY COMMUNITY YOUTH CHOIRS: Valley has launched its Community Youth Choirs program with an intent to bring in the wider community. For more information or questions, contact Amy Rheingans at amy@valleycommunity.org or visit www.valleyyouthchoirs.org to register.

YOUTH GROUP for 6th-12th grades will resume on Wednesdays beginning January 8 in the Youth House. See you in the new year!

SUNDAY, December 29 9:30 am Early Coffee 10:00 am Worship 11:00 am Coffee Fellowship 12:00 pm Calvary Presbyterian Worship Service 1:00 pm Calvary Presbyterian Fellowship Time

MONDAY, December 30 6:30 pm Scout Troop 5592 7:00 pm Girl Scouts 7:00 pm Scout Troop 592 7:30 pm Troop 5591

TUESDAY, December 31 8:00 am Men’s Bible Study

WEDNESDAY, January 1 New Year’s Day - Church Building Closed

THURSDAY, January 2 9:30 am TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) 5:00 pm Scout Leadership Meeting 7:15 pm Sanctuary Choir

FRIDAY, January 3 10:30 am Calvary Prayer Meeting

SUNDAY, January 5 Epiphany Sunday 9:15 am Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal 9:30 am Early Coffee 10:00 am Worship 11:00 am Coffee Fellowship 11:00 am Foundation Comm. 11:30 am Clippers Mariner Ship Potluck 11:30 am Membership Comm. 12:00 pm Calvary Presbyterian Worship Service 12:30 pm Armonia Choir 1:00 pm Calvary Presbyterian Fellowship Time

December 29, 2019-January 5, 2020

Valley Community Presbyterian Church Staff Rev. Jeff Binder ..................................................................... Pastor

Rev. Chuck Falconer and Rev. Jenny Hale ....... Pastoral Associates

David Jimerson ................................................... Minister of Music

Bob Hinson ........................................................... Organist/Pianist

Anne Scearce ....................... Director of Valley Christian Preschool

Donna Carlson ................................ Director of Children’s Ministry

Marshall Lauck ...................................... Director of Youth Ministry

Amy Rheingans .....................Director of Youth & Children’s Music

Angela Graham ........................ Publication & Office Administrator

AmyAnn Green .................................................. Business Manager

Alex Mendoza ................................................... Building Custodian

TREASURER’S REPORT FOR ADULT GIVING (Through October 28, 2019)

Year to Date Annual Budget Actual Pledged $409,600 $266,632 $296,312 Non-pledge $55,050 $45,875 $39,085 Total $464,650 $312,507 $335,397

❖ O Lord, Hear My Prayer Nº 471

❖ Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, to forgive us in our failures, to accept us as we are, to set us free from evil’s power and make us what we are meant to be. God has forgiven us.

The peace of Christ be with you. And also with you!

❖ Please greet those around you with the peace of Christ. ❖

❖ God Is So Good (v. 3 repeat) Nº 658

Son of Paul Walter, Jr. and Madison Wall Odomirok Grandson of Brent and Kimm Wall and Paul Sr. and Edie Odomirok

Great Grandson of John and Jini De Vries

Members of the congregation, do you, as members of the church of Jesus Christ, promise to guide and nurture Weston by word and deed, with love and prayer, encouraging him to know and follow Christ and to be a faithful member of his church? We do.

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.

Matthew 2:1-12 New Testament, p. 2 The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God!

A SPECIAL WELCOME TO ALL NEWCOMERS: we greet you in the name of Jesus Christ! Please fill out a visitor card, located in the pew back, and drop it in the offering plate when it is passed.

EARLY BIRD COFFEE FELLOWSHIP every Sunday, 9:30 am in the library. Stop by for coffee and conversation!

COFFEE FELLOWSHIP following worship will be hosted by the Prayer Shawl Knitting Group in the gym today. Enjoy coffee, tea, juice, and fellowship!

TODAY WE CELEBRATE THE BAPTISM of Weston Knox Odomirok, son of Paul Walter, Jr. and Madison Wall Odomirok. Grandson of Brent and Kimm Wall and Paul Sr. and Edie Odomirok. Great Grandson of John and Jini De Vries. Please come and meet baby Weston in Davis Hall following worship today! PLEASE BRING coats, hats and gloves to the bin outside the Fireside Room before the end of December. These items will help the coat drive for Northwest Children’s Outreach.

SOUP KITCHEN THANK YOU: Many thanks to the Wednesday Men’s Bible Study for providing the December 19 meal at Bud Clark Commons. Wally Phillips coordinated the details. Thanks to Valerie Conner for collecting the donated baked goods from New Seasons Market.

END OF YEAR CONTRIBUTIONS must be postmarked by Tuesday, December 31, or received in the offering plate on Sunday, December 29 to be credited towards 2019 giving.

HOLIDAY OFFICE HOURS: The church office will be closed Wednesday, January 1. Happy New Year!

THANK YOU for sending your check of $35.50 for the 2019 Per Capita (for wider church expenses) for each Valley member. The 2020 Per Capita is $36.50. For more information about what per capita is and how it helps, go to oga.pcusa.org/percapita.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS for Kids’ Night Out on Friday, January 17, 5:30-8:30 pm. Volunteers to help run the program are always needed and always appreciated! This outreach to our surrounding communities would not be possible without having our wonderful volunteers. If you are able to help, please contact Donna Carlson at donna@valleycommunity.org or text 503.442.9551.

A BIG THANK YOU to Jim Pranger from Tuefel Landscape for donating the greens used at this year’s Advent Fair. Beautiful and fragrant wreaths and swags were made from the donated greens during the Advent Fair for people to take home.

WE ARE COLLECTING your overflow of 2020 calendars for local agencies with a rotating population. Please bring calendars to the church office if you have extras.

After Christmas, What? Rev. Chuck Falconer

Rev. Chuck Falconer (p.35 in the hymnal)

❖ Congregation rising, row by row, as ushers pass ❖

❖ Nº 606 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.

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❖ As with Gladness Men of Old Nº 150 ❖

Let us go, join the magi, bowing down to worship the Christ. Let us go to share the good news, that Jesus, the brother of the vulnerable and forgotten is in our midst still. Let us go to offer peace and goodwill to everyone. To spread the Good News of all we have seen and heard. Go in peace!

You are invited to remain seated to conclude worship with the postlude.