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Come to Sunday School at 9:45am! Adult Classes Nursery provided Buck’s class (starts at 9:30 at Buck’s Coffee Shop) is studying the OT book of Haggai and 1 & 2 Corinthians in the NT. Led by Wiley & Sarah Sloan & Fred & Elizabeth Motz. Seekers are studying the New Testament book of 1 Peter. (meets in the Board Room) Led by Bob Gregory Abundant Life is taking a break for the summer. Over & Under 50 Disciples Explore the New Testament using the Tools of a modern day, widely recognized scholar- Bart D. Ehrman, Professor of Religious Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This study combines biblical scholarship, archaeological discoveries, and literary analysis. Led by Ken Bowser. Parent Community Class meets in the Preschool Room. The class is group led. Topic varies weekly. Donation Station Welcome to the Highlands United Methodist Church A joyous welcome to you! We are glad each of you has come to worship the Lord. Please sign the attendance register located at each pew/table so we know of your presence. We are a hearing looped church. Ask an usher if you need help with your hearing device. The 9:09 Bluegrass Service Welcome Music “When We All Get to Heaven” “Calling You” Special Announcements\Joy Time A Time to Offer our Gifts to God A Time to Share our Concerns at the Cross Music “The Old Rugged Cross” Scripture Lesson for the Day Luke 15:11-24 A Word of Faith Music “Will the Circle be Unbroken” Sending Forth Closing Music "I’ll Fly Away" Check out our Donation Station across from the church office. Here we collect items for various missions including: Homeless Outreach Sample size or hotel shampoos and soap. These will be given to area homeless shelters. Food Pantry - Items most needed: rice, canned fruit, black beans, juices, tomato products, & bread. Anyone in need, either temporarily or regularly, may visit the Food Pantry on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30pm. The Pantry is located behind HUMC on 3rd Street. Life Challenge - Life Challenge is a Christian Residential Center created to help people with life controlling issues. We support this program by providing gently-used clothing, household items, and small furniture for their Resale Shop in Dillsboro. Eye Glasses - Glasses are for multiple mission projects Bibles - are collected for Kairos Prison Ministry Printer Cartridges - Collected for Highlands School. Please bring in a Ziploc bag. Can Tabs - collected for the Ronald McDonald House Box Tops for Education - collected for the Highlands School Blank Note Cards - used for special projects Church Studies & Activities: Everyone is Invited! Monday Home Study Group meets at 7:30 pm each Monday at the Motz's house. The Lectionary Texts for the week are discussed. Tuesday Women’s Emmaus Group meets at 11:00am in the church parlor. Women’s Bible Study – The Women's Bible Study is taking a short break but will resume on July 1st. They will be studying J. Ellsworth Kalas's book “If Experience Is Such a Good Teacher, Why Do I Keep Repeating the Course?” Please come and join us Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm on July 1st in the parlor for this new study! Wednesday Seasonal Discipleship Group – 9:30am Visitation Team – meets the second Wednesday of each month at noon. Men’s Emmaus Group meets at 11:30am in the Fellowship Hall. Wednesday Night Activities 6:00pm - Childcare provided Discipleship: Going Deeper, a long term study. June 18 – The New Hospice House in Franklin Serving Macon & 6 other Counties - Pat Cabe, The Hospice House Foundation of WNC, Inc. June 25 – Vacation Bible School - No adult program July 2 – Highlands-Cashiers Hospital Foundation and Affiliation With Mission Hospital - Pamela Harris July 9 – Surprise July 16 – Church-wide Family Night Julie 23 – Behind the Scenes at Lexus with Richard Chitty July 30 – Healing Service (Sanctuary) Thursday Afternoon Bible Study will resume in September. Worship Service Attendance: 8:30 - 35 9:09 - 203 10:50 - 211 The Church in the Wildwood services are held each Sunday at 7:00pm. It run through Labor Day. It is an old-fashioned hymn-sing, casual dress. Dr. Ellsworth Kalas is our guest preacher today. A former President of Asbury Theological Seminary, he currently serves the Seminary as Senior Professor of Homiletics. His expertise is Narrative Preaching and Church Renewal. He has written more than thirty books, and we have studied many of them. There will be a book signing between services. Church Family Supper this week will be a prepared meal. Please make your reservations on the attendance pad today or call the church office no later than 4pm on Monday. Menu: roast beef, carrots/potatoes/onions, green beans, salad, rolls, peach cobbler Celebrate Summer ~ Family Pool Party ~ Wednesday, June 18th, 6:00-8pm. ALL children, youth, and families are invited to come to the Rec Park pool!! NEW!!!! For Summer….Wednesday Night 3,4,5 Group - Each Wednesday at 6PM, beginning July 9th ALL 3rd, 4th, & 5th graders are invited to a NEW 6 week study designed JUST FOR YOU!!! Come see what it is all about and remember….INVITE A FRIEND:) Sunday School ~ Elementary aged children are invited to meet each Sunday morning at 9:45am in the children’s Sunday School room downstairs with Luke. 3,4,5 Group ~ Meets the first Sunday of each month at 5:30pm. Tay and Tamara Bronaugh lead this group in fellowship and meaningful fun! Children’s Worship Packets: They look like pencil holders. See an usher or greeter to help locate one. A Nursery is provided Sunday mornings for children birth through 4 years of age starting at 8:30am downstairs. Please see an usher or greeter for help locating the nursery. Vacation Bible School 2014 Workshop of Wonders!!! June 22nd-26th Join us for VBS School as we discover how to imagine and build with God! Dinner is served each night at 5pm and activities begin at 5:30-8pm. Hope to see you there!!! Sign your child up today. [email protected] or 526-3376 Prayer Time on Wednesdays at 4:45pm. We gather as a church for weekly prayer time. All are invited. The 9:09 Service: Sermon: Ellsworth Kalas; Worship Leader: Tay Bronaugh; Greeter: Patti Moschouris; Technologist: Jennifer Forrester The 9:09 Band: Lee Ladensack - Vocals & guitar; Dakota Waddell - Bass; Charles Wood - Banjo; Jim Yoder -Mandolin; 10:50 Worship Leaders: Sermon: Ellsworth Kalas; Liturgists: Paul Christy, Beth Bowser, & Carrilea Potter; Minister of Music: Les Scott; Organist/Pianist: Bradley Martin; Lay Reader: John Gaston; Children’s Time: Carrilea Potter Serving our 10:50 Service: Ushers: Head Usher: Larry Ray; Team 2: Team Leader: Griffin Bell; Team Members: Bill Reynolds, John Temple, Jim Hines, Bill Brooks, Tom Stribling, Kenny Youmans, Frank Buskirk, Oliver Oxford, Children’s Worship: Fran Leftwich Counters: Patti Moschouris & Page Bernstein
Transcript of Welcome to the Highlands United Methodist Church...
Come to Sunday School at 9:45am! Adult Classes
Nursery provided
Buck’s class (starts at 9:30 at Buck’s Coffee Shop) is studying the OT book of Haggai and 1 & 2 Corinthians in the NT. Led by Wiley & Sarah Sloan & Fred & Elizabeth Motz.Seekers are studying the New Testament book of 1 Peter. (meets in the Board Room) Led by Bob GregoryAbundant Life is taking a break for the summer. Over & Under 50 Disciples Explore the New Testament using the Tools of a modern day, widely recognized scholar- Bart D. Ehrman, Professor of Religious Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This study combines biblical scholarship, archaeological discoveries, and literary analysis. Led by Ken Bowser. Parent Community Class meets in the Preschool Room. The class is group led. Topic varies weekly.
Donation Station
Welcome to the Highlands United Methodist ChurchA joyous welcome to you! We are glad each of you has come to worship
the Lord. Please sign the attendance register located at each pew/table so we know of your presence. We are a hearing looped church. Ask an usher
if you need help with your hearing device.
The 9:09 Bluegrass Ser v iceWelcome
Music “When We All Get to Heaven” “Calling You”
Special Announcements\Joy Time
A Time to Offer our Gifts to God
A Time to Share our Concerns at the Cross
Music “The Old Rugged Cross”
Scripture Lesson for the Day Luke 15:11-24
A Word of Faith
Music “Will the Circle be Unbroken”
Sending Forth
Closing Music "I’ll Fly Away"
Check out our Donation Station across from the church office. Here we collect items for various missions including:
Homeless Outreach Sample size or hotel shampoos and soap. These will be given to area homeless shelters.Food Pantry - Items most needed: rice, canned fruit, black beans, juices, tomato products, & bread. Anyone in need, either temporarily or regularly, may visit the Food Pantry on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30pm. The Pantry is located behind HUMC on 3rd Street. Life Challenge - Life Challenge is a Christian Residential Center created to help people with life controlling issues. We support this program by providing gently-used clothing, household items, and small furniture for their Resale Shop in Dillsboro. Eye Glasses - Glasses are for multiple mission projects
Bibles - are collected for Kairos Prison Ministry
Printer Cartridges - Collected for Highlands School. Please bring in a Ziploc bag.Can Tabs - collected for the Ronald McDonald House
Box Tops for Education - collected for the Highlands School
Blank Note Cards - used for special projects
Church Studies & Activities: Everyone is Invited!Monday
Home Study Group meets at 7:30 pm each Monday at the Motz's house. The Lectionary Texts for the week are discussed.
TuesdayWomen’s Emmaus Group meets at 11:00am in the church parlor.Women’s Bible Study – The Women's Bible Study is taking a short break but will resume on July 1st. They will be studying J. Ellsworth Kalas's book “If Experience Is Such a Good Teacher, Why Do I Keep Repeating the Course?” Please come and join us Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm on July 1st in the parlor for this new study!
WednesdaySeasonal Discipleship Group – 9:30am Visitation Team – meets the second Wednesday of each month at noon. Men’s Emmaus Group meets at 11:30am in the Fellowship Hall.Wednesday Night Activities 6:00pm - Childcare providedDiscipleship: Going Deeper, a long term study.June 18 – The New Hospice House in Franklin Serving Macon & 6 other
Counties - Pat Cabe, The Hospice House Foundation of WNC, Inc.June 25 – Vacation Bible School - No adult programJuly 2 – Highlands-Cashiers Hospital Foundation and Affiliation With
Mission Hospital - Pamela HarrisJuly 9 – SurpriseJuly 16 – Church-wide Family NightJulie 23 – Behind the Scenes at Lexus with Richard ChittyJuly 30 – Healing Service (Sanctuary)
ThursdayAfternoon Bible Study will resume in September.
Worship Service Attendance: 8:30 - 35 9:09 - 203 10:50 - 211The Church in the Wildwood services are held each Sunday at 7:00pm. It run through Labor Day. It is an old-fashioned hymn-sing, casual dress.
Dr. Ellsworth Kalas is our guest preacher today. A former President of Asbury Theological Seminary, he currently serves the Seminary as Senior Professor of Homiletics. His expertise is Narrative Preaching and Church Renewal. He has written more than thirty books, and we have studied many of them. There will be a book signing between services.Church Family Supper this week will be a prepared meal. Please make your reservations on the attendance pad today or call the church office no later than 4pm on Monday. Menu: roast beef, carrots/potatoes/onions, green beans, salad, rolls, peach cobblerCelebrate Summer ~ Family Pool Party ~ Wednesday, June 18th, 6:00-8pm. ALL children, youth, and families are invited to come to the Rec Park pool!!
NEW!!!! For Summer….Wednesday Night 3,4,5 Group - Each Wednesday at 6PM, beginning July 9th ALL 3rd, 4th, & 5th graders are invited to a NEW 6 week study designed JUST FOR YOU!!! Come see what it is all about and remember….INVITE A FRIEND:)Sunday School ~ Elementary aged children are invited to meet each Sunday morning at 9:45am in the children’s Sunday School room downstairs with Luke. 3,4,5 Group ~ Meets the first Sunday of each month at 5:30pm. Tay and Tamara Bronaugh lead this group in fellowship and meaningful fun! Children’s Worship Packets: They look like pencil holders. See an usher or greeter to help locate one.A Nursery is provided Sunday mornings for children birth through 4 years of age starting at 8:30am downstairs. Please see an usher or greeter for help locating the nursery.
Vacation Bible School 2014
Workshop of Wonders!!! June 22nd-26th
Join us for VBS School as we discover how to imagine and build with God! Dinner is served each night at 5pm and activities begin at 5:30-8pm.
Hope to see you there!!! Sign your child up today. [email protected] or 526-3376
Prayer Time on Wednesdays at 4:45pm. We gather as a church for weekly prayer time. All are invited.
The 9:09 Service: Sermon: Ellsworth Kalas; Worship Leader: Tay Bronaugh; Greeter: Patti Moschouris; Technologist: Jennifer ForresterThe 9:09 Band: Lee Ladensack - Vocals & guitar; Dakota Waddell - Bass; Charles Wood - Banjo; Jim Yoder -Mandolin;10:50 Worship Leaders: Sermon: Ellsworth Kalas; Liturgists: Paul Christy, Beth Bowser, & Carrilea Potter; Minister of Music: Les Scott; Organist/Pianist: Bradley Martin; Lay Reader: John Gaston; Children’s Time: Carrilea PotterServing our 10:50 Service: Ushers: Head Usher: Larry Ray; Team 2: Team Leader: Griffin Bell; Team Members: Bill Reynolds, John Temple, Jim Hines, Bill Brooks, Tom Stribling, Kenny Youmans, Frank Buskirk, Oliver Oxford, Children’s Worship: Fran LeftwichCounters: Patti Moschouris & Page Bernstein
Girl’s Breakfast - Youth girls will meet Tuesday mornings at 8am beginning June 17th. We will meet at various locations for a devotion & breakfast :)Guy’s Breakfast - Youth boys will meet Monday mornings at 8am for breakfast beginning on June 16th. Location TBA.Sunday School ~ The youth are doing a study titles, “The 13 Most Important Bible Lessons for Teenagers.” Youth, grades 6-12 are invited to join us each Sunday at 9:45 for Sunday School.
SYF (Sunday Youth Fellowship) ~High School youth (grades 9-12) are invited for dinner and a study each Sunday evening from 5:30-7pm, beginning with dinner at 5:30 followed by a short lesson and discussion. Wednesday Youth - Meet after dinner from 6-7pm in the youth room. We are doing a study titled, “Book of Fidgets.”
The altar flowers in the sanctuary this morning are given in memory of Irene James by Wilma Gordon.Carrilea Potter is our Candler Intern this summer ~ You may reach her by email [email protected] or on her cell, (828) 226-4730
Remember to invite her to dinner this summer!Birthday Wishes to (June 15) Ed Parks; (June 17) Zack Christy; (June 21) George PotterHappy Anniversary to (June 20) Julian & Margo Franklin; (June 21) Dennis & Linda Hall, Bill & Wyn Shoptaw, Terry & Meridith WatsonThe Community Table is a weekly meal for everyone in the community. There is NO cost and NO need to make a reservation. Join us at 6PM each Tuesday at the Highlands Community Building.
Upcoming Guest PreacherDr. Steve Kraftchick will preach on June 22nd at the 8:30 & 10:50 services. Dr. Kraftchick's. He specializes in the Pauline epistles, the parables of Jesus, and the history of New Testament interpretation. Dr. Kraftchick's current interests have recently expanded into the field of technology and theology. His last visit with us was in March of 2013 as part of our Lenten Study.
Church Staff: Rev. Paul Christy, Pastor; Rev. Beth Bowser, Associate Pastor; Les Scott, Minister of Music; Jennifer Forrester, Director of Children & Youth Ministries, Sonja DeFoor, Office Manager; Bradley Martin, Organist/Pianist; Mary James, Financial Secretary; Cotton & Bobbie Russell, Nursery Attendants; Marlene & Gary Nix, Sextons; Carrilea Potter: Candler Intern
Check out the Info Forms/envelopes
placed around the church, or ask an usher or greeter for one;
to sign up to decorate a table for the Ladies’ Tea & Book Review, give to Peace With Justice Sunday offering, or read The Expansion
Herald; an update of the Expansion Facilities Committee.
Love God. Offer Christ to All.
One family in worship.
Highlands United Methodist ChurchPost Office Box 1959
Highlands, North Carolina 28741website address: www.highlandsmethodist.org
(828) 526-3376June 15, 2014
Paul Christy, PastorBeth Bowser, Associate Pastor
Les Scott, Minister of MusicAmy Coles, District Superintendent
Larry Goodpaster, Bishop
First Sunday after PentecostThe 10:50am Traditional Service
UMH: United Methodist Hymnal; ! Congregation standing
Please enter the sanctuary in a spirit of prayer and meditationLarge print copies of the hymnals and Bible are available in the narthex.
Moments of Informal Worship
Pass the Peace
Church Announcements
Opening Voluntary Nocturne Op. 16 No.4 -Ignace Paderewskidedicated to all persons who have had a loss
Opening Prayer
!Hymn of Praise “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” UMH #140
Scripture Reading Psalm 32 pew Bible, p.506
Children’s Time (Children in pre-kindergarten through 2nd grade are invited to go downstairs for Children’s
Worship. Younger children are invited to the nursery. Please pick up your children downstairs following worship)
Tithes and Offerings Offertory Prelude -Cesar Franck
!Doxology “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow” UMH #94Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise God, all creatures here below; Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise God, the source of all our gifts! Praise Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts! Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
!Offering Prayer
!Hymn of the Word “Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy” UMH #340
Sharing of Our Concerns (If you would like your prayer request to be added to the prayer list in the bulletin
please indicate on the prayer request card.)
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer
Anthem Alleluia, Alleluia, Hearts and Voices Heavenward Raise -Robert Edward Smith
Scripture Reading Luke 15:11-24! pew Bible, p.78
Sermon “Banquets for a Pilgrim”
!Hymn of Faith “Grace Greater than Our Sin” UMH #365
!Dismissal “Let There Be Peace on Earth”
!Postlude Sortie -Cesar Franck
Highlands United Methodist Church, Parsonage (828) 526-2465e-mail addresses: Church: [email protected], Paul: [email protected], Beth: [email protected]; Mary James: [email protected]: [email protected]; Les: [email protected] CCLI # 1455665
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