January 12th, 2025

Welcome

Prelude/Time of Meditation

Call to Worship (Responsively)*

God know us and loves us!
  Come prayerfully before the Lord!
  God sees our concerns, our fears, our sins!
  Come hopefully before the Lord!
  Christ proclaimed God’s love and forgiveness for all God’s people!      
  Know throughout all of your being, that God absolutely loves you!
  How precious and powerful that knowledge is!      
  Thanks be to God! AMEN.   

“We Bow Down”                                           Chorus 65*
“He is Exalted”                                             Chorus 66*

“We Gather Together”                                    Hymn 13*
“Lord, We Praise You”                                    Hymn 11*

Pastoral Prayer

Psalm 29 (Unison)                                             Insert*   

Luke 3:15-22                                                        Insert*

Leader: This is the Word of God for the people of God
All: Thanks be to God

Sermon: “Good News That Matters”

“Praise Him! Praise Him!”                               Hymn 63*

Offertory Prayer
Receiving the Tithes and Offerings

“Baptized in Water”                                              Insert

Announcements

Benediction*

Sending Forth*                    “Blest Be the Tie that Binds” 

   Blest be the tie that binds
   Our hearts in Christian love!
   The fellowship of kindred minds
    Is like to that above.

*Please stand as you are able.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Thank you for your generous giving to the Retired Ministers and Missionaries Offering (RMMO). The total given was approximately $750 and is much appreciated.

CALENDAR

January
5 (Today) Communion and Deacon Fund Offering
10 Coffee Hour with Bingo at 10:30
12 Governing Board meeting after worsh13 ABW Monthly Meeting, Noon
17-18 Mid Winter Missions Conference at Prairie
            Homestead in Wichita, Kansas
19 All-church business meeting and lunch
            National Sanctity of Human Life Sunday