March 19, 2006

Call to Worship
Leader: Come, beloved children of God, come worship the Lord.
People: The Lord presents us with a way to live that
revives our souls, makes us wise,
rejoices our hearts, enlightens our eyes.
All: We worship the Lord who teaches us true wisdom.
Leader: Let the words of our mouths and the meditations of
our hearts be acceptable to you, O Lord, our Rock
and our Redeemer. Amen.
Prayer of Invocation
Hymns If you believe and I believe SJ 32
O for a thousand tongues to sing HWB 110

Scripture Reading Exodus 20:1-17
Letter from God
Children's Story
Hymn Far, far away HWB 139

Hearing

Scripture John 2:13-22, 1 Corinthians 1:18-25
Sermon From Tablets to Tables: Honoring the Encounter
Hymn Be thou my vision HWB 545

Prayer of Confession
Leader: God of wisdom, through Moses,
your faithful servant, you gave us your law:
People: God's law is perfect.
Leader: We disregard your law,
saying it is too difficult to follow in our busy lives.
People: God's commandment is clear.
Leader: We ignore your commandment,
saying it is obsolete and irrelevant for today's world.
People: God's decrees are sure.
Leader: We have disobeyed your decrees,
saying they are foolish according to today's wisdom.
All: In your mercy, forgive us. Amen.
Words of Assurance
Leader: Overturning all worldly wisdom,
God brings saving, renewing power into our lives through the foolishness of a crucified and resurrected Savior.
Receive God's wisdom and forgiveness.

Responding

Sharing of Joys and Concerns
Pastoral Prayer
Offering/Hymn Praise God from Whom HWB 119
Announcements
Hymn The love of God SJ 44
Benediction

Today

Sermon: Roy Hange
Worship Leader: Maren Tyedmers Hange
Music: Dottie Scott, Steve Aker
Nursery: Franz family

Announcements

There will be a memorial service for Chris Gredler's mother Eloise Gredler on March 25 at 1 p.m. at the Byrum-Parr Funeral Home in Roseland.

Please have all bulletin information to Jeannine by noon on Thursday. Thanks!

There have been a number of concerns raised to the Pastoral Care Team regarding certain after-church behaviors of some of the children that involve safety issues for both the children and adults. The areas of concern are:
Chasing and running inside the church building
Climbing on stacked chairs, especially at times of fellowship meals
Sitting on and rocking the radiators
We want to be a child friendly church, but we also do not want equipment broken, or someone to be knocked down by a "speeding child". PCT is asking that parents discuss this with their children and ask them to refrain from these behaviors. Perhaps our church family could assist parents with this by providing friendly reminders to the children, as needed.

Prayers and Praises

VMBM James Rhee is giving leadership to the Stephens City Korean Community Church which meets in the Stephen City (Va.) Mennonite Church. There is a growing Korean community in the Winchester/Stephens City area, and a Christian witness is needed. VMBM supports this church-planting effort in partnership with Virginia Mennonite Conference's Northern District.

Mennonite Mission Network: Mennonite Mission Network seeks to recruit English teachers for ministry in China, South Korea, and Mongolia. Pray that God will touch the hearts of people who are willing to serve in this way in these Asian countries.

Pray for the local services for people in need: Love Inc., Shelter for Help in Emergency, Food Bank, Salvation Army, IMPACT--a justice ministry and PACEM-- the initiative for the homeless.

~ The three remaining hostages in Iraq who are from Christian Peacemaker Team, their families, their support teams, CPT leadership Carol Rose and Doug Pritchard, the hostage takers, the negotiators and everyone who is involved and affected by this.

Gathering in Christ's name

Hearing

Responding

Today

Announcements

Prayers and Praises