May 24, 2009

Pre-service music
Call to Worship
Leader: Spirit of love, who moves with creation,
Drawing the threads to color and design,
Life into life, you knit our true salvation:
All: Come, work with us, and weave us into one.
Leader: though we have frayed the fabric of your making,
Tearing away from all that you intend,
Yet to be whole, humanity is aching:
All: Come, work with us, and weave us into one.
Leader: Great loom of God, where history is woven,
You are the frame that holds us to the truth,
Christ is the theme, the pattern you have given:
All: Come, work with us, and weave us into one.
---Worship Workshop, WCC Assembly, Melbourne, 1991
Prayer of Invocation
Hymns Praise with Joy STJ 16
Alleluia STS 110
Children's Story

Hearing

Scripture Psalm 1; Acts 1:15-17,21-26
Sermon Judas and the Word
Hymn How firm a foundation HWB 567

Responding

Sharing of Praises and Concerns
Pastoral Prayer
Sung prayer response Lord, listen to your children HWB 353
Offering/Hymn Praise God from Whom HWB 119
Announcements
Hymn Come, come ye saints HWB 424
Benediction

Today

Sermon: Reuben Glick Shank

Announcements

Please email all bulletin announcements by Wednesday 8:00 pm to Maren. If anybody is interested in putting together and printing the bulletin for the month of June, please contact Maren.

Enjoy a time for learning, fellowship, encouragement, laughter, prayer, stories, and solitude at the Mennonite Women's Fall Conference , November 13-15, at Holiday Inn Select, Richmond. The speaker will be Mary Thiessen Nation, teacher at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. Cost will be the same as last year, "early bird" $70, regular registration $80. Mary is enthusiastic about being with us and praying about what God would have her present.

VMRC will host a special premier screening and discussion of HBO's The Alzheimer's Project 7-9 p.m. May 5 as part of a national discussion to encourage individuals to learn more about Alzheimer's diseases. The VMRC program is being sponsored by Memory Care at VMRC and the Alzheimer's Association, central and western Virginia chapter. The 90-minute viewing will be followed by a discussion led by Valda Garber-Weider of VMRC and panelists from the Alzheimer's Association. The event is free to the public and will be in Detwiler Auditorium on the VMRC campus. The Alzheimer's Project will air nationally on HBO May 10-12.

Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community will host Teepa Snow, a nationally known specialist in dementia care and dementia education, on its campus 7-8:30 p.m. May 19. Ms. Snow, M.S., OTR/L, FAOTA, has an independent practice as a dementia care and dementia education specialist. She has more than 28 years of experience in geriatric settings. The free program entitled "Learning to Let Go and Live in the Here and Now" will help family members, caregivers and others better relate to their loved ones with memory loss or Alzheimer's disease by teaching them to recognize moments of joy with their loved ones. The program will be in Detwiler Auditorium in the Corporate Office building of VMRC, 1501 Virginia Ave. This educational session is part of Memory Care at VMRC. For information about the program, call (540) 564-3559.

Prayers and Praises

MMN: The board and general meeting of Joint Christian Services in Mongolia convenes May 26-29. Pray for wisdom in the decisions that are made regarding the goals and strategy for the ministries of JCS, a partner of Mennonite Mission Network.

VMM: It's good to reflect on peacemaking this weekend. May we as Christ's followers demonstrate His way of peace in all of our relationships. In July, Virginia Conference assembly's theme, "Jesus is our Peace," will emphasize how we can do this in today's world.

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.

Gathering in Christ's name

Hearing

Responding

Today

Announcements

Prayers and Praises