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Sermon Notes
Welcome!
About New Hope
New Hope was founded in 2008 and currently rents this space
from the Brazilian Assembly of God Church. We have purchased 20 acres
of land on the corner of Colonial Blvd. and Plantation Road and are
planning to build a church campus there in the spring of 2016.
Nursery
The Nursery is available for all services in Room 101.
A Wiggle Room is available at the back of the sanctuary.
Prayer & Praise
Please come forward after the service if you would like prayer
and/or the anointing of oil for healing by a pastor or
to discuss how to have a personal relationship with Jesus.
Prayer Request Forms are available in the Friendship Pads.
Please keep the following people in your prayers:
Bill Gold - pneumonia
Todd Hayes- father passed away
Joyce Maederer- low sodium/potassium
Talbert Melton- receiving Hospice Care
Bobbie Neidig - Joe passed away
Jim Ritsema - mom passed away
Esther Ritsema - mom passed away
MJ Thurmon - hip surgery in January
Thank you for praying for my brother-in-law, Doug Kirk. He is finished with his three
deep brain stimulation surgeries for his Parkinson’s. The surgeries all went well and
he had no complications. Blessings in Christ, Sabrina McGary
Dear New Hope Family, Talbert and I thank you for all of the prayers, cards, and
visits. Gratefully in Christ, Carolyn Melton
If you have a prayer request or would like to be a part of our email
prayer chain, please email Prayer@newhopefortmyers.org
or call the church office at 239.274.1230.
New Hope Presbyterian Church
3825 McGregor Boulevard, Fort Myers, FL 33901 • 239.274.1230
Weekend Pastoral Emergency Numbers: Stu 239.410.2352
Eddie 239.450.3331 email: Eddie@newhopefortmyers.org
www.newhopefortmyers.org
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Preschool
Preschool and Toddler Sunday School is offered at 9:30 and 11:00am
in Rooms 101, 103, 104, and 201. See the Advance for details.
Elementary
Elementary kids are invited to X-Factor from 9:15-10:30am
upstairs in Rooms 212-216 and ReMix at 11am in Room 216.
Middle & High
Middle & High school students are welcome to join us
at SoulStation today from 9:30-10:30am in Fellowship Hall.
Adults
Sunday Adult Classes are available at 8:00, 9:30, and 11am. We also have
Life Groups that meet throughout the week. For a complete listing,
please pick up an Adult Discipleship brochure at the Event Tent.
Stephen Ministry
If you or someone you know is going through a difficult time, a trained
Stephen Minister can provide confidential, Christian care. For more
information, please contact Pastor Stu at 239.274.1230.
Financial Report
General Operating Income YTD as of 10/31/14: $1,212,883
General Operating Expenses YTD as of 10/31/14: $1,098,256
Building Funds Income as of 10/31/14: $1,194,568
Proposed New Church Building Cost: $6,620,000
Worship Attendance on 11/16/14: 536
Welcome
Welcome to New Hope Presbyterian Church! We’re glad you’re here.
If this is your first time worshiping with us, please visit the
Welcome Center in the foyer at the back of the sanctuary
to receive information about our many ministries,
as well as a gift of our appreciation for your presence!
8am service
November 23, 2014
Traditional
8:00am
Welcome & Announcements
Pastor Eddie Spencer
Prelude
Darlene Starner, Flute
A Thanksgiving Prelude for Flute and Organ
By Charles Callahan
*Call to Worship
Pastor Stu Austin
Adapted from Psalm 33:18-22
Leader: Truly the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him,
on those who hope in His steadfast love, to deliver
their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
People: Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help and shield.
Our heart is glad in Him, because we trust in His holy name.
Let Your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
even as we hope in You.
All:
Let us worship Him!
*Hymn 715 Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
ST. GEORGE’S, WINDSOR
*Prayer of Adoration
Confession Adapted from Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation, March 30, 1863
Leader: Whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men,
to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God,
to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow,
yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to
mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth,
announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history,
that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
Insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals - are subjected to punishments and
chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear
that awful calamity which now desolates the land,
may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our
presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national
reformation as a whole People? We have been the recipients
of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved,
these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in
numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever
grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the
gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied
and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined,
in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were
produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to
pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then, to humble ourselves
before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness…
Adapted from Psalm 130:1-8
Leader: Out of the depths we cry to you, O Lord.
People: Lord, hear my voice!
Leader: Let your ears be attentive to the voice of our supplications!
People: If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
Lord, who could stand?
Leader: But there is forgiveness with You, so that You may be revered.
People: We wait for the Lord, our souls wait,
and in His word we hope;
Leader: My soul waits for the Lord
Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
New Hope Singers and Brad Starner, organ
Paraphrase of Te Deum by Ignaz Franz
Translated by Charles Walworth
more than those who watch for the morning,
People: more than those who watch for the morning.
Leader: O people of God, hope in the Lord!
Arr. Robert Lau
Thee; All on earth Thy scepter claim, all in heav’n above
adore Thee; Infinite Thy vast domain, everlasting is Thy reign.
Choir:
Hark, the loud celestial hymn angel choirs above are raising;
Cherubim and seraphim, in unceasing chorus praising,
Fill the heav’ns with sweet accord: holy, holy, holy Lord!
Lo, the apostolic train join, thy sacred name to hallow;
For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
and with Him is great power to redeem.
Prophets swell the loud refrain, and the white-robed
martyrs follow; And, from morn to set of sun through
the Church the song goes on…
People: Holy Father, Holy Son, Holy Spirit, Three we name Thee;
While in essence only One, undivided God we claim Thee;
Then, adoring, bend the knee and confess the mystery!
*Scripture Reading
Sermon
Gospel Identity
Colossians 3:12 (pg. 834)
*Hymn 98 Now Thank We All Our God
People: It is He who will redeem us from all our iniquities.
*Benediction
*Hymn 716
*Postlude Now Thank We All Our God
Sing to the Lord of Harvest
Grosser Gott
People: Holy God we praise Thy name, Lord of all, we bow before
Prayers of Confession
Leader: Let us confess our sins… [see insert]
Assurance of Pardon
*Tithes, Offerings, Prayer and Music
Please pass the Friendship Pads
Local Mission: Kevin Cummings, Teen Challenge of Southwest Florida
National Mission: Mark & Mylissa Horrocks, Habitat for Hope, Memphis
World Mission: New Missions Systems International, Middle East
WIE LIEBLICH IST DER MAIEN
Pastor Eddie Spencer
NUN DANKET
New Hope Baroque Ensemble
Darlene Starner, flute; Linda Hart, cello; Phil Chandler, organ
Pastoral Prayer
Choral Response Ten Thousand, Thousand Precious Gifts New Hope Singers
[Verse 4 from When All Your Mercies, O My God, Hymnal 56]
*Doxology
LASST UNS ERFREUEN
Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him all creatures here
below. Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise Him above ye heavenly host. Praise
Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
by J.S. Bach
* Please stand
Flowers
The flowers decorating the sanctuary today are given by
Ed & Heide Frost in memory of Ed’s mother; and by
Chuck & Suzanne Stewart in memory of their parents.