4-5-15 - First Presbyterian Church

PRESENTING OUR GIFTS
Offering
Please sign the friendship pads and pass them along the row and back again.
Offertory
Alleluia from Veni Sancte Spiritus
W.A. Mozart
(adapted by Larry Shackley)
++Doxology
592[PH]
THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
OF LANSING
Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise God, all creatures here below;
Praise God above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.
++HYMN
122[PH]
Thine Is The Glory
++BENEDICTION
HALLELUJAH CHORUS
(Everyone is welcome to come up front and join in the choir. Scores are available.)
++POSTLUDE
510 W. Ottawa Street ▪ Lansing, Michigan 48933
(517) 482-0668 www.lansingfirstpres.org Facebook – Lansing First Presbyterian
Church Office Hours (M-TH) 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 & 1:00 p.m. – 5:00
(Fridays) 8:00 a.m. – 12 & 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 3
SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY
April 5, 2015 10:00 a.m.
Easter Sunday
WELCOME
Rev. Stanley Jenkins
In order to maintain our worship environment, please turn your cell phone off.
PRELUDE
Magdalene’s Mourning
Gwen Botting, French Horn
Gwen Botting
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader:
People:
Leader:
People:
Leader:
Josephine Powers
Hear the good news. Be not afraid.
Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
This is the day that the Lord has made.
Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Let us worship God.
CHORAL INTROIT
Easter Introit
++PROCESSIONAL HYMN
123[PH]
John Ferguson (w/ACM Brass)
Jesus Christ Is Risen Today ++PASSING THE PEACE OF CHRIST
Leader:
People:
Share the passing of the peace with those near you, including the children, age 4 years to 4th
grade, as they come to the front of the sanctuary for a blessing upon their continuing worship
upstairs. Be still and know that I am God (sung three times)
SERVICE OF RENEWAL
Call to Confession
Prayer of Confession (unison)
God of all hope and joy, we confess that we continue to live in fear. You
raised Jesus to new life, yet we hold onto former things. You offer
salvation to all, yet we fail to share this good news. Forgive us, God of
grace. By your Spirit, make us witnesses to the wonder of the empty
tomb and the fullness of life you promise; through Jesus Christ our
Lord…(silent prayer)
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Gloria Patri
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the
beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen.
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
EPISTLE LESSON
Leader:
People:
ANTHEM
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
pg 176, NT
The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God!
O Sons and Daughters, Let Us Sing!
GOSPEL LESSON
Larry Shackley (w/ACM Brass)
John 20:1-18
pg 114, NT
SERMON
++HYMN
May the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
And also with you.
++Indicates to stand in body or spirit
The Word of God’s Grace
++ Response to the Good News 579[PH]
104[PH]
Christ is Risen! Shout Hosanna!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S PRAYER
One: The Lord be with you.
All: And also with you.
One: Lift up your hearts.
All: We lift them up to the Lord.
One: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
All: It is right to give thanks and praise.
(Intercessory prayer)
Sallie Campbell
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in
heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us
our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the
kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.
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INFORMATION FOR THE DAY
THIS WEEK AT A GLANCE
Sunday, April 5
8:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
10:10 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
EASTER
Deacon’s Easter breakfast
Morning Worship / Easter Offering received
Children and Worship
Fellowship Hour – Litten Hall
Monday, April 6 EASTER MONDAY
Office Closed All Day
Tuesday, April 7
9:00 a.m.
Computer Skills for Refugees – Computer Lab
10:00 a.m.
Staff Meeting – Library
12:10 p.m.
Yoga – Senior High Room
5:00 p.m.
Highland Dance class – Litten Hall
5:30 p.m.
Member Development Committee – Meeting Room
5:30 p.m.
Adult Education Committee – Library
6:00 p.m.
Zumba – Senior High Room
6:30 p.m.
Bagpipers – Reception Room / Litten Hall
7:00 p.m.
Book Group – Parlor
7:00 p.m.
LanSingOut Rehearsal – Chapel
Wednesday, April 8
10:30 a.m.
Lectionary Bible Study – Library
4- 7:30 p.m.
Global Institute of Lansing Tutoring
5:30 p.m.
Personnel Committee –Library
6:00 p.m.
Yoga – Senior High Room
7:00 p.m.
Deacons Meeting
7:00 p.m.
Wedding rehearsal – DeMarco/Ross
Thursday, April 9
12:10 p.m.
Yoga – Senior High Room
1:00 p.m.
Tender Loving Care – Cracker Barrel Lansing
5:45 p.m.
NorthWest Initiative Board Meeting – Library
6:00 p.m.
Zumba – Senior High Room
7:00 p.m.
Chancel Choir Rehearsal
Friday, April 10
6:30 p.m.
Yoga- Senior High Room
Saturday, April 11
Sunday, April 12
8:15 a.m.
Youth Education Committee Meeting
10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship / Communion / Deacons Offering received
10:10 a.m.
Children and Worship
11:00 a.m.
Education for 4 yrs. thru 12th Grade
Fellowship Hour – Litten Hall
11:20 a.m.
Adult Education – Reception Room
11:30 a.m.
Finance Committee – Library
11:30 a.m.
Member Development Committee Class – Chapel
Noon
Music - 4th thru 6th grades
1:30 p.m.
Bagpipers rehearsal
Participants in this morning’s service:
Worship Leaders
Organist
Music Director
French Horn
Trumpet
Trumpet
Horn
Trombone
Tuba
Pastor
Videographer
Children and Worship Leader
Children and Worship Greeter
Josephine Powers, Sallie Campbell
Sergei Kvitko
Megan Higle
Gwen Botting
Kyle Tomsich
Charlie Fallis
Shelby Shaw
Nathan Brown
Drew Jones
Rev. Stanley Jenkins
Rich Blankenship
Brian Jackson
Collin Schafer
Welcoming you at the entrances:
Chapel
Chestnut
Howard and Josephine Powers
Wanda Chenoweth
Coffee Servers:
Paul and Pat Eenigenburg
Concerns of the congregation:
In care facilities:
Russ Scovill (Whitehills Health Care Center)
Bob Sherwood (Sterling House of Delta)
Carolyn Stauffer (LifeHOUSE Prestige Way)
Marge Holmgren (New Life Assisted Living)
HEARING ASSISTANCE, LARGE PRINT AND BRAILLE BULLETINS AVAILABLE
Please see one of the ushers if any of these aids to worship will enhance your
participation in the service. If you would like a Braille bulletin, please let those in the
church office know ahead of time.
CONGREGATIONAL LIFE
IF YOU PURCHASED A LILY FOR THE EASTER SERVICE, PLEASE TAKE IT WITH
YOU AFTER THE SERVICE.
EASTER OFFERING RECEIVED TODAY As is our tradition, today we will receive and
dedicate our Easter Offering, which benefits Youth Mission opportunities. If you don't
have the Easter Offering envelope from your pledge box, just write "Easter Offering" on
the memo line of your check. Thank you for your support!
FYI – THE NEXT BOOK SALE WILL TAKE PLACE IN 2016 Please do not donate
books until January 2016 because storage space is limited.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS Family Fun Nite/Euchre tournament is being planned for
the evening of April 17. The evening will include food, fun and fellowship FOR ALL
AGES. A movie will be shown for those who don't want to play cards and a tournament
will be organized, by table, for all card players to participate. A sign-up sheet will be
posted in Litten Hall so we can figure out details. See Sallie with questions or
suggestions.
MEN'S FELLOWSHIP GROUP will meet at the church on Wednesday, April 22 at 7 p.m.
Food and beverage will be provided. A free-will offering will be accepted. Please contact
Brian Koon (b.koon@comcast.net or 886-9801) if you will be attending. Men of all ages
are welcome!
MICHIGAN PRESBYTERIAN PILGRIMAGE will be held April 30 through May 3 at
Amigo Center in Sturgis. This pilgrimage is a spiritual retreat weekend that encourages
and renews your life of faith. You'll meet nice people, have fun, enjoy good food and
experience nature. If you would like more information contact Mary Moses at
mosesdrywall@yahoo.com or 269-659-4668 or John Tucker 517-482-3784. There are
brochures and guest applications on the info table in the chapel entrance.
MAY IS WORK-WEEKEND MONTH AT CAMP GREENWOOD The month of May
offers 4 opportunities to come up to camp and help out. Each Saturday in May - 5/2,
5/9, 5/16 and 5/23 - is a scheduled work day. Presbytery of Lake Michigan churches are
encouraged to send work crews. Individual workers who want to support camp are also
encouraged to participate. Depending on the weather, there will be work to do inside
(painting, cleaning, etc.) or outside (raking, painting, clearing trails, etc.) Come enjoy the
camaraderie of others, the beauty of camp, and the satisfaction of helping to prepare
camp for a full schedule of campers. Please RSVP to Verla Custer, the Camp Director,
at office@campgreenwood.org so appropriate preparations can be made. Cabins are
also available to rent for the weekend, just contact the camp director for details.
CONGREGATIONAL LIFE cont’d
LUGNUT OUTING Our annual Lugnut outing with North Westminster will be on June 5
at 7:05 p.m. Please make your reservations with Rich Blankenship, cost is $11 per
ticket. This will be a great opportunity to visit with church family and see the new
renovations to the stadium. It will be a beautiful day for baseball!
INTERGENERATIONAL SUMMER MISSION TRIP Come enjoy your church family
and friends in the great outdoors of northern Michigan. We will be working alongside a
community of Native American descent and combining learning more about them and
developing new relationships with their church, accomplishing some work alongside
them and enjoying family camp all at the same time. A block of hotel rooms is also being
reserved for those who don't want to camp. The dates are June 27-July 5 but you can
participate for however many days you would like to. Trip details will be worked out with
those who are interested in participating. MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!!!!
SNAPSHOT OF 1ST PRES FINANCIALS, ANNUALIZED PROJECTIONS WILL BE
UPDATED MONTHLY
$49,207.97
$38,465.83
actual February 2015 income
actual February 2015 disbursements
$(44,838.74) actual total deficit carried forward to 2015
$(20,483.94) actual 2013 deficit carried forward
$ 4,482.92 pledges received in February 2015 to retire 2013 deficit
$ 6,125.00 pledges received in January 2015 to retire 2013 deficit
$ (9,876.02) current 2013 deficit carried forward
+$(24,354.80) actual 2014 deficit carried forward
$(34,230.82)
remaining deficit
*NOTE: To date, we have received pledges totaling 41.3% of the total deficit carried
forward to 2015.
ADULT FORUM FOR APRIL 2015
All are welcome to join in discussion of significant and timely topics.
We meet in the Reception Room (downstairs) 11:20-12:15
(Childcare is available through this time.)
TODAY APRIL 5 – HAPPY EASTER!
No Adult Forum
April 12 – Elder James Robertson, of Eastminster Presbyterian Church, will share with
us his experience in traveling to Haiti twice on Visioning and Advocacy trips and will
present slides from those trips which highlight the hunger, sustainable agriculture, and
social justice issues that our PC(USA) mission workers address in Haiti and the
Dominican Republic. He will also speak about the Joining Hands Initiative and what it
does in Haiti.
April 19 – Valerie Smith, Director, QVK & Associates, has been engaged in
conversations about race and diversity for over 30 years. She has worked with K-12
educators, with faith-based congregations, and community groups. Ms. Smith currently
works with the Ingham County Health Department, and the Michigan Department of
Community Health, facilitating discussions about the root causes of health inequities and
disparities, focusing on race, class, and gender discrimination as well as other forms of
marginalizing citizens, and what we all can do about it as fellow human beings. Ms.
Smith has agreed to guide in conversation as we consider "safe" ways to engage in
difficult conversations about race and equity within our faith community as well as with
others.
STAFF OF FIRST PRES
Pastor/ Head of Staff
Parish Associate
Pastoral Care Assistant
Director of Youth and Family Ministry
Director of Christian Education
Church Administrator
Sexton
Organist
Director of Music
Bell Choir Director
Sunday Host
Child Caregiver
Rev. Stanley Jenkins
Rev. Charles Herrick
Chris DeYonke
Sallie Campbell
Kathleen Banghart
Tracy Weldon
Perry Black
Sergei Kvitko
Megan Higle
Shelia Conrad
Ben English
Abigail Grill
Heather Pollok
SERMON NOTES:
April 26 – Our Conversation on Race continues. We are inviting law enforcement
officers to join our dialogue. We are looking forward to hearing a different perspective
on events that have brought the issue of race to the forefront once again. Please check
the bulletin for details as the date gets closer.
EASTER LILIES
EASTER LILIES
In memory of:
From:
In memory of:
From:
V. Charlene Johnston Heath
Marinela Balatbat
Lee Amundsen
Milt Cummings & Mildred Spencer
Jeff Ballein
George Shutak, Cynthia Wickes & Alice Cannon
Kay Humes
Our parents
Pete & Eva Whipple
Tom & Oliver
Dan Anderson
Rev. & Mrs. Horace W. Hughes
Family
Susie Skrlec (Lydia’s mom)
Everett & Margaret Byington (my parents)
Our parents
Clyde & Elaine May
Our parents
Adelaide & Francis Gould
Madge & Ray Blankenship
Helen & Sylvester Schaub
Evelyn & Robert Sherwood
Leon & Marge Snyder, Rose Hourani, and Sandy Oade
Elona Phillips Petronko
Harvey E. Whitman
Francis & Sadie Jarawan
Sobhia Mackoul
Ben & Kat English
The Davies Family
Barb Amundsen
Shirley Cummings
Dee Hughes
Rev. Stan Jenkins & Mary Jenkins
Jean Jones
Mitsuko & Bill Marx
Their loving family
Steve & Sallie Campbell
Pat & family
Bob Hughes
Barbara Kaye
Bill & Lydia Erickson
Judy Davis
JoAnn and Jim Hengstebeck
Their family
Kathe & Sam Smith
Rich Blankenship family
Ben & Kat English
The Davies Family
Barb Amundsen
Shirley Cummings
Dee Hughes
Rev. Stan Jenkins & Mary Jenkins
Jean Jones
Mitsuko & Bill Marx
Their loving family
Steve & Sallie Campbell
Pat & family
Bob Hughes
Barbara Kaye
Bill & Lydia Erickson
Judy Davis
JoAnn and Jim Hengstebeck
Their family
Kathe & Sam Smith
Rich Blankenship family
The Snyder family
Beverly and Charles Phillips
The Whitman family
John & Elain Mackoul & family
George Mackoul & family
V. Charlene Johnston Heath
Marinela Balatbat
Lee Amundsen
Milt Cummings & Mildred Spencer
Jeff Ballein
George Shutak, Cynthia Wickes & Alice Cannon
Kay Humes
Our parents
Pete & Eva Whipple
Tom & Oliver
Dan Anderson
Rev. & Mrs. Horace W. Hughes
Family
Susie Skrlec (Lydia’s mom)
Everett & Margaret Byington (my parents)
Our parents
Clyde & Elaine May
Our parents
Adelaide & Francis Gould
Madge & Ray Blankenship
Helen & Sylvester Schaub
Evelyn & Robert Sherwood
Leon & Marge Snyder, Rose Hourani, and Sandy Oade
Elona Phillips Petronko
Harvey E. Whitman
Francis & Sadie Jarawan
Sobhia Mackoul
In honor of:
From:
In honor of:
From:
Our parents
My family
Sue Reames & Herb Jones
Ramiz Hourani
Our church family
Roger & Laura Wilkinson
Jean Jones
Nan Carter
The Snyder family
The Gebhardt family
Our parents
My family
Sue Reames & Herb Jones
Ramiz Hourani
Our church family
Roger & Laura Wilkinson
Jean Jones
Nan Carter
The Snyder family
The Gebhardt family
Gary and Joyce Schaub
Gary and Joyce Schaub
The Snyder family
Beverly and Charles Phillips
The Whitman family
John & Elain Mackoul & family
George Mackoul & family