October 20th, 2024

Welcome
Time of Meditation/ Opening Prayer

                     
Call to Worship: (Responsively)

          Look at the heavens, stretched out like a tent!
          Listen to the winds, the messengers of God.
          Gaze at autumn’s changing colors, painted for us.
          Reflect on God’s mountains, majestic and strong.
          Blessing and honor to our Creator God!
          Majesty and praise to the One who gives us life!

“Shine, Jesus Shine”                                                       Chorus 142* 
”To God Be the Glory”                                                    Hymn 8*

“Father, I Adore You”                                                      Chorus 194
“You Are My All in All”                                                    Chorus 220

Pastoral Prayer
                                                                                                                      Psalm Reading                                                             Psalm 119:9-16

Gospel Reading                                                            Mark 10:23-31

Leader: This is the Word God for the people of God.

                                    All: Thanks be to God.

 Sermon                                                              “It’s Impossible”

“Trust and Obey”                                                  Hymn 320*

Offertory Prayer
Receiving the Tithes and Offerings
“In My Heart There Rings a Melody”                             Hymn 552                                                         

Announcements

Benediction   
                                                                         
Sending Forth

”Bind Us Together”                                                  Chorus 140* 

           Bind us together, Lord, 
          Bind us together with cords that cannot be broken.
          Bind us together, Lord,
          Bind us together, Lord, bind us together with love.

           
*Please stand as you are able     



“Such, O my soul, are the miseries that attend on riches. They are gained with toil and kept with fear. They are enjoyed with danger and lost with grief. It is hard to be saved if we have them and impossible if we love them, and scarcely can we have them but we shall love them inordinately. Teach us, O Lord, this difficult lesson to manage conscientiously the goods we possess and not covetously desire more than you give to us.”
                                                                                                            - St. Augustine

OCTOBER CALENDAR

    20  -  (Today) Lunch after worship followed by the business
                meeting
    22  -  Lifeline Screening

October Birthday
  October 26      Sandra Bingaman

Anniversary
  October 20      Mike and Pastor Sharon

Many thanks to our Fellowship Committee and all who helped on Friday with the Fall Rally. It was a great deal of work (planning, purchasing food and supplies, cooking, cleaning up), but it was worth it! 

Please keep the family of Randy Brooks in your prayers, as Randy passed on Saturday, October 19. Please also continue praying for Jenny Chambers’ upcoming surgery and Ron Straley-Wilson for healing for the wounds on his lower legs and feet.



         OCTOBER 26 IS NATIONAL PUMPKIN PIE DAY!