The Mission of the Sandy Creek United Methodist Church is: To open hearts
by putting faith and love in action through works, deeds and words that heal and free;
To open our minds by worshiping together as a faith family, by reading and studying
the Bible and by growing in knowledge and love of God through disciplined Christian
living; To open our doors by living the belief that all persons are of sacred worth, and
by seeking to live locally, nationally, and globally in Christian community, welcoming,
loving and forgiving one another.
*Hymn
“Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee”
Invocation
We thirst for water, O Lord, until our parched souls murmur against one
another. Fountain of life, soothe our spirits. Let us draw from your water,
that we shall never again have to drink from the shallow well whose
waters are bitter.
Welcome
Children's Time
Announcements
Prayers for God's People
Sharing the Peace of Christ
*Hymn
L: May the peace of Christ be with you,
P: And also with you.
Congregational Prelude
“Christ for the World We Sing”
#89
“God Will Take Care of You”
#130
Giving of Our Tithes and Offerings
#568
Verses 1 & 3
*Call to Worship
Leader: O come, let us sing to the Lord;
People: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
Leader: Let us come into God’s presence with thanksgiving;
People: let us make a joyful noise with songs of praise!
Leader: For the Lord is a great God, and a great Ruler above all gods, in whose hands
are the depths of the earth and also the heights of the mountains.
People: The sea belongs to God who made it, and the dry land, because
God formed it.
Leader: O come, let us worship and bow down,
People: let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
Leader: For the Lord is our God,
People: we are the people of God’s pasture, the sheep of God’s hand.
Leader: Hear the voice of the Lord today!
People: Harden not your hearts, at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in
the wilderness,
Leader: when your forebears tested me, and put me to the proof, though they had
seen my work.
People: For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a
people who err in heart, and they do not regard my ways.
All: Therefore I swore in my anger that they should not enter my rest.
Congregational Offertory
“Freely, Freely”
*Offertory Response
#389
#95
*Offertory Prayer
Old Testament
Exodus 17:1-7
Epistle Reading
Romans 5:1-11
Gospel Reading
John 4:5-42
Sung Response
“Glory be to the Father”
Sermon
“Water!”
*Hymn
“A Charge to Keep I Have”
*Benediction
*Sending Forth
*- indicates those able, should stand.
#70
#413
LONG-TERM PRAYER CONCERNS:
Our congregation, Bishop Mark Webb, District Superintendent Rev. Rebekah
Sweet, Rev. Daniel Bradley, United Methodist Churches and their communities,
Upper NY Cabinet, Soldiers in uniform and their families, Families in Mission: The
Mefor Family, The Zimmerman Family; Fran Masuicca, Andrew Gemmell, Jim
Horth Sr., Freida Janacek, Paul Lasher, Johnny Lewis, Stella McCabe, Sharon
Reese, Nancy Ridgeway, Maggie Potish, Mary Ann Reed, Kevin Seabury, Abe Allen,
Brooke Grant, Amy Waterman-Albrecht, Lena Sinesi Fitzgerald, Lillian Ridgeway,
Nancy Sanderson, Stratt Killam, Betsy Murphy, Pat Atkinson and Austin Miller
SHORT-TERM PRAYER CONCERNS
Week of February 26: Abe Allen, John Carnes, Paula Steele, Darryl &
Christie Gleasman, Cheryl Stagl, Family of Dick Wallis,
Bill VanCamp, Bob Beck, Family of Jack Neal
Week of March 5: Paula Steele, Children suffering with Chrones Disease,
the family of Scott Yerdon, Sheila Tousley
Week of March 12: Rhonda Barron, Cheryl Stagl
Prayer Chain Requests:
Please contact Irene Fuller 387-3327 or Elaine Pierce 298-4086 with your
prayer requests, or if you would like to be part of the Prayer Chain Ministry.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR FELLOWSHIP AND WORSHIP
Monday: 4:45 pm Chair Yoga, 6:00 pm Boy Scouts
Tuesday: 7:00 pm Boy Scouts
Wednesday: 7:00 pm NCMS, 7:00 pm Knitting, 8:30 pm AA
Thursday:
Friday: 6:00 pm Senior Dinner
Saturday:
Sunday: 9:30 am Adult Sunday School, 11:00 am Children’s Sunday School,
11:00 am Worship Service
The People of God who serve our community this morning:
Ministers: The Congregation: Music: Doug Towles
Liturgist: Brian Killam; Ushers: Paul Fiegl & Nikki Wilcox
Litany and Invocation from Litanies and Other Prayers for the revised Common Lectionary, Year A,
by Everett Tilson and Phyllis Cole. Copyright © 1991, 1994 by Abingdon Press. Reprinted by
permission.
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Sandy Creek United Methodist
Church
2031 Harwood Drive, P.O. Box #158
Sandy Creek, New York 13145
Church 387-5111 ~ Parsonage 387-5228
Email: [email protected]
www.sandycreekumc.org
Twitter: @S_Creek_UMC
Rev. Daniel Bradley
[email protected]
March 19, 2017