• Childcare & Parent Pagers available
during Worship.
• Visitors please stop by the Visitors’
Information desk in the Narthex.
• 10:45 Service telecast on Channel 12,
WDEF-TV, 6 & 11:30 a.m. each Sunday.
We are glad you are here!
Please register your attendance on the
Ritual of Friendship pad and pass it to your
neighbors so they can register also.
Assisting in today’s service:
8:30 SERVICE Ushers: Ray Copeland, Nick Nicholson, Frank Pitner, Ed Watt
Head Usher: David Hudson Greeters: Martha Payne, Linda Pitner
Nave Volunteers: Renee Hudson, Lynn & Pat Panter, Ray Copeland
10:45 SERVICE Ushers: Lee Everett, Reggie Hixson, Doug Raby,
Jack Rodman, Mary Lucile Sharp, Wes Sorrow Head Usher: Scott Farley
Greeters: Dave Houseman, Lee Long, Jeri & Lela Kate Sorrow, Joe Wilson
Nave Volunteers: Ben & Gen Baucom
Acolytes: Alison Hanna, Lauren Pritchett Crucifer: Gretchen Hanna Banner: J. J. Jagger
PREACHING IN THE VINE: Rev. Will Lauderback
THIS WEEK AT FIRST-CENTENARY
Sunday, November 1
8:30 a.m. Worship
9:30 a.m. Sunday School
10:45 a.m. Worship
10:45 a.m. The Vine Worship
5:00 p.m. Mustard Tree Worship
6:30 p.m. Spanish Classes
7:00 p.m. OSP Rehearsal
Monday, November 2
9:30 a.m. Busy Moms
9:30 a.m. Companions in Christ
11:00 p.m. UMW General Meeting
12:30 p.m. Prayer Requests
6:00 p.m. PCS – Dinner & Program
6:30 p.m. The LOFT
7:00 p.m. OSP Rehearsal
Tuesday, November 3
9:00 a.m. Staff Retreat
10:30 a.m. Crafty Capers
7:00 p.m. OSP Rehearsal
Wednesday, November 4
Noon Bible Study Group
Noon Staff Parish
5:15 p.m. Prime Time Dinner
5:45 p.m. Celestial & Carol Choirs
5:45 p.m. Cherub Choir
6:00 p.m. Chancel Ringers
6:00 p.m. Common Ground Ladies
6:00 p.m. Prime Time Study Groups
6:00 p.m. Stephen Ministry Orientation
6:00 p.m. Youth Activities
7:00 p.m. Chancel Choir
Thursday, November 5
12:30 p.m. Ladies Bible Study
1:30 p.m. Aldersgate Vibrations
6:00 p.m. Morgan Class Dinner
7:00 p.m. OSP Rehearsal
Friday, November 6
5:15 p.m. Wedding Rehearsal
Saturday, November 7
9:00 a.m. OSP Work Day
9:30 a.m. FORWARD Grief Group
5:30 p.m. Wedding
UNITED METHODIST WOMEN – TOMORROW at 11 a.m., Oak Street Center – We will
celebrate of World Thank Day, a time when we remember how blessed we are, and in
gratitude for our blessings we give to The World Thank Offering. Bring your lunch and add
the money saved to your offering. Drinks and dessert will be provided by volunteers. We
will also hold our Pledge Service at this meeting.
Prime Time Dinner at 5:15 p.m.
Classes at 6 p.m.
Make dinner reservations by 4 p.m. Monday – [email protected], or 756-2021, ext 3123.
November 4 MENU: Baked Pork Chop, Broccoli Cheese Casserole, Pinto Beans, Rolls, Apple Crisp
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN JOINING FIRST-CENTENARY OR LEARNING MORE
ABOUT THE CHURCH? If so, you are invited to attend Coffee With the Pastors on
Sunday, November 8 at 9:30 in the new Conference Room (downstairs next to Mohney
Hall). Dr. Doug Fairbanks and Rev. Will Lauderback will lead this time of fellowship,
learning, and answering your questions. For more information, contact Debbie Donohue
at 756-2021 ext. 3108 or [email protected].
INNER CITY ANGEL TREE ORNAMENTS – Would you like to share your Christmas with
an Inner City child? Angel Tree ornaments will be in baskets in the Lobby of the Vine,
the Narthex, and the First Floor Lobby at the base of the stairs on November 13. Each
ornament gives the name of child and full instructions for sharing your Christmas.
Commendation and Welcome – New Members
Pastor: Brothers and sisters, I commend to your love and care these persons
whom we this day receive into the membership of this congregation. Do all in your
power to increase their faith, confirm their hope, and perfect them in love.
Congregation: We rejoice to recognize you as members of Christ’s holy
church, and bid you welcome to the First-Centenary congregation of The
United Methodist Church. With you we renew our vows to uphold it by our
prayers, our presence, our gifts, our service and our witness. With God’s
help we will so order our lives after the example of Christ that, surrounded
by steadfast love, you may be established in the faith and confirmed and
strengthened in the way that leads to life eternal.
November 1, 2015
8:30 & 10:45 a.m.
CHURCH STAFF
DOUG FAIRBANKS
Senior Minister
LINDA I. MCDANIEL
Associate Minister, Congregational Care
WILL LAUDERBACK
Associate Minister
BARRY KIDWELL Associate Minister, Mustard Tree Ministry, Mission Congregation
DAVID HARR
Minister of Homebound
MICHAEL REYNOLDS
Minister of Counseling
RICHARD C. LOONEY
Bishop in Residence
ALBERT J. BOWLES
Minister Emeritus
CHARLES NEAL
Minister Emeritus
ANITA BASINGER
Communications
JEFF BLAKE
The Vine Worship Leader/College & Young Adult Ministry
WALKER BRELAND
Organist Emeritus
DEBBIE DONOHUE
Congregational Development
KAREN GATES
Business Manager
TROY HAMILTON
Student Ministry
EMILY JENKINS
Children’s Ministry, Interim Director
JERRY LAWSON
Facilities
JANICE McNAIR
Worship & Music Ministry
JONATHAN McNAIR
Music Assistant
NANCY MORGAN
Secretary
ROBERT MORGAN
Facilities
MARY GREY MOSES
Inner City Director
LINDA MURPHY
Adult Ministry
DAVID PATTON
Organist
CINDY RUFF
Administrative Assistant
JIM SCHWARTZ
Facilities Manager
BETH SPEARS
Children’s Ministry, Preschool
SUE ST. JAMES
Singles Coordinator
BEVERLEY TROBAUGH
Children’s Enrichment Center
MARSHA VANDER MEULEN
Membership Secretary
WANDA WOODEN
Facilities
First-Centenary UMC
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OUR MISSIONARIES
Reading from the Lectionary
P. O. Box 208
Harry Howe, Marion, VA
Revelation 7:9-17
Chattanooga, TN 37401
Fran Lynch, Alaska
Psalm 34:1-10, 22
(419 McCallie Avenue) Ray & Lidia Zirkel, Costa Rica
1 John 3:1-3
(423) 756-2021
A Stephen Ministry
CHURCH FAX (423) 756-8589
Matthew 5:1-12
Congregation
www.firstcentenary.com
For medical emergencies during worship services, contact the
ushers. They will call 911. Defibrillator & Oxygen in see-through
hallway cabinet near back of Sanctuary, where we hang our coats.
Welcome, Guests!
We’re glad you came. We would like to get to know you better.
Please fill out the blue page in the Ritual of Friendship. The Ritual will be passed during the
announcement time, or you can find it on the inside aisle end of your pew. You may leave
the blue page in the Ritual folder or bring it to the Welcome Desk in the Narthex (back of the
church). We’d like to give you some information about the church and a little gift.
We give you thanks, O God,
for all the saints who ever worshiped you
Whether in brush arbors or cathedrals,
Weathered wooden churches
or crumbling cement meeting houses
Where your name was lifted and adored.
We give you thanks, O God, for hands lifted in praise:
Manicured hands and hands stained with grease or soil,
Strong hands and those gnarled with age
Holy hands
Used as wave offerings across the land.
We thank you, God, for hardworking saints;
Whether hard-hatted or steel-booted,
Head ragged or aproned,
Blue-collared or three-piece-suited
They left their mark on the earth for you, for us,
for our children to come.
Thank you, God, for the tremendous sacrifices made by those
who have gone before us.
Bless the memories of your saints, God.
May we learn how to walk wisely from their examples of faith,
dedication, worship, and love.
http://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/a-prayer-meditation-for-all-saints-day
Photo from sthughofcluny.org
An Order for the Worship of God
23rd Sunday after Pentecost
All Saints’ Day
*Please stand as you are able.
November 1, 2015
Paraments – White/Gold
Please remember to turn off cell phones and pagers.
Gathering Music
Mrs. Trish Foy
Invocation
Opening Voluntary
Remembrance
Charles Callahan
*Call to Worship
(8:30) Joe Woolums (10:45) Mitch Baldree
Leader: Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely,
People: and let us run with perseverance
the race that is set before us.
All: In the name of Jesus, our one Lord and Savior,
let us worship God.
*Hymn 711 (st. 1- 4)
For All the Saints
Reading of the Memorial Roll
George Alder Jr.
Chris Coleman
Betty Baker
Jack DeSabla
Josiah “Jody” Baker
Marie Gamble
Brenda Bell
Robert “Bob” Garrott
Fannie Bennett
Lisa Gossett
Owen Burke
Thomas Grimes
Janet Chaban
Mai Bell Hurley
Walter Lauter
William Lentz
Dot Mooney
Barbara Newton
Connie Norwood
Carter Pate
Mildred Pinson
Jeanne Rahlfs
Charlie Reep
John Starke
Margaret “Peg” Tinney
Edna Mae Varnell
Marianna Wheeler
Betty Flo Worsham
Prayer (in unison)
Eternal God, we praise you for the great company
of all those who have finished their course in faith
and now rest from their labor.
We praise you for those dear to us who have been named
and others whom we name in our hearts before you.
Grant peace to their souls.
Let perpetual light shine upon them.
And help us so to believe where we have not seen,
that your presence may lead us through our years,
and bring us at last with them
into the joy of your home not made with hands,
but eternal in the heavens;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Solo
God, Give Your Faithful Servant Peace
D. Haas
James Harr, solo
God, give your faithful servant peace; you have inspired the final breath.
You grant the suffering soul release, free from earth’s pain in timely death.
Into your open hands receive this spirit, for the body dies.
Grant us the grace to fully grieve as we now loose our former ties.
God, help us all complete this race, to live so when our course is run,
when we at last reach your embrace, we too will hear you say, “Well done.”
(Words by Adam Tice)
Ritual of Friendship
Dr. Linda I. McDaniel
(Please sign the attendance pad and pass it along your pew.)
Receiving the Morning Tithes and Offerings
(Prayer request cards may also be placed in the offering plates.)
Anthem (8:30) My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
arr. DeRousse
Heather Mariano, violin
(10:45)
Shine Like the Sun
Scottish/ arr. Karen Black
The Chancel Choir; Kayla Petrille, solo; Heather Mariano, violin
There’s a light that lights the darkness, and the world cannot contain it
and the world cannot explain it. It is the light of God’s creation.
There’s a love that flows within us, and the world cannot create it,
and the world cannot negate it. It is the love of God’s salvation;
and it shines like the sun.
There are saints who light the darkness, and the world cannot contain them,
for the love of God sustains them and they will never be forgotten.
We are blest to have them with us, and we praise the God who made them.
There is no way to repay them, and so we simply do applaud them
as they shine like the sun.
Glory be to our Creator! Glory to the Holy One!
Glory be to Christ our Savior, the Lord of Light, the King of love.
See him shine like the sun. They will shine like the sun!
It is right, and a good and joyful thing,
always and everywhere to give thanks to you ….
… And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven,
we praise your name and join their unending hymn:
(Words by John Ylvisaker, 2002)
*Doxology
(The communion elements, the bread and juice, are presented at the altar.)
(Children may leave for Children’s Fellowship.)
*Prayer for Illumination
*Gospel Lesson
Sermon
Overcoming Distortions of Faith
Mark 12:28-34
Dr. Doug Fairbanks
The Communion of the Saints
Invitation
Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ…
...as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ’s offering for us,
as we proclaim the mystery of faith:
Pastor: Christ calls us to share the heavenly banquet of his love
with all the saints in earth and heaven.
Knowing we have sinned, let us ask from God both mercy and forgiveness.
Prayer of Confession (in unison)
Holy God, you see us as we are, and know our inmost thoughts.
We confess that we are unworthy of your gracious care.
We forget that all life comes from you
and that to you all life returns.
We have not always sought or done your will.
We have not lived as your grateful children
nor loved as Christ loved us.
Apart from you we are nothing.
Only your grace can sustain us.
Lord, in your mercy, forgive us, heal us and make us whole.
Set us free from our sin,
and restore to us the joy of your salvation now and forever.
Assurance of Pardon
Pastor: There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Trust in the Lord. Rest in God’s grace.
You are forgiven and made new in Christ!
All: Glory to God. Amen.
Passing of the Peace
Pastor: As forgiven people, let us show one another signs of
reconciliation and love.
To each other: Christ’s peace be with you.
The Great Thanksgiving
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them up to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here ...
... all honor and glory is yours, almighty God, now and for ever.
The Lord’s Prayer
Giving the Bread and Cup
(Gluten free bread is in the cup in the center of the plate.)
(Our communion offering will help with flood disaster relief.)
Prayer after Communion (in unison)
(10:45) Rev. Barry Kidwell
Loving God, we thank you that you have fed us in this sacrament,
uniting us with Christ
and with all your people in heaven and on earth.
You have given us a foretaste of the heavenly banquet,
and we are grateful.
Send us out in the power of your Spirit,
to live and work to your praise and glory,
for the sake of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
*Hymn 702
Sing with All the Saints of Glory
*Benediction
Voluntary
Sing With All the Saints in Glory
*Congregation standing as they are able
Large print hymnals are available from the ushers.
Charles Callahan
ASSISTIVE LISTENING AVAILABLE
ASK USHERS FOR ASSISTANCE.
The Call to Worship and the Prayer after Communion are reprinted by permission from The Worship Sourcebook,
Second Edition, ©2003, Faith Alive Christian Resources. The Unison Prayer and the Prayer of Confession are
from A Funeral Manual by Perry H. Biddle, Jr. © 1976, 1984 by Abingdon Press. God Grant this Suffering Soul
Release. Words by Adam Tice © 2009, Music by David Haas © 2010 by GIA Publications Inc. All rights reserved.
Reprinted under OneLicense.net #A-702258.
The flowers in the Narthex are given to the glory of God
and in loving memory of John K. Morgan, by Jane Morgan and Family.