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Magnolia Presbyterian Church

Welcome, visitors and guests!

You are invited to be part of our church’s ministry and mission.

May you experience the Spirit in worship today!

Please sign our attendance sheets.

 

Children are always welcome in the Sanctuary for worship. 

Childcare is available in the 2nd floor nursery for infants and small children.

Children ages 3 through 7 may leave after the children’s message for a learning time in the children’s worship center.  There are no classes or child care for children over seven.  Please keep them in the sanctuary with you.

 

Large print bulletins and hymnals are available from our ushers,

as are listening devices.  Please ask an usher for assistance!

 

 

 

 

Announcements for the Week of November 8, 2009

 

Christian Education:  Adult education class is at 9:15 am in the Mt. Rainier Room.  Our children’s worship program, “Godly Play,” for children ages 2½ to 7, is held during the 10:30 am worship service.  “Body Builders” are our 8-12 year olds, who, after children's time, are invited to pick up a binder from the front pew, complete one or more ministry assignments during the remainder of the service, and return the binder directly to Pastor Deb after the service. 

 

Last week’s offering:  $11,579.36           Last week’s attendance:  84          

 

Happy Birthday this week to Adele Deibert 11/9, Victoria Chansamone Mountha 11/10, Cheri Yonich 11/12,  Ada Nesbitt 11/13 and Kathy Gorohoff 11/14.

 

3rd quarter giving statements are available for pickup in the narthex.  Save us some postage, and pick up your envelope!  This statement is for 2009 contributions through September 30.  Remember, there are only seven weeks left in 2009 – please plan to fulfill your pledge by year end.

 

Inquirers Class coming soon:  If you are interested in learning more about this congregation or the Presbyterian Church (USA), or are interested in becoming a member of Magnolia Presbyterian Church, please plan to attend the Inquirers Class.  The class will be held on Sunday mornings at 9:15 am in the Mt. Baker Room upstairs at the church, beginning next Sunday November 15, and running through Nov 22, Nov 29, and December 6.

 

The Strong family are in need of someone  to stay with Mary Ann for a couple of hours whilst Don goes swimming (for his diabetes) and does some shopping.  If you can help once in a while please call Kay Ramsay (282-4444).  A suggested time would be 3 - 5 pm but if you can't manage those hours we could always find something else.  I would like to make up a list so that Don will be able to plan his time accordingly so please let me know as soon as you can.  Thank you very much.

Anouncements for the Week of November 8, 2009

 

Prayers are requested for the Prince family as they mourn the loss of Dorothy Prince. 

 

Today is Remembrance Sunday.  We honor the memory of loved ones and friends during our service today.  Names submitted by the congregation will be read during the “Prayers of the People” portion of the service.  We invite you to join in remembering those saints who have blessed our own lives with their own.

 

Sunday Night Live!  Our young adults/young families group will meet today from 4-6 pm in Fellowship Hall.  Bring a potluck dish to share.  Childcare is provided! 

 

Operation Nightwatch:  We will be feeding the homeless on Wednesday, 11/11 at 7:30 pm.  Please consider joining us at Operation Nightwatch, or offer a donation of food. 

 

Magnolia Presbyterian Women will be meeting on Thursday Nov. 12 at noon in the Mt. Rainier room.  As usual it will be a brown bag lunch with lots of catching up with our latest news.  Come and add to it.

 

PLEASE NOTE that there will not be a Morning Circle meeting this month as that date falls on Thanksgiving Day.  Instead we will meet on the first Thursday of December - December 3rd - so please mark your calendars.  Details will be in the bulletin nearer the date.

 

Monthly Playgroup: Our playgroup/parent coffee gathers monthly on second Thursdays from 9:30 at 11 am upstairs in the church nursery.  We meet next on this Thursday 11/12.  All are welcome.  Invite a friend!

 

Magnolia Mission Youth is taking orders today for Christmas wreaths and garlands.  See the bulletin insert for details.  Place your order during coffee hour, or drop off your order form in the office.  Make checks payable to MMY.  Your greens will be ready for pickup at Magnolia Lutheran Church on Tuesday 11/24.  Questions may be directed to Randy Devitt at 206-282-8612.

 

Supper Club will next gather this coming Saturday 11/14 at 6:30 p.m. at the home of Jim and Laura Mills, 3223 W. Viewmont Way W., telephone 286-8777, email lauradmills@msn.com.   Bring a dish to serve 8-10 and join us.

 

Stewardship Sunday.  Next Sunday, 11/15, is Stewardship Sunday.  If you have not already, you will receive your 2010 pledge materials in the mail soon.  Please prayerfully consider your contribution of time, talent and treasure to your church for the coming year, and bring your pledge to worship next Sunday.  Remember:  we ARE the church.  Let’s all do our utmost to support our ministry and mission.

 

MMY Black and White Dance coming November 17th:  The big fall fundraiser for Magnolia Mission Youth, the Black and White Dance, will take place at Magnolia Lutheran Church on Tuesday 11/17 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm.  Buy tickets at coffee hour, or at the door on the 17th.  Don’t miss this fun evening!

 

 


 

 


 

Prayer Requests

 

Please keep the following in your prayers:

 

Vi Deibert


Geoff Page

The Prince family

Mary Ann Strong

 

 

 

Please also pray for:

Our pastor

Our session and deacons

and

All of our homebound members, including:


Carol Boitano

Mildred Brown

Edna Carlson

Elsie Cole

Helen Dey

Wilma Egleston

Ray Fergusson

Charlotte Fletcher

Bridget Hopkins

Molly Langdale

Ada Nesbitt

Liz Panteleeff




November 8, 2009                                                      Remembrance Sunday

 

The Worship Service

Liturgy Leader:  Gene Wong

Please stand if you are able when indicated by an asterisk (*).

Words in bold are spoken together.

 
Prelude

 

Coming into God’s Presence

 

Welcome and Ministry Messages                                        Pastor Deb

Members and guests:  please sign the registration pads.  Notice who is visiting near you and greet them!

 

*Gathering Song (Renew 6):

As we gather may your Spirit work within us;

As we gather may we glorify your name;

Knowing well that, as our hearts begin to worship,

We’ll be blessed because we came,

We’ll be blessed because we came.

 

*Call to Worship

Leader:      On this Remembrance Sunday, we join our voices with all those in heaven and on earth who sing their praises to God.

All:              In life and in death we belong to God.

Leader:      Neither death nor life can separate us from God’s love.

All:              In life and in death we belong to God.

Leader:      Come; let us worship the Lord of heaven and earth.

All:              Let us worship the God of all creation.

 

*Hymn 526                                                                   For All the Saints

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Prayer of Confession (please be seated)

Leader:      The God of justice who knows all and sees all is the same God of mercy who stands ready to forgive us.  Let us then confess our sins honestly and earnestly.

All:              God of the living and the dead, we confess that sometimes we are more dead than alive to the possibilities you place before us.  There are times when we merely exist. 

Leader:      We have hoarded your bounty without thankfulness or generosity.  We have set our minds on wrong things. 

All:              O God, forgive our foolish ways, and breathe into us once more the breath of life; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

(The prayer continues in silent confession.)

 

Leader:      Amen.


Assurance of Pardon

Leader:      Through Christ, Life has been given to us as a new gift for today.

All:              We are a new and different people from this moment on!  Let us walk in the Light of Christ.  Amen.

 

Renew 276                                                             Soon and Very Soon

 

*Sharing the Peace of Christ:                                                Mimi Park

Leader:     The peace of Christ be with you.

All:            And also with you.

Leader:      Let us greet one another with signs of Christ’s peace.

 

Anthem                                    I Have Felt the Hand of God (Courtney)

The Congregational Choir

 

Listening for God’s Word

 

Time with the Children

Following Time with the Children, “Door Angels” will escort children

 ages 2½ to 7 to the children’s worship center downstairs.

Body Builders team remains in worship – don’t forget

to pick up your binder from the front pew for today’s activities.

There is always nursery care provided for children under age 3.

 

Scripture:         Hebrews 11:1-2, 23-40                                   Page 1050

                        Hebrews 12:1-2                                             Page 1052

 

Sermon                                                “So Great a Cloud of Witnesses”

Rev. Dr. Deborah Hannay Sunoo

 

Moment for Reflection

 

Responding to God’s Word

 

*Hymn (see insert)                                      Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

 

Litany for Remembrance Sunday (see insert)

 

Reading of the Roll of Remembrance

 

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father, which 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.

 


Offering of Gifts and Tithes
 

Minute for Stewardship    Randy Devitt, Anné Wikstrom & Cheri Yonich

 
Offertory
 
*Offertory Response (Hymn 560, verse 3):

                    We thank you, then, Creator, for all things bright and good,

                    The seed-time and the harvest, our life, our health, our food.

                    Accept these gifts we offer, for all your love imparts,

                    And what you most would welcome:  our humble, thankful hearts.

 

*Prayer of Dedication                                          Deacon Leanne Devitt

 

Discipleship Response

Leader:      God calls each one of us to take our place in a cloud of faithful witnesses that spans centuries and circles the globe.

All:              Grateful for God’s many blessings, we answer that call, and we commit ourselves and our gifts to the work of God’s kingdom.

 

Going Into God’s World

 

*Parting Song (see insert)                     When the Saints Go Marching In

 

*Benediction and Response (Renew 302):

                You shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace;

                The mountains and the hills will break forth before you.

                There’ll be shouts of joy, and all the trees of the field

                Will clap, will clap their hands.

                And all the trees of the field will clap their hands,

                The trees of the field will clap their hands,

                The trees of the field will clap their hands as you go out with joy!

 

Postlude

 

Please join us for coffee hour downstairs in Fellowship Hall following the service.

Thank you to Sarah Madill, Mona Owen and Hwa Kang-Crosby for hosting coffee hour today.

 

This Week at MPC

Today                     9:15 a.m.           Adult Education class

                                  9:30 a.m.           Congregational Choir Rehearsal

                                10:30 a.m.           Worship

                                  4:00 p.m.           Sunday Night Live, Fellowship Hall

Monday                   7:00 p.m.           Boy Scouts

Tuesday                 9:30 a.m.           Men’s Coffee

                                  8:00 p.m.           AA, Mt. Rainier Room

Wednesday            7:30 p.m.           Nightwatch

Thursday               9:30 a.m.           Playgroup/Parent Coffee, nursery

                                12:00 p.m.           Presbyterian Women

                                  7:15 p.m.           Congregational Choir Rehearsal

Saturday                 6:30 p.m.           Supper Club, Jim and Laura Mills home           

Next Sunday         9:15 a.m.           Adult Education class

                                  9:30 a.m.           Congregational Choir Rehearsal

                                10:30 a.m.           Worship

 

 

 


Music Leadership

John Obourn, Music Director

Beth Jaureguy, Piano and Organ

Cindy Bain, Guitar and Organ

 


Session Elders

Don Bailey (2010)

Cindy Bain (2010)

Steve Bass (2011)

Sharlene Bathum (2011)

Randy Devitt (2009)

Pete Smith (2009)

Anné Wikstrom (2011)

Gene Wong (2009)

Cheri Yonich (2010)


Board of Deacons

Dave Bowman (2009)

Earl Collins (2011)

Leanne Devitt (2009)

Sarah Madill (2011)

Laura Mills (2010)

Catherine McCollister (2011)

Kay Ramsay (2010)

Suzanne Tyler (2010)

Robin Whipple (2009)



 

Magnolia Presbyterian Church

3051 28th Avenue West

Seattle, Washington 98199

Telephone 206.283.3322 w Fax 206.281.7652

www.orgsites.com/wa/magpres

 

Rev. Dr. Deborah Hannay Sunoo, Pastor w deb@magpres.org

Amber LaMond, Office Administrator w amber@magpres.org

Office Hours:  Tuesday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 1 p.m.