LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES, GREETING and NOTICES

PRELUDE

*INTROIT (11:00) Festive Praise The Chancel Choir

*CALL TO WORSHIP (Responsively)

Enter his gates with thanksgiving

And his courts with praise!

Give thanks to him, bless his name!

For the Lord is good;

His steadfast love endures forever,

And his faithfulness to all generations

*HYMN God of the Ages UMH 698

*OPENING PRAYER (In Unison)

The Lord be with you.

And also with you.

Let us pray:

Heavenly Father, we come before you this hour, our hearts

filled with the burdens of daily living…with worries and

concerns…with fear and anxiety. Grant us your peace as

we gather to worship and praise you. You alone are our

refuge and strength, and to you we pray in the name of the

Prince of Peace. Amen.

*PSALTER READING Psalm 3 UMH 740

*THE GLORI PATRI UMH 71

THE FIRST LESSON: 1 Samuel 17:32-49 OT, pg. 255

THE GOSPEL LESSON: Mark 4:35-41 NT, pg 37

CHILDREN’S TIME (11:00)

OFFERING OF GIFTS

In the name of Christ

WELCOME!

Although you may be a

stranger to us, you are no

stranger to God, who

knows you and loves you,

and whose heart is glad at

your presence in his house.

We sincerely hope this

time of worship will bless

your life, and strengthen

you.

As you are able,

please stand for acts of

worship indicated by

an asterisk (*).

UMH indicates

“United Methodist Hymnal

(red hymnal)

TFWS indicates

“The Faith We Sing”

(small, black hymnal)

Help us sustain God’s

creation by placing unwanted

worship bulletins in the

basket on the narthex

credenza for recycling.

First United Methodist Church of Hampton Our Mission: To Know and Share Jesus Christ

June 21, 2015 4th Sunday After Pentecost

110 East Queen Street

Hampton, Virginia 23669

(757) 723-6577

Email:

office@firstumchampton.org

Website:

www.firstumchampton.org

OFFERTORY

*PRESENTATION OF GIFTS UMH 94

Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below;

Alleluia! Alleluia!

Praise God, the source of all our gifts! Praise Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts.

Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

*HYMN For the Healing of the Nations UMH 428

QUIET MEDITATION

MORNING PRAYER

THE LORD’S PRAYER

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 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. AMEN.

RESPONSE (11:00) Amen The Chancel Choir

ANTHEM (11:00) Our God is Great! The Chancel Choir

SERMON Today’s Philistines Edward D. Guldner

*Affirmation of Faith (In Unison) The Korean Creed UMH 884

We believe in the one God, creator and sustainer of all things, Father of Nations,

the source of all goodness and beauty, all truth and love.

We believe in Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, our teacher, example, and

Redeemer, the Savior of the world.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, God present with us for guidance, for comfort,

and for strength.

We believe in the forgiveness of sins, in the life of love and prayer, and in grace

equal to every need.

We believe in the Word of God contained in the Old and New Testaments as the

sufficient rule both of faith and of practice.

We believe in the Church, those who are united in the living Lord for the

purpose of worship and service.

We believe in the reign of God as the divine will realized in human society, and

in the family of God, where we are all brothers and sisters.

We believe in the final triumph of righteousness, and in the life everlasting.

Amen.

*CLOSING HYMN A Mighty Fortress Is Our God UMH 110

*BENEDICTION

*POSTLUDE

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The flowers on the altar

are dedicated to the Glory of God

by Brian & Megan Kuhagen

in honor of Vennie Lulofs’ birthday.

Stewardship

June 14, 2015

Worship Attendance:

8:30 – 30 11:00 –68 Total: 98

Sunday School - 60

Offering: $3,631.00

WORSHIP ASSISTANTS

FOR NEXT SUNDAY, JUNE 28:

LITURGISTS: (8:30) Cheryl Williams

(11:00) Ed Guldner

GREETERS (8:30): Ed & Shirley Boyce

FINANCE: Hal Prentiss

CHILDREN’S TIME (11:00) Becky Montgomery

Let Us Remember in Prayer:

All members of our armed forces, veterans,

first responders, our state and nation’s

leaders, our Bishop and District

Superintendent, our Pastor and church

leaders, shut-ins, the homeless, the hungry,

the unemployed, those suffering with

loneliness and depression, healing for all

cancer patients, and the following

from our own congregation:

Joyce Holt

Patt Mundie

Ed Kilgore

Kristen & William Milholen

Liz Crawford

Beth Nystrom

Page Paulin

Jane Miller

Homebound/Shut-In

Bill Chapin (VA Rm 120)

Carl & Jane Roberts

Elizabeth Burgess

Lenny Yarrington (Sentara Rehab)

Others:

Rick Allison's mom

Pastors in transition this year

Graduates

Kristen Cubbage

Phil & Stan (Rich Foley’s friends)

Jim Young (Friend of the Ware's)

Linda Adolph (Friend of the Rumsey’s)

Sympathies to

Mike Dorsey and family

on the passing of his wife, Jackie.

If you have questions or would like more

information about our Prayer Group please

contact Kristen Milholen.

WORSHIP ASSISTANTS

FOR TODAY, SUNDAY, JUNE 21:

LITURGISTS: (8:30) Tami Langford

(11:00) Halee Bly

GREETERS (8:30): Jim & Bea Ashley

FINANCE: Wayne Barfoot

CHILDREN’S TIME (11:00) Carol Gardner

THIS WEEK’S CALENDAR

Sunday, June 21 – Father’s Day

Annual Conference Concludes in Roanoke

8:30 am Worship (S)

9:30 am Refreshments & Fellowship (FH)

9:45 am Sunday School

11:00 am Worship (S)

Monday, June 22

9:00 am Vacation Bible School Begins!!!!!

7:00 pm Evangelism (C)

Tuesday, June 23

8:00 am Prayer Group (Vancosta’s)

9:00 am Vacation Bible School

Wednesday, June 24

9:00 am Vacation Bible School

Thursday, June 25

9:00 am Vacation Bible School

7:15 pm Chancel Choir (CR)

Friday, June 26

9:00 am Vacation Bible School

5:00 pm Vacation Bible School Cookout

Saturday, June 27

HELP Brown Bag Lunches-Doris Diggs & Libby Kendrick

Sunday, June 28 – Nelson’s Farewell

8:30 am Worship (S)

9:30 am Refreshments & Fellowship (FH)

9:45 am Sunday School

11:00 am Worship (S)

12:00 pm Farewell Reception (FH)

FH-Fellowship Hall HP-Happy People’s Class

CR –Choir Room S-Sanctuary

CFR-Craft Room Kit-Kitchen

UP-Upstairs C-Crouse Room

Celebrating Birthdays

6/21

6/22

Jess Miller

6/23

Vennie Lulofs

6/24

Nellie Johnson

Ashley Kilgore

6/25

David Lundquist

6/26

Peggy Langford

6/27

The Pastor and staff wish

everyone a happy birthday and

pray God’s blessings upon you.

If your birthday is not listed or

listed incorrectly please let us

know in the office so we can

correct our records.

Thank you.

UDE

Reminders, Announcements

and Other News

You are invited to a Farewell Reception honoring Mike, Elaine, Jeremy and Claire Nelson

on Mike’s last Sunday, June 28, 2015 following the 11:00 am service.

With our deepest appreciation, we will present a Love Offering to the Nelsons at the reception. You may mail your Love Offering to the church office (110 E. Queen St, Hampton, 23669) or place your Love Offering in Sunday’s collection plate. Please make the notation of “Love Offering for the Nelsons” on the check memo line. Please send your Love Offering to the church office by Wednesday, June 24.

We offer our very best wishes to the Nelson Family.

A FYI for the UMW mini-mission trip July 11

ITEMS FOR MATTAPONI HEALING EAGLE CLINIC

Multivitamins (child and adult), vitamin E,

Tylenol, baby aspirin,

toothpaste and toothbrushes, band-aids,

#10 envelopes, stamps,

Ensure, Depends underwear,

cans of Ensure (all flavors), cans of Boost for diabetics,

Neosporin cream, anti-biotic first aid cream and sprays,

Betadine and lotion creams, 4” X 4” and 2”X 2” gauze pads,

rubbing alcohol, disposable protective bed pads,

coffee, creamer, small individual bottled water,

copier paper, AA and AAA batteries,

toilet bowl cleaner, and cleaning supplies.

Mary Stern put 2 books of knitting/ crochet copies of

patterns in the Nifty Crafters room if anyone wants to

make a copy to make things for our bazaar.

We are looking for some pint sized jars (glass or plastic) with screw tops

for VBS. If you have any you can donate you can bring them to the

Samaritan Sunday School class. If you have any questions please contact

Sharon Lewis.

Our annual church picnic will be held at the

home of Bill and Doris Diggs, 1514 N.

Mallory Street, Hampton, on July 19 at 1:30

pm. Please bring a dish to share. Fried

Chicken, hot dogs, beverages and dessert will

be furnished. Hope everyone can attend and

welcome our new minister.

There is a bulletin board in the fellowship hall that lists the

needs for the Project Crossroads trip. Please come by and

take and look to see where you can help. If you have any

questions please contact Alan or Peggy Langford.

Please contact Nancy Eason to help!

June 22 - 26 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

for Ages 3 – Rising 6th Graders

Don’t miss out on a chance to be blessed beyond your wildest imagination!!!

Volunteer to help with VBS, you won’t be sorry you did!! Promise!!

WE STILL NEED VOLUNTEERS!!!! A FEW people can’t do ALL the jobs!

We need Shepherds and help with Storytelling especially!

Well it’s time for the church to “go fishing!” Folks there are plenty of “fish”

out there (people who need Christ). Jesus said “Follow me and I will make

you fishers of men”. It is what Jesus would do!!! So in order to go out on a

fishing trip we need to prepare. We need to pick our dates, get the right bait,

prepare the cooler with some good things to share and get out on the boat and

fish! Preparation takes work and lots of folks to help. In anticipation of the

new challenges facing this congregation we are going to order the 2016

calendars and how appropriate that the 2016 planning calendar theme is “Let’s Go

Fishing”. They are $9.95 each. We would very much like each committee chair to have one,

and anyone else who would like to use one. These calendars include the days and seasons of

the Christian year, Lectionary readings each week, planning checklists each month, yearly

planning for the next year and lists of resources and agency telephone numbers.

One of our biggest fishing trips of the year is– Vacation Bible School, June 22-26!!!

What is in your cooler to share with these folks?? Get ready…..Let’s Go Fishing!!!!

Pastor Mike and Staff

“Let’s Go Fishing” 2016 UM Planning Calendar Order Form

Name_____________________________ Phone______________________

I would like ______Calendar @ $ 9.95 each. I have attached $___________

Committee I work with________________________________________________

According to the discipline the treasurer nor the financial secretary should count the offering.

We need two folks who are not related, not married to each other, over 18 and who would

be willing to help us count the offering the fourth Monday (sometimes Tuesday) of every

month?. Please call Laura in the church office and volunteer to help count the Sunday

offering!

Thank the Methodists for starting Father’s Day

To all you dads out there: Today, while you’re relaxing in your recliner watching sports,

and your kids are on their best behavior to honor Father’s Day, thank a United Methodist.

Not one, but two United Methodist churches with the same name, oddly enough, lay claim

to originating the celebration of all things paternal.

In 1909 in Spokane, WA, Sonora Smart Dodd listened to a Mother’s Day sermon at

Central Methodist Episcopal Church. Dodd’s own mother had died 11 years earlier, and

her father had raised their six children alone. Dodd felt moved to honor her father, and

fathers everywhere, with a special day as well. She proposed her idea to local religious

leaders, and gained wide acceptance. June 19, 1910, was designated as the first Father’s

Day, and sermons honoring fathers were presented throughout the city.

When newspapers across the country carried the story about Spokane’s observance, the

popularity of Father’s Day spread. Several presidents declared it a holiday. In 1972,

Richard Nixon established it as the third Sunday in June.

Dodd’s pivotal role in the creation of a national Father’s Day celebration was recognized in

1943 with a luncheon in her honor in New York City. Central Methodist Episcopal is now

known as Central United Methodist, and holds a Father’s Day service every year.

However, the year Spokane was observing its first Father’s Day, almost 2,000 miles away

in Fairmont, W.Va., another Methodist church was on its third. On July 5, 1908, a Father’s

Day sermon was preached at Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, South,

thanks to the efforts of Grace Golden Clayton.

In December 1907, a terrible mine explosion in nearby Monongah claimed the lives of

more than 360 men. Most of them had families, and the tragedy left 1,000 children

fatherless. Clayton was distraught by the thought of all those children growing up without a

father’s guidance, and wanted to do something to honor the importance of fatherhood. She

asked her pastor to set aside a special day to commemorate fathers. She chose the Sunday

closest to the birthday of her late father, also a Methodist preacher. Unlike the Spokane

service, the Fairmont event drew little attention outside the area.

Fairmont historians concede that Sonora Dodd deserves credit for bringing the holiday to

national prominence, but want it known that they did beat her to the idea.

Virginia Advocate

“We don’t claim popularizing the day, but we have proof we were the first to have a

church service,” said the Rev. D.D. Meighen, retired pastor of the Fairmont church, which

is now also known as Central United Methodist.

Meighen said two news-making events happened on July 4, 1908, that stole the thunder

from their Father’s Day service. That Saturday, Fairmont held its largest July 4th

celebration to date. A large crowd watched a “dare-devil” roll atop a ball to the top of the

bank building on a spiral stairway. It was an event that people talked about for days. Then,

tragically, a beloved young woman in the church died of typhoid fever. Church members

were shocked when they arrived at the Sunday service to hear of her death. Her funeral,

which included 17 carriages lined up in front of the church, also made the headlines.

Coincidentally, the first Mother’s Day was observed on May 10, 1908, at Andrews

Methodist Church in Grafton, W.Va.

So enjoy firing up that grill and napping in the hammock, dads everywhere. You’ve earned

it, and the United Methodists have your back.

July Virginia Advocate focuses on clergy appointments, Discipleship Circles: The July

issue of the Virginia United Methodist Advocate contains the complete list of clergy

appointments for 2015-16 and will be distributed to members of Annual Conference during

the Sunday morning worship service that “fixes” appointments. Also highlighted are local

churches that paid 100% and more of their 2014 apportionments and churches that

increased apportionment payments at least 10% over the prior year. In addition, this issue

of the Advocate focuses on Discipleship Circles, small group opportunities for church

leaders (clergy and laity) to draw closer to God through collaboration with peers for

spiritual growth, relationship and learning. The Advocate is the official monthly magazine

of the Virginia Conference. To subscribe, call (804) 521-1110 or 1-800-768-6040, ext.

110; e-mail Advocate@vaumc.org; or go to www.vaumc.org/advocate.

Get updated resources for teachers, leaders of children: A new version of What Every

Child Should Experience in United Methodist congregations is now available from

Discipleship Ministries. The guide outlines stages of faith development and is useful in

choosing and studying Scripture, selecting and writing curriculum, offering parents and

guardians useful developmental information, and addressing issues facing today’s children

as they learn and grow in their faith. Download a free copy of the guide at

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Published weekly, the electronic Sunday Advocate summarizes news events affecting Virginia United Methodists and

serves as a link to the in-depth reporting of the Virginia United Methodist Advocate, the official magazine of the

Virginia Conference. To subscribe to the monthly Virginia Advocate magazine, call (804) 521-1110 or 1-800-768-6040,

ext. 110; or e-mail Advocate@vaumc.org. Unless indicated, all news compiled courtesy of the Virginia Advocate, the

weekly e-Advocate, United Methodist News Service or The United Methodist Newscope.

Office

office@firstumchampton.org

723-6577

Pastor

The Rev. Dr. Michael Lee Nelson

pastor@firstumchampton.org

Director of Music Ministries

Dean Shinn

deanshinn@aol.com

Membership & Outreach Coordinator

Cathy Caffacus

membership@firstumchampton.org

Administrative Assistant/Finance

Laura Harris

finance@firstumchampton.org

Director of Youth and Children’s Music

Christine Woods

Woods1760@cox.net

Nursery Director

Jenny Hamm

jennynichole@outlook.com

REGISTRATION PADS are located in each

pew near the center aisle. Please use these to

register your presence, and to pass along

information for the pastor or the church office.

WE PRACTICE “OPEN” COMMUNION. We celebrate Holy Communion on the first

Sunday of each month, and at other special

times. All are welcome at the table of the Lord,

regardless of church membership, age, or

feelings of worthiness. If you wish to come into

relationship with Christ, deepen or renew that

relationship, there is a place for you here.

FOR INFORMATION ABOUT BECOMING

A MEMBER OF FIRST UMC, please indicate

so on the registration pad, or contact the pastor.

PRAYER REQUEST CARDS are available in

the pews and in the foyer atop the Prayer Box.

Deposit them in the box, or drop them in the

offering plates.

TO REACH THE REST ROOMS OR THE

NURSERY: Enter through the canopied

entrance on the side of the building. Rest rooms

are down the hall to the left. The Nursery is up

the steps and down the hall to the right. Greeters

and ushers are available to guide you.

SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES for children

and youth may be found by following the

directions to the nursery (above). Adult classes

are located throughout the building. For more

information, ask an usher or the pastor.

Someone will be happy to guide you.

OUR MUSIC MINISTRY IS TOPS! We have

some of the most highly regarded music

professionals in the Hampton area on our staff.

From the Adult Chancel Choir, to the Kingdom

Kids, to the Bell Choir... if there is music in your

soul, then we have a place for you.

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