If you are looking for a place that respects tradition while embracing the future, then you discover why God brought you here. We are a faithful place, which is led by the graciousness of the Holy Spirit and the truth of God’s Word. We hope that you might consider our church to be your spiritual home!

Before 10:30 please be sensitive to people around you who may be preparing for worship with silent reflection or prayer.

WOW Nov. 14 – 5:30 dinner menu: meatloaf and fixins; Program: 6:15 p.m. Book of Acts. Children’s Choir meets at 6:00 p.m. Use the reservation forms in the pewholders to sign up for dinner.

The Community Thanksgiving Service will be held at Fountain City Presbyterian Church on November 18 at 5:00 p.m.

Advent Brunch during Sunday School (9:20-10:20 a.m.) on Sunday, December 2. Bring your favorite breakfast food and join the fun and fellowship.

Women’s Ministry will meet on Sunday, December 3 from 3-5 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall.  We will have our annual Christmas goodie exchange so bring 3 dozen of your favorite goodies to share and exchange.  We will address Christmas cards for our church shut-ins and Meghan Miller (Brett's wife) will show us how to make our own fresh flower Christmas wreaths.  We will get to make and take home our own wreath.  We need a head count so please sign up on the bulletin board outside the church offices or email by Dec. 1.  Any questions call Jan Tarver. 

Email addresses for the church and staff have changed: They are: office@fountaincitypres.org Lyn@fountaincitypres.orgTammy@fountaincitypres.org

Congratulations to Adam and Holly Tarver on the birth of their daughter Adley Elizabeth Tarver on November 9. Paternal grandparents are Scott and Jan Tarver.

Operation Christmas ChildPlease use the Prayer Guide provided in today’s bulletin throughout the week to pray for the efforts of all those involved in this year’s Operation Christmas Child mission. If you would like to participate directly, assembled shoeboxes are available in the hall outside the sanctuary under the bulletin board, although you may also wrap your own or purchase an inexpensive plastic box at one of the many discount stores around town. Please bring your gift-filled shoeboxes to the sanctuary no later than Sunday, November 18th.

Volunteer Opportunities – Help Family Promise December 2-9We need your help showering the Family Promise families with love and hospitality this holiday season. They will be staying overnight at our church from December 2 – 9. You can serve in one or more of the following ways:

Help the Youth unload the Family Promise trailer and set up “bedrooms” (aka 3rd floor Sunday School Classrooms;) after worship on Sunday December 2

Prepare an evening meal one night during the week; Welcome the families one or more evenings at 5:15 p.m. (you also get to

share the evening meal prepared by other volunteers for the families); Stay overnight (from 8:00 p.m. to 7 a.m.) one night; Help clean up the 3rd floor when the families leave at 7:00 a.m. on

Sunday, December 9; Move the Family Promise trailer to the next church on Sunday,

December 9.Serving Family Promise is a great way to live out our faith and be a blessing to others. Please let Tere McDonough know by November 15 how you can help.

Volunteer Opportunity – Family Promise CoordinatorYou may have heard that God has called Sue Wheeler to pursue training as a chaplain. We are extremely grateful for the loving ways she has served as Family Promise Coordinator. Please pray for her as she begins this new chapter in her life. If you might be interested in serving as the next coordinator, your life will be enriched with new relationships, and you will be helping to ensure that our church continues to provide hospitality to families in need. If you want to learn more about the coordinator role, please talk with Tere McDonough or Sue.

What: Caregiver Support Group for Dementia DiseasesWhere: Fireside Room

When: Second Thursdays Time: !2:00-1:30 p.m Lunch Provided

Cost: Free Facilitators: Susan Espiritu/ Kathy Castenir

Our focus will be to:~ Gain understanding about the disease

~ Share approaches to care giving, ~ Lift each other up

~ Take care of ourselves as we take care of our loved ones~ Find ways to give to others as they travel this journey

~ Most importantly, remembering to laugh and live life, even through this process

First meeting will be on November 15th and all future meetings will be on the second Thursday of the month

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November 11, 2018

32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time10:30 A.M.

ASSEMBLE IN GOD’S NAMEWelcome to our worship service. We are honored by your presence and count it a blessing to share this time together. May the warmth and acceptance of Christ’s love surround you this, and every day.

Organ Prelude

Welcome Gradye Parsons

Choral Prelude Great Is the Almighty Lord, Chancel Choir

Call to WorshipLeader: What do you bring before the Lord this day?People: We bring our hopes and our dreams to the Lord.Leader: What do you seek?People: We seek peace for our weary souls.Leader: You will find it in this place, for this is the house of the

Lord.People: Open our hearts and our spirits, O Lord, to hear your

words of comfort and peace.

Opening Prayer Harry Ogden Lord, we have come to you this day bringing all that we have, our lives, our hopes and dreams, our fears and sorrows. We place these before you in faith and hope, knowing that no matter what has happened you are with us and blessing us. Open our hearts to receive your words and your spirit, that we may find healing and comfort. Open our lives to the wondrous possibilities for service and joy that you offer to us. Ease our minds and spirits that we may hear the words of encouragement and peace this day. Amen.

(please stand as the organ begins)

*Hymn No. 90 Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

Scripture Reading I Kings 17:8-16, p. 279

Call to Confession Shine On Us, Chancel Choir

Prayer of ConfessionGracious God, so often we look at ourselves, our gifts and our talents, and wonder what you would do with these offerings. We don’t think that we have much to give. So, far too many times, we belittle the gifts and turn our backs on the needs and opportunities present to serve, believing that our gifts cannot possibly make a difference. We think that we must possess the greatest of talents and wealth in order to truly please and serve you. How foolish we are! Forgive us when we stop listening to your healing and comforting words and focus on our anxieties. Heal us, Lord. Help us know that you have given to us such blessings and that these blessings are truly wonderful and meant to be used to joy and service to others. Help us to bring our lives, just as they are, to you and to receive your gentle touch and healing grace. For we ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Silent Prayer of Confession

Declaration of Pardon

*Response Sung by CongregationGlory Be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen.

*Hymn No. 403 Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation

PROCLAIM GOD’S WORD

Ritual of Friendship Harry Ogden Members and Guests - Please sign and pass the friendship register

located on the center aisle under the pew in front

Children’s Sermon Gradye Parsons

Anthem Then Will the Very Rocks Cry Out, Chancel Choir (led by Bob Eubanks)

Scripture Mark 12:38-44 p. 774 Sermon The Big Ask Gradye Parsons

GIVE THANKS TO GOD

Prayers of the People and 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 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.

Offertory *Doxology Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow

The Celebration Hymnal, p. 815

*Affirmation of Faith (from the Study Catechism) Harry Ogden Question 130. Leader: What is meant by the fourth petition, “Give us today our daily bread”?

We ask God to provide for all our needs, for we know God, who cares for us in every area of our life, has promised us temporal as well as spiritual blessings. God commands us to pray each day for all that we need and no more, so that we will learn to rely completely on God. We pray that we will use what we are given wisely, remembering especially the poor and the needy. Along with every living creature we look to God, the source of all generosity, to bless us and nourish us, according to the divine good pleasure.

GO IN GOD’S NAME – BEGINNING OF MISSION*Passing of the Peace

Leader: As Jesus offered himself to secure our peace with God, let us share that peace with one another. The peace of Christ be with you.

People: And Also with You. (Exchange Signs of Reconciliation and the Peace of Christ with your neighbor - e.g., “The Peace of Christ be with you.” Response - “And also with you.”)

*Hymn No. 121 How Majestic Is Your Name

*Pastoral Benediction Gradye Parsons

*Congregational Benediction Make us one, Lord, make us one. Holy Spirit make us one. Let Your love flow so the world will know We are one in You.

*Organ Postlude ____________________________________________________*For those who are able, please stand

Ushers: Ben Cartledge, Walt Tappan, Sherri Brown, Mickey BrownAccompanist: Todd Spangler, George Hill Hearing Aids are available for use anywhere in the sanctuary. The ushers have them available.

Enlarged copies of hymns are at the sanctuary entrances.

Please recycle the bulletins and enlarged hymns. Place them in the boxes provided at the entrances to the sanctuary.

Fountain City Presbyterian LOVES children in worship

To make families more comfortable we have worship bags that contain a clipboard, a “boogie board”, markers, crayons and colored pencils in the wagons located in the Narthex and outside the sanctuary near the chancel. Children’s bulletins and color sheets are in the clear bags. Please return the worship bags to the nearest wagon after worship.