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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF PENN YAN
224 Main Street
Penn Yan, New York
September 21, 2008
10:00 A.M.
We, as God’s people, will use our gifts and talents
to seek out and bring people to Christ,
by maturing in our faith,
by deepening our fellowship,
and by caring for people
for the honor and glory of God.
Women’s Sunday
Prelude Carrie Ahearn, Organist
Song of Praise & Worship
“Happiness Is The Lord” No. 12 PB
Welcome and
Announcements Barbara Stewart
Scripture Reading Philippians
4:4-7, 13 Pg. 269 NT
Margaret Hartwell
*Hymn “Blessed
Assurance, Jesus Is Mine!” No. 341
Birthday Hymn of Jack Clancy
*Silent Prayer &
Invocation Margaret Hartwell
Dear Lord,
Make me a channel of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me bring your love.
Where there is injury, your pardon. Where there is doubt, true faith in you.
Where there is despair in life, let me bring hope. Where there is sadness, let
me bring joy. It is in giving, that we receive. In dying, we are born to
eternal life.
*The Lord’s Prayer
Anthem “I Feel The Spirit” Nancy Tharp, Director
Children’s Time Edith
Davison
Karen Hymn “A Song of Praise”
Karen Singers
*Hymn “This Is My Father’s World” No. 293
Birthday Hymn of Greg Miller
Prayer’s of the People Cheryl Stewart
Special Guest Speaker Khin Soe Moe
“A Karen Women’s Story of Faith”
Karen Hymn “Stars From The
East” Karen Singers
Offertory “Love
Solo” Barbara Stewart
*Doxology Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Praise Him
all creatures here below
Praise Him
above ye heavenly host
Praise
Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen
*Prayer of Dedication Shelley Bicksler
*Hymn “Jesus Walked This Lonesome
Valley” No. 80
*Benediction Ethel
Clancy
*Postlude
* If you wish to and are
able, you are invited to stand.
Lay Reader: Margaret Hartwell
Greeters: Joyce
& Jennifer Slocum
Ushers: Eileen
Modaffari, Sheryl Robbins, Erma Mullins, Meghan Fuqua, Marge Cornell, Margaret
Mills
Organist: Carrie
Ahearn
Choir
Director: Nancy Tharp
Church Phone: 315-536-9821
Church Website: www.oocities.org/pennyanfbc/index.html
Our Prayer Concerns…
At the Homestead: Luella
Passage Alberta Gottshall
Virginia
DeLooza Willie Nelson
Helen Ansley Alice Wise
Loved ones serving in the Armed Forces: Jennifer Willson
Our Special Interest Missionaries:
Rev. Richard & Mrs. Susan Harding ~Dr. James & Rev. Debra Kelsey
Prayers for:
Mary Armstrong Kim Strong Imisides *Doug Seager
Eva Jean Best Don Johnson Barbara Stewart
*Bessie Bliss Lori Lawrence Charlie Taylor
Pat Carroll *Mary Ellen Mattison Jean Wager
Bill Gillette *Doug Mattison Ralph Wilkes
Marlene Guild Barbara Mortensen Jean Whitaker
Frances Hartwell Phyllis & Elwood Whitbeck
*Brad Stewart- struggling after double lung transplant.
*Warner & Judi Gibbs – Judi suffered a slight stroke.
* Alicia Hurlburt – diagnosed with brain tumor.
*Fran Morse and the family of Ginger Campney
*Indicates that special prayers are needed.
Please keep the church office updated on your loved ones
¨ Following the service there will be a pizza
fellowship time in the Great Room. All are invited!
¨ 6:30 p.m. Council
of Churches meeting at Bluff Point UMC
¨ 7 p.m. Youth
group
¨ Happy
Birthday to Greg Miller!
¨ Happy
Birthday to jack Clancy!
¨ 10 a.m.-Noon Lay Studies Class
¨ “September Songs” concert featuring Mark
Lawrence at 3 p.m.
Next Week’s Theme and Scripture:
“The Greatest Of These
Is Love”
I Corinthians 13:1-13
Please
Join Us Next Sunday
for an
Enjoyable Afternoon of
“SEPTEMBER
SONGS”
a concert
by Mark Lawrence, Tenor
accompanied
by Bill Cowdery
Sunday, September 28, 2008
at 3 p.m.
Penn Yan First Baptist Church
Donation $5.00
for new building mortgage
Mark A.B. Lawrence leads an active performing career in
oratorio, opera, and recital literature. He is in demand as a recitalist and
master teacher, having performed at Cornell University, St. Lawrence
University, Colgate University, Ithaca College and throughout the northeast.
Bill Cowdery
serves as musical director and organist of the First Congregational Church in
Ithaca. He has also taught on the music faculties of Cornell University, Ithaca
College, Colgate University, and Keuka College.
Church
News
Fall Fest Bazaar Work-Day
The first of three
work-days will be on Saturday, October 4, at the home of Cindy Ovens. We will
begin at 10 a.m., bring a sandwich.
Disaster
Response
The
American Baptist Men of NYS is gathering people and equipment in response to
the hurricane damage in the Gulf Coast. We will be leaving from the parking lot
of PYFBC at
1 p.m., on
Sunday, September 28, to travel to Neapolianville, Louisiana. Lodging and food
will be provided there. The work will be mostly chainsaw and brush removal.
Contact the church office at 536-9821 if you are interested in going.
Those wishing to send
a card of get well wishes to Bessie Bliss:
FF Thompson
Hospital, 350 Parrish St. Room 236, Canandaigua, 14424
Community News
The PYUMC Social
Issues Ministry will host a forum on Drugs & Gambling. We are urged to come
together as families, counselors, law enforcement and concerned citizens to
discuss the affects of drugs and gambling behaviors on our children. What are
the risks? What are the signs? What are the slang names? Experts in the field
of chemical dependence, prevention services and law enforcement will head a
panel discussion. The forum will be preceded by a potluck supper at
5 p.m., the program
begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Penn Yan United Methodist Church, Sunday, September
28.
The church office is collecting any scrap paper that is blank on one
side and may be used for our printer. Thank you.
Thought: Life is a journey,
let faith be your guide.
60 74 88
Current Expenses $2,589
$3,315 $1,805
Missions 765 438
291
BT&T 984 320 443
Total $4,338 $4,073 $2,539
KAREN
HYMN: “STARS FROM THE EAST”
We, the
Karen people, used to live in the wilderness.
We are
oppressed in various ways.
We are
almost eliminated because of devil’s deeds.
We are
turned into displaced people,
And tears
are our only friends.
We are
regarded as wild animals by our foes.
We have
been oppressed and looked down upon by others.
No other
gods are able to give us deliverance.
But when
we accepted Christ as our Savior,
We
received redemption and wisdom free.
We are
developing among others.
We could
share our light to others.
Some say,
“We are the stars from the East.”
Stars for
God.
Stars that
lead others to Christ.
Stars for
God – Stars from the East.
Let us
shine with unceasing light.
The Karens (pronounced Ka-rans)
are an indigenous people to the Southeast Asian countries of Burma Thailand.
The Karens at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Utica are refugees who have fled the
persecution of Burma’s brutal military regime, regarded as one of the most
repressive dictatorship on earth. The
majority who come to Utica, come from the UN refugee camps along the Thai/Burma
border. Most have been in camps for 10 or more years.