Limehouse Presbyterian Church

Limehouse Presbyterian Church

Spreading God's Word to the Limehouse Community for 160 years

Sunday morning worship services are held at 9:30 a.m. All are welcome to join in Praising God in 'the little church on the hill'

Friday 4 January 2013

January 06, 2013 Order of Worship



Limehouse Presbyterian Church
Limehouse, Ontario

INTERIM MODERATOR: Rev. Wendy Lampman
CLERK OF SESSION: Bill Karn 905-877-2346
ORGANIST:          Lauraine Jack 
                                                                               
  MORNING WORSHIP              9:30 a.m.                      JANUARY 6, 2013

GOD CALLS US TO WORSHIP

  ORGAN PRELUDE   
  INTROIT: Holy, holy, holy  vs. 1                          # 299

  CALL TO WORSHIP
 
  PRAYER OF INVOCATION AND THE LORD’S PRAYER (debts and debtors)

  HYMN:    Hail to the Lord’s Anointed                       # 115
                                                                
  CONGREGATION’S LIFE AND MINISTRY    Elder  Cathy Brown    
 
  CHILDREN’S STORY 

  CHILDREN’S HYMN: We three kings                      # 173

                                                       
GOD SPEAKS TO US
   SCRIPTURES

   Responsive Psalm  # 72: 1-7  (pg 574)  Elder Cathy Brown
     
   OLD TESTAMENT:   Isaiah 60: 1-6      (pg 738)
   NEW TESTAMENT:  Matthew 2: 1-12  (pg 956) 
  
   THE APOSTLES’ CREED (see inside back cover of hymn book)

   HYMN:  What child is this                                    # 161

   SERMON: “THE WORD BECAME FLESH”            
                                                         Rev. Marion Schaffer

OUR RESPONSE TO GOD
OFFERTORY 

OFFERING Presentation of gifts

THE DOXOLOGY We give Thee but Thine own (verse 1)
We give Thee but Thine own,
Whate’er the gift may be;
All that we have is Thine alone,
A trust, O Lord, from Thee.

PRAYER OF DEDICATION

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION

 THE DISMISSAL: THE WORD GOES OUT

 HYMN:   Jesus shall reign where’er the sun                  # 275

 THE BENEDICTION AND THREE FOLD CHORAL AMEN

 CHOIR AND CONGREGATION: GO NOW IN PEACE
Go now in peace; never be afraid, God will go with you     each hour of every day.
Go now in faith, steadfast, strong and true. Know He will guide you in all you do.
Go now in love, and show you believe.  Reach out to others so all the world can see.  God will be there watching from above. 
Go now in peace, in faith and in love.

 ORGAN POSTLUDE     

                                ANNOUNCEMENTS

Today the Session welcomes Rev. Marion Schaffer to our pulpit.  May God bless Marion as she leads us in worship and ministers the living Word of God.

Annual Church Meeting will be held Thursday February 7, 2013 6 p.m. pot luck meal followed by business meeting.  Rev. Wendy Lampman will be present for this annual meeting.
Please have printed reports to Betty Anne Karn, Church Secretary by January 20th, 2013 

Those with financial reports, please forward your books to our Financial Examiners, Lindsay Brown, Maggie Brown and Sharin Cooper, by January 20th 2013.