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 20 January 2017

Order of Worship, January 22, 2017



Limehouse Presbyterian Church

MINISTER:     Rev. Steve Boose
CLERK OF SESSION:  Ted Brown
ORGANIST:    Josh Lim
MORNING WORSHIP  9:30 a.m.    January 22nd, 2017

GOD CALLS US TO WORSHIP
PRELUDE

INTROIT:   Holy, Holy, Holy, Verse 1   # 299

CALL TO WORSHIP:

HYMN:   The Church’s One Foundation   # 479

PRAYER OF INVOCATION:
   
CONGREGATION’S LIFE AND MINISTRY:      Elder Cathy Brown
FAMILY TIME:

HYMN:   Help Us Accept Each Other   # 632

GOD SPEAKS TO US
SCRIPTURES:

RESPONSIVE READING:      Psalm 27: 1, 4-9   (pg 546)
                                                                (Led by Cathy Brown)
OLD TESTAMENT:                 Isaiah 9: 1-4   (pg 683)
NEW TESTAMENT:               I Corinthians 1: 10-18   (pg 1128)
Matthew 4: 12-23   (pg 958)

APOSTLE’S CREED    #539

HYMN:   Softly and Tenderly      #640

SERMON:            It’s Not About the Messenger!     Rev. Steve Boose

OUR RESPONSE TO GOD
OFFERTORY:

OFFERING    Presentation of Gifts

THE DOXOLOGY We Give Thee but Thine Own (verse 1) # 661

PRAYER OF DEDICATION

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S PRAYER
(debts and debtors

HYMN:  One More Step    # 641

THE DISMISSAL: THE WORD GOES OUT

THE BENEDICTION

GO NOW IN PEACE/THREE FOLD CHORAL AMEN

POSTLUDE
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS


We welcome you to worship this morning. May God continue to bless us here at Limehouse
as we celebrate a new year.

Session will meet at the church tomorrow evening, January 23rd,  at 7 p.m.

Annual General Meeting will be held Thursday, February 9th, 2017.
Pot luck meal at 6 p.m. followed by business meeting.

Printed reports for our annual church meeting are due today.
All financial books to be submitted to Church Financial Examiners, Sharin Cooper, Maggie Edwards and Lindsay Petch.


Gleaners Tour - The tour of the Ontario Christian Gleaners facility in Cambridge has been put off until Friday, February 24th. Several folks indicated that the notice was too short for them to arrange the day off today, so please mark it and we can hopefully make it happen then!

Church Custodian Needed
Effective January 31st, Pam Payne is retiring from this position.
If anyone is interested in filling this position or knows of someone that would please contact Ray Denny,
Chairman of Board of Managers, for details.
The duties include the cleaning of the washrooms, sanctuary, vestry, front vestibule and occasionally the basement.
The cleaning is on a "as needed" basis.