ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

WE WELCOME YOU TO OUR SERVICE OF WORSHIP THIS MORNING

St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church lives to celebrate God’s love through worship, seek God’s truth through education, and share God’s gifts through mission and fellowship. We encourage you to join us in the Fellowship Hall for a time of coffee, cookies and fellowship following the morning service. All who profess Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior are welcome to join St. Andrew's. If you have no church home, we invite you to consider uniting with us as we seek to faithfully serve our Lord.  Speak to an usher or the Pastor at the close of the service to learn more.

Greeters:  Marylyn and Roger Baumann

Acolyte:  David Ross

Children’s Church:  Diana Henderson and Richard Wilson

Ushers:  Donna Lee and Betty Weigel

Coffee Hosts:  Edna and Lew Sullivan

 

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ORDER OF WORSHIP

6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

February 12, 2006                                                                                          10:00 a.m.

*Those able may stand

GREETINGS, CONCERNS OF THE CHURCH AND REGISTRY OF ATTENDANCE

PRELUDE                          “Morning Hymn”                                           Pethel

BRINGING THE LIGHT OF CHRIST INTO THIS ROOM

*CALL TO WORSHIP

ALL:  (Hymn 40, verse 1)  Joy to the World! the Lord is come: Let earth receive her King:  Let every heart prepare Him room, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven and heaven and nature sing.

ONE:  Let us sing praise to the Lord and give thanks to God’s holy name, for God is the faithful One!

ALL:  The Lord hears our prayers, is gracious to us, and helps us.

ONE: God has turned our mourning into dancing, and has clothed us with joy.

ALL:  With dancing and with joy, we may praise God and not be silent!

ONE:  Let us turn to God!                                                           (From Psalm 30)

*HYMN  150            “Come, Christians, Join to Sing”

*PRAYER OF CONFESSION AND ASSURANCE OF PARDON

Merciful God, how good it is to know that You are always ready to hear our prayers of confession!  We claim to be faithful, but don’t always do what You ask; we boast of our hope, but don’t want to live in faith; we gather security about us while others go hungry; we hear Christ’s words of assurance, but do not always live in His promise.  Forgive our ambivalence, as in Christ we repent.

         *SILENT PRAYER

        *ASSURANCE OF GOD’S PARDON

       *GLORIA PATRI (Hymn 579)

Glory 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.

READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT                                 2 Kings 5:1-14

READING FROM THE EPISTLE                                     1 Corinthians 9:24-27

ANTHEM                      “I Need Thee Every Hour”                               arr. Beck

TIME WITH THE CHILDREN

Jesus loves me, this I know!  For the Bible tells me so.  Little ones to him belong, They are weak, but he is strong!  Yes, Jesus loves me!  Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me, the Bible tells me so!

(Toddlers may go to the Nursery; Children may worship in the Children’s Church)

READING FROM THE GOSPEL                                                Mark 1:40-45

SERMON                  “On Not Keeping Secrets”                Rev. Ann LaMar

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*HYMN  INSERT    “We Have Heard the Joyful Sound ”

* AFFIRMATION OF FAITH  (from A Brief Statement of Faith, 1991)

In life and in death we belong to God.  Through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, we trust in the one triune God, the Holy One of Israel , whom alone we worship and serve.  We trust in Jesus Christ, fully human, fully God, [who] proclaimed the reign of God.  We trust in God, whom Jesus called Abba, Father.  In sovereign love God created the world good and makes everyone equally in God’s image.  We trust in the Holy Spirit, everywhere the giver and renewer of life.  With believers in every time and place, we rejoice that nothing in life or in death can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S PRAYER (Page 16, Traditional)

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.

MINUTE FOR MISSION

PRESENTATION OF OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS

      OFFERTORY           “Prelude on Slane”                                  Traditional

      *DOXOLOGY (Hymn 592) AND PRAYER OF DEDICATION

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.

*HYMN  477       “Ye Servants of God, Your Master Proclaim”

*THE CHARGE AND THE BENEDICTION

*CARRYING THE LIGHT OF CHRIST INTO THE WORLD

*CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE

And the peace of God, that passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts, shall keep your minds on Jesus Christ.

POSTLUDE            “Christians, One and All Rejoice!”                  Weckmann