THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN

CHURCH AT CALDWELL

Our Purpose:

To help all people build life-transforming relationships with God and each other.

The members and friends of FPC welcome people from all backgrounds - - people of faith from throughout the world, people who profess no faith, Christians of all denominations and those who are searching for religious and spiritual meaning.

Welcome!

February 26, 2017

Ten o’clock

Transfiguration of the Lord

Ordination/Installation of Officers

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GATHERING

REFLECTION

“Nothing we can do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone, therefore we must be saved by love.”

Reinhold Niebuhr

PRELUDE

CALL TO WORSHIP

Mitchell Haddad, Lay Reader

When we seek justice for the other,

when we love kindness more than ever,

we live as God asks us to live.

When we walk humbly through life,

when we offer mercy to those who hurt us,

we are the blessing God hopes we will be.

When we are willing to look foolish by following Jesus,

when we choose weakness rather than power,

we reflect the One who is in our midst.

OPENING PRAYER

*HYMN NO. 401

“Here In This Place”

Gather Us In

Lighting the candles today is Acolyte Kaci Pace.

PROCLAIMING AND RESPONDING

ANTHEM

“With a Voice Of Singing”

Martin Shaw Chancel Choir

TIME WITH THE CHILDREN

Please note: Children through 7th grade may leave the sanctuary for Sunday School following the Time with the Children. Please exit through the doors on either side of the Choir loft.

PARISH LIFE

Members, friends and visitors, please sign the Friendship Pad in each pew and pass it to the person next to you. The last person will pass the pad back to the first person, who will then please place the sheet in the offering plate. Worshipers are invited to use the cards in the pew racks for prayer requests so we may share one another’s joys and concerns. Please place the cards in the offering plate and the staff will include them with their prayers this week.

SCRIPTURE

Luke 2:8-20

page 54, NT

SERMON

“Ordinary People”

Rev. Don Brown

MINUTE FOR MINISTRY

Stephen Ministry

Sandra Harvey

Refugee Resettlement

Cordelza Haynes

*HYMN NO. 187

“Savior, like a Shepherd Lead Us”

Bradbury

OFFERING

OFFERTORY

ORDINATION AND/OR INSTALLATION OF RULING ELDERS AND DEACONS

Introduction

*Hymn of Dedication No. 69 (stanza 1) “I, the Lord of Sea and Sky” HERE I AM (Schutte)

Constitutional Questions of the Officers-Elect

Constitutional Questions of the Congregation

Prayer of Installation and Laying on of Hands

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.

Declaration of Ordination/Installation

GOING FORTH

*HYMN NO. 69 (stanzas 2-3)

“I, the Lord of Sea and Sky”

HERE I AM (Schutte)

*BENEDICTION

*CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE NO. 175

“Seek Ye First”

Lafferty

*THE PEACE

The peace of Christ be with you.

And also with you.

Please exchange greetings of welcome and peace with your neighbor.

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*Please rise in body or in spirit

†If you are new to the church...Welcome! We’re glad to have you here. Please ask an usher to direct you to Visitor packets at the rear of the church. They can be found on the table near the usher’s closet under the balcony stairs. After the 10:00am service today, we hope you will join us for Coffee Hour in Room 120.

†The red rose this morning celebrates the birth of…

...Joseph Nicholas DeLuara on February 7, 2017 to Lisa and Joseph DeLuara. Maternal grandparents are Barbara and Tom Everett.

†The white rose on the communion table celebrates the life of First Presbyterian Church Member Harold Kuhefuss, and remembers the promise of the resurrection in his death on Tues-day, February 21, 2017. Our sympathy is extended to Harold’s family and friends.

† Your prayers of intercession are requested for those members and friends known to be currently or recently hospitalized or who continue to need our prayers and support:

… Mary Ann Bainbridge, Harry Coppens, Bill Hayden, Ann Hicock, Edith Jipp, Marge Lucas, Barbara Piggery, Louise Ritscher, Emil Schnell, Marge Vanderberg, Laura Winter and Helena Wispelwey. The church office will be happy to verify their home addresses for you should you wish to send them words of encouragement or get well wishes

THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

AT CALDWELL

326 Bloomfield Avenue

Caldwell, NJ 07006

973-228-0310