Calendar

Sunday 5/12 9:45 ! Sunday School 11:00! Worship Noon ! Coffee Hour Wednesday, 5/15 6:30 ! ICY Dinner at Stacys Friday, 5/17 7:30 ! Alcoholics Anonymous Sunday, 5/19 Pentecost Sunday 9:45 ! Sunday School 11:00! Worship Noon! Coffee Hour 12:30! Diaconate Meeting

Ione Community Church

May 12, 2013

Servants
May 12 Lay Leader! Margo Sherer Diaconate! Team 2 Coffee Hour! Backpacks! Betty Rietmann! May 19 Lay Leader! Betty Diaconate! Team 3 Coffee Hour! Backpacks! Cathy Halvorsen

Upcoming Sermons & Scriptures

May 19 - Pentecost Sunday, Acts 21:1-21 Gathered and Scattered May 26 - Proverbs 1-4, 22-31 Wisdom Calls June 2 - New Member Sunday, Luke 7:1-10 Faith of an Outsider June 9 - 1 Kings 17:8-16 Gorgeous Compassion June 16 - Raytown Christian Church (MO) Youth Choir provides sermon

Pastor
Rev. Stacy Shelton, Pastor Phone 541.256.0397 email stacy.shelton@gmail.com Stacy will be in the ofce Monday through Thursday from 9 to noon. Please stop by, call or email.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Prelude Welcome, Announcements and Preparation *Mothers Day Litany *Opening Hymn See Insert Bring Many Names, 10

*Invocation (Please pray together.) Margo Sherer O God of all creation, God of community, it is good when brothers and sisters live together in unity! Knit us together as your people gathered in this place. As we come together in worship, may the words we say bear witness to your good news for all people. Enliven our worship with an abundance of your Spirit. Amen.
Excerpted from homileticsonline.com

*Closing Hymn Sing My Song Backwards, 334 Invitation & Affirmation of Faith (Please say together.) We believe in one body, one Holy Spirit, one hope to which we are called, one Lord Jesus, one faith, one baptism, one God of all, who is over all and through all and in all. Based on Ephesians 4, Chalice Worship #496, Modified *Benediction (Please gather in a circle.)

Prayer Requests
Those fighting cancer: Karen Dubuque Clair Oliver Jennifer Gilbert Those who are ill: Hasa Brown Those who have experienced loss: Betty Gray and Family Those separated from us: Willard French

*Passing of the Peace (Please greet one another.) Music with the Worship Team Pastoral Prayer Joys & concerns Pastoral Prayer & Lords Prayer (Debts & Debtors) 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. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Response He Is Lord He is Lord, he is Lord! He is risen from the dead and he is Lord! Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Offering of Ourselves Invitation Doxology Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow #46 Blessing of gifts Scripture Sermon Loving Enemies Acts 16:16-34 Margo Sherer Pastor Stacy Shelton

A Note from the UCCs Strengthen the Church Website

We will be taking our New Church Offering on May 19th and 26th

If you look into the face of church planter Luis Gonzalez, youll see intensity. Phoenix Comunidad Cristiana Minsterios (TOX Ministries) founding Pastor feels urgency for reaching people. A Pentecostal youth minister for 14 years in Mexico, he now leads this multi-age, bilingual congregation, a ministry of the Church of the Beatitudes in Phoenix, with services in English and Spanish. He has embraced the diversity of the United Church of Christ and a vision for a new way to do church. Brendan Mahoney, Moderator of the Southwest Conference has seen the church growing spiritually and in attendance and outreach through cell groups. Homes host cell groups for prayer, Bible study and leadership education. Reminiscent of the house churches of the first generation of Christians, cell groups are welcoming, nurturing and forming new disciples. Strengthen the Church grants provide leadership for new congregations like TOX Ministries where Pastor Gonzalez asserts, We are just working to be the love and life of Jesus.