We are a

covenant
community,

making disciples
who

light the world.

WELCOME!
Thank you for coming to First Presbyterian Church of
Orlando this morning! So glad youre here. We worship
together as a church family in four services on Sundays:
Traditional worship in the Sanctuary at 8:30 and 11am, and
Genesis worship in Lee Fellowship Hall at 9:45am and 11am.
If youd like to connect and learn more about this church,
visit our Legacy Room adjacent to the Sanctuary, and sign in
at fpco.org/guest.

NEXT STEPS
One of the ways we observe the holy season of Advent,
preparing for the birth of Jesus, is by taking time each
day to be with God. Dr. Dan Sharp has written a beautiful
Advent Devotional to use daily during the season to remind
you that Emmanuel means God with us. Printed copies
available for $5 this morning in the Grand Hallway (adjacent
to the Sanctuary). Ebook available at fpco.org/advent. You
can download to your tablet or smartphone, and be with
God wherever you are this season.

THIS WEEK
Get your seats for
this years Christmas
production, The Missing
Gift and get one for a
friend as well! This is a
great way to reach out to
friends and neighbors with
a thoughtful message in
the holiday spirit. There
are two performances on
December 14: 4pm & 7pm
in the Sanctuary. Adults are
$10. fpco.org/themissinggift
or visit the Edington Ministry
Center Lobby this morning.

The Giving Trees are up!

Bless someone in our
community by picking an
ornament tag from the tree
and bringing the requested
gift back for the tree by
December 14. Pick yours
this morning in the Edington
Ministry Center Lobby or the
entrance to Lee Fellowship
Hall. Gifts meet specific
needs of our mission
parters and individuals
in our neighborhood for
Christmas.

COMING UP
Our SHINE Childrens Ministry will be celebrating Advent
with a LIVE Nativity on December 7 during church each
hour in SHINE and after worship services for the grownups.
See & hear the story of Jesus birth with real people and
animals!
God has a world-sized role for every Christian in His
global purpose. Perspectives is a 15-week seminary level
course designed around different aspects of Gods global
purpose, and will help you discover your own purpose in
His plan. Pre-registration is required; the course begins in
January, scholarships are available. fpco.org/perspectives

November 23, 2014

CONGREGATIONAL CARE
As a caring body of believers, please remember in your
prayers those recently hospitalized or recuperating at home:
Woody Blaker.
Our sympathy to Katie and Bill Herlong on the death of her
father, C.A. Johnson, November 13, 2014. Mr. Herlong was
the grandfather of Grace and Anna Herlong.
To be added to our prayer list call the Pastoral Care office
at 407.423.3441 x1455, or submit an online prayer request at
fpco.org/prayerrequest.

PARTICIPATION
IN GIVING

GENEROSITY
Stewardship Report as of November 16, 2014

Tithes & Offerings

Budgeted
Received
Surplus/(Deficit)

This Week
$138,940
$98,102
($40,838)

37.7%
OCTOBER 2014

Fiscal YTD
$1,981,478
$2,004,191
$22,713

Give easily and securely online from your smartphone at

fpco.org/mobile.

SAVE THE DATE

November 30: Advent Begins
December 12 at 12pm: Registration Opens for
The Marriage Dinner (January 10, 2015)

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ORLANDO

address
phone
online

106 East Church St., Orlando Florida 32801

407.423.3441
fpco.org /firstpresorlando /fpcorlando

GENESIS WORSHIP

If the Son has set you free

You are free indeed
If the Son has set you free
You are free indeed
If the Son has set you free
You are free indeed
You are free!
Church, celebrate your freedom in Christ today!

-Wil Brown

Welcome Video
Ministry Focus

The Missing Gift Outreach

To Hear Gods Word

Prayer for Illumination
*Scripture Reading
Guilty!

Dr. David Swanson

Philippians 3:13

Assisting in Worship: Scarlett Stewart and Wil Brown.

New faces today: Erin Walsh (vocalist) and Thomas Silvers
(drummer).

NOTES

TRADITIONAL WORSHIP

The opening hymn is one of the grandest of all. There are

few hymns where the predominant theme is that of thanks
to God. Martin Rinkarts (1586-1649) is one such hymn. It
was originally written to be a short prayer before meals.
Rinkart was a Lutheran pastor who lived and served in
Eilenberg, Germany during the Thirty Years War. Since it
was a walled city, many people came to seek refuge and
safety. A plague broke out and Rinkart conducted nearly
4,500 funerals, sometimes 40-50 a day including that
of his own wife. Stanza one and two of the hymn were
inspired by the Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus (50:2224) and the final verse was a setting of the Gloria Patri.
When you think of the circumstances of Rinkarts own life
and stress in ministry (at the end, he was the only minister
left in the city), the hymn is all the more glorious. Truly, he
forgot what was behind and looked forward to the glory of
being with his Savior. He finally succumbed to death at the
age of sixty-two, leaving us one of the great hymns of the
Christian faith.
- Dr. Dan Sharp

(Please silence all phones and electronic devices.)

GATHERING
Prelude

Partita on Lauda Anima

Robert Hobby

Welcome Video
Organ Meditation Chorale Prelude on Lauda Anima
Josiah Armes

*Call to Worship With Hearts, and Hands, and Voices
Daniel Sharp

*Processional Hymn of Praise

Now Thank We All Our God
Hymn No. 14

*Ascription of Praise
Organ Praise
Pastoral Report

Psalm 136:1-9

*Passing of the Peace

St. Paul always greeted with the words, The peace of God be
with you. This is an appropriate way to greet fellow brothers
and sisters in Christ, and so we say, The peace of the Lord be
with you and respond, And also with you. We then pass this
greeting of peace to one another. At the passing of the peace
we should earnestly desire Gods peace upon each person we
greet.

I Love the Lord

Call to Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
Ministry Focus

The Missing Gift Outreach

THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving Through Tithes and Offerings
*Doxology with alleluias
Lasst Uns Erfreuen

*Prayer of Commitment
(Give securely on your smartphone at fpco.org/mobile)

Anthem of Freedom

Jesus Paid It All

arr. Robert Sterling
The Chancel Choir

PROCLAMATION OF GODS WORD

To Hear Gods Word
Prayer for Illumination
*Scripture Reading


Guilty!

Dr. David Swanson

Philippians 3:13
Pew Bible p. 831

RESPONSE
*Hymn of Response

Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
Hymn No. 721

Invitation and Charge

*Benediction
*Choral Response

Now Thank We All Our God

Postlude

Triumphal March on
Now Thank We All Our God

Daniel Sharp

Sigfrid Karg-Elert

* All who are able are invited to stand.

Assisting in Worship: Rev. Becky Davis, Dr. Daniel Sharp, and

organist Josiah Armes.
Visual Arts: The flowers on the communion table are given
to the glory of God, in loving memory of Grady Cooksey, by
his wife Evelyn.

FAMILIES AT FIRST PRES

First Pres has three rooms to help young families on Sunday mornings: one nursing room for mothers & infants, next
to the Prayer Room, between the Sanctuary and Lee Fellowship Hall, and a second nursing room for mothers & infants,
on the 1st floor of Clayton Life Center next to the elevators.
In addition, we have a Family Room for infants, children and
dads :-) , also on the first floor of Clayton Life Center.
All three rooms have a live television feed from the worship
services.