YNE BYTERIANCHURCH W
January 26, 2025 | 9:30 & 11:00AM
Third Sunday after Epiphany
TODAY’S EDUCATION & FELLOWSHIP OFFERINGS
Bible Study with Dr. Joe Modica Fireside Room | 9:30AM
Childcare for Infants and Toddlers Rooms 101/102 | 9:30 & 11:00AM
Coffee Hour Fellowship: New Member Reception Connector | 10:30AM
Sunday School: 9:30AM
Pre-K (2, 3, 4-year-olds) | Rm 103
Kindergarten & 1st Grade | Rm 304
2nd & 3rd Grades | Rm 301 4th & 5th Grades | Rm 306
6th & 7th Grades | Rms 208/209 High School | Rm 204
Confirmation Class Knox Room | 9:30AM Youth Group Rooms 208/209 | 6:00PM
Fellowship of the Bean Library | 9:30AM
Westminster Youth Choir Music Room | 5:00PM
WinGS: Let’s PAUSE Fireside Room | 6:00PM
PRAYER REQUESTS
Please hold the following in prayer:
Bethany, Bob, Carl, Craig, Carolyn, Debby Jones, Diana Whaley, Dorothea Behr, Jacklyn, Jane, Jess and family, Jill, Johnson, the family of Julie Kincade, Lauren, Mason, Nancy, Peter Forrest, Richard, Sarah Foster, Sarah Stewart, Tyler and family, and the family of Anita Weeks.
If you’d like to submit a prayer request, please call the church office at (610) 688-8700, visit waynepresorg, submit via the WPC app, or share your request using a prayer card found in the back of the pews. If you or one of your family members is in the hospital, please call the church office to receive pastoral care.
COFFEE HOUR FOOD DONATIONS
Members are asked to bring treats for Coffee Hour Fellowship held in the Connector on Sundays in-between Worship services.
Date of Donation by Surname
Feb 9 | M - R, Feb 16 | S - Z, Feb 23 | A - F, March 9 | G - L
Please contact Marian Hollingsworth with any questions. mhholling@gmail.com OR (484) 557 - 5733
Sunday, January 26, 2025 Third Sunday after Epiphany
+ Please stand as you are able.
Prelude | 9:30AM Te Deum Bell Choir | 11AM Selah Bell Choir | Ryan Fleming, director Laudamus Arnold B. Sherman (1948-2024)
+ Call to Worship Nations shall come to your light. O come, let us adore him. Let us rejoice in the strength of our salvation. O come, let us adore him. The Lord has shone forth his glory. We come to the brightness of our Savior’s rising.
+ Hymn 299: HANOVER You Servants of God , Your Master Proclaim
*Please stand at the beginning of the introduction for each hymn.
+ Call to Confession
+ Prayer of Confession
Most merciful God, we have strayed away from you like lost sheep. Instead of following where you call us to go, we follow the desires of our own hearts. Along the way of our misguided path, we have harmed others with our words and by our actions. Forgive us all the things we have left undone, as well as our neighbors in need whom we have ignored. As you are the God who seeks us when we are lost, we implore you to find us again. Guide us back into your loving embrace and raise us up to serve you in newness of life, to the glory of your name. Through Christ our Lord, Amen.
+ Declaration of Forgiveness
Hear the Good News of the Gospel: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven.
+ Response of Praise: Christ is the World’s True Light
ST. JOAN
+ Passing of the Peace
The peace of Christ be with you. And also with you.
Words of Welcome & Announcements
Prayer for Illumination
Scripture Reading | Matthew 9:35-38
Bell Anthem | 9:30 Te Deum Bell Choir | 11:00 Selah Bell Choir Ryan Fleming, director | Katy Shevel, flute
Sandra Eithun Meditation on “Lord , I Want to be a Christian”
Scripture Reading | Ephesians 4:2-7, 11-16
Anthem | Quartet
Henry Du Mont (1610-1684) Laudate Dominum
O praise the Lord , all ye nations: praise him , all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth forever. Praise ye the Lord.
Sermon | The Rev. Katy Shevel | “What Coffee Hour Taught Me”
Time for Reflection
Affirmation of Faith | The Confession of 1967
Wherever the church exists, its members are both gathered in corporate life and dispersed in society for the sake of mission in the world. The church gathers to praise God, to hear God’s word for humankind, to baptize and to join in the Lord’s Supper, to pray for and present the world to God in worship, to enjoy fellowship, to receive instruction, strength, and comfort, to order and organize its own corporate life, to be tested, renewed and reformed, and to speak and act in the world’s affairs as may be appropriate to the needs of the time. continued on next page
The church disperses to serve God wherever its members are, at work or play, in private or in the life of society. Their prayer and Bible study are part of the church’s worship and theological reflection. Their witness is the church’s evangelism. Their daily action in the world is the church in mission to the world. The quality of their relation with other persons is the measure of the church’s fidelity.
Invitation to Gratitude
Text the word GIVE (not case sensitive) to our church's Giving Number: (610)-819-4483, or scan the QR code on your phone. Please feel free to give in-person as well.
Offertory Anthem | 9:30AM Chancel Choir | 11:00AM Quartet + Choral Scholars Prayer of St. Brigid Ryan Kelly (b. 1980)
I should like a great lake of finest ale for the King of kings. I should like a table of the choicest food for the family of heav’n. O let the ale be made from fruits of faith , and the food be forgiving love. I should welcome the poor to my feast , for they are God’s children. I should welcome the sick to my feast , for they are God’s joy. Let the poor sit with Jesus at the highest place, and the sick dance with the angels. God bless the poor, God bless the sick , and bless our race. O God bless our food , God bless our drink , and embrace all homes. O God , embrace. - St. Brigid of Kildare, c. 451-525
+ Doxology (Hymn 606) and Prayer of Dedication
Orison | 9:30AM Chancel Choir | 11:00AM Quartet + Choral Scholars
Dale Grotenhuis (1931-2012) Hear Our Prayer, O Lord
Prayers of the People & The Lord’s Prayer
+ Hymn 346: ST. THOMAS (WADE) For the Healing of the Nations
Benediction | 9:30AM Chancel Choir | 11:00AM Quartet + Choral Scholars
Dale Grotenhuis (1931-2012) May the God of Hope Now Fill Us
Postlude | John Grecia, organ Grand Chorus Edmond Lemaigre (1849-1890)
ANNUAL MEETING & ALL-CHURCH BRUNCH
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2025
You are invited to attend our 2025 Annual Meeting followed by an AllChurch Brunch in the Chapel on Sunday, February 2. One worship service will be held at 10:00AM, with meeting to immediately follow at 11:00AM. At the conclusion of the meeting, all will join for fellowship in the Chapel for brunch. All Sunday School programming will move to 10:00AM start time, and extended Child Care will be offered through the end of the meeting.
WPC MISSION PARTNER OF THE WEEK
JOYCE TANNIAN
CO-FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
OF WATER IS LIFE KENYA
Water is Life Kenya (WILK) is dedicated to bringing clean, accessible water, sanitation and good hygiene to the Maasai people in droughtprone rural communities in Southern Kenya. WILK also manages the Livestock as a Business Program (LAB), in partnership with the Kenyan Ministry of Livestock. WPC supports the water borehole projects that bring life-giving water to Maasai communities.
ADDRESS | 314 E. Main St., Kelway Plaza, Suite 2, Newark, DE 19711
EMAIL | joyce@waterislifekenya.org