June 1 Moses: Spared and Paired Communion. June 8 Moses: A Fiery Call. June 15 Moses: Confronting Injustice Orchestra Louis Miller s Last Sunday

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1 June 1, 2014 SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER June 1 Moses: Spared and Paired Communion June 8 Moses: A Fiery Call June 15 Moses: Confronting Injustice Orchestra Louis Miller s Last Sunday June 22 Moses: Parting Ways Janet Johnson s Last Sunday June 29 Moses: Bread and Water Edgar Scruggs First Sunday July 6 Moses: The Big 10 Communion July 13 Moses: Leaving a Legacy

2 8:30 & 11:00 am ORDER OF WORSHIP June 1, 2014 Seventh Sunday of Easter (In preparation for worship, please silence all cell phones.) Gathering Music Adagio Henry Purcell Community Life (Please complete and pass the red friendship pad at this time.) Dr. Glenn Ethridge *Hymn of Praise O God, Our Help in Ages Past UMH 117 *Affirmation of Faith 1 Corinthians 15:1-6 Dr. Amy Morgan Colossians 1:15-20 This is the good news which we have received, in which we stand, and by which we are saved: Christ died for our sins, was buried, was raised on the third day, and appeared first to the women, then to Peter and the Twelve, and then to many faithful witnesses. We believe Jesus is the Christ, the Anointed One of God, the firstborn of all creation, the firstborn from the dead, in whom all things hold together, in whom the fullness of God was pleased to dwell by the power of the Spirit. Christ is the head of the body, the church, and by the blood of the cross reconciles all things to God. Amen. Morning Prayer and The Lord s Prayer Dr. Morgan 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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. Our Tithes & Offerings Love Enough to Give John Horman A mother lined a basket to keep her baby dry, then rocked him on a river, lest he awake and cry. She let a princess name him, her son that he might live. God s people had a leader. She had such hope to give. A mother sewed a jacket, lined in the softest wool, then dressed her little boychild, her cup of blessing full. She brought him to the temple where he would serve and live. God s people had a prophet. She had such faith to give. A mother laid her baby in manger lined with straw; then in the shepherd s story his call foresaw. She nurtured and taught him the way that he must live. God s people had a Savior. She had such love to give. Like Jochebed and Hannah, and Mary too, we know the hardest part of loving is learning to let go. So when we send our children out in the world to live, grant us such hope and faith, God, and love enough to give. *Doxology UMH 94 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise God, all creatures here below: Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise God, the source of all our gifts! Praise Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts! Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Scripture Exodus 1:8-12; 2:1-10 Ms. Susan Willingham The Word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God.

3 Sermon Moses: Spared and Paired Dr. Ethridge Holy Communion A Service of Word and Table II UMH 12 The sacrament of communion is a sign and means of receiving God's grace. Therefore communion, like grace itself, is available to all people without regard to age, church membership status, relationship to Oak Grove, or denominational affiliation. The table belongs to God, so all are welcome. There is a mobile station for worshipers who prefer to be served in their seats. If you prefer gluten-free elements, please go to the station to the left of the pulpit. You are always welcome to choose any station by simply walking to the station of your choice. Once you receive the bread, please dip it in the grape juice in the chalice. In our tradition worshipers do not drink from the chalice. After receiving communion you may kneel at the chancel to pray or return to your seat. Communion Music Holy, Holy, Holy Franz Schubert Men s Ensemble Holy, holy, holy; holy is the Lord. Holy, holy, holy; He s to be adored. He without beginning, we do ever love. Holy, holy, holy; praise to Him above. Holy, holy, holy unto Thee we sing. Holy, holy, holy; praise to Thee our King. Merciful and mighty, everywhere adored. Holy, holy, holy; holy is the Lord. *Sending Hymn Amazing Grace UMH 378 *Benediction Dr. Ethridge Father! to God himself we cannot give a holier name. William Wordsworth You are invited to make a gift to The Blessing in honor or memory of a father, grandfather or father figure. On Father s Day, Oak Grove will publish an insert listing fathers who have been honored for gifts received by Noon on June 9. The Blessing is an ongoing missions offering that benefits individuals and organizations in areas of education, mission and need. the Blessing *Postlude Voluntary in D William Selby Please use one form per person to be honored/memorialized. Your name: Please make my contribution: In Memory of: *Congregation stand as able UMH: United Methodist Hymnal / FWS: The Faith We Sing Large print hymnals and bulletins and hearing assistance devices are available from an usher. In Honor of:

4 OAK GROVE NEWS Diaper Drive June 1, 2014 Thank You, Oak Grove! Many thanks for the outpouring of support for our first church-wide diaper drive, sponsored by the Service Ministries Committee. Together with YCS and CDC, we collected over 4,000 baby diapers and 50 packages of wipes to benefit the United Methodist Children's Home and Caring for Clarkston (C4C), and 25 volunteers made quick work of sorting the contributions! These supplies fill an important need for families, who sometimes are forced to choose between spending up to $100 per month for diapers and buying nutritious food. You can continue to donate diapers, wipes, infant formula, and baby food on a regular basis in the C4C cabinet outside the Fellowship Hall. Oak Grove 2014 Memorial Scholarship Awards Applications for the 2014 Oak Grove Memorial Scholarship are currently being accepted in the church office. Oak Grove UMC should receive the application, transcripts and letters of recommendation by Monday, June 2, Application forms are available online at or they may be sent to you via . Please contact Dale Smith with your request, or dsmith@ogumc.org. Help Support Our Honduras Mission Oak Grove s involvement in Project Honduras is commencing once again! The 2014 team consists of 20 people led by Gus Pounds and Rob Brawner. The team will depart for Roatan, Honduras on Saturday, July 5, and will return on Saturday, July 12. We are seeking your support once again and welcome any blessings you can bestow on Project Honduras, whether through prayer or donation of supplies; all are needed and all are appreciated! The supply wish list consists of flip-flops, craft and school supplies, toothbrushes, toothpaste, clothing, and small stuffed animals. We also have a great need for lightweight suitcases that will transport all these excellent, much-needed donations (suitcases will stay in Honduras). Please leave your donations in the portico commons. Help Build HOPE August 2, :00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. Church-Wide Service Project Ages 5-105!! In 4 hours, our church will build the frame of a house to donate to a local Habitat for Humanity family. Registration Coming Soon HURRAY! School is Out! Do you have a gently-used backpack that is looking for a new life? Please bring it to the portico commons by June 9, Thank you! Reception to Honor Janet Johnson Sunday, June 22, following 11:00 Service Janet Johnson, our much-loved Director of Traditional Music, came to Oak Grove UMC eleven years ago during a time of uncertainty. Since then, Janet's unique blend of talent, expertise, enthusiasm, generosity, nurture, and rock-solid Christian faith has resulted in a music ministry we believe is second to none. Our thriving adult, youth, and children's choirs, the Wesley Ringers, and the Oak Grove Orchestra, directed by Bucky Johnson, have come to comprise an integral and even essential part of our message of God's love and faithfulness at Oak Grove. Janet and Bucky, who will continue as our orchestra leader, have blessed us beyond measure, for which we are forever grateful. Janet is retiring from more than thirty years in full-time music ministry on Sunday, June 22, to travel, to develop her interest in child advocacy, and to spend more time with her family, especially her beloved grandchildren. While she will continue to share her musical gifts by singing with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Choir, directing the Southern Star Music Festivals with Bucky, and by leading All State and honor choirs, June 22 marks a significant turning point in Janet's life. We will celebrate Janet's ministry at Oak Grove on Sunday, June 22 with a reception for Janet in the church parlor immediately following the 11 o'clock service. Janet will also be in the parlor to receive well wishers from 9:30 to 10:00 a.m. that day. Janet has touched our lives in so many wonderful ways, and we hope you can be present to help us honor her love and service in the name of Jesus Christ. Jack Moore Chair, Staff Parish Relations Committee

5 Lunch Bunch Tuesday, June 3, 11 a.m. 2 p.m. Buses leave the church at 11 a.m. and return by 2 p.m. Enjoy a spring salad luncheon from the Oak Grove Market with sweet or unsweetened tea, or water and your favorite cookies. $7 will be collected at the park. After lunch we will play BINGO, with prizes. Madge Watson will do our calling. Reservations needed by 10 a.m. Monday, June 2 ( ). Insurance release forms are required with your reservation and are available in the front office. OAK GROVE Our involvement with the local Fellowship of Christian Athletes will be the focus of the UMM June dinner meeting. Come hear how young athletes lives have been changed after being introduced to and spending time with the FCA. Menu: steak, baked potato, salad, cookies, drink. $10. With the pastors of oak grove Wednesday, June 18, 7 p.m. There will be 2 sessions of Table Talk this summer hosted by members of Oak Grove! The first will be Wednesday, June 18, at 7 p.m. at the home of Jessica and Kevin Bandy on Angelique Drive. The topic of discussion for the evening is Looking for God s Presence in the World and will be led by Rev. Susan Allen Grady. Newcomers and members alike are welcome to participate. The Bandy home is located at 1876 Angelique Drive, close to the church. To make a reservation, please contact Rev. Susan Allen Grady, sallengrady@ogumc.org. Reception to Honor Rev. Louis Miller Sunday, June 15, 3-5 p.m. There will be a reception for Louis Miller Sunday, June 15, 3-5 p.m. in Fellowship Hall. We are grateful for Louis ministry as he leaves us after 26 years. Please join in this time of celebration for Louis Miller s ministry. The New Mason Mill Park on Clairmont UMM Annual Steak Out Monday June 9 6:15 p.m. Reservations due by 10:00 a.m., Monday, June 9. or Library News: Get Ready for Summer Reading School is out, and it's time for our 2014 Summer Read to Feed program. Calling all readers for the summer. If you like to read (or like being read to), please join us! Stop by the library today to get all the details, and sign up for this year's summer reading program. The Read to Feed program encourages children to read, and it benefits Heifer International, an organization which OGUMC has supported for over fourteen years. We look forward to seeing you in the library and to another great summer of reading. So come on in and get started! Oak Grove Memorials IN MEMORY TO THE BUILDING FUND IN MEMORY OF Jack Earl Newhard by Claud & Eloise Pounds TO THE MEMORIAL FUND IN MEMORY OF Cheryl Cole by William Whatley Vacation Bible School Supplies Needed Our 4th & 5th graders will make 100 sack lunches each day for the Smart Lunch/ Smart Kid project during VBS. Lots of paper products are needed. Can you help provide supplies? We need 3000 paper cups (7 oz. or 9 oz.), 1000 small paper plates, 500 sandwich Ziploc bags, 500 individually-wrapped packages of dried fruit, applesauce or fruit cups, 500, individually wrapped salty snacks, 500 brown lunch bags, 500 bottles of water (8 oz.). Other needed items are listed on the CAMELS attached to the VBS bulletin Board across from the Children s Office. We greatly appreciate your support! Pick Up Your T-Shirts! VBS T-shirt packets for registered MORNING SESSION campers are ready for pick-up in the parlor (Sunday mornings, or Mon. Thurs. 9-5 p.m. during the week prior to VBS/June 9 13). Welcome New Members! Justin & Lauren Roper Children: Jonah & Mary 2777 Pangborn Rd., Decatur, GA laurenfranklin@hotmail.com Jeff & Caitlin Barton Children: Brooks & Grant 2728 Hunting Hill Lane, Decatur, GA Caitlinbarton1@gmail.com

6 Joy Bone April 21, 2014 In the Hospitals... Budd Terrace Isla Hunter Cobblestone Carolyn Tomlinson Grace Healthcare, Tucker Virginia Eisenhardt Manor Care, Decatur Burke Linder Unihealth Brookhaven Ivan Purcell University of Michigan Joe Daniels At Home... Sara Bowles, Steve Bowles, Keith Herndon, Jimmie Jones, Sally Knott (Montclair ), Ornette Lord, Bill Mann, Blackie Scott Neese, Delaine Perkins, June Row, Karen Smith, B. J. Sumner, Clare Stutts, Betty Ann Thompson Continued Prayers... Bill Barfield, Beth Benefield, Mary Disbrow, Bob Garlow, Chuck Green, Doug Guedry, Matt Hudson, Bill Peacock, Pauline Pullen, Ray Rabeneck, Rowena Renn-Hicks, Jack Sims, Jackie Smiley, Alan Smith, Jerry Spratte, Rob White, Nancy Woodall Serving in Our Armed Forces... Captain George Parks Bunch, LTJG Alexander Cody, Petty Officer Steven Jones, Captain Bryan Lee, Lt. David Lee, Karen Lee, Lt. Michael Lee, Lt. Col. Chuck Parks, Sgt. Josh Portwood, Col. Janet Seufert, Lance Cpl. Cory Thompson Sympathy... Oak Grove extends its deepest sympathy to Neil Sampson on the death of his mother. Baptisms... May 18, Jonah Riley Roper May 18, Mary Cora Roper Thrive with Aerobic Exercise The summer 10-week session of our Aerobic Exercise Class begins on Tuesday, June 10. Class features include choreographed dance exercise and floor exercises. All are adaptable for any age or desired level of exertion. The class meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the gym. Cost for the ten weeks meeting twice a week is $80; for an unlimited number of classes (including other locations), $85; for senior adults (age 60 and above), $80 for either choice. Registration will be held at the first class on June 10. For more information contact Louis Miller ( or lmiller@ogumc.org). You can make sandwiches to feed hungry kids this summer! For most children, summer vacation is the best time of year. But for many children, summer also means a vacation from the meals they receive at school. For these children, no school means no lunch. At Oak Grove we want to make sure that children have the food they need. For 10 days during the summer we will meet in Fellowship Hall at 11:30 a.m. to enjoy fellowship and a complimentary lunch, and then we will assemble 400 sack lunches. To sign up to assemble lunches, simply choose from the dates below, and sign up online at or by calling one of our volunteer coordinators: Marilyn Counts at or Betsy Edwards at Assembly Dates: Monday, July 28, Tuesdays June 24, July 8, July 15, July 29, August 5 Wednesdays -- June 25, July 9, July 16, August 6 If you would like to make a monetary contribution toward food supplies, please make your check to Oak Grove with Smart Lunch in the for line, or give online at Come Learn About Georgia Tech Wesley Foundation Wesley Foundation is the United Methodist Church on college campuses. Oak Grove will welcome Rev. Steve Fazenbaker, Director of the Georgia Tech Wesley Foundation, on Sunday, June 8, Steve will meet with anyone interested in learning about GT Wesley Foundation in Heritage Hall (gym) from 9:45 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Coffee and doughnuts will be served during this informal gathering. THIS WEEK S ACTIVITIES Oak Grove Office Hours 9 a.m. 5 p.m. M F Sunday, June 1, :00pm Youth Sonshine Meeting Fellowship Hall 3:00pm Eagle Scout COH - Guerino/Habit Sanctuary 4:00pm Sonshine Camp Parent Meeting Rm 114 4:00pm Powerful Tools for Caregivers Rm 217 6:00pm Youth Renew Youth Building Monday, June 2, :00pm Trustees Meeting Rm 217 7:30pm Adult Volleyball Heritage Hall Gym Tuesday, June 3, :00am Lunch Bunch Away 6:30pm Aerobic Exercise Class Heritage Hall Gym 6:30pm Grief Sharing Group Rm 219 7:00pm Venture Crew 77 Wednesday, June 4, :00pm Chapel Communion Service Sanctuary 7:00pm Chancel Choir/Sanctuary Singers Rehearsal Choir Rm-201 7:30pm BSA Troop 77 Thursday, June 5, :30am Turban Ladies Mission Rm :00am Youth Lunch Bunch Away 6:00pm Rebuilding Support Group Rm 219 6:30pm Aerobic Exercise Class Heritage Hall Gym 7:00pm Invitation Team Meeting Rm 217 8:00pm 935 Band Rehearsal Fellowship Hall Friday, June 6, :00pm Youth Fun Friday Event Away Oak Grove UMC's facebook site is full of important notices, event reminders and fun photos. If you use Facebook go to "Oak Grove UMC" and like the page. ************************************* Record of Our Faithfulness Our Presence May 21, 2014 Chapel Communion Service 15 Our Presence May 25, 2014 Church School 286 8:30 Service 113 9:35 Service :00 Service 342 Total Worship this Week 574 5/18/13 Our Offerings Month-to-Date Year-to-Date Operating Budget (fund 001) Actual Income $140, $863,532.80

7 Today s Worship Servants Sound: (8:30) Billie Williams Offering Counters: Jay Huffines, John Mynatt, Mrs. Dale Smith Ushers: John Adams, Janet Ballard, John Ballard, Kim Cody, Jerry Culwell, Clint Ginn, John Hancock, David Harte, Jim Harte, Cathy Huffines, Jay Huffines, David Jones, Tim Lott, Jim Mynatt, John Mynatt, George Nash, Jeannine Nash, Dan Riedford, Karl Schultz, Diane Stubblebine, Alex Thomas, Roger Toebben, Joe Whipple Altar Guild: Linda Chambliss, Margaret Maxwell, Mary Sydney McAllister, Becky Mynatt, Cindy Mynatt, Carol Wright Children s Church: Denise Varnadoe, Bob Varnadoe OUR WORSHIP TIMES 8:30am Traditional Worship Sanctuary 9:35am Sunday School 9:35am Contemporary Worship Fellowship Hall 11:00am Traditional Worship Sanctuary OUR CHURCH INFORMATION Church Office Emergency Contact After Hours ext. 9 Dr. Glenn Ethridge Senior Pastor ext. 211 Rev. Susan Allen Grady Associate Pastor ext. 212 Director of Administration Dale Smith ext. 225 Children s Ministry Kim Cody ext. 218 CDC (Child Development Center) YCS (Young Children s School) Rev. Louis Miller Nurture and Service ext. 210 Rev. Mary Lou Gilbert Senior Adults Dr. Amy Morgan Service Music Ministry Janet Johnson ext. 226 Organist Leanne Herrmann Youth Ministry Robin Merrill ext. 203 Contemporary Worship Leader Atticus Hicks ext. 208