Collingswood Presbyterian Church

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1 Collingswood Presbyterian Church March 1, Fern Avenue Collingswood, New Jersey Telephone: Fax: Website: collingswoodpres.com The Rev. Dr. Katherine G. Killebrew, Pastor William Powell, Director of Music Gretchen Kolecki, Director of Christian Education Janis Danielewicz, Church Secretary Chris Keeley, Custodian

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3 COLLINGSWOOD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SERVICE FOR THE LORD S DAY March 1, nd Sunday in Lent ASSEMBLE IN GOD S NAME Silent Prayer O Jesus, our great high priest, be present with us as you were present with your disciples, and make yourself known to us in the breaking of bread. Amen Prelude Welcome and Announcements We welcome you in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ! Please sign the guest book in the narthex so we can send you a welcome packet. Gathering of Prayer Concerns and Joys Please raise your hand to share your joys or concerns to be included in the prayers of the people this day. You may also write your concern on the pink sheets and hand to the Pastor. Please mail a prayer card from the narthex to your loved one. Centering Music (Please stand for items marked with an asterisk. GTG is the purple Glory to God hymnal. STF is the Sing the Faith smaller blue hymnal)

4 Call to Worship Leader: Eternal God, you are the power behind all things: behind the energy of the storm, behind the heat or a million suns. People: Eternal God, you are the power behind all minds: behind the ability to think and reason, behind all understanding of the truth. Leader: Eternal God, you are the power behind the cross of Christ: behind the weakness, the torture and the death, behind unconquerable love. People: Eternal God, we worship and adore you. Amen *Hymn: Great Are You Lord GTG #614 (sing twice) *Prayer of Confession Leader: God of mercy, you sent Jesus Christ to seek and save the lost. We confess that we have strayed from you and turned aside from your say. We are misled by pride, for we see ourselves pure when we are stained, and great when we are small. We have failed in love, neglected justice, and ignored your truth. People: Have mercy, O God, and forgive our sin. Return us to paths of righteousness through Jesus Christ, our Savior. Silence is kept *Words of Assurance Leader: Hear the good news! The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, that we might be dead to sin, and alive to all that is good. In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. People: Thanks be to God. Amen

5 *Response - O Lord Have Mercy GTG #578 O Lord, have mercy; O Lord, Have mercy; O Lord, have mercy, have mercy on us, O Christ, have mercy; O Christ, have mercy; O Christ, have mercy, have mercy on us. *Sharing of the Peace of Christ Leader: The peace of Christ be with you. People: And also with you. PROCLAIM GOD S WORD Children s Sermon (Children 2nd grade- Pre-k please follow Mrs. Kolecki out after the Children's sermon. Children 3rd grade and up stay for communion). Anthem In His Time by Diane Ball Old Testament Lesson: Joel 2:28-32 (page 833) Psalm 51:1-2, Responsive Reading Leader: Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. People: Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. Leader: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right * spirit within me. People: Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me. Leader: Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing * spirit.

6 People: Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you. Leader: Deliver me from bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your deliverance. *Hymn - Though I May Speak GTG #693 - New Testament Lesson: 1 Corinthians 14:1-11 (page1047) Sermon: Spiritual Gifts - The Gift of Prophesy The Rev. Dr. Katherine G. Killebrew WE RESPOND TO GOD S WORD *Affirmation of Faith - The Nicene Creed We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father; through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation, he came down from heaven, was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and became truly human. For our sake, he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day, he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. We believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. We

7 acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen. Offering This is a time for rededication of our lives to the purposes of God. Let us move away from complaints and from longing for what we do not have, to give thanks for all that has been entrusted to us. In our offerings we return a portion of God s gifts to accomplish the work to which God calls our Church. Prayer of Dedication Musical Meditation The Lord s Supper Invitation Great Prayer of Thanksgiving Leader: The Lord be with you. People: And also with you. Leader: Lift up your hearts. People: We lift them to the Lord. Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. People: It is right to give our thanks and praise. Leader: It is truly right and our greatest joy... And join their unending hymn singing, (GTG #552) People: Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of power and might Heaven and Earth are full of your glory Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest! Hosanna in the highest! Leader: Blessed are you, O Lord Most high (Prayers of intercession, petition and the Lord s Prayer)

8 The Distribution of the Elements (Please hold the elements until all have been served.) The Bread - please join in singing Jesus Remember Me GTG #227 Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom The Cup - please join in singing Bless the Lord, O My Soul GTG #535 Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless God s holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all God s benefits. Prayer after communion (unison) God of abundance, with this bread of life and cup of salvation, you have united us the Christ, making us one with all your people. Now send us forth in the power of your Spirit that we may proclaim your redeeming love to the world and continue forever in the rise GO IN GOD S NAME *Hymn - What Shall I Render To The Lord GTG #655 *Benediction *Choral Response *Postlude Go Forward and Serve! Be a part of God s work through CPC! Please join us in the Lounge for coffee and fellowship time.

9 Sunday, March 1, 2015 Large print bulletins and hymnals are available for your convenience. If you have difficulty hearing, personal amplifiers are available in the narthex. Parents, please pick up a worship activity bag for your children. Please return the bags to the narthex after the service. PLEASE BRING THE HEARING AIDS BACK TO THE DEACON OF THE DAY. for your service! Worship Leader: Fred Heuser Deacon of the Day: Rich Herzog & Dalton Aversa Greeters : Dana & Chad Ball Communion Servers: Dalton Aversa, Jean Harle, Susan Wilson, Carol Longmire, Bill Ostrem Flowers: Given by Jean Harle In honor of George Rafferty s 50th Birthday If you are a visitor, please sign the Fellowship book in the narthex so we know you are here! Please join us for coffee fellowship in the lounge. Sunday School: Children should follow Mrs. Kolecki out after the Children s Sermon. You may pick your children up in Calvin Hall after service. Nursery is for children aged birth to 3 years old. Our nursery workers are Madeline Almand, Brie Lynch, and Natalie Sperlunto. Parents are invited to sign-up in the nursery to come in and do an activity such as a song, read a book, or other activity with the older nursery children.

10 Sunday School: Last week in Sunday School we made dust cake, and discussed Lent and why we observe the season of Lent. This week we will discuss Jesus and how he loves the little children. We will also make a craft to help us remember ways to be more like Jesus. Please ask your children about what we discussed in Sunday School We are in need of Sunday School Helpers. Please see Mrs. Kolecki if you would like to help. All dates are open to help the children with a craft. Please sign up to help with Sunday School. Also, if you have a child in Sunday School, please join our Facebook page: Collingswood Presbyterian Church Sunday School. Youth: There is NO Youth Group on Sunday evening this week. The older youth participated in the 30 hr. Famine this weekend and raised $ for World Vision. Thank you to Dennis Kolecki and Noha Khoury for chaperoning the trip. I have 20% off Aereopostale coupons as a thank you from them. Please see me to claim your coupon. Please, go on to the Collingswood Presbyterian Youth Group Facebook page to see the pictures of our individual reasons why we are here. This week we will decide why we are here as a youth group and what our mission is. Please sign up to bring snack and as a parent helper through the link for Sign Up Genius that was ed to all parents. If you have not done so already, please join our Youth Group Facebook Page: Collingswood Presbyterian Youth Group. It is a good way to keep in touch and up to date on youth group info and activities. YOUTH THIS MEANS YOU TOO!

11 Making Good Marriages Stronger You have done everything for the kids, spend all your energy on your job and home, cared for your neighbors, isn t it time to take care of you and your marriage? When we take relationships for granted, we look around and suddenly they are gone. Spend some time this Lent and make your relationship with your spouse stronger. What are the Biblical principles to sustain our relationships? Collingswood Presbyterian Church offers a four week course taught by Wanda Sevey, M. Div. LMST, Director of the New Jersey Council for Relationships and marriage therapist. Thursdays February 19 March 12, :30 pm $25.00 registration fee (includes child care and reading materials) Sign up by ing collspres@verizon.net or call

12 Woodworkers needed! We need to make screens for all of our Calvin Hall windows. We have a model and can give you materials. Also if you know places where we can get radiator covers let us know. See Barry Longmire for details. The choir is rehearsing on Sundays now! To help make it easier for new people to join, we are rehearsing from 9-10 am before the service. You do not need to read music to be a part, only a love of singing Gods Word! In addition, a singing technique class will be run on Thursdays in the Bell room from 7:30 to 8:30. This class is open to anyone and you do not need to belong to the choir. Please consider being a part of our great music tradition at CPC! The Deacon's are asking for the your assistance. As you know, the homeless men from the IHOC program will be here next month for two weeks and we are in need of some non-perishable food items, laundry items, a large teapot, and a toaster. The signup sheet is in the Narthex. Please consider donating one or two of the items on the list. As always, thank you for your time and consideration. Martha Jane, Deacon Host lunch with Noha! Please offer to have Noha Khoury be your guest for lunch on Sundays! Available dates: March 15, 22, 29 There is a sign up sheet in the back of the church.

13 Last year CPC participated in It Takes A Village: Feed My Starving Children at First Presbyterian Church in Haddonfield. CPC contributed money and volunteers to pack on April 12th, Over 800 other volunteers packed 163,000 meals! Pretty amazing! This year the goal is 225,000 meals. So many children benefit from this food, and we can all be part of the effort to help them. So set aside two dates to help. This is a very worthy charity that you can help make a difference doing and/or contributing to within the next two months. Before we can pack this coming April, money must be raised to purchase the meals ingredients. The largest fundraiser is a Messiah Sing-Along to which you are cordially invited. Join singers, music lovers, and friends who just love to hum along in a memorable, musical afternoon at the 3rd annual Feed My Starving Children Messiah Sing-Along hosted by First Presbyterian Church in Haddonfield on Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. Sing-Along participants will join soloists Kelly Leibensperger, Maren Montalbano, Perry Brisbon, and Justin Hopkins and be accompanied by an all-star orchestra of musicians from ensembles including the Philly Pops and the Curtis Institute of Music. Each Messiah Sing-Along participant will play a role in the fight against hunger. The $20 registration fee covers the cost of 90 meals to be packed at the Feed My Starving Children packing event on April Register now at For more information, please contact Karen Mazak at The second date is, of course, April 18. Volunteer to pack food at the Haddonfield Middle School. More information will follow or contact Karen Mazak.

14 Second Chance Outreach Services along with Charles Sumner School in Camden would like to thank the congregation of Collingswood Presbyterian Church for your donation of children s coats, hats and gloves. Much of the population of the school are children of immigrants. Their parents work the farms in warm weather areas. As they return from the harvest season, many do not have the proper clothing to keep warm during our cold winter months. Your gift provides a needed blessing to the children to enable them to keep warm in their travels to school. Again you are awesome. Your act of kindness provided more than just an item to wear, but needed encouragement along with a message that Collingswood Presbyterian cares for them. May God continue to bless every family of the church, its leadership and community of Collingswood New Jersey. May God Bless Dennis McCullough Second Chance Outreach Services The Deacon s are looking for a few good blankets. It s still going to be cold when IHOC men come to visit at the end of March. Please clean out your linen closets and donate a blanket or quilt! We will store them in tubs and use them each year. Thanking you in advance! Your Deacon, Martha Jane

15 March 8, 2015 The Presbytery of West Jersey A day for all church leaders to spring forward and discover renewed joy and purpose Attend two workshops ~~ many choices: Elders Forum, Deacons Corner, Treasurers Exchange, Christian Education, Music, Worship, Technology, Children and Youth, Older Adults, Special Offerings Registration and coffee begin at 1:30 p.m. Program: 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. To be held at The Presbyterian Church at Hammonton 326 Bellevue Ave, Hammonton, NJ Sponsored by The Presbytery of West Jersey Pre-registration appreciated: admin@wjpres.net or Cost: $10.00 per person, $25.00 max per church

16 WHAT S HAPPENING AT CPC THIS WEEK? Sun., 3/1 Mon., 3/2 Wed., 3/4 Thurs., 3/5 Sun., 3/8 9:00 am - Choir Practice 10:30 am - Worship 11:30 am - Fellowship Time - Lounge 7:30 pm - Property Committee 5:30 pm - Intermediate Bell Choir Practice 6:15 pm - Advanced Youth Bell Choir Practice 7:30 pm - Adult Bell Choir Practice 11:00 am - Staff Meeting 6:00 pm - Confirmation Class 7:00 pm - Marriage Class 9:00 am - Choir Practice 10:30 am - Worship 11:30 am - Fellowship Time - Lounge 5:30 pm - Lent Bible Study 6:30 pm - Youth Group WEEKLY COMMUNITY USE Spring of Life Church: Sunday - 1:00-2:30 pm - Sanctuary (& nursery) 2:30-5:00 pm Dining room Wed. & Fri. - 8:00-9:30 pm - Jr. Rm. Toddler Play Group Tue. & Wed. - 9:30-11:30 am. - Nursery Girl Scouts # Wed. - 6:00-7:45 pm - Jr. Dept. Crew Club - Monday to Friday 5:00 am to 7:00 am and 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm

17 KEEP IN YOUR PRAYERS Birthdays: Lois Noyes, Doris Bockmann, Becca Genghini, George Rafferty, Stacy Lagakos, Everett Truong Anniversaries: Barry & Carol Longmire and Peggy & Keith Haines Seminarians: Chris McNabb, Richard Aylor, and Noha Khoury Those who serve in government, our military personnel, & those who work in other countries. Our country, our president, and our leaders Military personnel - Jennifer Riippa Jessica Lowden - working in Ghana Those at home or in a care facilities Elizabeth Baggett Harry Binder Robert Johnson Dorothy Varnum Eleanor Kelley Jean Waitz Pray for Health and Wellness Ray Burns Frank Griffin Sam Jang Do-Soon Bob Lowden Carol Rowand Jay Sills Darla Hartman Rich Smith Kristin Schell Bob Whenna Rachel Minnick Steven Salmon Marion Mills Doris Bockmann Sal Ferraro Jean Fink Jane Heinle Cindy Kielbania Diane Blakesley Lori Hunter Please pick up a prayer card in the narthex and mail it to these loved ones for whom we pray. Rev. Debby Brincivalli & Staff of West Jersey Presbytery Trinity Presbyterian Church, Cherry Hill, New Jersey Our PCUSA mission in Slovenia Juan G. Hall Presbyterian Church, Cardenas, Cuba Njikob Presbyterian Church, Cameroon If you are going into the hospital or would like a pastoral visit, please call or have a family member call the church office or one of the deacons or elders. If you don t call, we are going to assume you don t want a visit! Please remember to fill out a new pink form. with each update for the prayer list.

18 CHURCH STAFF AND OFFICERS The Rev. Dr. Katherine G. Killebrew, Pastor William Powell, Director of Music Gretchen Kolecki, Director of Christian Ed Janis Danielewicz, Church Secretary Chris Keeley, Custodian Maryann Kelly, Bookkeeper THE SESSION (Meets second Monday of the month at 7:00 p.m.) William Ostrem, Clerk of Session Candace Lowden, President, Board of Trustees Barbara Bockmann, Financial Secretary & Treasurer Class of 2015 Class of 2016 Class of 2017 Mike Amato Jennifer Giordano Candace Lowden William Ostrem Jeff Hirt Carol Longmire Karen Schuehler Committees of Session Christian Education Finance and Stewardship Mission and Outreach Memorial Personnel Nominating Property Worship and Arts Chair Karen Schuehler, Carol Longmire Jeff Hirt Moderator, Deacons Candace Lowden Jennifer Giordano Candace Lowden Mike Amato, William Ostrem Moderator BOARD OF DEACONS (Meets first Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m.) Tom Wolfe, Moderator Susan Wilson, Vice-Moderator Karen Mazak, Secretary Martha Jane Caldwell Bates, Treasurer Class of 2015 Class of 2016 Class of 2017 Louanna Sills Tom Wolfe Susan Wilson Martha Caldwell-Bates Jean Harle Michele Perrin Karen Mazak Richard Herzog Dalton Aversa [Terms begin Feb 1 of each year or upon Ordination/Installation] Rev. 7/1/14

19 Our Vision Statement (What we want to be) We seek to become: A church that witnesses to the community and the world by sharing and demonstrating our relationship with Christ. A church that encourages all people to know God s great love revealed in Jesus Christ. A church that faithfully listens for God s will for our lives and our community A community of God that is an open, inviting, caring family of faith where all are embraced, accepted and loved. Our Mission Statement (How we will accomplish this vision) The Collingswood Presbyterian Church Congregation, as part of the Christian Church, Presbyterian Church USA, is called to Worship and Serve the Lord by: Constantly seeking renewal through God s Grace and Wisdom. Welcoming and reaching out to all of God s community. Providing for education in Christian and Presbyterian principles Ministering to everyone through community and worldwide mission. Sharing the Christian message as expressed in the Gospel.