The OLIN T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church August 3, 2014 11:00 am BECOMING AWARE To eat this meal together is to meet at the level of our most basic humanness, which involves our need not just for food but for each other. Frederick Buechner Welcome to Binkley! Binkley Baptist Church is a community of faith on a journey that calls for questioning, humility and conviction. As followers of Jesus, we embrace spiritual growth, mutual care and service, assured that as we serve our neighbors, we joyfully serve God. Intentionally inclusive, we welcome people of all races, sexual orientations, and cultures, respecting diverse religious experiences within the church and beyond. We invite others to join us in our commitment to peace, justice, and care for creation. In a spirit of Christian love, we welcome you. Visitors, please fill out a visitor card and place it in the offering plate. Hearing assistance devices and children s worship bags are available in the Narthex before service begins. The flowers on the altar are given in hopeful anticipation of Hannah s safe return from Ethiopia by Dale and Suzy Osborne.. Thank you for serving in the Nursery today. Staff: Jeanine Gangloff and Meagan Little Volunteer(s): Nancy & Neal Cheek *The Congregation standing as each is able. Matthew and Carol Ripley-Moffitt created a bit of a stir when they announced their engagement in the October 1979 Binkley Newsletter. Not everyone knew that Carol, then Associate Pastor, and Matthew, chaplain at NC Memorial Hospital, had been dating. After shared and individual ministries with churches in Michigan and the Washington, DC area, they returned to NC in 1999, where Matthew teaches 6 th grade World Cultures at Cary Academy and Carol directs the UNC Nicotine Dependence Program. Matthew participated in Binkley Baptist Church s founding as the son of charter members Bill and Hilda Moffitt, and currently chairs the Transition Team.
GATHERING CHIMING Please silence electronic devices. PRELUDE This Is the Feast Charles Callahan INTROIT When the Morning Wakens Baring-Gould *CALL TO WORSHIP Come now all who thirst, and drink the water of life. Come now all who hunger, and be filled with good things. Come now all who seek, and be found by love divine. Stephanie Ford *OPENING HYMN All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly 419 HOLY MANNA *INVOCATION Dale Osborne WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS *SHARING THE PEACE OF CHRIST LISTENING CENTERING IN SILENCE Carol Ripley-Moffitt FIRST READING Isaiah 55: 1-5 Matthew Ripley-Moffitt ANTHEM Lonesome Valley Martin GOSPEL READING Matthew 13:13-21 MEDITATION A Feast of Abundance
RESPONDING *THE BINKLEY CHURCH COVENANT Professing our faith in Jesus Christ, we covenant with God and one another to live together as members of this church in obedience to God's will as it has been and shall be made known to us. As part of the body of Christ throughout the world, we promise to express our faithfulness to Christ in love for one another and for the whole of God's creation. The Spirit of God assisting us, we further promise to attend the services of this congregation, observe its sacraments, support its mission to all people, practice faithful stewardship of our possessions and be conscientious caretakers of the Earth, endeavoring always to be a fruitful body of Christians. *HYMN OF INVITATION I Come with Joy 420 DOVE OF PEACE If you wish to become a member of Binkley Baptist Church today, you are invited to come forward during the first verse of the hymn to be welcomed and received. PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION OFFERING OUR GIFTS Offertory Come Sunday Duke Ellington Piano-Mike Davis *Doxology Please sign along with the leader, or simply sing. Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below, Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise God above, ye heavenly host; Creator, Christ, and Holy Ghost. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! INVITATION TO THE TABLE PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING RECEIVING
PRAYER OF JESUS Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver, Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, Loving God, in whom is heaven: The hallowing of your name echo through the universe! The way of your justice be followed by the peoples of the world! Your heavenly will be done by all created beings! Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth. With the bread we need for today, feed us. In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us. In times of temptation and testing, strengthen us. From trials too great to endure, spare us. From the grip of all that is evil, free us. For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever. Amen. From the New Zealand Anglican Maori Liturgy SHARING BREAD AND CUP PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION PARTING *HYMN Alleluia! Hear God s Story 330 *BENEDICTION W ZLOBIE LEZY *BENEDICTION RESPONSE God Be with you Till We Meet Again Vaughan Williams POSTLUDE Toccata from Baroque Suite Gordon Young