1
Praises for The Women’s Retreat, Ruth
Barnes, Katilyn Pilcher, all jobs available,
Prayers for Jennifer Pilcher,
Kenneth and Bonnie Bailey, Gabi Van Schoyck, Juanita
Grissett, Ralph Perry, Greg Davis, Families of Mary Monkus
and Louise Wilson, all troops serving our country especially
in Afghanistan and in Iraq, our nation, and President Barack
Obama
2
Praises for our loving Savior, Jesus Christ, the Rush Chapel
church family, new baby boy coming to Jennifer & Seth,
Margaret & Toni’s presence today, Lonnie’s nephew’s
salvation experience, improving health for Ruth Barnes and
Tony Pack’s mom, Starr and Mark’s birthdays, Prayers for UMW
spiritual retreat, Crystal Bice, 2-year old baby at Egleston,
Mary Hales, Susan Prosise, Geneva & Andy King, Calvin Jones,
Jennifer Wiggins, Meghan Duke, Geraldine Worley, Faye
Franks, Joe & Trisha Bice and family, injured at Ft. Hood,
Texas, Sierra’s grandmother, families of David Cooley,
victims of Ft. Hood, Texas terrorist act, Model Middle
School band director
3
Praises for all God’s blessings, Stephanie Scoggins safe
return home, Pam Russell work at YDC, Lonnie Pilcher’s
improved health, Prayers for Millie Aaron, Shannon Berry,
Marleen and David Wilson, Steve Cribb and sister, Susan,
Peggy Keaton, Jennifer Pilcher, Angie Johnston, Mitchell
Wright, Richard Gurley, L.C. Falls, T.J. Bailey, Nick and
Cindy Swords families
4
Praises for our eternal salvation in
Jesus Christ, Gabi’s success on the GRE, Hertel’s safe
travels, excellent attendance today, beautiful weather,
health improvements for Peggy Keaton, Davis Carney, Margaret
West, Holly and Adrian’s marriage, employment for David
Wilson and Tony Pack, Prayers for Darlene Caylor, Davis
Patton Carney, Toni & Richard White, Gene & Pat Tankersley,
Blair McCarty, Shirley Dutton, Kennedy Williams, Kyle Hale,
Patrick Kearns, Rev. John & Barbara Platt, Maddie Allen,
Renee Wilson, sick children and their caretakers, those
traveling, homeless, workers who are required to work on the
Lord’s Day, family of Fred Bloodworth
OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORSHIP, SERVICE AND FELLOWSHIP
Wednesday, November 25
6:00 pm – Children’s choir
Thursday, November 26
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL
Sunday, November 29
9:45 am – Sunday school
10:55 am – Morning Worship – Special Offering for Real Estate
purchase
Head
Usher – Richard White – Acolytes for November 22, Kathryn &
Stephen Boylan – November 29, Alex & Landon Liddle –Advent
Wreath for November 29, Howard-Falls family - Nursery worker for
November 22, Sharon Armstrong- November 29, Trisha Bice
COMING
EVENTS – PLAN NOW TO PARTICIPATE IF YOU CAN
November 30 – Decorate for Christmas 10 am
December 5 – Back Pack Buddies 3pm (Burnes, Wilson, Bice)
December 6 – Hanging of the Green
10:55 am
– Christmas pageant 5:30 pm
December 13 – Christmas Cantata (Christmas
Is Jesus) at morning worship
December 16 – Christmas caroling 5:30 pm
December 18 – Kendrick/Moreno wedding 6 pm
December 24 – Holy Communion Service 5 pm
REMEMBER OUR HOMEBOUND MEMBERS, THOSE WHO ARE SICK, THOSE WHO
ARE RECOVERING:
John Allmon,
Earl Godfrey - home
Dollie Carden –
Virginia Collins –
REMEMBER OUR HOSPITALIZED: Why not visit, call, or send a card?
Be sure to get your copy of the November-December,
2009 Upper Room
and the most recent edition of the
Shannon Spark located on the table
in the rear of the church.
November 22, 2009 - 10:55 am
Christ The King Sunday
THE WORSHIP OF GOD
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PRELUDE-ORGAN
Sharon Armstrong
(Let us begin to worship God now.)
CHIMING OF THE HOUR-PIANO
Pam Clarkson
WELCOME, ANNOUNCEMENTS, AND GREETING
*HYMN Come, Christians, Join to Sing UMH #158
PRAYER OF INVOCATION Tony Burnes
READING OF THE WORD
Psalm 132.1-12
Tony Burnes
CHILDREN’S TIME Lillian Hertel *HYMN We Gather Together UMH #131
MORNING
PRAYER
Pastor
THE
LORD’S PRAYER
Congregation
*OFFERTORY
Pam Clarkson
*DOXOLOGY
UMH
#95
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
From God’s Word
UMH #887
ANTHEM
We
Are So Blessed
Choir
THE WORD OF GOD Exodus 35.4-29
MESSAGE Are You Willing? Pastor
*HYMN
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
UMH #694
*BENEDICTION
Pastor
*CONGREGATIONAL BLESSING
May the Lord, Mighty God, bless and keep you forever,
Grant you peace, perfect peace, courage in every endeavor.
Lift up your eyes and see His face, know His grace is for you.
May the Lord, Mighty God, bless and keep you forever.
*Please stand as you are able.
Every Christian needs to
be affiliated with a local body of believers because God
imparts His grace through regular interaction with brothers
and sisters in Christ.
We believe God is leading a
number of people in our church family to become official
members of
OUR RECORD OF FAITHFULNESS LAST WEEK
Budget needs
Sunday school attendance
38
Year-to-date
Weekly
Y-T-D
Worship attendance
62
Designated
$
$ 2,651
Budget
$
618
$86,185
$2,132
$97,072
Total offerings received
$
3,367
$88,836
THANK YOU FOR YOUR FAITHFULNESS!
Welcome to all
visitors!
If this is your first visit to Rush
Chapel, please complete a card and sign our guest book located
near the front door.
PEACE IS NOT THE
ABSENCE OF WAR – Peace is a condition of the heart.
We pray for the end of the wars.
North Georgia Conference Bishop Michael Watson has designated
next Sunday as PRAY FOR PEACE SUNDAY.
Please come next Sunday not only
with a heart to worship, but a heart to pray for peace in our
lives, in our communities, and in our world.
God alone through the living Jesus
Christ gives us genuine peace.
All ladies who attended the 2nd annual
Rush Chapel Women’s Retreat last week-end, November 13-15 thank
you for your prayers.
God used this retreat to bless
abundantly in many ways.
PLEASE BRING A
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY & ANNIVERSARY- November 22-28
Jimmie & Laura Gentry, Matthew Moran, 22nd –
Tommy Laney, 26th
The Community
Kitchen in
Scriptures
for next week: Jeremiah 33.14-16; Psalm 25.1-10; 1 Thessalonians
3.9-13;
Luke
21.25-36
One Master
Please read Matthew 6:24-34
O Lord
and Master of All Humanity,
We cannot love you fully if our
heart is divided.
If we have more than one
master, we will always be pulled in different directions.
To serve you and you alone is
first and foremost to believe in you, to trust in you as our
strength, help, shield and defender, to trust in you as the
end toward which all of life moves.
To serve you also means to love
you and you alone, to love you as the one God, to desire you
alone for your own sake, to rejoice and delight in you
forever.
To serve you is to imitate you
in our heart and life.
To serve you is to obey you by
keeping your commandments and to make the law of love the
guiding force in our life.
Therefore we will not trust in
riches or love the world, conforming our life to the values
and standards of this age, rather than being transformed by
the power of your self-giving love.
We will seek nothing but you, O
God, and we will not worry about our own life and what we
need, for we know that you will take care of us.
We will work hard to care for
one another, but we will not allow concerns for the things
of this world to take control of our life.
We will seek, above all else,
the realization of your reign in our heart and the fruit of
your love in our life, for we know that if we entrust our
life to you and your ways, then you will provide all we need
to be happy and contented in life.
We will live as in the light of
eternity but keep our eyes focused upon the present and its
actions, rather than upon the future and its dreams.
This day we will pursue nothing
but love, serving, and enjoying you, our one Lord and
Master, in all things.
Amen