WORSHIP SERVICE
January 24, 2010 - 10:00
a.m.
APPROACHING TO WORSHIP
Instrumental Prelude: “God’s Love”
Welcome and Announcements
* Songs of Praise: “We Have Come into His House”
Let’s just praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Lets just lift our hearts to heaven and praise the Lord;
Let’s just praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Lets just lift our hearts to heaven and praise the Lord.
Let’s just praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Lets just lift our voice to heaven and praise the Lord;
Let’s just praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Lets just lift our voice to heaven and praise the Lord.
Let’s just praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Lets just lift our hands to heaven and praise the Lord;
Let’s just praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Lets just lift our hands to heaven and praise the Lord.
* Opening Prayer and Mutual Greeting
Children’s Message
(Children
ages 3-7 go downstairs for Children’s Worship)
DECLARING OUR FAITH – Our Father’s Love
The Lord is
compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding
in love.
He will not always accuse, nor will he
harbor his anger forever;
he does not treat us as our sins deserve
or repay us according to our iniquities.
For as high as the heavens are above the
earth,
so great is his love for those who fear him;
Song of Response: “The Love of God”
SERVICE OF PRAYER
SERVICE OF THE WORD
* Song of Preparation: “Grace Greater than Our Sins”
Scripture: Romans 11:1-36 Pew Bible Page(s): 1761-1763
Message: God Is Ready. Are You?
Prayer of Application
WITHDRAWING TO SERVE
Morning Offering: Church ministries, as we sing:
Song of Response: “Amazing Grace”
* God's
Blessing
* Doxology:
Postlude: “Wonderful Grace of Jesus”
*If you are able, please stand
WORSHIP NOTES
Welcome! You’re among friends at Pine
Grove Community Church. We’re the young and old, the
experienced Christians, the brand new Christians, and those just curious about
Jesus Christ. We’re families, singles, students, kids
and couples. Wherever you’ve come from, and wherever
you’re at, you’re welcome to come as you are to Pine Grove! Please stay for a
cup of coffee or lemonade at the Family Life Center following worship.
Guests are requested to fill out a welcome
card at the Welcome Center where you can also receive an information packet. If
you are a regular attendee of Pine Grove we would like
to provide you with a mailbox. Please submit your request to the church
office.
Nursery care is offered during the a.m. service in the Church Basement for
infants and toddlers through age 2. Please honor the age limit. Please meet
your children at the nursery area immediately following worship.
All children age 3-7 are encouraged to
participate with Children’s Worship. Children are dismissed after
the Children’s Message, and can go downstairs to worship. Please honor the age limit. Parents: Please meet your children
downstairs, after worship.
All songs are reprinted with
permission by CCLI #649460.
YOUTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Senior High will meet today at 4:30.
FOCUS will meet again on Saturday, February 13. This
will be the Valentine fundraiser. Time to be determined.
CHURCH FAMILY
Chris Loyd has been diagnosed with lung cancer, and will begin chemotherapy in the next
week or so. We
pray that our Lord would bless this family with healing, and give them comfort
in the days, weeks and months ahead.
As a family in Christ, we mourn with Ken and Vicki Postma
with the passing of her brother-in-law, Carl Lynema
early Tuesday morning. We ask that the comfort that
only Christ can bring would surround this family, and fill their hearts with joy as there is now no more pain for Carl.
Congratulations to Rob and Glenda Brower on the 50th wedding
anniversary this coming Thursday. May God preserve their health
and grant them many more.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
If you make a decision during this service to accept Jesus Christ
as your Savior, please stop by the Welcome Center and pick up a YES pack. This pack is designed to help you get started on your walk
with Christ.
Coffee after the morning service will be in the Family Life
Center.
Our offering this morning will be for Pine Grove Ministries.
Last week’s offering totals: Pine Grove Ministries, $3,062.80;
Benevolence, $105.00; Family Life Center, $225.00; CRWRC
Haiti, $4,625. Thank you for your generous giving.
When it was announced last week that the offering
for Family Life Center Debt Reduction that would normally have been held last
Sunday would be postponed to January 31, we forgot that next Sunday is Cadet Sunday. The second offering next Sunday will be to support
the Cadets. Please consider putting a special gift for Debt Reduction in your offering envelop
sometime this month.
Statements detailing 2009 contributions have been completed and are in the mail slots.
A congregational meeting will be held this morning at 11:30 to consider the councils recommendation to call
Brent Beckett to serve as Pastor of Youth and Outreach, and to consider the
compensation recommendation.
Directory Changes: Glen
and Mary Hasted have a new cell number. They can now be reached at
(616) 685-0781. Ken
and Diane DeYoung have a new email address, deyoungkd@yahoo.com,
Ladies Craft Night: Tuesday night at 7 pm.
We will make a winter card and Valentine Box. Cost
is $3.50. All ladies
are welcome.
The ladies of Ensley Baptist Church invite you to their annual Ladies Winter
Break on Saturday, January 30, 2010 from 8:30 am to 3 pm.
Guest Speaker is Shelly Beech. Cost is
$10.00 includes lunch. For more information see
the bulletin board downstairs or call Karen Smith at 616-636-5581.
Do you enjoy the smiles that children bring? Would
you like to find a way that you can serve the church? Please consider volunteering
your time to help out in the nursery in 2010. It would be very helpful if you
have a child in nursery, if you would give one Sunday to help out. If you
have any questions, please contact Cassie Boone at (616) 889-0144.
Spartan UPC’s are continually being collected as a
fundraiser for the GEMS. GEMS, bring in 10 UPC’s get one point. Earn and collect points, get cool
stuff!
Church Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Feel free to contact Pastor Bill at his home office anytime:
231-937-6492
Prayer Meeting – “Out of God’s love He burdens us to pray
for others so that in response to our intercession He can pour out blessings on
them.” (From Love To Pray by Alvin Vander Griend.) Come
join us in the Prayer Room downstairs every Sunday morning at 8:45 or whenever
you can come. Feel
free to walk in anytime and leave when you need to. Please call Cheryl Hubers, 231-937-4895 or Joan Tanis,
231-652-5254, with your prayer requests.
Serving This Sunday January 24
Ministry of Word: a.m. Bill Vis Today: Prayer Meeting, 8:45 a.m.
Nursery: Desirae Platt & Sheryl
Pittman Morning Worship, 10:00 a.m.
Coffee Servers: Ken & Willy
Lang Sunday
School 11:30 a.m.
Serving Next Sunday January 31
Ministry of Word: a.m. Bill Vis GEMS/
Nursery:
Coffee Servers: Dave & Felicia Kooienga Mor
Are you trying to heal from a divorce?
You are invited to find help during this
difficult time at Divorce Care.
This 12-week support group will be
meeting:
Monday evenings from February 1 – April 26
from 7 – 9 PM
at Still Waters Counseling Ministry
(218 N. Ensley in Howard City)
Find
Help Discover
Hope Experience Healing
To register for this class, please call Jill at (231) 937-6193
Are your children reeling from the news of a pending divorce?
Are they trying to find their place in a
family where divorce has already taken place?
Divorce Care 4 Kids is a Christ-centered
education/support group designed to
help children through the pain and confusion
of their parents’ divorce.
Divorce Care 4 Kids will meet on
Thursdays, beginning February 4 – April 29
from 5:30 – 7:30 PM
at Still Waters Counseling
Ministry
(218 N. Ensley in Howard City)
Find
Help Discover
Hope Experience Healing
To register for this class, please call Jill at (231) 937-6193
Are you an angry person? Anger can be as overt as a scream or it
can hide behind a smiling face.
Either way, unresolved anger and deep bitterness can destroy.
You…
Your fellowship with
God…
And your relationships with others…
There is help and hope!
Still Waters Counseling Ministry is
offering a 4-week class entitled:
This class will give you the tools you need to recognize and
defuse this controlling and damaging emotion by teaching you how to apply
practical, Biblical teaching to your life.
TIME: 10 – Noon
WHERE: Still Waters Counseling Ministry
COST: Free of Charge