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ANNOUNCEMENTS CONTINUED...

20TH ANNUAL BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE: The Gifford Youth Activity Center is holding their annual school supply drive. Please drop off your donations in the designated boxes throughout the church campus or to the church office by Tuesday, August 7th. Suggested Supplies: Backpacks, book bags, folders, notebooks, colored and #2 pencils, washable markers, 2” and 3”ring binders, index cards, construction paper, pens, rulers, foam hand sanitizer, highlighters, composition notebooks, small calculators, tissue packs, glue sticks, hand held pencil sharpeners. The Florida Sales Tax Holiday 2018 begins August 3rd and ends Sunday, August 5th .

MISSIONS WATCH

NURSERY CARE: Today we offer nursery care (infants - 3 year olds) during the C2 and Sanctuary worship services. Parents are asked to bring their children to the 2nd floor of our Education Building prior to service. Infants - 23 months meet in Rm. 221, and toddlers (2 - 3 year olds) meet in Rm. 222.

ATTENTION MIDDLE SCHOOLERS: 6th through 8th grade students are invited to go to the Loft for Middle School Sunday School.

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CHILDREN AND YOUTH MINISTRY

“Founded in 1924 in the belief that there is more that binds us together than separates us in the worship of God.”

7.22.2018

CHAPEL 8:00 A.M.

C2 SERVICE (COMMUNITY HALL) 9:25 A.M.

SANCTUARY SERVICE 10:15 A.M.

WELCOME

Recognizing the wide welcome offered to all through Jesus Christ, Community Church opens its arms to all. We strive to offer Christ’s wide welcome to all people, regardless of creed, age, race, or sexual identity.

We invite you to join our congregation in worship and in membership, as we allow our lives to be shaped by the loving outreach of Christ.

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*Please rise in body or spirit. Bold text indicates congregational participation.

Teachers will lead children age 4 through 5th

grade to Sunday school after the Passing of the Peace.

Nursery care available during our C2 and Sanctuary worship services. Our services are live-streamed via internet,

capturing the chancel & the congregation and may appear on social media.

THE GATHERING OF THE PEOPLE

PRELUDE “Priere” Andrew Galuska, organ

Leon Boellmann

COMMUNITY WORDS Dr. Casey G. Baggott

CHIMING OF THE HOUR

CALL TO WORSHIP AND OPENING PRAYER *PROCESSIONAL HYMN AND ENTRANCE OF THE CHRIST LIGHT

“God Is Here” ABBOT’S LEIGH

*LITANY Cassandra Coker

One: Come, let us worship together! Let us listen for the guidance of the ages and receive the good news.

All: We will hear with joy the plans and purposes of our God.

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DEACON: Cassandra Coker ACOLYTE: Duke Thompson

THE FLOWERS TODAY ARE DEDICATED TO THE GLORY OF GOD GIVEN

...by Brian Livingston, in loving memory of his beloved wife, Patricia.

Please join us outside Community Hall for refreshments and conversation.

IN WORSHIP TODAY

ANNOUNCEMENTS

CONGREGATIONAL LIFE

NEXT SUNDAY, JULY 29TH: The sermon, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” is based on Luke 10:25-37 and will be given by Dr. Robert T. Baggott at the 8:00 a.m. Chapel service, 10:15 a.m. Sanctuary service and E-cast at the 9:25 a.m. C2

service in Community Hall. All are welcome.

CALLING ALL GREETERS: A Big Thank You to Joyce Smith, The Thompson Family, Joan Ohl (and Charlie), and Dorie Moore, for welcoming everyone on Sunday! Please help us with greeting our congregation as they enter on Sunday morning. There is nothing more friendly than a smiling face and a friendly “hello.” Arrive 30 minutes before the service, stand at your appointed door, and help people feel welcome. Call Lois Forrest at 772-563-9103 to sign up.

LIFELONG FITNESS CLASSES: Lifelong Fitness classes will resume in the Fall.

WELCOME NEW STAFF: Please welcome Rev. Holly Adams - Interim Minister of Pastoral Care, Jill Truax - Associate Director of Music/Organist, and Doug Johnson - Ministry Associate for Emerging Generations. We are excited for them to begin their ministries with us at the end of the summer. For more information about these talented new staff members, please visit our website at www.ccovb.org.

MUSIC AND FINE ARTS

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CALL TO PRAYER Dr. Casey G. Baggott (8:00 am) Dr. Robert T. Baggott (10:15 am)

One: God be with you.

All: And with your spirit.

One: Let us pray. O Lord, show us your mercy.

All: And grant us your salvation.

One: O God, make clean our hearts within us.

All: And take not your Holy Spirit from us.

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S PRAYER (debts)

Our Father which 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 debts, as we forgive our debtors,

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

THE SENDING FORTH *RECESSIONAL HYMN “Great is Thy Faithfulness” FAITHFULNESS

*BENEDICTION Dr. Casey G. Baggott (8:00 am) Dr. Robert T. Baggott (10:15 am)

POSTLUDE Improvisation on “Abbot’s Leigh” Andrew Galuska, organ

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One: Here God redirects the aimless. Here God reassures the lost and the dismayed.

All: We come with humility and awe before God, who sees into our inmost hearts.

One: Let us strive to do all that is right in God’s eyes.

All: We will learn to serve and to please God, living according to God’s ways.

One: Let us pray.

*UNISON PRAYER

God of goodness and righteousness, we long to live without pretense. Let us live lives so blameless and honest, that we might unveil every aspect of them to you and to the world, without shame and without regret. Help us to lay aside the masks we wear to please the world. Help us to seek your approval first; and teach us what is acceptable in your sight. Transform us into people whose inner goodness mirrors your own. Amen.

*GLORIA PATRI

*PASSING OF THE PEACE Dr. Casey G. Baggott Children grades Pre-k through 5th grade may leave for Sunday School. (Sanctuary 10:15 a.m.)

ATTENDING TO GOD’S WORD

ANTIPHONAL READING Clergy, Cantor, and Congregation

Antiphon: Congregation may join the cantor in singing the antiphon.

Psalm 32:1-7

Cantor and Congregation One: 1 Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Happy are those to whom

the Lord imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Cantor and Congregation One: 3 While I kept silence, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. 5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not hide my iniquity; I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord’, and you forgave the guilt of my sin.

Cantor and Congregation One: 6 Therefore let all who are faithful offer prayer to you; at a time of distress, the rush of mighty waters shall not reach them. 7 You are a hiding-place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with glad cries of deliverance.

Cantor and Congregation

RESPONSE

One: May God who commanded light to shine out of darkness enlighten our way today.

All: Amen.

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READING FROM THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES Rev. David W. Johnson One: God’s message finds utterance in our midst. All: We wait and listen for God’s word to us today.

Psalm 51:1-2, 6-10 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 6 You desire truth in the inward being; therefore, teach me wisdom in my secret heart. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have crushed rejoice. 9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.

RESPONSE

One: God’s mercy is vast.

All: May God cleanse our inmost hearts.

ANTHEM “Create In Me a Clean Heart, O God” The Community Quartet: Carl Mueller Rachel Carter, soprano Linda Jackson, alto Mal York, tenor Josh Pinnok, bass

Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.

Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy holy spirit from me.

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; And uphold me with thy free spirit.

Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; And sinners shall be converted unto thee.

Create in me a clean heart, O God!

THE GOSPEL LESSON Rev. David W. Johnson

One: Silence in us, O God, any voice but your own. All: May your Word be proclaimed and received here today.

Luke 11:1-4 1 He was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord,

teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.’ 2 He said to them, ‘When you pray, say: Father hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. 3 Give us each day our daily bread. 4 And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us. And do not bring us to the time of trial.’

RESPONSE

One: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church! All: Thanks be to God!

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*HYMN OF DEVOTION “Dear God, Embracing Humankind” REST

SERMON “Artful Language” Dr. Casey G. Baggott “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.” ~ Psalm 51:10

THE GREAT THANKSGIVING

UNISON CALL TO OFFERING Cassandra Coker All-giving God, we have known your righteousness, your constancy, and your patient love for us. May the gifts we bring in tribute to you reach out to those near and far who seek your goodness today. Amen.

OFFERTORY “My Song Shall Be Alway of the Loving-Kindness of the Lord” The Community Quartet Gerald Near

My song shall be alway of the loving-kindness of the Lord:

With my mouth will I show forth thy truth.

For I have said, mercy is set up forever:

Thy truth shalt thou stablish in the heav’ns.

My song shall be alway of the loving-kindness of the Lord:

With my mouth will I show forth thy truth.

With my mouth will I show forth thy truth.

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