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MEMORIALS/HONORARIUMS AUGUST 30, 2015
Lee Conference Expense Fund In Honor of Laura Powell given by the Lee Class
In Honor of Bobbie Golson given by the Lee Class
Matthew 25 Fund In Honor of Jan Kizziah and Mike Manlief given by Celesta Riner In Honor of Jan Kizziah and Mike Manlief given by Helen Riner
In Memory of Bessie Sasser given by Ernestine Jackson
Memorials/Honorariums In Honor of Jake Long given by Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Long
In Memory of Bessie Sasser given by Carol and Patrick Westbrook In Memory of Bessie Sasser given by Elizabeth Davis
In Memory of Ed Graves given by Donna and Alex Lushington In Memory of Ed Graves given by Jerry and Jane Davis
In Memory of Chris Kyle, Sr., Mike Coleman and Ed Graves given by Bob and Dena Prince
Missions In Honor of Jim and Annette Mills given by Jerry and Jane Davis
In Memory of Ed Graves given by Ethelyn Stuhr
Organ Fund In Honor of Jim Mills given by Jay and Sally Masingill
In Memory of Ed Graves given by Donna and Mac McAllister
Acolyte Interest and Training Meeting September 13 at 9:45 AM in the Sanctuary.
If you think your K-5th grader would like to serve as an acolyte, please bring them and join us for this interest and training meeting.
Third Grade Bible Sunday September 20 at the 11:00 AM Traditions worship service.
If you have a child in this age group, please alert Amy Thigpen at [email protected]
We want everyone in Third Grade included!
HOSTS/USHERS 9:00
Dale Erdman, Sally Erdman, Eleanor Boykin Debby Gryska, Tony Allison, Frances Justice
11:00 Susan Kizziah, Jan Kizziah, Jake Long Jerri McCreless, Jerry Eure, Jane Eure Cindy Sands, Worship Coordinator
Children's September Mission | Homeless Community. The elementary children will be helping the homeless community in September by making care kits. We need all members of the congregation to bring any of the following items to help us: Soap, lotion, band aids, alcohol-free hand sanitizer, mouthwash, deodorant, toothbrushes, wet wipes, toothpaste, and socks. Please bring them to the main office during the week or in the tubs out-side The Bridge and Traditions.
In observance of Labor Day, the Church and Church Activity Center (CAC) will be closed Monday, September 7
and reopen Tuesday at 8:00 AM
ABOUT OUR CONGREGATION August 30 Attendance: Traditions: 588; Bridge: 418; Adult SS: 254; N/P SS: 36; K-5 SS: 59; Youth: 90. August 30 Giving: Budget: $23,433.35; Building: $9,951.94; Organ: $321.00; Designated: $457.00 Deaths: Sympathy to Leslie (Scott) Dollar in the death of her grandmother, Inez Corsentino, of Birmingham. Sympathy also to Marlee and Ellison Dollar in the death of their great-grandmother. In the Hospital: DCH: Buena Davis; UAB: Jim Mills; Laura Powell; Brook-wood: Steve Smith; Northport: Dennis Gregory; Forest Manor Rehab: Bobbie Golson. Baptisms: Finley Warren Salter, son of Julie and Wes Salter. Pastor's Brown Bag Bible Study meets Wednesdays at 12:00 noon in Chit-wood Hall. Living with Conflict and Controversy: A Study of Mark's Gospel. Bring your Bible and lunch and we’ll provide drinks and dessert. WOW Teacher Training is today at 12:15 in the library. WOW will resume children’s worship on September 13 at the 11 o’clock worship service hour.
WEDNESDAY NIGHTS ALIVE!!! Join us for a hot buffet meal at 5:00 PM in Chitwood Hall followed by programs on Fellowship, Education, Mission and Prayer. Visit www.fumct.org/adult-ministries/weekly-small-groups to see classes available. After the meal, you may choose to attend an educational course, work on a mission project or join others in a time of prayer. Don’t let a busy schedule deter you: There are drop-in alternative groups!
Acts 2 is a Wednesday night activity for K-5th grade, led by Ashley Green and Ali Lindsey. Join us as we experience a fun focus on the ideals of scripture. Children’s Worship Arts. Does your 3-year old through 5th grader respond to music, art, drama and theatre? If so, then Wednesday nights from 6:00 PM will allow them to express praise, worship and creativity through music and worship arts. We are working on a Christmas musical so join us now for lots of fun! For more information, contact Mandy Smith at [email protected] or call the church. Student Ministries meet Wednesday nights from 6:00-7:30 PM, Sunday School at 10 AM and Small Groups will begin after Labor Day. For more information, contact Charlee Rodgers at [email protected] or call the church. UMW Wesleyan Circle meets the third Monday of each month. The next meeting is September 21 at 2:00 PM in Parker Fireside. Boston Butt Sale | Order the perfect tailgate BBQ for the upcoming Ala-bama/Ole Miss Football Game while helping our Chile Mission Team. The cost is $35 each and all proceeds will go towards the Chile Mission Trip later this fall. The deadline for orders is Wednesday, September 9th, and the pickup is Friday, September 18th from 4-5:30PM at the church. For more information please contact Jan Kizziah at (205) 657-9651.
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH TUSCALOOSA
800 Greensboro Avenue Tuscaloosa, AL 35401 Phone 205-345-7261
Facsimile 205-345-7263 After Hour Emergency Number: 886-7177
Website: www.fumct.org 11:00 AM Worship Service is broadcast on
WACT 1420 AM and 96.9 FM September 6, 2015
THE LORD’S PRAYER Our Father who 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 trespasses as we forgive those who tres pass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
SOLO “A Change in Me” from Beauty and the Beast Amy Todhunter, Soloist
OFFERTORY PRAYER Dr. Ken Dunivant OFFERING OUR GIFTS TO GOD Please give the attendance slips to the usher as the offering is received.
OFFERTORY “Servant Song” David Schwoebel
SCRIPTURE READING 1 Samuel 16:4-7 (Pew Bible, OT, p. 260)
SERMON “Skin Deep … Not!” Dr. Ken Dunivant HYMN OF DEDICATION NO. 643 When Love Is Found GIFT OF LOVE
All Stanzas When love is found and hope comes home, sing and be glad that two are one. When love explodes and fills the sky, praise God and share our Maker's joy. When love has flowered in trust and care, build both each day, that love may dare to reach beyond home's warmth and light, to serve and strive for truth and right. When love is tried as loved ones change, hold still to hope though all seems strange, till ease returns, and love grows wise through listening ears and opened eyes. When love is torn and trust betrayed, pray strength to love till torments fade, till lovers keep no score of wrong, but hear through pain love's Easter song. Praise God for love, praise God for life, in age or youth, in husband, wife. Lift up your hearts, let love be fed through death and life in broken bread.
FINALE “Beauty and the Beast” Amy Todhunter, Soloist
*BENEDICTION Dr. Ken Dunivant POSTLUDE “Basse-Danse” from Capriol Suite Peter Warlock
*Congregation Standing. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices
(Hymn texts printed through permission of CCLI: 1108424)
11:00 AM Worship Service is broadcast on WACT 1420 AM and 96.9 FM. CDs of Traditions and Bridge sermons are available in the church office.
Sermons available for online listening or viewing at www.fumct.org
WELCOME TO WORSHIP GOD ON BROADWAY: BEAUTY & THE BEAST
September 6, 2015 WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Rev. Randy Allen
PRELUDE “Prologue” from Beauty and the Beast Paul Looney, Narrator
CHIMING OF THE HOUR The sounding of the three chimes symbolizes the presence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
*HYMN OF PRAISE NO. 384 Love Divine, All Loves Excelling BEECHER
All Stanzas Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven, to earth come down; fix in us thy humble dwelling; all thy faithful mercies crown! Jesus, thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation; enter every trembling heart. Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit into every troubled breast! Let us all in thee inherit; let us find that second rest. Take away our bent to sinning; Alpha and Omega be; end of faith, as its beginning, set our hearts at liberty. Come, Almighty to deliver, let us all thy life receive; suddenly return and never, nevermore thy temples leave. Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above, pray and praise thee without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love. Finish, then, thy new creation; pure and spotless let us be. Let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee; changed from glory into glory, till in heaven we take our place, till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise.
*PASSING OF THE PEACE Rev. Randy Allen Let us offer one another signs of reconciliation and love.
(Baptism 9:00 ) SACRAMENT OF INFANT BAPTISM William Barrett Livingston Son of Amanda Hollyhand and James Wesley Livingston CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE
With God’s help we will proclaim the good news and live according to the example of Christ. We will surround William Barrett with a commu-nity of love and forgiveness that he may grow in his trust of God, and be found faithful in his service to others. We will pray for William Barrett that he may be a true disciple who walks in the way that leads to life.
Wash, O God, our sons and daughters, where your cleansing waters flow. Number them among your people; bless as Christ blessed long ago. Weave them garments bright and sparkling; compass them with love and light. Fill, anoint them; send your Spirit, holy dove and heart’s delight.
ENSEMBLE “Something There” from Beauty and the Beast Amy Todhunter, Andrew Nalley, Jerrod Newell and Charles Prosser PASTORAL PRAYER Rev. Randy Allen
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Let us pray.
T his enchanting Broadway Musical sensation is based on Disney’s 1991 Academy-Award win-
ning animated feature, “Beauty and the Beast.” This film was adapted from the French fairy tale with the same name by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provin-cial town, and the Beast, who was really a young prince trapped un-der the spell of an enchantress. The prince was transformed into a
hideous beast as punishment for his cruel and selfish ways. Belle was a beautiful book-lover who wished to live in a world like her books, full of adventure. Others, including Gaston (a suitor), admired her only for her beauty and not her intelligence. When asked, Belle turned down Gas-ton’s marriage proposal. On being turned down Gaston was deeply hurt. At the prince’s castle, the only way for the, now transformed, Beast to reverse his curse was to fall in love with another and earn her love in return. But time was running out. The enchantress had given him a rose for him to use as an hour-glass. He had to accomplish his task before the last petal fell from the rose. Later, the cruel Beast threw Belle’s father, Maurice, into a dun-geon for trespassing onto his castle. (Lost in the woods, Maurice had stumbled onto the castle while fleeing from attacking wolves.) In this mysterious place he encountered servants who had been transformed into a candelabra, a clock, a feather duster, and a teapot. Upon learning her father was being held captive, Belle went to the castle and pleaded with the Beast for her father’s release. When she offered to take her father’s place, the Beast agreed to release Maurice and he returned to the village. Maurice claimed to everyone that a Beast still had Belle locked away. While everyone laughed; Gaston, the selfish lover, formed a plan to force Belle to be his bride. He planned to lock Belle’s father away to blackmail her into marrying him. During her capture, both Belle and the Beast grew to know (and like) each other and each realized that changes had occurred during their time together. Belle witnessed an inherent goodness and gentle-ness in the ugly Beast while the Beast discovered he had lost the will to live without Belle at his side. This led to an emotional and transforma-tive conflict between Gaston and the Beast for the love of Belle. After this climatic fight, Belle and the Beast danced and sang of how their lives had changed because of love.
MUSICIANS
Dr. John Ratledge, Interim Director of Music Susan Goode, Organist
Amy Todhunter, Andrew Nalley, Jerrod Newell, Charles Prosser Paul Looney, God on Broadway Director
Adult Chancel Choir
